1. Chevron Submits Aphrodite Plan As Nicosia Attempts Strategy Shift

    ...e field, following its 2011 discovery, potentially more important will be a gas sales agreement with Egypt. While the Aphrodite partners will have one eye on exporting some volumes as LNG – the WDDM facilities land at Idku, at infrastructure adjacent to the 7.2mn t/y ELNG export terminal (also op...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 02 Jun 2023
  2. Libya’s Oil Revenues Surge

    ...byan oil exports have similarly stayed at above 1mn b/d since November 2020, according to data intelligence firm Kpler. If such levels are sustained until the end of the 2021, Opec member Libya could be looking at its best performance since the collapse of the Gaddafi regime in 2011. While pr...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 04 Jun 2021
  3. Libya’s North Hamada: Development At Last?

    ...t the 2011 ‘revolution’ marked the beginning of years of instability. Though Tripoli in late-2011 approved Medco’s declaration of commerciality on structures A+L, D and F, by then the firm like most other foreign companies had pulled its staff out of the country. It returned in 2013 and drilled th...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2019
  4. Tunisia Output Collapses: Southern Fields Shut In, No End In Sight To Protests

    ...in the wake of Tunisia's 2011 uprising. The lack of perceived benefits to locals from oil and gas output has been a recurrent theme. The Nawara project, previously known as the ‘South Tunisia Gas Project’ gave rise to protests in the south of the country even before it was sanctioned in 20...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 02 Jun 2017
  5. Jordan Looks To Join Underused GCC Power Grid

    ...gas from Egypt until Egypt halted exports in 2011 forcing a shift to liquid fuels, though Jordan began importing LNG last year. Jordan is looking to diversify further and is currently developing renewables and oil-shale fired capacity in a bid to reduce this reliance (MEES, 15 April). The GC...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2016
  6. Eni Advances Libya Gas Plans Amid Short-Term Cuts

    ...erated Greenstream pipeline linking Mellitah with Sicily – Libya’s sole gas export output – to rise to 688mn cfd last year, the highest level since the 2011 ouster of Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi. Eni, in its recently-released 2016-19 strategic plan gives the Bahr Essalam Phase II start-up date as H1 2018 with ne...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2016
  7. Egypt Doubles Down On Attempts To Reverse Gas Slump

    ...e BG-operated WDDM project more than accounts for the remainder. Output from the BP/Eni fields is down by a total of 524mn cfd since 2011, with BG output down 440mn cfd over the same period, some 83% of the overall 1.15bn cfd fall in Egypt’s output since 2011. Eni has been keen to talk up its De...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 29 May 2015
  8. Libya’s NOC Dreams Of Better Future

    ...l fields offline, the Libyan energy sector is undergoing its worst crisis since the revolution ground operations to a halt in 2011, at a time when the political situation is deteriorating. Earlier this month, former general Khalifa Haftar attacked Islamist militia in their bases in Benghazi, ba...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 30 May 2014
  9. Output Continues To Slide As South Sudan Conflict Rumbles On

    ...rst time the two former civil war foes have cooperated on oil matters since the two countries split in 2011, under the terms of a ‘Comprehensive Peace Agreement’ signed six years prior. But far from doing it out of concern, Khartoum’s latest offer is almost certainly driven by a sense of economic se...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 30 May 2014
  10. Tripoli Touts Progress In Face Of Security Challenge

    ...e Mellitah gas plant which left one guard dead, Dr Berruien said security problems have been exaggerated. The drilling of 19 exploration and appraisal wells, and acquisition of “more than 2,000 sq km of (3D) seismic” since October 2011 is proof oil companies can do business in post-revolutionary Li...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2013
  11. Abu Dhabi Habshan Gas

    ...ortage.   Nitrogen Injection GASCO is preparing to inject 600mn cfd of nitrogen by mid-2014 into Habshan wet gas field, and in doing so recover the same volume of gas – currently used for reinjection – for delivery to Habshan 5 (MEES, 19 September 2011). Currently, most of the heavier ‘field condensate’ is...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2013