1. Iraq Edges Closer To Crucial Seawater Megaproject Deal

    ...eded for firms to hit their production plateau targets (PPT). In 2010 the oil ministry tapped ExxonMobil’s expertise for a multi-billion dollar Common Seawater Supply Project (CSSP), but the project subsequently fell prey to changing terms, failed negotiations, scandal as Exxon entered the KRG in 2011 (ME...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 10 May 2019
  2. Total To Become Top Algeria Producer In $9bn Oxy Side Deal

    ...lling. The company’s only stake was 35% of the aging Tin Fouye Tabankort (TFT) wet gas field where output has fallen from a peak of 680mn cfd in 2011 to just 400mn cfd for 2017 – netting Total a measly 15,000 boe/d, three-quarters gas (MEES, 23 March 2018). But from that trough, the company’s Algeria ou...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 10 May 2019
  3. IOCs Face Mixed Picture In The Mena Upstream

    ...reseeable future. On the gas side of the equation, Total’s regional bets have not fared so well. Output edged up in 2018 to 810mn cfd thanks to the start-up of Algeria’s Timimoun project (see chart 2), but is well down on 2011’s peak of 1.46mn b/d. Wars in Syria and Yemen took their toll on Total’s po...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 10 May 2019
  4. Tensions Flare As Turkey Drills Off Cyprus

    ...ach any sort of compromise, with the most recent summit in Switzerland in 2017, the last concerted efforts, failing to reach any sort of deal. Turkey has warned Cyprus about its own drilling activities to the south of the island and has been threatening since 2011, when Noble Energy discovered the 4....

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 10 May 2019
  5. Iran Threat To Nuke Deal As Exports, Revenues Face Collapse

    ...ES, 30 November 2011), has been ramping up throughputs and is set to hit full capacity later this month, Reuters reports. But the fact that official Chinese data show overall record crude imports for April despite a heavy maintenance schedule, suggests that at least some of the bumper Iranian vo...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 10 May 2019