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Cyprus & Israel Close In On Deals To Kickstart Aphrodite Development
...ergy way back in 2011, with Chevron taking over as operator with its $5bn purchase of Noble in 2020 (MEES, 9 October 2020). The initial A1 discovery well was drilled just 3km from the maritime border with Israel, leading to speculation that the reservoir extended into Israeli waters. Subsequent pr...
Volume: 66Issue: 26Published at Fri, 30 Jun 2023 -
Eni, Cyprus Talk Recent Gas Finds, EastMed Pipeline
...y case these comments will have alerted US major Chevron which is finally progressing development of Cyprus’ first gas discovery, 2011’s 4.5tcf Aphrodite, where FID is potentially planned for 2025 (see p5). GROWING FOOTPRINT In addition to its dominant position offshore Egypt, Eni in to...
Volume: 66Issue: 26Published at Fri, 30 Jun 2023 -
Saudi Arabia Gas: New Facilities, Greater Flexibility
...RIL ('000 B/D) PRESUMES ALL FUEL OIL BURNT IN POWER PLANTS (SOME IS USED AS INDUSTRIAL & BUNKER FUEL). SOURCE: JODI, MEES. 3: SAUDI ARABIA SALES GAS OUTPUT HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY CLIMBING YEAR-ON-YEAR (BN CFD) CONVERTED FROM BTU TO CFD UNTIL 2011. SOURCE: SAUDI ARAMCO, ME...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
US Rigs Fall To New Low
...cord 76%. Of the latest fall, half (five) were in the Permian, leaving the total for the key Texas/New Mexico shale basin at 132, level with the April 2016 nadir as the low point in data since 2011. Permian drilling has actually been more resilient than elsewhere – all other key basins had already hi...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
Oman Feels The Pain As Export Revenues Plummet
...onomic outlook. A succession of six sizeable annual deficits since the 2014 price crash has gradually pushed-up Oman’s debt levels, and another substantial rise this year seems inescapable (see chart 2). Current spending jumped in 2011 as Oman sought to ride out ‘Arab Spring’ protests through higher pu...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
Aphrodite Deal Close
...US firm Noble Energy and its partners at Cyprus 5tcf Aphrodite gas field are locked in discussions with Nicosia over restructuring the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) signed in August 2011. The original contract model itself was drafted in 2008. MEES understands that Noble is seeking to...
Volume: 61Issue: 26Published at Fri, 29 Jun 2018 -
Eni Ramps-Up Zohr, Mubadala Farms In
...t 6.5bn cfd in September, oil minister Tarek El Molla says, an all-time high that easily surpasses the previous record of 6.219bn cfd reached in December 2011. The new gas gains come courtesy of Italian firm Eni’s Zohr gas field. Discovered in August 2015, the field was fast-tracked by Cairo as it...
Volume: 61Issue: 26Published at Fri, 29 Jun 2018 -
Qatar & Turkey: Brothers In Arms?
...up brought Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to power in Egypt relations with Qatar plunged to even worse depths than prior to Hosni Mubarak’s 2011 ousting. But even now the economic relationship between Qatar and Turkey is relatively menial, even in comparison to that between Ankara, UAE and Saudi Arabia – wi...
Volume: 61Issue: 26Published at Fri, 29 Jun 2018 -
Iran Expands Crude Export Infrastructure
...dicate bumper volumes. Crude exports to Europe rose to 850,000 b/d according to the IEA. This would be the highest level since sanctions were tightened in 2011. Pirouz Mousavi, Managing Director of IOTC, tells the oil ministry’s Shana news agency that 95% of crude exports are shipped from Kharg. Sm...
Volume: 60Issue: 26Published at Fri, 30 Jun 2017 -
Gulf Crude Shipments Fall In Q2, But From Record Levels
...rch-May, the lowest three-month-average figure in records going back 12 years. The Saudi share of the Chinese market averaged 20% as recently as 2011 and 2012. Other Opec producers have put in stronger performances. Angola’s 1.100mn b/d January-May average was over 230,000 b/d (27%) up on 2016’s re...
Volume: 60Issue: 26Published at Fri, 30 Jun 2017 -
Kuwait Trade Surplus Falls In Q1
...16 1Q16 2016 vs 15 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011...
Volume: 60Issue: 26Published at Fri, 30 Jun 2017 -
Egypt Lays Out Further Subsidy Cuts For 2015-16 But Overall Spending Up
...ckwards in the three years following the country’s January 2011 ‘revolution,’ over the last year or so both planned and actual spending – much of it fueled by Gulf cash – has taken off. In August 2014 Egypt laid out plans to spend $4bn on expanding the Suez Canal (MEES, 8 August 2014). Local media re...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Syria’s Economy: Down, Down, But Not Quite Out
...LLAPSES, GAS UNDER STRAIN Oil output from fields under regime control has collapsed from 387,000 b/d in early 2011, on the eve of conflict, to under 10,000 b/d for both 2014 and the first three months of this year (see graph and MEES, 1 May). Islamic State (IS) controls oil fields with a capacity to...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Russia Becomes China’s No. 1 Crude Supplier In May As Middle East Share Falls Below 50% (‘000 B/D)
...YTD14 May-15 Apr-15 Mar-15 YTD15 ‘000 b/d % YTD14 2014 2013 2012 2011...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Iran’s Upstream Opening: The Foreign Firms That Stand To Lose
...is fact, in 2011 the former president even went so far as to say: “Thank God the enemies put sanctions on us… As soon as they told us ‘We won’t sell gasoline to you,’ we started producing gasoline inside the country, and in fact moved towards utmost self-sufficiency.” But this notion of self-su...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Sonelgaz Generating Capacity Up 2GW In 2013, But Finances ‘Fragile’
...this total. He noted that Sonelgaz invested a total AD409bn ($5.2bn) in 2013, an increase of 77.5% over 2012, of which almost half was allocated for power generation.. Sonelgaz Financial Results (Ad Bn) 2011 2012 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Algeria Heading For Oil Output Drop
...line later than envisaged. BP’s expansion of In Salah has been pushed back after the attack on the In Amenas fields by Islamist terrorists in 2011, and no new deadline has been given. GDF Suez’s Touat project is now scheduled to come online in late 2016, a year later than envisaged. Total’s initial de...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Turnout At Libyan Elections Disappoints
...5mn Libyans were registered to vote, less than the 2.8mn eligible in 2012. Killings Continue The same day, Salwa Bugaighis, a well-known human rights activist who had played a big role in the peaceful protests that preceded the armed struggle against Gaddafi in 2011, was killed in her house in Be...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Mideast FDI: ‘Bleak’ Prospects Amid Post-Arab Spring Instability-UN
...litical and social upheavals following the 2011 Arab Spring continue to weigh down economic activity and deter potential investors. This comes despite an overall upturn in global economic conditions, and FDI, over the past year. Global FDI inflows rose 9% to $1.45 trillion last year, but for the MENA re...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...12 2011 WTI 105.84 106.50 105.32 101.90 102.02 98.56 97.54 98.03 94...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014