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Iran Readies Upstream Opening In Anticipation Of Nuclear Deal
...st 34% of what was envisaged as part of Iran’s fifth development plan (January 2011-March 2015). Already starved of investment from abroad, what little funds NIOC and the ministry does have for investment is being regularly raided by the government in order to pay out monthly cash handouts to the Ir...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015 -
Eni Ramps Up Western Desert Output As Cairo Looks To Cut Through Red Tape
...lehia, Ras Qattara, Raml and West Razzak, the Melehia permit, 300km west of Alexandria, accounts for over 75% of total output, some 54,000 b/d. The field’s output has ramped up rapidly since mid-2012 when Eni first tapped the fields deep formations (MEES, 28 May 2012). Back in 2011-12 Agiba produced 40...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015 -
Italy Ups Algerian Gas Imports As Lower Oil Prices Feed Through Into Contracts
...ood at 409.1 bcm in 2014, compared with 477.8 bcm in 2011, according to statistics from Eurogas, a fall of almost 15% over the past three years. Falling demand made it a buyers’ market and Europe’s main gas suppliers – Russia’s Gazprom, Norway’s Statoil, Algeria’s Sonatrach, and to some extent Qatar’s Ra...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015 -
Saudi Top Oil Brass On China Charm Offensive
...ina. Today, we export around 1 million,” Mr Naimi said at the Beijing Energy Club on 27 April. China was a net exporter of crude until the turn of the millennium. Saudi supplies to China soared to hit 500,000 b/d in 2006 and 1mn b/d in 2011 but have remained at around this level since: overall Ch...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015 -
Saudi Reshuffle: Is The Stage Set For An Oil Change?
...re accused of plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador a few years back, a revelation that pushed already tense relations between the two regional powers to a new low in 2011. Should the change lead to a harder line in dealing with Iran, it would complicate Mr Naimi’s task of trying to try to hold an al...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015 -
Damascus Cash Crunch As Crude Below 10,000 B/D
...oduction of 385,000 b/d before the start of the uprising in March 2011. However, if the government figures are to be believed, output is actually up slightly on the 2014 average of 9,330 b/d, while the average for the first quarter of 2014 stood at 13,000 b/d (MEES, 9 May 2014). Gas production has fa...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015 -
Iraq: Q1 Exports Hit 2.7mn B/D But Still Way Off 3.3mn B/D 2015 Target (‘000 B/D)
...b-15 Jan-15 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 CRUDE OUTPUT: Federal* 3,064 -42 -77 3,...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015