1. Tunisia: Key Gas Project Faces Further Delays As Unrest Grows

    ...en tied in as a producer (albeit likely at a significantly lower flow rate). But despite this modest boost gross output from Eni’s southern fields fell from 15,900 b/d in 2014 to 13,900 b/d in 2015 and 13,000 b/d last year. Eni says it has not been hit by the latest protests. However OMV has in re...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 20
    Published at Fri, 19 May 2017
  2. Egypt Gas Boost Cuts Import Needs, But Self-Reliance Still A Distant Goal

    ...covery, with BP’s 1.5 tcf Atoll set to add a further 300mn cfd from mid 2018. But even with the Nooros and WND boost, Egyptian output is only back to early 2014 levels: it is still some 1bn cfd short of the near-6bn cfd average of 2011 and 2012 (see chart – the Nooros field which is in shallow water but dr...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 20
    Published at Fri, 19 May 2017
  3. Saudi Aramco’s Mu’ajjiz Port Development Enhances Flexibility

    ...ipped to the facility. The most economic option would likely be to pipe crude to the west coast and then ship it south to Jazan. This appears to be the strategy. Aramco’s 2014 annual review said that redevelopment of Mu’ajjiz will “accommodate the increased volumes of fuel oil and supplies of Ar...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 20
    Published at Fri, 19 May 2017
  4. Opec Facing Tough Choices Ahead Of Vienna Meeting

    ...rporation (NOC) claimed 800,000 b/d-plus output last week, a level it has not sustained for a whole month since October 2014. Production disruptions are an ever-present risk, but more than half-way through May it seems as if a sizeable monthly gain is near-guaranteed. In Nigeria, the outlook is less po...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 20
    Published at Fri, 19 May 2017
  5. Algeria Parliamentary Poll: Status Quo - On, And On, And On Again

    ...% of registered voters (23 million out of a population of almost 40 million), compared with some 42% in 2012. Some independent observers put the figure lower still. Algiers had managed to buy social peace until 2014 as oil prices remained at over $100/B, but the latest elections coincide with he...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 20
    Published at Fri, 19 May 2017
  6. Morocco’s Samir: Rescue Bid

    ...rch 2014 before processing halted in August 2015....

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 20
    Published at Fri, 19 May 2017
  7. Egypt Economic Reforms Remain On Track But Long Road Ahead

    ...ensure that these subsidies target those who are most in need. He denies that there is a decision to raise fuel prices, but said that his ministry has a five-year program which started in 2014 to rationalize energy subsidies, stressing however that this program is unrelated to the IMF loan.  NE...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 20
    Published at Fri, 19 May 2017
  8. Oman Export Revenues Down, Rating Junked

    ...finery Improvement Project (SRIP), which commenced in 2014, is slated to increase output capacity for transport fuels by 59% to 197,000 b/d. Construction finished earlier this year and the spike in April refinery output suggests that units temporarily offline for the maintenance are now back online. Ho...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 20
    Published at Fri, 19 May 2017