1. Egypt: Key West Nile Delta Project Set For Start-Up

    ...an [in] the summer,” Mr Dudley told the firm’s 7 February Q4 earnings call. “The wells in the Taurus and Libra fields are close to coming onstream. Production in West Nile Delta is scheduled for the second quarter of 2017,” RWE says. The Taurus and Libra fields constitute the 600mn cfd Phase 1 of th...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017
  2. Algeria Keeps Oil Spending Flat, Extends Exploration Search Offshore

    ...Algerian state oil firm Sonatrach has announced an eye-catching $50bn planned five year upstream spend for 2017-21. The figure is a slight increase on that for the most recent five-year plan, but a significant reduction compared to previous years. Once plans to spend about $5bn/year do...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017
  3. Ta-Ta Taq Taq: Demise of Key Kurdish Field Weighs On KRG Exports

    ...port blend in February, it will still have grown heavier over the past year. KRG output averaged around 543,000 b/d last year and despite the Taq Taq woes, the KRG ought to exceed this in 2017, if only because a February-March 2016 pipeline outage hit last year’s figures. Absent similar outages th...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017
  4. Kuwait Refinery Shuts, New Capacity Delayed, Crude Exports To Rise

    ...til the start-up of the country’s ambitious $12bn ‘clean fuels project’ refinery expansion and upgrade plans. But this in turn has been pushed back from 2017 to 2018-19, and even the latter timeframe may prove ambitious. KNPC brought forward the Shuaiba shutdown after a series of unscheduled ou...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017
  5. Rosatom Starts Work On New Iran Nuclear Plant, Cementing Russia’s Mena Presence

    ...24 1.0 2 5.5 Rosatom building. Work started Mar 2017 Planned: Iran Bushehr-3 20...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017
  6. Americas To Asia Crude: In It For The Long Haul

    ...at 2017 sees the acceleration of a trend already in effect in 2015 and 2016 of increasing Americas crude volumes washing up in Asia. China has been the key pioneer in this regard. Venezuelan crude long dominated regional supplies to China as the country sought to keep up with ‘repayments’ on ever-in...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017
  7. Libyan Oil Output Gains Go Into Reverse Amid Growing Instability

    ...the field were ongoing. Third Force members wrote to NOC warning them that uncontrolled militia would threaten the Sharara pipeline, Libya Herald reported. LIBYAN GAS EXPORTS (MN CFD)*... VOLUMES STARTED 2017 STRONGLY, FELL IN LATE JANUARY, AND COLLAPSED TO JUST 110MN CFD ON 28 MARCH *AL...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017
  8. 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: 60
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017
  9. Aramco’s Tax Slashed To Boost IPO Valuation

    ...ovided long-awaited transparency on an issue that will have critical importance in determining the success of the 5% share listing of Aramco scheduled for late-2018. The new rate is effective retroactively from 1 January 2017. As well as income tax, Aramco currently pays a 20% royalty on revenue, a fe...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017
  10. Saudi Wealth Fund Eyes $3bn Jordan Investments

    ...EMPLOYMENT Following a mission to Jordan in mid-March, the IMF noted that the conflicts in Syria and Iraq continued to weigh on the Jordanian economy, with growth expected at around 2% in 2016 and unemployment rising to 15.3%. But it expects that growth will pick up modestly in 2017, driven by a moderate re...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017