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Aphrodite On The Rocks? Cyprus’ First Gas Find Faces Uncertain Future
...ay hardball with the partners of the country’s first gas discovery, 3.5tcf Aphrodite, made back in 2011. On 30 April, Nicosia informed the field’s partners, Chevron (35%op), Shell (35%) and Israel’s NewMed (30%), that their latest proposed revisions the field’s 2019 development plan, submitted on 28 Ma...
Volume: 67Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2024 -
Kuwait Aims To Award Solar Project By Year End
...cilities at Shagaya. The outgoing minister previously headed up the facility from its inception in 2011. RENEWABLES: 30% BY 2030? Mr Hajraf told the WEF that “we just updated our strategy from a 15% renewables share by 2030 to 30% by 2030.” According to Kuwait’s definition, this entails re...
Volume: 67Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2024 -
Iraq Approves Mansuriya Gas Award
...riod. Mansuriya was originally awarded in 2011 to a consortium led by Turkey’s TPAO. Development was halted following attacks by the Islamic State across the province in 2014. Disagreement on commercial terms subsequently pushed Baghdad to take over the field in 2018 (MEES, 3 August 2018). Chinese state fi...
Volume: 67Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2024 -
Cyprus’ Aphrodite: Chevron Spuds Crucial A3 Well
...Drilling has started at Cyprus’ 4.5tcf Aphrodite field. Will results from this second appraisal well finally see the field’s partners, led by US major Chevron, submit a development plan? To say that development has been slow at Cyprus’ 4.5tcf Aphrodite field, discovered in December 2011, wo...
Volume: 66Issue: 18Published at Fri, 05 May 2023 -
Majors’ Russia Exit Puts Spotlight On Mena Portfolios
...dergone four straight years of falls, with production down by almost a quarter on 2011’s 4.26mn cfd. Further decline is on the cards for this year with Exxon also losing its 10% stake in Qatargas-1, although this will be partially offset through full operations at Qatar’s 1.4bn cfd Barzan gas project wh...
Volume: 65Issue: 18Published at Fri, 06 May 2022 -
Energean & Vitol Eye Israel-Cyprus FLNG Tie-Up
...esumably the choice of Cyprus, rather than Israel, as a location for the FLNG is with the aim of securing supplies from one of the three discovered gas fields off the south of the island: Chevron’s 4.1tcf Aphrodite (2011 discovery), Eni’s 6-8tcf Calypso (2018), and US major ExxonMobil’s 2019 5-8tcf Glaucus di...
Volume: 65Issue: 18Published at Fri, 06 May 2022 -
Saudi Arabia Pledges To Invest Oil Export Windfall In Economic Reforms
...P in the first quarter of the year growing at the fastest pace since 2011. Unsurprisingly, the surge has been driven by resurgent oil markets, as the fallout from Russia’s 24 February invasion of Ukraine has pushed oil prices above $100/B for the first time since 2014. The kingdom launched its Vi...
Volume: 65Issue: 18Published at Fri, 06 May 2022 -
Oman’s OQ Raises $750mn Bond As It Looks To Bring Delayed Downstream Projects Online
...nterpiece of a new industrial city – the Special Economic Zone (SEZAD) of Duqm, which was established in 2011 to “diversify the national economy.” To provide power and water to SEZAD, Oman is building a 326MW combined cycle power plant integrated with a 36,000m³/day reverse osmosis desalination plant close to...
Volume: 64Issue: 18Published at Fri, 07 May 2021 -
Delek Readies New East Med Spin-Off
...8% of Tamar (see charts and MEES, 4 December 2020). The 22.7tcf Leviathan field produced 1.04bn cfd for Q1, whilst operator Chevron (36.66%) has advanced expansion plans since taking over Noble Energy late last year (MEES, 23 April). Cyprus’ 4.1tcf 2011 Aphrodite discovery, also now operated by Ch...
Volume: 64Issue: 18Published at Fri, 07 May 2021 -
Saudi Arabia Posts $9bn Q1 Deficit, Worse To Come
...e $32bn that Finance Minister Muhammad al-Jadaan just last week stated that the government would use (MEES, 24 April). Despite the latest steep fall in reserves, they still stood at a massive $465bn in March. And while this was their lowest level since March 2011, it still represents more than th...
Volume: 63Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2020 -
Syria: Oil Products Shortage Heightens Damascus ‘Post-War’ Challenges
...tbreak of war in 2011, and even with hostilities now at a relatively low ebb, economic hardships are continuing to take a massive toll. In particular, a shortage of oil products –gasoline, diesel, LPG and fuel oil – has triggered a nationwide crisis and the government in Damascus is scrambling to save fa...
Volume: 62Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2019 -
Sabic Boosts Transparency Ahead Of Aramco Takeover
...17 slump (see chart). Historical Sabic data does not break out fertilizers and metals before 2015. While total Sabic output reached a record 75.3mn tons in 2018, annual total production had hovered around the 70mn tons level during 2011-17 after regular annual growth previously. Last year Sa...
Volume: 62Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2019 -
Cyprus Exploration: Crunch Period Nears
...om drilling in Block 3 by Turkish warships (MEES, 16 February). This was the first time though that Turkey has managed to halt drilling offshore Cyprus since 2011. The likelihood that it would block drilling in Block 10 is lower: both due to the relative diplomatic strength of the US and Italy, an...
Volume: 61Issue: 18Published at Fri, 04 May 2018 -
Aramco Boosts Downstream, International Experience
...itish MD of Shell 1991-98, Chair 1998-2001 Andrew Gould British Chairman Schlumberger 2003-11, BG 2011-12 Amin Nasser Sa...
Volume: 61Issue: 18Published at Fri, 04 May 2018 -
Algeria Slashes Oil & Gas Investment
...e first one in six years that stands a hope of being hit (see charts). ALGERIA: KEY OIL AND GAS STATS 2011 2012 20...
Volume: 61Issue: 18Published at Fri, 04 May 2018 -
OPEC, Will It Have To Cut Deeper For Longer?
...) 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016* vs’15% vs ‘12...
Volume: 60Issue: 18Published at Fri, 05 May 2017 -
South Sudan Looks Beyond Total For Block B
...uthern part of Sudan under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. As the July 2011 independence of South Sudan approached, negotiations began to find a partner to replace US firm Marathon Oil, which had a 20% stake in block B until it withdrew in 2008 under the pressure of sanctions. Interest shown in...
Volume: 60Issue: 18Published at Fri, 05 May 2017 -
Tunisia Gas Slump
...mpany adding that it did not envisage a near-term resolution to the shut-in which began 10 January. The company, previously known as Winstar, has been repeatedly hit by industrial unrest since Tunisia’s 2011 revolution (MEES, 28 May 2012). UK service firm Petrofac’s 30mn cfd-capacity Chergui field ha...
Volume: 60Issue: 18Published at Fri, 05 May 2017 -
Algeria Charts New Economic Direction. Is It Battling Against The Tide?
...ll trade data). It is, however, notable that surpluses were already shrinking rapidly from the bumper $26.24bn notched up in 2011 even whilst oil prices remained at $100/B-plus as Algiers sought to use public largesse to counter fears of Arab Spring ‘contagion’. By the same token the fact that th...
Volume: 60Issue: 18Published at Fri, 05 May 2017 -
Global Military Spending Up In 2015, Saudi Arabia In Third Position
...litary operations have until recently not been a major focus for armed military forces in the Middle East region,” says James Hackett, senior fellow for defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. “But since 2011, there has been a tendency for some re...
Volume: 59Issue: 18Published at Fri, 06 May 2016