1. Kuwait’s Oil Minister Stands Firm Against MPs, Appoints Senior Management

    ...urisly as chairman and managing director. KOTC plans to build nine tankers by 2014 – taking the total to 33 (MEES 30 January). Mr Khashti is a veteran KPC executive whose positions have included heading Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) and Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (Kufpec). Mr Bourisly be...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012
  2. New Algerian LNG Capacity Faces Lack Of Gas

    ...sition to supply them a final investment decision (FID) has been repeatedly put back. The project, which had been due on stream in 2014, will almost certainly be shelved later this year.   Italy, which remains Algeria’s top export customer, is already linked (via Tunisia) by the TransMed pi...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012
  3. Qatar Eyes Yamal And Iran Investments, Technical Problems Close LNG Plants

    ...extra 1.5bn cfd of gas by 2014 for power generation. However, “our local electricity demand forecasts are all over the place,” a QP official tells MEES. The problems appear to have already created one casualty, Faisal al-Suwaidi, former CEO of Qatargas, who was forced to resign this month as pr...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 14 Jun 2010
  4. Fesharaki: High Prices Not Threatening Demand Growth In Industrialized Countries

    ...rticularly in the industrial world.” Dr Fesharaki argues that recent market behaviour suggests it is increasingly reasonable to assume that worldwide oil demand would plateau at about 100mn b/d with prices remaining robust: “At current prices we expect it would be 2014-15 before demand flattens out, an...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 12 Jun 2006