1. 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: 61
    Issue: 17
    Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018
  2. 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: 61
    Issue: 17
    Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018
  3. 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: 61
    Issue: 17
    Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018
  4. 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: 61
    Issue: 17
    Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018