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Kuwait Oil Expansion Gets $1bn Japan Boost
...rkover rigs throughout its fields.” This is considerably more than the one-year high 28 active rigs shown in the Baker Hughes Rig Count for February. According to KOC’s annual reports, drilling and workover activity peaked in 2017-18 with 672 new wells drilled and over 1,500 workover operations. This ha...
Volume: 65Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2022 -
Eni Turns To North Africa In Gas Output Drive
...ODUCTION *NO NORTH AFRICA SPLIT AVAILABLE FOR 2021. ^EXCLUDING EGYPT. SOURCE: ENI, MEES. EGYPT GROWTH Egypt has been instrumental to Eni’s tilt towards gas since the start-up of the 21.5tcf offshore Zohr field in late 2017. The field posted record 2.74bn cfd output last year, contributing 40...
Volume: 65Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2022 -
Qatar Snags Egypt Mediterranean Block As Relations Advance
...ismic-only commitment. Should Exxon and QE then move to a second two-year phase this comes with a commitment to drill three wells. CYPRUS CONNECTION QE’s entry into North Marakia marks a growing partnership with Exxon in the Mediterranean following the April 2017 award of Cyprus’ of...
Volume: 65Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2022 -
Oman Oil Output Hits New Heights In Q1 As Revenues Soar
...st notably the 2017 start up and subsequent expansion of the BP-operated Khazzan tight gas development – Khazzan’s condensate capacity is around 60,000 b/d (MEES, 16 October 2020). Condensate production was restricted by Opec+ commitments between January 2017 and January 2020, but is now exempt fr...
Volume: 65Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2022 -
Iraq & Total Reach Initial Deal On $7bn Of Projects
...ogress. Still, Total should fare better than US firms with any such administration, especially as it has proven willing to work with Iran through signing up to develop Iran’s South Pars Phase 11 project in 2017 (MEES, 7 July 2017), even if ultimately it withdrew in 2018 due to US sanctions (MEES, 24 Au...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
Exxon Plans 2021 East Med Drilling
...so plans to keep the purse strings tight this year (MEES, 5 February). But this has not stopped it following through on East Mediterranean expansion. The major only entered the region in early 2017 when it snagged Cyprus’ Block 10 in partnership with Qatar Petroleum (Exxon 60%op, QP 40%: MEES, 24 Ma...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
BP Write Offs: $2.3bn For Mauritania/Senegal, $950mn For Egypt
...BP’s recently-released 2020 report reveals that the major last year wrote off $2.26bn on its gas assets off Mauritania and Senegal as well as $952mn for Egypt. The Egypt figure appears to relate to the major’s share of the $12bn West Nile Delta project where output since 2017 start-up has ma...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
Qatar Petroleum Moves To Take Full Ownership Of LNG Facilities
...monstrated at the height of tensions with neighboring Saudi Arabia and UAE after they imposed an economic embargo on Qatar in June 2017 which lasted until the beginning of this year (MEES, 8 January). Deep commercial ties with major US and European IOCs undoubtedly bolstered Qatar’s position with western go...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
Long Delayed Barzan Gas Project Starts Up
...panese firms – Idemitsu, Cosmo, Mitsui, and Marubeni (see map, main story). The most recent cause for delays was down to problems with pipelines linking the offshore wells to the onshore processing facilities. QP CEO Saad al-Kaabi said in 2017 “It’s delayed because we have had issues with the pi...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
Saudi: Key Gas Start-Ups Increase Oil Field Flexibility
...wec) Oil 0.16 2016 Shuqaiq (SEC) Oil 2.64 2017 PP13 (SEC) Gas 1.65 2017...
Volume: 59Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2016 -
Egypt Advances Refinery Upgrades As It Looks To Curb Record Fuel Imports
...finery $mn Project KB/D 2016: Assiut 25 Vapor Recovery (LPG) 3.9 2017: Suez 36.5 Vapor Recovery (LP...
Volume: 59Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2016 -
Qatar Starts Construction Of 2.5GW Power/Desalination Plant, Eyes Solar Venture
...da said the project would be phased: “The first phase will be completed by the second quarter of 2017, with capacity to produce 40mn gal/day [180,000 m3/d] of water. The project will reach full capacity in the third quarter of 2018.” CAPACITY PLAN QEWC managing director Fahd al-Muhannadi told re...
Volume: 59Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2016 -
Oman Output Set To Keep Edging Up
...portedly slated for investment in the BP-operated (60%) Khazzan gas field (OOCEP 40%). Khazzan’s 1bn cfd capacity Phase One is due to deliver first gas in late 2017. BP and Oman reached a preliminary agreement in February to expand the project to 1.5bn cfd under a second phase, envisioned to come onstream in...
Volume: 59Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2016 -
Eni Follows BP, Chevron, QP In Looking To Strike Big On Morocco’s ‘Atlantic Margin’
...ep-pocketed partner. Chariot CEO Larry Bottomley now says that “we anticipate [drilling] to occur in 2017…subject to the relevant approvals, well planning and securing a drill rig.” Eni makes no mention of specific drilling plans, merely talking of “the prospect of finding liquid hydrocarbons.” Ch...
Volume: 59Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2016 -
Egypt Unveils Development Plan To Revive The Economy
...YPT’S 2016-2019 DEVELOPMENT PLAN: KEY OBJECTIVES • Raising GDP growth to 5-6% by end fiscal 2017-18 (June 2018) and to 6% thereafter. • Cut unemployment to 10-11% by 2017-18 and 9% by 2019-20. • Cut the budget deficit to 9-10% of GDP by 2017-18, and to 8-9% by 2019-20. • Cut pu...
Volume: 59Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2016 -
Iran-Pakistan Trade Boost But Gas Line Still Far Off
...e risk of sanctions being re-imposed, “we are working on it. There is no serious problem and we are going ahead with the pipeline from Gwader to Nawabshah.” He estimated it could be completed by December 2017. One positive development for Iran is that Pakistan is to increase the amount of el...
Volume: 59Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2016