1. Chevron Inches Towards Shale-Focused Algeria Entry

    ...pped to use their expertise to help Sonatrach develop Algeria’s supposedly huge shale gas reserves, which the US Geological Survey estimates at over 700tcf and Algerian officials have pegged higher still (MEES, 20 October 2017). Chevron says that “Algeria holds a world class petroleum system with th...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2024
  2. Powering The UAE’s Northern Emirates

    ...ound 14TWh over 2017-2020, it began climbing sharply in 2021 and last year’s 7% increase pushed it to a record 17.99TWh. At the same time, peak demand has also been on a sharp upwards trend, hitting 3.5GW in 2023 (see chart 2). As with elsewhere in the Gulf, demand is highly seasonal: the record of 3....

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2024
  3. Egypt Tenders For Bumper LNG Imports As Gas Demand Soars

    ...erwhelmingly gas-fed, for 95% of national power supply for 2023 (MEES, 3 May).   *Egypt’s gas output fell again to just 5.115bn cfd for April, down a whopping 1.3bn cfd (20%) on end-2022 and the lowest figure since the start-up of the key Zohr field in late 2017 (MEES, 14 June), whilst the country’s di...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2024