1. MOL To Sell Nabucco Shares, BEH Uncertain Over Project’s Future

    ...lgaria (ITB) redundant.   Regarding Nabucco, Bulgaria’s Minister of Energy Delyan Dobrev told BNR radio on 28 April that the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Azerbaijan increased Bulgaria’s chances of receiving gas by 2014, noting that Bulgaria succeeded in “committing them [Az...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 07 May 2012
  2. TPAO Begins Drilling Well In Northern Cyprus

    ...th the assistance of the under-secretariat. Mr Yildiz said the ship will be equipped with the latest technology and will be used for 2D and 3D seismic exploration. It is scheduled to be delivered to the MTA in 2014. Turkey has only one seismic research vessel, the ageing Piri Reis, which was sent in...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 07 May 2012
  3. TransGlobe Looks To Egyptian Future With Western Desert Expansion

    ...anted July 2011, first oil expected mid-2012 (c.1,000 b/d). Exploration permit for remainder of block expires June 2014. South Alamein** W Desert 100% (op) 0 0 **0-...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 07 May 2012
  4. IOEC Expanding Forouzan As Iran Focuses On Shared Fields Development

    ...ran onshore field, which extends into Iraq.   NIOC estimates that Yaran has 1.1bn barrels of oil in place and could produce 20,000-25,000 b/d over a 24-year period. A first phase of development to give production capacity of 12,000 b/d by the end of March 2014 is expected to cost $600-700mn. Pe...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 07 May 2012
  5. Pedec Awards Tadbir Energy Contract For Phase 2 Of Mansouri Development

    ...pected to begin in 2014. Phase 1 capacity is 100,000 b/d and production began in 2007.  ...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 07 May 2012
  6. Cyprus Considers Interim Solution For Natural Gas Supply, Noble Energy Keen To Drill

    ...raeli and Cypriot gas – if gas in the Cyprus offshore should be discovered (MEES, 17 January). Representatives of Noble Energy met with Cypriot energy officials in early April and laid a plan on the table that could see deliveries of gas from Block 12 to the island by 2014. The first aim would be to co...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 09 May 2011
  7. RWE Expects Delay In Gas Supply Agreement With Turkmenistan

    ...niz Stage 2, BP has informed MEES that a final decision to sanction the project is expected to be made during the second quarter and that first gas is not scheduled to manifest until 2016. Nabucco is due to come into operation in 2014 (MEES, 3 May). BP heads the Shah Deniz consortium as well as the SC...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 10 May 2010
  8. Lukoil Renews Cooperation Agreement With Astrakhan Region

    ...d Surgutneftegas also use the 1,510km pipeline, the capacity of which is due to be expanded to 67mn tons/year (1.34mn b/d) in 2014 (MEES, 12 April). BP Azerbaijan on 6 May said crude oil production in the offshore Azer-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) oilfields totaled 9.7mn tons during the first qu...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 10 May 2010
  9. Ma'aden Awards Contracts For Ras Al-Zour Aluminum Project

    ...gineering and infrastructure supervision services at the site. The smelter and rolling mill will be built during a first phase of development, with first production anticipated by 2013, while the mine and refinery are set to be completed by December 2014. Ma'aden and Alcoa and announced their joint venture ag...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 10 May 2010
  10. Bulgaria And Qatar Holds Further LNG Talks, As Poland Signs Deal With Qatargas

    ...NiG and Qatargas of a 20-year framework agreement for the supply of 1mn tons/year of LNG beginning in 2014. The shipments, to be delivered by Qatar’s Q-Flex LNG carriers to a deepwater terminal under construction at Swinoujscie, will provide some 1.4 bcm/year of gas, or roughly 6% of Poland’s fo...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 11 May 2009