1. Kuwait Energy: Could Stretched Finances Force Firm From Key Iraq Asset?

    ...The 2014 discovery of the 1.13bn barrel Faihaa field by Kuwait Energy was the biggest  exploration success of Iraq’s post-2009 upstream opening. But plans to develop the field to 250,000 b/d by the mid-2020s are threatened by an onerous debt burden.   Iraq has been the great success st...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 21
    Published at Fri, 25 May 2018
  2. GE Backs Saudi Vision 2030 In $3bn Investment Program With SAIIC

    ...vestments Company (SAIIC) – established in 2014 by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF, 50%), Saudi Aramco (25%) and petchems firm Sabic (25%) to advance industrialization in Saudi Arabia – has signed a memorandum of understanding with US industrial giant General Electric to develop and localize in...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 21
    Published at Fri, 27 May 2016
  3. Companies Scale Back Libya Expectations

    ...rst quarter results statement on 28 April, although it has not decided to write down the value of the assets. The move was part of a $1.1bn impairment that also included the company’s producing assets in Yemen. Total’s production in Libya dropped to an average of 27,000 boe/d in 2014, its lowest level si...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 21
    Published at Fri, 22 May 2015
  4. Chinese State Firm Secures Abu Dhabi Field Contract

    ...ina National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), which is bidding for a stake in the new Adco concession, the largest producing asset in the Opec member state. The former Adco concession, in which Total, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell held 9.5% stakes, expired at the start of 2014 and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Ad...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 21
    Published at Fri, 22 May 2015
  5. Gulfsands Cash Crunch

    ...vember 2014 ‘Strategic Cooperation Agreement’ with Vitol subsidiary Arawak Energy turned sour, with Arawak calling in the $10mn it fronted Gulfsands as part of the deal. “The Group is in discussions with Arawak over the repayment of the monies owing,” Gulfsands says. Interest accrues at 10%/year. Gu...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 21
    Published at Fri, 22 May 2015
  6. Total Tanks Up In Egypt

    ...stations by end-2013, and quadruple product sales, including a large aviation fuel component, from 2012’s 226,000 tons to 1mn tons/year by 2014.   The UAE, where it has a 200,000 t/y blending plant (and a 7,500 t/y grease plant), anchors Total’s regional lube business. In addition to the Gu...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 21
    Published at Fri, 24 May 2013