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Eni Egypt: More Zohr Woe As Reserves Downgraded
...Zohr ramped-up following its late 2017 start-up. But with Zohr output dropping from a peak of 2.74bn cfd in Q3 2021 to 2bn cfd currently on water infiltration issues, the country finds itself on the lookout to lease an FSRU as it looks to resume LNG imports in the coming months in a bid to pr...
Volume: 67Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 -
Egypt: Alarming Gas Output Decline Highlighted By Zohr Slump
...tput and that of Zohr are closely aligned and have been since 2019 when the field began ramping up following its late 2017 start-up. And while 2020 saw Egypt implement shut-ins which caused Zohr output to fall to 2.09bn cfd, 2021 rebounded to a record 2.74bn cfd. This was the same year that Cairo and En...
Volume: 66Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2023 -
Egypt Halts LNG Exports As Eni & Shell Bear The Brunt Of Gas Surplus
.../B.” In normal terms, Egypt’s gas renaissance has been a great success story. From a sizable gas deficit for 2014-17, new output led by Eni’s giant Zohr, which came online in December 2017, has meant that since late 2018 the country has had a gas surplus (MEES, 17 May 2019), with exports hitting an ei...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Algeria: Southwest Pipeline Progress, But Field Development Lags
...uat gas project – the UK-firm announced last week that after ramp-up delays, Touat was producing “close to plateau rates” (MEES, 3 April). Repsol-operated Reggane Nord, at 2.9bcm/y, was the first element to start up in late 2017. Here partner Edison is in the process of quitting with talks for So...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Mena Drilling: GCC Records, North Africa Slump
...ans to raise capacity to 5mn b/d, though it hopes to be able to cut costs by squeezing contractors (see p3). Kuwait’s Q1 average rig count of 53 was, likewise, second only to the record 55 set in 2017. *Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, is in the midst of a multi-year campaign to bolster the co...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Oman Gas Bonanza Continues As Total Signs Up To Key Mixed Status Deal
...d for good reason. BP’s ‘mixed status’ Block 61, home of the 1bn cfd Khazzan gas project, has triggered a massive rethink of Oman’s gas sector since starting up in late 2017 (MEES, 29 September 2017). Muscat subsequently managed to bring Petronas on board at Khazzan (MEES, 26 October 2018), in ad...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Egypt’s Molla Promises Record Gas Exports, Damietta Restart
...Thanks to Zohr, Egypt has gone from a major LNG importer in 2016 and 2017 to exports averaging 540mn cfd (9% of output) for October-January. Oil minister Tarek El Molla says volumes have since risen further to 1.1bn cfd. Whilst the latest boost is due in part to demand bottoming out in Ma...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Egypt ‘Zohrs’ Past Libya As Eni’s Top Gas Producer
...tput rose throughout 2018 as Zohr ramped up hitting a record 6.65bn cfd in February (see chart, p19). Having been a major LNG importer in 2016 and 2017, Egypt has again swung to being a net exporter since last October, since when there have been no LNG imports (see box). Zohr production hit its in...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Eni Plans For Libya Output Drop
...are of overall oil and gas output. The firm reported net oil and gas production in Libya of 270,000 boe/d in 2010, falling to around 230,000 boe/d in 2013-14. But the past three years have seen an increase in Eni's reported net output, to around 350,000 boe/d in 2015-16 and 374,000 boe/d in 2017. It's po...
Volume: 61Issue: 15Published at Fri, 13 Apr 2018 -
Reserves At Eni’s Zohr: 30+Tcf?…Just 4? Maybe 6?
...porters who dutifully write up the figures as if they refer to higher-value oil). And it is highly unorthodox that Eni has gone from August 2015 discovery of the “super-giant” Zohr field in the Egyptian deepwater Mediterranean, through the development phase, to first production in December 2017 whilst on...
Volume: 61Issue: 15Published at Fri, 13 Apr 2018 -
Israel: Lots Of Gas But Where’s The Market?
...nceptual development plan released in March says it has completed the engineering feasibility study and is targeting FID by the end of 2017. “Base case is a gas FPSO with gas pipeline to shore and offshore liquids offloading. Energean’s intent is to execute the project via an established deepwater co...
Volume: 60Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2017 -
Gas Ousting Coal
...%. ISRAEL ELECTRIC CO^ FUEL MIX (%) 2017 FORECAST PRESUMES 20% PLANNED RISE IN GAS USE IS HIT WHILST OIL BURNING IS ENDED. ^IEC ACCOUNTS FOR 72% OF ISRAELI GENERATION CAPACITY. SMALLER GENERATORS ARE SOMEWHAT MORE RELIANT ON COAL. SOURCE: IEC, MEES CALCULATIONS....
Volume: 60Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2017 -
Kuwait Bullish On Contract Award, But Quietly Shelves Production Target
...e p10 and MEES, 1 April). While production capacity is planned to rise to 3.165mn b/d by March 2017 according to Mr Jafaar, officials maintain that production will remain flat. This implies that Kuwait does not foresee full production from the currently shut in Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ) wi...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
Egypt: Receivables Worries Risk Choking Off Exploration Boom
...dependent Petroceltic’s 50% stake in both (MEES, 19 February). The commitment for North Thekah is $170mn with two wells (MEES, 3 January 2014). No wells have yet been drilled on either block, though Edison recently said it “plans drilling North Thekah towards the beginning of 2017. We would consider dr...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
Sudan’s Oil Plans Set To Fall Victim To Reality
...rthcoming. 300,000 B/D BY 2017? NO CHANCE Starved of investment and technology for more than a decade, the Sudanese oil sector has been crying out for greater foreign involvement for years now. But with sanctions set to remain in place for some years yet – given the current Sudanese ad...
Volume: 58Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015 -
Shell’s Iraq Gas Project Inches Forward; First Majnoon Cargo Lifted
...mpany 25%. Under the 20-year technical service contract that expires in 2030, the consortium is to be paid $1.39/B to raise Majnoon output to 1.8mn b/d by 2017. Shell has not yet completed negotiations with the oil ministry on a lower plateau target, which the company believes should be set at 1m...
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
Abu Dhabi’s Oil Production Capacity Target Slips
...mpletion as scheduled in March 2017 and will round up ADMA-OPCO’s existing capacity expansion projects that will take overall capacity to 970,000 b/d by 2020, two years after the existing concession runs out. Further additions will come from the Upper Zakum offshore field, which is being expanded by an in...
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
Algeria: Repsol Find
...cline to put any timeframe on restart. Reggane Delayed, Again Start-up of the $3bn, 2.9 bcm/y, Reggane Nord development, Repsol’s key project in Algeria and lynchpin of the country’s 9 bcm/y-plus Southwest gas project has been put back to 2017. Dirk Warzecha, Operations chief at Germany’s RW...
Volume: 56Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2013 -
Abu Dhabi Awards Delayed Oil Boost Contract
...at is pressuring state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC) 2017 target of 3.5mn b/d crude production capacity. Abu Dhabi is unlikely to hit it until 2019 at the earliest. ADNOC executes design work relatively efficiently, but then delays awarding engineering, procurement and construction (EP...
Volume: 56Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2013