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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: 61Issue: 21Published at Fri, 25 May 2018 -
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: 59Issue: 21Published at Fri, 27 May 2016 -
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: 58Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2015 -
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: 58Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2015 -
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: 58Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2015 -
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: 56Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2013