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Cyprus Aims For 2025 LNG Imports
...s will have replaced oil as Cyprus’ dominant powergen fuel by mid-2025. The Vasilikos plant is slated to exclusively run gas at its two most modern 220MW combined cycle gas turbine units installed in 2011. Were these units to run flat out they would generate an annual 3.85TWh, just shy of th...
Volume: 67Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 -
ExxonMobil Quits Iraqi Kurdistan
...The US supermajor’s bold 2011 Iraqi Kurdistan entry sent shockwaves through Iraq. A decade later ExxonMobil has quietly packed its bags and quit its last remaining asset, Pirmam, without producing a drop from any of the six blocks it picked up. Any prospective replacement may eye a gas-re...
Volume: 65Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2022 -
Asian LNG Importers See Record Import Bill For Q1 Despite Slump In Volumes
...gure since 2011 (see chart 4 and p19 for full data). For global number three importer South Korea, Q1 imports were more resilient, but still at 13.47mn tons down 3% year-on-year (MEES, 15 April), whilst India, the most price-sensitive of the key Asian importers, saw an 18% year-on-year fall to 4.97mn to...
Volume: 65Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2022 -
Total Eyes 1mn b/d Of Gross Libya Output
...test to fly in on 21 April. Frequently hit by forced production shutdowns – whether due to civil unrest, budgetary issues or worker grievances – Libya has been a source of major disappointment to IOCs since the fall of long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. But even though Total’s net output ne...
Volume: 64Issue: 17Published at Fri, 30 Apr 2021 -
Oilfield Services Firms See Mideast NOCs Driving Long Term Growth
...contribution is the lowest since 2011, whilst the region’s share of Halliburton’s overall earnings has rapidly slid since peaking at 35% in Q2 2020: the Q1 2021 figure was just 25%. Halliburton says the largest contributor to its 6% fall in Mideast & Asia revenue for Q1 was “lower stimulation an...
Volume: 64Issue: 17Published at Fri, 30 Apr 2021 -
Gulf Offshore Market Firms, Now For Sustained Growth?
...gistical challenges. From near-records of over 50 active drilling rigs at the start of 2020, the region’s rig count collapsed to average just 25 for Q4 last year, the lowest figure since 1Q 2011 (see chart). Italy’s Saipem blamed “project rephasing” in the Middle East as a key source of its slump in...
Volume: 64Issue: 17Published at Fri, 30 Apr 2021 -
Libya’s Financial Vulnerabilities Laid Bare By Dwindling Oil Revenue
...ccessive governments following the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 tried to reign in militias by co-opting them into the system and handing them salaries. The state ultimately failed to control them, but it continued to pay their wages. Fast forward a few years and some of those militias have al...
Volume: 63Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2020 -
UAE, Egypt Lead Mena Renewables Expansion
...e benefit of exporting oil rather than burning it for powergen. For countries with minor hydrocarbons resources, developing electricity capacity has always been a struggle, although international financial institutions have increasingly backed renewables projects in the wake of the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011. ...
Volume: 63Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2020 -
Saudi Arabia Announces Borrowing, Reserves Draw-down Plan
...llows through on Mr Jadaan’s statement, then reserves would drop to around $468bn. The lowest figure since early 2011, but comfortably above the sub-$400bn levels of 2009. Meanwhile, the balance between borrowing and tapping reserves mentioned by Mr Jadaan highlights the extent to which Saudi Ar...
Volume: 63Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2020 -
Cyprus: Aphrodite First Gas Slated For 2025
...December 2011 (MEES, 12 December 2011), but despite initial optimism it has failed to ignite a wave of industry for Nicosia. Instead, development has been stymied by the field’s location – 160km offshore in 1,750ms of water, straddling the maritime border with Israel – and low demand in Cyprus’ sm...
Volume: 62Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2019 -
Abu Dhabi’s Taqa: Upstream Down Despite Price Recovery, Power Steady
...83bn in 2018, having peaked at $7.57bn in 2012. Last year power and water provided 53.0% of Taqa’s income, and upstream operations contributed 31.3%. This marks a near-reversal from 2011 when upstream’s peak contribution was 44.8% and power and water accounted for 30.2%. Taqa’s results also separate ou...
Volume: 62Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2019 -
Iraq Bid Round Flatters To Deceive
...bstantially larger with 2017 gross output of around 80,000 boe/d, of which 80-90% was gas. UEG’s production is all in Pakistan, after acquiring BP Pakistan’s assets for $775mn in 2011. Output has increased under UEG, from around 35,000 boe/d under BP (10,000 b/d oil, 200mn cfd gas). ...
Volume: 61Issue: 17Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018 -
Waha: Total Says Done & Dusted, Libya Thinks Otherwise
...s US partners. Whilst Conoco and Hess (and hitherto Marathon) have since 2011 habitually excluded Libya from their output guidance, Total’s Mr Pouyanné says his firm has no intention of doing likewise. Libya, at 80,000 b/d net, now represents 5% of the company’s total liquids output. “Yes, it’s ta...
Volume: 61Issue: 17Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018 -
Lebanon's Gas Hype: Is It All Hot Air?
...mmercial discovery is a fait accompli. But Lebanon needn’t look far for examples of the tricky realities of East Med development: after discovering the 5tcf Aphrodite field in 2011, many of the island’s “experts” and officials boasted as if Cyprus were the new Qatar (MEES, 10 April 2015). Israel’s 22tcf Le...
Volume: 61Issue: 17Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018 -
Sabic Seeks Big Projects As Reorganization Continues
...s second best year in output terms, a recovery in net income to $4.9bn – aided by the linking of petchems prices to crude oil – was still less than two-thirds of its record $7.8bn in 2011 (see charts). The bulk of the drop in output for 2017 was accounted for by the company’s ‘metals’ division, wi...
Volume: 61Issue: 17Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018 -
Algiers Aims For The Sun; Is Its Head In The Clouds?
...ogram to develop 22GW in renewables energy capacity by 2030, comprising 13.6GW of solar PV, 2GW of concentrated solar power, 5GW of wind power and 1.4GW from other sources (see table). The plans were introduced in 2011 and updated in 2015 (MEES, 3 April 2015). According to a 9 April statement by the En...
Volume: 60Issue: 17Published at Fri, 28 Apr 2017 -
Tunisia: IMF $2.8bn Loan
...rticularly for the youth,” Mr Matti says. Tunisia, the first country to usher in the 2011 Arab Spring, is struggling to cope with the political and economic transition as the influx of refugees from neighboring Libya and a series of terrorist attacks have led to the collapse of the tourism industry. Oil an...
Volume: 59Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2016 -
Egypt: UAE Joins Saudi In Bolstering Sisi With $4bn In Aid
...lks with the IMF and said that Egypt had recently put forward its development program and has no problem to deal with any institution on the basis of this program. For around two years after the January 2011 revolution, Egypt held intermittent talks with the IMF to obtain a loan. This did not ma...
Volume: 59Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2016 -
Repsol, Gdf Suez, Enel Strike Gas At Sud-Est Illizi Block
...ock on the Libyan side of the border (NC-210) in the Ghadames Basin. They submitted a development plan in 2009 but nothing appears to have happened since, save Australia’s Woodside selling its 45% stake to the Libyan Investment Authority in 2011, with GDF Suez taking over as operator the same year. Ga...
Volume: 58Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2015 -
Kuwait Finds New Oil At Home As It Goes Shopping In Tunisia
...ture upstream assets, successful exploration acreage as well as mid- and downstream assets. ENI TUNISIA OUTPUT 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2015