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Neptune Goes Galactic With $5bn Engie Deal
...ey submitted a development plan in 2009 but nothing appears to have happened since, save Australia’s Woodside selling its 45% stake to the Libyan Investment Authority in 2011, with Engie taking over as operator the same year. Engie has several exploration concessions in the region, including in...
Volume: 60Issue: 20Published at Fri, 19 May 2017 -
Abu Dhabi Shakes Up Adnoc Management
...per Zakum field between 2007 and 2011, and graduated with a Masters in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College London in 1995. He replaces ‘Ali Rashid al-Jarwan, who had held the post since 2006. The Adma concession expires in 2018 and the current partners are BP (14.67%), Total (13.33%), In...
Volume: 59Issue: 20Published at Fri, 20 May 2016 -
Saudi Products Records Tumble With Europe The Target Market
...st year hitting a record 1.09mn b/d in Q1, the third straight quarterly record (see chart). Diesel now accounts for 40% of Saudi refinery output, up from an average of 33% for 2011-13. Q1 2016 also saw record output of jet-kerosene (259,000 b/d, with a monthly record of 277,000 b/d in March), wh...
Volume: 59Issue: 20Published at Fri, 20 May 2016 -
Suez Canal Oil Data (‘000 B/D)
...NORTHERN OIL SHIPMEMTS HAVE DOUBLED SINCE 2011 TO AVERAGE 2MN B/D SINCE 2Q 2014... ...WITH SEASONAL RECORDS SET FOR EACH OF THE LAST THREE QUARTERS (MN B/D) NORTHBOUND PRODUCTS SHIPMENTS, DIESEL IN PARTICULAR, HAVE LED THE WAY. 1.2MN B/D OF SAUDI AND UAE RE...
Volume: 59Issue: 20Published at Fri, 20 May 2016 -
Saudi Aramco Oil, Gas Reserves At All-Time High
...DICATED) 2014 vs2013 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Morocco’s $4.6bn LNG Scheme Continues To Drum Up Interest
...d a 170MW steam turbine, requiring around 84 mn cfd (0.87 bcm/y). Supplies to the two plants were until October 2011, exclusively covered by the payment in kind – 0.75 bcm/y of gas that Morocco would receive from Algeria in return for transit rights. Morocco wanted to receive its transit fees in ca...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Egypt’s Deficit Up
...balances after the January 2011 revolution (including $3bn grants from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, in addition to E£20.3bn out of the E£29.7bn allocated to finance the first stimulus package), it did not have the same inflow in the corresponding period of 2014-15. If these exceptional inflows were to be ex...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Algeria’s Youcef Yousfi Ousted In Cabinet Reshuffle
...ined in 1998 as head of the petroleum economics studies division before becoming head of operational research and petroleum economics until 2004. His most recent role was as chairman and chief executive of the Algerian Petroleum Institute (IAP), a position he held for five years until 2011. Mr Khebri gr...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My (OPEC) Brother
...rticular market have failed miserably. In 2011, when the world lost nearly all Libyan output, Saudi Arabia came up with the notion that it could fill the void by creating a super-light, low sulfur blend mimmicing Libyan crude. But the Saudi cocktail found almost no takers: while the API gravity of the bl...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
US Tries To Soothe Gulf Arab Fears Over Iran At Camp David Summit
...nations sharing common interests. The GCC has been weakened by internecine disputes since the start of the so-called Arab Spring revolutions of 2011, often finding some of their members on opposite sides of the struggle against rising extremism in the region. The metastatic spread of Iranian in...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Libya Could Run Out Of Cash Sooner Rather Than Later
...ports of refined products. Public salaries dropped slightly from LD25.6bn in 2013 to LD23.8bn in 2014, but this was still more than 60% higher than the LD14.8bn the government spent on salaries in 2011. The drop in the oil price is likely to mean the government’s subsidies bill falls in 2015, but if the ad...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Bahrain 2015-16 Budget Deficit Soars
...ice exceeds $40/B. Four GCC countries, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE and Qatar set up in 2011 a Gulf development fund to disburse $10bn in grants over 10 years to finance Bahraini projects. This aid will be extremely timely in these hard times of low oil revenue (MEES, 1 March 2013). BAHRAIN BU...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Qatar Faces Cost Blow-Out In Drive To Redevelop Bul Hanine
...onouncements: in 2010, for example, QNB expected crude production capacity to reach 1mn b/d by the end of 2011. This change in tenor suggests that the bank grasps the current situation: Qatar’s heavy investment in crude production is designed to battle oilfield declines; little boost in output is expected over th...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Fertilizer Boost For Algeria’s Battered Petchems Industry
...hylene throughput had been on a downward trajectory since 2006 and most units were shut down in 2011 (see chart). The plant had the capacity to produce 120,000 t/y of ethylene, 48,000 t/y of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), 130,000 t/y of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and 35,000 t/y of PVC. El...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Iraq Petchems Exports Possible After 2020
...ntracts for the Siba and Mansuriya non-associated gas fields in the Western Desert, has spoken of rising costs of drilling at Mansuriya because of the heightened security risks. Of the four gas fields awarded in the lacklustre 2011 auction, Siba is expected to start production late this year or early ne...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Saudi Gifts Egypt Oil
...iro. Cutting energy subsidies has been an official government objective since the beginning of the Egyptian revolution in January 2011. Failure to introduce cuts in these subsidies and lower the budget deficit proved to be the stumbling block in the negotiations with the IMF over a $4.8bn loan to Egypt in...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Saudi-Iran Relatons On The Mend?
...e first high level contact between Riyadh and Tehran since the 2011 start of the Arab revolutions that exposed deep rifts within the Arab world, the ripples of which are still being felt in the Gulf region today. The collapse of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in Cairo forced Saudi Arabia, which prefers qu...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Aramco Annual Review: Gas Record, Oil Down
...10 2011 2012 2013 ‘13vs’12 (%) RESERVES (re...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Iran: Hope All-Pervasive, But Is It Justified?
...der the previous administration stand out. Mahmoud Reza Khavari, managing director of Bank Melli, Iran’s largest state-owned bank, fled the country to Canada in late 2011 in a $2.6bn embezzlement scandal. His alleged fraud involved the use of forged documents to obtain credit from at least seven Ir...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...13 2012 2011 WTI 101.50 100.00 100.21 102.02 100.48 98.56 97.54 98...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014