1. Iran Selects 49 Oil, Gas Projects Open For Foreign Investment

    ...ar in early 2014 to 330 bcm/year by 2017. The list, revealed on the ministry news service by Abdol-Mohammad Delparish, director of consolidated planning at the state-run National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), comprises a host of projects that are at various stages of exploration and development. 28 of...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 08 May 2015
  2. Oman Planning for Spot Power

    ...pire in 2017, with five more finishing by the end of 2020. While some PPAs will continue beyond the introduction of the spot market, the new rules will provide “an alternative way for producers to sell power to OPWP” (MEES, 7 February 2014). NERA has already advised the GCC Interconnection Au...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 08 May 2015
  3. Qatar Seeks New IOC Partners To Develop Al-Shaheen Oilfield

    ...om al-Shaheen,” says Jakob Thomas, CEO of Maersk Oil, adding that the company had known that it would be challenged on terms and conditions in connection with the 2017 extension, and had been waiting for more information from QP on how they wished to proceed. That uncertainty was making it difficult fo...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 08 May 2015
  4. Oman Eyes Liwa Close, Prepares Duqm

    ...rst phase due to start up in 2017. The purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant will utilize paraxylene feedstock and will itself provide PTA feed for two linked 250,000 t/y polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plants. Ompet – a joint venture between state firm Oman Oil Company (OOC – 50%), Oman’s Ta...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 08 May 2015
  5. Egypt: Solar Ambitions Soar, But Like Icarus?

    ...cently NREA awarded Spain’s Gamesa a €220mn turnkey contract to build a 220MW wind farm at Gulf of El-Zayt on the western Red Sea coast. This too was first proposed in 2010, but is now due to start up in 2017 (MEES, 24 April). EGYPT’S RECENT RENEWABLES DEALS (GW) Co...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 08 May 2015
  6. Iraq, KRG Oil Export Deal Holds Despite Discrepancies

    ...eld to 2017 or beyond. (MEES, 1 May).  ...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 08 May 2015