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Trade In The Med: More Hubs, New Ship-to-Ship Zones
...prus’ rise as a regional gasoline blending hub via its 545,000 m3 (3.4mn barrel) VTTV storage facility at Vasiliko. Vitol, which owns 45% of VTTI alongside IFM Investors (45%) and Adnoc (10%), heavily touted VTTV’s potential when it first began operating in 2014 (MEES, 31 October 2014). But it’s taken th...
Volume: 68Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2025 -
Libya: SLB’s Quit Threat Could Send Output Gains Into Reverse
...talEnergies of France. This was for a three-year contract to deploy an “express” early production facility (EPF) at the Sirte Basin’s Mabruk field which has been shut-in since surface facilities were badly damaged by Islamic State-affiliated militants in December 2014 (MEES, 6 March 2015). SLB says the Ma...
Volume: 67Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2024 -
Libya Oil Blockades: Back With A Vengeance
...ter the capital (MEES, 20 May). The division in the country, roughly split between eastern and western lines, is eerily looking like the period between 2014 and 2020 when parallel administrations in Tripoli and the east competed for power. That period was particularly tumultuous with oil pr...
Volume: 65Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 -
Oman LNG Bounces Back Following Maintenance Work
...ll below the peaks achieved in 2013 before hydrocarbon prices collapsed in the second half of 2014 (see chart). Oman LNG’s financial performance rebounded from 2020’s Covid-lows last year, and strong gains this year could push revenues well above 2018’s recent highs of $3.51bn. Topping 2014’s $4....
Volume: 65Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 -
TotalEnergies First Again With Qatar LNG Expansion Deal
...ont, TotalEnergies’ Mena push has been paying dividends. Since 2014, the firm has overtaken Eni, Shell and ExxonMobil as the largest oil producer among IOCs in the Mena region (see chart 1). TotalEnergies’ willingness to take on political risk stands in contrast to other majors, most of whom have been sl...
Volume: 65Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 -
Morocco’s Samir Refinery: Is There A Case For A Restart?
...wards trend save for a Covid related blip in 2020. Total products demand recovered to near record levels of above 290,000 b/d last year. Diesel imports, a fuel globally in high demand, for example hit a record 126,000 b/d in 2021 (see chart 1). In its last full year of operations in 2014, Samir pr...
Volume: 65Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 -
IEA Calls On Opec+ To Open The Taps In 2022
...clines. Between them, combined capacity of the trio now stands 830,000 b/d below their 2014 production. It goes without saying that the situation is even worse for Venezuela, which produced 2.36mn b/d in 2014, but now has capacity to produce just 580,000 b/d according to the IEA. With that in mind, th...
Volume: 64Issue: 24Published at Fri, 18 Jun 2021 -
Israel: New Government, New Challenges
...ighbors, most notably the UAE (MEES, 7 May). Prior to that Mr Steinitz faced the aftermath of a late 2014 antitrust case against its two key players, US firm Noble (now Chevron) and Israel firm Delek (MEES, 2 January 2015). A gas outline agreement was signed in 2016 which allowed Noble and Delek to re...
Volume: 64Issue: 24Published at Fri, 18 Jun 2021 -
Iraq Fights For Survival Amid Growing Pressure To Slash Oil Output
...the 6 June meeting, is for Baghdad to reduce crude output month-by-month in order to produce under its quota in August-September to make up for May-July overproduction. This would ultimately bring Iraqi output to 3-3.5mn b/d, its lowest since 2014. Needless-to-say such a scenario is difficult to im...
Volume: 63Issue: 24Published at Fri, 12 Jun 2020 -
Syria’s Block 26 Continues To Pump As UK’s Gulfsands Waits On Standby
...lfsands’ Block 26 was one of Syria’s most promising oil assets when the war erupted in 2011, forcing the UK minnow (and every other western firm) to declare force majeure and halt operations. The firm still retains 50% of the block, with Chinese state firm Sinochem holding the other half. But since 2014 wh...
Volume: 63Issue: 24Published at Fri, 12 Jun 2020 -
Saudi Oil Exports Back On Top
...udi figure was the lowest since 4Q 2014, and was primarily due to a steep drop in exports of refined products (MEES, 22 May). But Saudi Arabia surged back ahead of the US in April as it ramped up crude output to record levels amid its short-lived price war with Russia. Official data is not yet av...
Volume: 63Issue: 24Published at Fri, 12 Jun 2020 -
Adnoc Targets Big Gains From Transformational Foreign Partnerships
...reamlining of subsidiaries in 2017 (MEES, 20 October 2017). Equally notable is the revolution underway in reshaping Adnoc’s partnerships with foreign oil firms. The number of such firms partnered with Adnoc in its upstream operations has soared from 12 in 2014 to 17 currently (see chart 1). Moreover, th...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
UAE Gas Production, Consumption Rise To Record Levels
...2bcm, to 76.6bcm. Despite the improvement, this still resulted in a shortfall of 11.9bcm over the course of 2018. This was at least the lowest since 2014 and almost 1bcm down on the 2015 peak of 12.5bcm. The UAE has had a gas shortage since 2008, and as this deficit has grown it has increasingly tu...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Tunisia Cuts It Fine With Just-In-Time Power Start-Ups
...ill below 2014’s 260mn cfd when FID was taken on Nawara. Tunis aims to curb its 96% reliance on gas for power generation and consequent import bill via a renewables revolution first outlined in 2016. It currently only has 302MW (240MW wind, a nominal 62MW of mostly-ancient hydro capacity, and pr...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Iraq Crude Output Gets Pipeline Repair Boost
...om the current 200,000 b/d. Daura is the second largest operational Iraqi refinery after the 210,000 b/d Basra refinery – following the destruction of the 310,000 b/d Baiji plant by the Islamic State (IS) in 2014. The government is working on rehabilitating Baiji, but progress is slow. The re...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
Algeria: Total, Repsol Recommit But More Investment Needed
...e Algerian upstream to be attractive to IOCs, it is probably about right – Algeria spectacularly failed to attract investors in its last bid round in mid-2014 when prices were $100/B (MEES, 3 October 2014) Just four of 31 blocks were awarded. Boughezoul, in the north of the country, went to Re...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
Aramco Downstream Strategy: Plastic Fantastic As Sadara Park Ramps Up
...luria to realize the value of these processes.” Siluria is part-owned by Aramco after a $30mn 2014 investment by Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (29 August 2014)....
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
Markets Face Precarious 2019 Amid Supply Uncertainty
...The IEAs’ first oil market outlook for 2019 highlights both the uncertainties surrounding next week’s Opec meeting in Vienna and the toll that the 2014 oil price slump has taken on the group. Although the largest producers in the Opec+ agreement want to boost output, the need for unanimity wi...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
US Output Set For Record 2mn B/D 2018 Growth; 2019 Forecasts Trimmed On Pipeline Constraints
...ble). • NGLs output is also slated to grow by almost 600,000 b/d to 4.33mn b/d for 2018, taking total 2018 oil output to a whopping 15.12mn b/d. This smashes 2017’s previous annual record of 13.09mn b/d, whilst forecast year-on-year gains of 2.03mn b/d top 2014’s previous record of 1.75mn b/d. • But, wh...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
Gulf Countries Throw Jordan A $2.5bn Lifeline Amid Unrest
...financial and development aid over a five-year period (MEES, 25 January 2013). Agreements to disburse some of this aid were signed in early 2013, and some funds were actually allocated to specific development projects. But the flow of GCC aid slowed with the 2014 crash in oil prices. With the re...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018