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KRG Signs US Firms Up To New Gas Development Contracts
...rchased by US Crest Energy International in 2017 and taken private (MEES, 2 June 2017). “I’m very pleased to be here again back in Washington, especially to witness and monitor the signing of these two very important deals. Both companies, HKN and WesternZagros, have been operating in Kurdistan for ma...
Volume: 68Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2025 -
Offshore Med & Nile Delta Blues Continue For Egypt Gas Output
...shore Nile Delta, is in even worse shape. Q1’s output of 510mn cfd marked a seven-year low, whilst losses of 3% versus Q4 marked the sixth consecutive quarter on quarter fall to leave output 62% below Q3 2017’s peak 1.36bn cfd (see chart 1). WHAT GOES UP… Back in 2017 the key Ni...
Volume: 66Issue: 21Published at Fri, 26 May 2023 -
Eni Offshore Egypt: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
...gust has been exacerbated by the effect of Covid-19. March saw just 3.00bn cfd burnt in power generation, a three-year low. Overall Egyptian gas demand remained flat quarter-on-quarter at 5.65bn cfd but down 8% on Q3 2019’s peak 6.17bn cfd (see chart 3). Up until 2017, the majority of Eni’s Egypt ga...
Volume: 63Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2020 -
Saudi Set To Secure US Shale Gas Foothold With LNG Deal
...cilities. If it were to install such facilities, then an FSRU would seem the most likely option, presumably on the Red Sea coast given that this is the most gas-deprived region (MEES, 19 April). Additional gas is certainly required, with Aramco projecting gas demand to grow from 9.1bn cfd in 2017 to 14.6bn cf...
Volume: 62Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2019 -
Iraq’s Somo Pursuing Strategic Shift Toward Crude Trading
...ghdad HQ (see transcript, p6). Mr Alyasri assumed the post in September 2017, replacing Falah Al-Amri who initially envisaged the shakeup of Somo the year before (MEES, 15 September 2017). “Once taking over office, I immediately turned to the medium- and long-term plans, and the mechanisms that will ma...
Volume: 62Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2019 -
Rosneft Discovery Adds To Growing Iraq Presence
...oject, however (MEES, 14 September 2012). Rosneft drilled its first exploration well, Salman-1, in February 2017 just months after the completion of its controversial acquisition of the block’s operator Bashneft. Rosneft’s 70% stake in Block 12 (MEES, 3 March 2017) was swiftly upgraded to 100% as an ag...
Volume: 61Issue: 21Published at Fri, 25 May 2018 -
Kuwait Energy: Could Stretched Finances Force Firm From Key Iraq Asset?
...d Iraq. These soared from $77mn at end-2016 to $125mn at end-2017; alongside the $69mn from Egypt lay $46mn from Iraq. KEC’s 2017 report released in April says $46mn trade receivables were settled from Iraq since December (MEES, 11 May). This came in the form of an 800,000-barrel crude cargo re...
Volume: 61Issue: 21Published at Fri, 25 May 2018 -
GE Backs Saudi Vision 2030 In $3bn Investment Program With SAIIC
...dustrial value chains in Saudi Arabia. SAIIC and GE say they will roll out joint investments of $1bn (SR3.75bn) by 2017 in addition to an aggregate potential investment of $2bn (SR7.5bn) to “drive projects in water, energy, aviation, digital and other sectors from 2017.” As part of the program, GE will be...
Volume: 59Issue: 21Published at Fri, 27 May 2016 -
Companies Scale Back Libya Expectations
...o fields were expected to add 180,000-200,000 b/d by 2017 (MEES, 9 November 2012). ConocoPhillips drilled four appraisal wells in 2015, it said in its 2014 annual report (MEES 6 March). Hess has written off the $260mn cost of two successful deepwater exploration wells on its Area 54 exploration ac...
Volume: 58Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2015 -
Chinese State Firm Secures Abu Dhabi Field Contract
...eld, which Adco says will add 20,000 b/d to onshore production capacity. The field, part of the South East cluster of onshore fields, is of strategic importance as Adco prepares to raise output capacity to 1.8mn b/d by 2017 from 1.6mn b/d currently. The Southeast Asset also includes the Asab, Sa...
Volume: 58Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2015 -
Egypt: Receivables Rise Again
...d-2013. Meanwhile in its 16 May preliminary 2013 results announcement, the firm says that first gas from the 2.1 tcf Ain Tsila field, the company’s “most significant asset,” “now appears more likely to occur in 2018 than the previous estimate of late 2017.” FEED is set to begin later this year, wh...
Volume: 57Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2014 -
KPI Positive On China JV
...16, or early 2017, the Vietnamese refinery will exclusively process 30.2° API Kuwait export crude....
Volume: 57Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2014 -
Qatar Forms $1Bn Power Fund, Buys Congo Stake
...oject with a 53.5% stake – Moho North is expected to come online in 2015 and ramp up to 140,000 b/d by 2017. Based on recent production numbers, QPI’s working interest in Total E&P Congo’s production will be about 16,000 b/d of crude and just under 5mn cfd of gas. Total operates 9 licenses in th...
Volume: 56Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2013