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Adnoc Partners With BPFor Transformative Israel Entry
...the new vertical. From May 2017 until January 2021 Mr Kaabi served as CEO of Mubadala’s Petroleum and Petrochemicals division, which through various subsidiaries including Mubadala Energy had established a global upstream energy presence. Shortly after Mr Kaabi moved to another role within Mu...
Volume: 66Issue: 13Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2023 -
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 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 -
Gulf Capex In the Crosshairs As Majors Eye Spending Cuts
...nounced it was cutting further to just $2.7-2.9bn for 2020, a whopping 47% midpoint reduction from its original $5.2-5.4bn plan. Oxy has since 2017 reversed a previous pullback from Mena, acquiring a swathe of exploration acreage across Oman as well as Abu Dhabi’s Onshore-3 block (MEES, 6 March). Fo...
Volume: 63Issue: 13Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2020 -
Aramco’s $69.1bn Sabic Takeover Refuels PIF Ambitions
...presents an expansion from 2017’s 14.6mn t/y capacity. The 2017 total fell to 9.9mn t/y when excluding intermediate products (MEES, 24 August 2018). As for Sabic, 2018 petchems output totaled 61.6mn t/y of which up to two-thirds are intermediate products (MEES, 22 March). Even at 20mn t/y, this would still be...
Volume: 62Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2019 -
Oman Eyes $3.85bn Sri Lanka Refinery Project
...ES, 22 March). After upgrading the Sohar refinery to 197,000 b/d in 2017 (MEES, 17 February 2017), Oman is now pushing on with the $8bn Duqm refinery which will add an additional 230,000 b/d. A separate petrochemicals complex at Duqm is also slowly beginning to push forward – though construction is so...
Volume: 62Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2019 -
Hungary’s Mol - Mena Profile: No More Chasing Barrels
...ins’ made so far have come from squeezing engineering and oil field service firms – these firms at least view this as unsustainable (MEES, 3 February). Mol feels the majority of its cuts are sustainable, however, and will help propel the firm to a similarly successful 2017. “We started to take a lo...
Volume: 60Issue: 13Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017 -
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