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Iran Hits The Med As Market Share Battle With Saudi Intensifies
...e it left. The country’s crude imports declined 25% between 2011 and 2014, though 2014 volumes of 1.08mn b/d rebounded somewhat to 1.25mn b/d last year on the back of improved refining margins. Run rates at Italy’s refineries rose 11% from 71.6mn tons in 2014 to 79.1mn tons last year. But as margins ha...
Volume: 59Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2016 -
Opec Revenues Set To Fall Further In 2016
...PORT REVENUES AT 10-MonTH HIGH DESPITE LOWER VOLUMES AS PRICES EDGE ABOVE $40/B FEDERALLY-CONTROLLED EXPORTS ONLY. SOURCE: IRAQ OIL MINISTRY, MEES EST. BAD TIMES TAKE THEIR TOLL The end of high prices in 2014 has exposed divisions within Opec with its weaker members in...
Volume: 59Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2016 -
Jordan-Anbar Border Crossing An Economic Lifeline
...porters, as Jordanian exports going through Basra now cost 10-15% more due to the extra time. According to official statistics recently reported by Jordan’s Al-Ghad newspaper, the six-month closure in 2015 meant exports to Iraq fell to $695mn from $1.2bn in 2014. Earnings will have collapsed again this ye...
Volume: 59Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2016 -
Oman’s PDO Bags $4bn Loan To Facilitate Bumper $20bn Upstream Plans
...nuary it raised a $1bn loan (priced at 120bp over Libor) to part finance the $8.6bn budget deficit in 2016 (MEES, 22 January). Oman Oil Company (OOC) plans to borrow $1bn to finance the BP operated Khazzan gas project. In September 2014 OOC raised a $1.85bn revolving credit facility put together by lo...
Volume: 59Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2016 -
Israel: Road To Gas Development Uncertain Despite Government Push
...ility Edison had previously expressed an interest in purchasing Karish and Tanin (MEES, 5 December 2014), but following Mr Gilo’s ruling the firm cooled its interest until the regulatory uncertainty cleared up. Local reports have indicated that Edison, which also has exploration acreage on the Egyptian si...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Egypt Lays Out Further Subsidy Cuts For 2015-16 But Overall Spending Up
...12-13. The budget for the year beginning 1 July was recently approved by the cabinet but is yet to be signed off by President Sisi. It lays out plans to cut spending on oil product subsidies to E£61bn ($8bn at the latest exchange rate of $1= E£7.63), down 13% from the provisional 2014-15 figure of E£70...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Satorp Taps Riyadh For SR2bn To Reduce Bank Dues
...udi Arabia’s Manifa oilfield (MEES, 15 August 2014). Meanwhile, Sadara Basic Services Company – a subsidiary of the Aramco/Dow petrochemicals joint venture – has agreed a SR865mn ($231mn) mortgage loan to Saudi Butanol Company (Sabuco) to help fund construction of a SR1.9bn ($507mn) butanol pl...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Egypt Goes Import Crazy In Bid To Curb Power Cuts
...intenance between October 2014 and May this year while more than 3.6GW was added to the national grid. This more than meets the estimated power deficit of 2.5GW, according to Mr Yamani (see p8). The budget of state gas firm EGAS to import LNG for the 2015-16 financial year which starts on 1 July will be...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Cyprus Shuts Gas Tender
...s. The tender seeks gas volumes rising from 19.5-30.4 trillion BTU in the first year to 25-43 trillion BTU by 2025. First gas is to be delivered between 1 January 2016 and 30 June 2017, with DEFA thought to favor bids that stipulate an earlier start date (MEES, 18 April 2014). MEES understands th...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Questions Mounting Over GCC Refinery Plans In Wake Of Capacity Hike
...ndensate splitter in the third quarter of 2016. The plant is almost identical to the LR1 splitter which Qatargas built earlier at Ras Laffan and is expected to cost $1.5bn (MEES, 11 April 2014). GCC REFINERY/SPLITTER PROJECTS SCHEDULE Operator (Project) Lo...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Egypt Power Capacity Boost Gathers Steam
...er the year to June 2014, taking total capacity to 32.02GW. This was almost 6GW above peak recorded consumption of 26.14GW. But demand spiked well above this later in the summer, when outages of both generating capacity and grid infrastructure, coupled with transmission and distribution losses, led to...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Glimmer Of Hope For Oil Markets As Russia-Saudi Ink St Petersburg Deal
...ali. The price negotiations between Saudi Aramco and Lukoil have been ongoing since the Russian upstream player announced the discovery in 2006. Lukoil said in 2013 that it hoped to start producing gas from Block A in 2014. Company vice president Leonid Fedun said in late 2012 that the 14 tcf Rub’ al...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Syria’s Economy: Down, Down, But Not Quite Out
...rian Center for Policy Research using patchy publicly-available data on the Syrian economy – data that includes company filings and trade statistics for neighboring Turkey – indicates an even larger contraction of 62% between 2010 and 2014. The largest losses, of 30.9% and 36.5% respectively were in 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
QP To Downsize Foreign Staff In Reorganization Plan
...0,000 b/d for 2014, and to an average of 660,000 b/d for the first five months of 2015. Some large investment projects should help to stabilize oil production, such as the $4bn plans to update facilities and increase production at Bul Hanine from 40,000 b/d to 95,000 b/d by 2028 (MEES, 8 May). As for ga...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Qatar Stares Deficit In The Face
...mpares with previous forecasts in December 2014 of 7.7% and 7.5% respectively. The latest forecasts are broadly in line with the IMF’s latest forecasts of 7.1% for 2015 and 6.5% for 2016 contained in the latest update to the fund’s MENA Regional Economic Outlook, released last month. If spending is ke...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Russia Becomes China’s No. 1 Crude Supplier In May As Middle East Share Falls Below 50% (‘000 B/D)
...YTD14 May-15 Apr-15 Mar-15 YTD15 ‘000 b/d % YTD14 2014 2013 2012 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B) 25-Jun 15-19 Jun 8-12 Jun May-15 Apr-15 Q1 2015 YTD 2015 Q4 2014...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Iraq’s Baiji Refinery Safe But Still Out
...s complex in Algeria in 2014, where Japan suffered the highest number of casualties of any foreign country (ten, all employees of engineering firm JGC), have evacuated their workers from Iraq, a source tells MEES. The violence has led to the delay of two key projects so far. The 300,000 b/d Na...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
QNB Optimistic LNG Market Will Continue To Favor Qatar
...me Cap (mn t/y) Company (-ies) Start Year Algeria Arzew - GL3Z (Gassi Touil) 4.7 Sonatrach 2014 P.N. Gu...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Mideast Refining Capacity Boost Underscores Growing ‘Hub’ Role- IEA
...e equivalent of around 93% of the region’s then CDU capacity. Regional Progress Saudi Arabia is the largest contributor to the Middle East’s surge, says the IEA. The 400,000 b/d Satorp refinery was expected to reach full capacity by “mid 2014;” the company declines to comment on whether this im...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014