1. 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
  2. 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
  3. ADNOC Pushes To Own Faulty Hormuz Bypass Pipeline

    ...ased around 1mn barrels of liquid fuel storage at Vopak Horizon’s terminal.  Aramco Trading, founded at the start of 2011, is Saudi Aramco’s refined products trading arm.     Saudi Aramco and Shell are likely hoping to target the Asian market and take advantage of Fujairah’s strategic po...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2013
  4. Libya Eyes $80bn Downstream Drive

    ...chnologies.”   Libya’s only current foreign downstream joint venture, the 50% stake of Dubai’s Al-Ghurair group in Ras Lanuf, has not been a happy one. Under the terms of the 2009 investment, Al-Ghurair was to invest $2bn in modernizing and expanding the plant. But a combination of factors, most notably the 2011 ci...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2013
  5. EU Renews Sanctions On Syria

    ...y that Syrian production of oil had fallen to only 20,000 b/d, that is to say a mere 5% of the 380,000 b/d Syria was producing before the start of the civil war in March 2011. In early May Mr ‘Abbas estimated Syrian crude production at 70,000 b/d (MEES, 10 May).   This has forced his country to...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2013
  6. Saudi Aramco: 2012 Production Rises, Capacity Steady

    ...  SAUDI ARABIA   Saudi Aramco: 2012 Production Rises, Capacity Steady   Saudi Aramco’s 2012 Annual Report, released on 27 May, shows crude production hitting a record 9.51mn b/d, up over 440,000 b/d on 2011’s previous record. Gas output of 10.7bn cfd, up 9% on 2011, is al...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2013
  7. IMF Sees Positive Economic Developments In Iraq

    ...12 from $1,300 in 2004. This favorable IMF assessment comes at a time when violence in Iraq has surged to new highs and Sunni opposition to the Shi’a dominated government has become more pronounced.   The IMF notes that fiscal surpluses reached almost 5% of GDP in 2011 and 4% in 2012 as a re...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2013
  8. Libya Faces Hurdles Despite Rebound- IMF

    ...12 as hydrocarbon output was rapidly restored. Inflation fell to 6%. This compares with a 62% fall in GDP in 2011. The 2012 budget recorded a surplus of almost 21% of GDP and the current account surplus widened to 36% of GDP. The fall in hydrocarbon exports in 2011 led to a budget deficit of 15.4% of GD...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2013
  9. Kuwait Grants Oman $2.5Bn

    ...rt of a $20bn GCC funding program pledged by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and Kuwait, to extend $10bn each to Oman and Bahrain for development projects.   The program was approved in March 2011 to ease tensions and promote economic development following pro-democracy uprisings (MEES, 9 May 2011...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2013
  10. Benchmark Crude Prices

    ...13 Q4 2012 2012 2011 WTI 93.61 95.11 94.97 92.09 92.98 94...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2013
  11. Saudi Aramco Boasts Growing Solar Prowess, Eyes Geothermal

    ...nior energy figures in the Kingdom are growing more frequent as the fuel problems intensify.   The IMF estimated in 2011 that Saudi Arabia spends about 20% of its GDP supporting subsidies, including fuel subsidies. This proportion has continued to grow as subsidized prices in turn fuel ever hi...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 22
    Published at Wed, 01 May 2013