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Bapco To Firm Up Refinery Expansion Plans By Year-End
...tap this for its expansion projects, MEES understands. Saudi banks have increasingly been lending across-border, and took big tickets on Qatar’s $10bn Barzan 1.4bn cfd gas/NGL project, which signed an agreement to receive financing in December last year (MEES, 19 December 2011). Other Ba...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
South Stream Construction To Begin By December
...May. Besides signing an agreement to establish the joint venture company, Mr Miller and Slovenia’s Prime Minister Yanez Yansa also discussed the details of the existing contract under which Gazprom supplied 530mn cmd of gas to the Central European state in 2011. Slovenia covers around 50% of its ga...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
New Algerian LNG Capacity Faces Lack Of Gas
...peline, which was expanded by 6.5 bcm/y to 33.2 bcm/y in 2009. Italian imports from Algeria rose to 27.6 bcm for 2010 but data from key importer Eni, whose 2011 imports of 13.9 bcm were down 14% on 2010, indicates that volumes have since fallen as Italy again slid into recession. Total Algerian gas export vo...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
IEA Sees Middle East Gas Expansion Serving Only Regional Needs In Medium Term
...untries actually face shortages. Growth in Middle Eastern gas production will slow considerably over the coming five years, with the build-up from an estimated 516bn cu ms in 2011 to 588 bcm in 2017 much slower in the absence of the expansion of LNG export capacity in Qatar and difficulties in developing th...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
Saudi Crude Price Adjustments For July Mixed
...d B/L date to the Far East – are as follows ($/B): US (Price Reference ASCI) 2012 2011 Jul Jun May Ap...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices ($/B)
...L PRICES/OPEC Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices ($/B) Abu Dhabi ($/B) 2012 2011 May Apr Mar Fe...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
Iran’s SWF Could Have $50Bn In Reserves By March 2013
...boosting production and the role of the private sector. Reserves in the fund could even rise to $55bn by March 2013 if oil prices remain robust, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in April. NDF was established in 2011 under Article 84 of the fifth five-year development plan (2011-15) wi...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
Maliki Comes Under Renewed Pressure
...ck of rises in southern exports. Back in 2009, northern production made up around 25% of Iraqi exports. But capacity hemorrhages on the key northern Kirkuk field pushed this down (MEES, 27 February), until Kurdish exports restarted in early 2011. These ramped up to 547,000 b/d by June that year. Then th...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
Jordan And Enefit Initial Deal For First Shale Oil Power Plant
...4bn ($5.6bn) last year due to the ongoing disruption of Egyptian gas supplies to Jordan since the downfall of the Mubarak regime in January 2011. According to a recent report Jordan is receiving 30mn cfd of Egyptian gas instead of the 300mn cfd needed to fuel the kingdom’s power plants. The Jordanian go...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
Sonatrach To Restart Libyan Drilling This Month
...ploration site had been achieved. During previous drilling Sonatrach made two oil discoveries, most recently a May 2010 well which tested at 1,300 b/d. The company had been planning to start a further eight-well drilling campaign in early 2011, when its Libyan operations were interrupted. With no su...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
Repsol Sets Out North Africa Plans
...psol plans to drill “more than 16” wells over the three Murzuq Basin blocks between now and 2016. Repsol views the securing of three large exploration blocks offshore the northern coast of Tunisia in July last year as one of its key international upstream events for 2011 (MEES, 11 July 2011...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
Diesel Shortage Hits Saudi Arabia
...grades should help ease the problem as they are phased in: Ras Tanura in 2011, Riyadh in third quarter of 2012, Yanbu' by second quarter of 2013 and Jubail by the first quarter of 2013. Al Troner, President of Asia Pacific Consulting tells MEES: “All of these will clean up gasoil yield, not produce mo...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
Anatomy Of Iraq’s Exploration Auction – Bid Round 4
...aqi Ministry of Oil concluded a two-day hydrocarbon exploration auction during 30-31 May 2012. Expectations following the road show in 'Amman on 11 September 2011 were that only a few companies out of the 39 (47 prequalified) that paid to bid were intending to do so. Several reasons prevented the bi...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
OPEC Talks Collapse In ‘Worst’ Meeting
...asures that will help to calm the market,” Mr Tanaka continued. Opponents of the Saudi-led initiative pointed to high stocks as reason not to hike output. “Inventories are the highest for five years,” argued one delegate, adding that in his view demand would be no higher in 2011 than it was last ye...
Volume: 54Issue: 24Published at Mon, 13 Jun 2011 -
Salih Flown To Saudi Arabia After Attack On Palace
...edit have stopped supplying Yemen due to our inability to pay, Mr 'Aidarus said. Most output of 110,000 b/d Light Marib crude remains shut in after the explosion. “In Yemen, production has been stopped since mid-March 2011 due to an attack on the Safer export pipeline,” OMV official Sven Pusswald te...
Volume: 54Issue: 24Published at Mon, 13 Jun 2011 -
Cook: Shah Deniz 2 Consortium Looking For Scalability In Pipeline Proposals
...with their offers for pipeline transportation by 1 October 2011. Beyond that we have to take our final investment decision in 2013 and after that we expect to start gas production by 2017. The rights to the Shah Deniz field in Azerbaijan end in 2036. That may look quite far away but actually to...
Volume: 54Issue: 24Published at Mon, 13 Jun 2011 -
Billions Of Dollars Pledged To MENA Region After ‘Arab Spring’
...e IMF has a macro-economic approach whereas the EBRD looks at private sector operations. The G8 declaration stated that multilateral development banks could provide over $20bn, including €3.5bn from the EIB, for Egypt and Tunisia for 2011-2013 in support of suitable reform efforts and noted th...
Volume: 54Issue: 24Published at Mon, 13 Jun 2011 -
Oil Prices Rise After OPEC Fails To Agree Output Increase
...ekly Oil Data Review, Paul Horsnell, Head of Commodities Research at Barclays Capital, said that OPEC cannot be considered as a force for price restraint – at least for the remainder of 2011. “While OPEC remains a force for the protection of any potential prices downside, it now appears to be out of...
Volume: 54Issue: 24Published at Mon, 13 Jun 2011 -
BP Statistical Review Says Global Oil Consumption Rose 3.1% To 87.4Mn B/D In 2010
...,823 82,827 84,126 84,958 86,428 85,999 84,714 87,382 * Inland demand plus international aviation, marine bunkers, refinery fuel and loss, ethanol and biodiesel. Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2011. Middle Ea...
Volume: 54Issue: 24Published at Mon, 13 Jun 2011 -
EIA Boosts Oil Demand Forecast For 2011, Leaves 2012 Unchanged
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIV No 24 13-Jun-2011 EIA Boosts Oil Demand Forecast For 2011, Leaves 2012 Unchanged The Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the US Department of Energy has increased its global oil demand forecast for 2011 by 300,000 b/d to 1.7mn b/d, but le...
Volume: 54Issue: 24Published at Mon, 13 Jun 2011