1. Exxon Walks Away From Iraq Seawater Project

    ...this year (MEES, 3 November 2017). But Iraq’s oil minister Jabbar Al-Luaibi cast doubt on the deal (weeks after announcing it was in its ‘final stages’) the following month, proclaiming that if a deal with Exxon were not reached the project would be put back on offer in February (MEES, 5 Ja...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018
  2. Total Poised For Further Mena Upstream Expansion

    ...y upstream asset is a 30% stake in the joint venture operating the 300,000 b/d Al Shaheen field acquired in July 2017 (MEES, 28 July 2017). Mr Pouyanné appears optimistic that as “we are becoming the number two in the LNG world via the acquisition of Engie [LNG] assets in July” the firm is well pl...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018
  3. Saudi Wins Out, Opec Switches To Group Ceiling

    ...r18 Mar18 YTD vs2017 2017 2016 Algeria 1....

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018
  4. US Shale: Reading The Runes On Future Supply Growth

    ...illing & Projects Al Hirschberg told the firm’s Q1 earnings call. BAKKEN BUSINESS    Perhaps the greatest success of recent months has been North Dakota’s Bakken. As recently as early 2017, the start of the latest US shale boom, many of the sector’s leading lights were skeptical that Bakken output wo...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018
  5. Shaikan Output To Double After Deal With KRG

    ...rqala field in Q3, wrapping up Phase-1 development which has seen output rise from 5,000 b/d in early 2017 to more than 21,000 b/d now; 30,000 b/d by early 2019 looks eminently achievable. Elsewhere, Canadian minnow Oryx announced on 20 June that it has completed the first well at the Banan field wi...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018
  6. OMV Tests Yemen Restart

    ...turn. The country’s miniscule current output mostly comes from state firm PetroMasila’s Blocks 10 and 14 in the eastern Marib basin. This is largely shielded from the conflict and thus able to export about 44,000 b/d from Ash-Shihr port (MEES, 15 September 2017). OMV is clearly less skittish than ot...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018
  7. Saudi Petchems JVs Get Greedy For Naphtha, Cutting Into Exports

    ...om the integrated 400,000 b/d Petro Rabigh refinery (MEES, 20 April). RUNS FALL       Some of the reduction in naphtha availability after January can be attributed to lower refinery runs, which fell away from the December 2017 record of 2.828mn b/d to just 2.200mn b/d for April. Work at two re...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018
  8. Algeria Makes Electricity Gains, But Struggles To Power The Future

    ...ility Sonelgaz says that the country’s generators delivered a total 69.79TWh of electricity to the grid in 2017, an increase of 7% on 2016. But the firm has failed to lift a number of big CCGT projects off the ground, owing largely to a lack of foreign funds. Of the total generated electricity last ye...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018
  9. Egypt Continues Subsidy Reform, Hikes Fuel Prices

    ...e chart). For the current 2017-18 financial year ending 30 June, Mr Molla says subsidies are on track to hit E£125bn ($7.0bn), well above the budgeted E£110bn, but slightly down in dollar terms on 2016-17’s E£115bn ($6.2bn) spend (MEES, 23 February). The increase in fuel prices could help ea...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018
  10. Crude Official Selling Prices ($/B)

    ...*VS ICE BRENT FROM JULY 2017 PREVIOUSLY VS BWAVE....

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 25
    Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018