1. Libyan Federalists Offer Fresh Hope Over Eastern Oil Exports

    ...st, putting the government under additional pressure. Production, which by last July had recovered to around 1.4mn b/d after a near complete outage during the 2011 revolution, now languishes at just 150,000 b/d. Federalist militia control the Es Sider, Ras Lanuf and Zueitina terminals, which ha...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  2. International Gas Union Sees Changing LNG Market After 2014

    ...T/Y, %) Qatar King, But Not For Long Supply will grow only marginally in 2014, though the two or three projects that IGU expects online this year represent the first significant boost in liquefaction capacity since 2011. Major boosts to global liquefaction capacity will come online in 2015, when new Au...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  3. KBR Wins Jebel Ali Splitters Upgrade FEED

    ...ntract, capacities of the new units or the project schedule. It recently said its refinery throughput was 28% higher in 2013 than in 2011, while revenues increased by 50% and profits by 39%. Yet losses on fuel sales within Dubai, because of subsidies, are forcing the company to seek better returns el...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  4. Alstom Bags Eni Zubair Power Contract

    ...ant as well as supplying the four gas turbines. The company says the project is similar to one received in 2011 for a 728MW gas-fired plant in Mansuriya oil field, under development by private firm Kuwait Energy. Alstom has also rehabilitated an existing power plant at Zubair, raising capacity by 60MW to...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  5. Saudi Arabia Keeping Politics Out Of The Mix

    ...pense of falling imports of Mexican crude, which slumped in 2013 to 919,000 b/d from 1.2mn b/d in 2011, and from Venezuela, whose exports to the US fell to 797,000 b/d last year from 960,000 b/d in 2012. Canada remains the single largest exporter of crude oil south of its border and its share of the US...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  6. Qatar Announces Record Budget But Curbs Expenditure Growth

    ...up by more than 20%, in preparation for the hosting of the 2022 World Cup.   The new budget, which began on 1 April, is expected to carry on with the implementation of programs and strategic development projects envisaged in Qatar’s national strategy for 2011-16, and the realization of the ob...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  7. Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)

    ...13 2012 2011 WTI 100.29 100.40 99.30 100.48 100.68 98.56 97.54 98...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014