1. Oman Plans To Seek JV Partner For $10-13Bn Al-Duqm Refinery Project

    ...ach, given that from 2011 onwards the company will be using enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques, with this reaching almost a third of production in 2016 (with primary and secondary also roughly a third apiece). Original targets were for 2011 crude output of 600,000 b/d (MEES, 28 January), but PDO sa...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 15
    Published at Mon, 14 Apr 2008
  2. Kazakhstan Prepares To Boost Trans-Caspian Crude Shipments

    ...om Kazakhstan put the cost at $3bn with start-up targeted by 2011 to coincide with the Kashagan oilfield coming on-stream. (See Caspian Sea Region Pipelines, MEES, 17 March, page 23). Subsea Pipeline Option? KazMunaiGaz announced in November 2006 that it would pursue developing the export route at...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 15
    Published at Mon, 14 Apr 2008
  3. UK-Led Consortium Wins $115mn Tipaza Desalination Contract

    ...pacity by 2011. The Spanish firm Befesa won a $219mn contract to build a 200,000 cmd plant at Ténès, 200km west of Algiers on 2 April, and the bidding for another 150,000 cmd plant at El-Tarf was due to be opened last week (MEES, 7 April)....

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 15
    Published at Mon, 14 Apr 2008
  4. Italy’s Enel Signs Gas Cooperation Deal With EGAS

    ...G regasification terminal at Porto Empedocle in Sicily, with a capacity of 8 bcm/y, that is due to enter service in 2011, and which would be a natural destination for the Egyptian gas. Also included in the agreement is the possibility of Enel buying into one or more gas fields in Egypt, and ta...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 15
    Published at Mon, 14 Apr 2008
  5. Nematzadeh Outlines Iran’s Refinery Expansion Program

    ...ndar Abbas 360,000 b/d 2011 Condensate refinery Hormuz Bandar Abbas 300,000 b/d 2011 Heavy oil refinery Khuzestan Abadan 180,000 b/d 2011 Feedstock fr...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 15
    Published at Mon, 14 Apr 2008
  6. Ras Laffan C IWPP Seeks Bank Participation In Qatari Club-Style Financing

    ...eds. It will produce 2,700mw of power and 63mn gallons/day of water, supplying the country with about one third of its estimated 9,000mw power needs by 2011....

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 15
    Published at Mon, 14 Apr 2008