1. Iraq Crude Exports Push Against Capacity Constraints

    ...ins only in 2023 and 2025. The first gains are slated to come through the much-delayed Sealine 3 pipeline which is planned to add 600,000 b/d by connecting to ABOT, the non-operational SPM4 and the 600,000 b/d Khor al-Amaya (KAAOT) terminal which has been offline since 2017 due to pipeline leaks. Mr...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 06 May 2022
  2. Oman Oil Output At Near-Record Highs As India Shipments Surge

    ...similarly low volumes in April. With Chinese spot crude buying having dropped off significantly over the last couple of months as Covid restrictions crimp demand, India has stepped up to fill the gap. Shipments to India doubled to 220,000 b/d in March, the highest figure since October 2017 th...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 06 May 2022
  3. Majors’ Russia Exit Puts Spotlight On Mena Portfolios

    ...to Iran’s South Pars gas project in 2017 was cut short by the return of US sanctions the following year (MEES, 23 November 2018). While it was prevented by the Algerian government from buying Occidental’s ex-Anadarko assets in 2020 (MEES, 8 May 2020), at least the firm managed to complete its co...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 06 May 2022
  4. Energean Karish FPSO Sets Sail, Adds Gas Sales Deal

    ...pply 0.8bcm/y (77mn cfd) to the newly privatized 700MW East Hagit Power Plant in northern Israel (MEES, 21 January). It is the second GSPA that Energean has signed with lead partner Edeltech, following an October 2017 deal to supply 2.5bcm of gas over 14 years (see table). Energean flags up that th...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 06 May 2022
  5. Iraqi Kurdistan’s Energy Sector Under Attack

    ...vancing Islamic State and Kurdish fighters filled the vacuum, saw it banned by NOC following the federal government’s re-taking of the fields in 2017. Kar’s proposal to take over two power plants in Basra last year was denounced by MPs (MEES, 12 February 2021) who labeled it as a sell-off of “state as...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 06 May 2022
  6. UAE’S First Waste-To-Energy Plant Begins Testing

    ...become the Middle East’s first zero-waste city.”  The plant, developed by Abu Dhabi state utility Adpower, incorporates moving grate technology to process and burn waste to drive a steam turbine generator set EWEC is led by Abu Dhabi state renewables firm Masdar and was formed in 2017 with the go...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 06 May 2022