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Algeria-Spain Spat Leaves 1.26GW Power Plant In Limbo
...lguera,” adding that it is now seeking “a definitive solution for all parties.” The project was originally awarded back in 2014 at a price tag of $719mn (MEES, 7 March 2014), with civil works completed by end-2016 (MEES, 15 September 2017). Satellite imagery indicates that substantial work has taken pl...
Volume: 67Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2024 -
Eni Looks To Neptune For Algeria Boost; Can It Get Past Mercury?
...ance that average 2024 Touat output will fall well short of the 400mn cfd target plateau figure. Neptune’s core assets were acquired in the $3.9bn purchase of the upstream assets of Engie (formerly Gaz de France, GdF) in 2017 (MEES, 19 May 2017). As part of the deal Engie retained 30% of Touat (ve...
Volume: 66Issue: 26Published at Fri, 30 Jun 2023 -
Mauritania: Shell Q4 Wildcat
...two years, indicating the potential for additional wells on its Mauritania acreage or elsewhere. Mauritanian officials say the well will target oil as well as gas, with Block C10 surrounding Mauritania’s to-date only commercial oil discovery, the Chinguetti field which produced from 2006 to 2017...
Volume: 66Issue: 26Published at Fri, 30 Jun 2023 -
Japan Crude Imports: Record Mideast Market Share
...untries supplied 96.3% of Japan’s crude and condensate imports, putting this year on track to top last year’s record figure of 94.1% (see chart). *Saudi Arabia alone supplied 40.6%, up not only on 2022’s 38.0% but on the record 40.1% set in 2017, whilst the UAE’s 38.4% is also a re...
Volume: 66Issue: 26Published at Fri, 30 Jun 2023 -
Syria Oil-For-Aid Initiative: Can It Gain Traction?
...the Block 26 assets, Gulfsands says it receives regular updates from GPC personnel who retain access to the fields. Based on these updates, production has actually been remarkably steady at around 20,000 boe/d (mostly crude) since the restart of regular production in 2017 (see chart). Fo...
Volume: 65Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2022 -
Opec+ Ratifies Agreement To Unwind Cuts In August
...20. Iraq arguably has the wellhead capacity to go above its August allocation of 4.651mn b/d, but export capacity limitations mean it will struggle to do so (MEES, 15 April), while a 522,000 b/d capacity drop for Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) since 2017/18 means that Kuwait may struggle to hit its 2....
Volume: 65Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2022 -
Qatar LNG Expansion Partners Eye Liquids Riches
...eviously told MEES that “there is nothing determined that we want to sell to anyone in particular. Some is sold on the spot market, some short term, some longer term. Our marketing guys just market it to get the best price” (MEES, 8 December 2017). NFE ethane is earmarked for a 2.08mn t/y ethane cr...
Volume: 65Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2022 -
Exxon Starts Cyprus Seismic, Eyes More Wells
...elded the giant 21.5tcf Zohr field on the other side of the Cyprus/Egypt maritime border. It was Total that confirmed that the ‘Zohr-like’ play extended into Cypriot waters, though its 2017 Onesiphoros well on Block 11 failed to find commercial quantities of gas (MEES, 15 September 2017). Once En...
Volume: 65Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2022 -
Energean Advances Israel Drilling Plans
...2017 (MEES, 15 December 2017), These blocks include the sites of the potential fourth and fifth wells of Energean’s 2022-23 program: wildcats targeting the 1.1tcf Hermes prospect on Block 31 and the 2.7tcf Hercules prospect on Block 23 (see map). These are potentially costed at $50mn each ve...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 Jul 2021 -
KRG Finances Remain Precarious Despite Export Revenue Boost
...arters of 2021 will doubtless have been markedly higher than in late 2020. EXPORTS ON THE RISE KRG crude exports from Ceyhan in 1Q 2020 averaged 465,000 b/d, their highest figure since Erbil lost control over most of Kirkuk’s producing fields to the federal government in October 2017 (MEES, 20 Oc...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 Jul 2021 -
India’s Reliance Signs Up To Key Abu Dhabi Downstream Project
...gn up to a ‘world-scale’ project. In 2017, Adnoc announced plans to more than triple its petrochemicals capacity to 14.4mn t/y by 2025 (MEES, 1 December 2017). As well as expanding its petrochemicals facilities, Adnoc is also working to move further along the value chain through the production of mo...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 Jul 2021 -
BP Drilling Offshore Egypt
...% TO JUST 1.1BN CFD FOR 2020 (BN CFD) SOURCE: ENI, MEES CALCULATIONS. Further to the west, BP’s largest project offshore Egypt, West Nile Delta (WND) has suffered even steeper declines. Output from its first two phases, which only started-up in 2017, has fallen precipitously to ap...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 Jul 2021 -
Algeria Oil & Gas: Searching for Stability
...lding sway in the sector. For example, Chakib Khelil was unquestionably the oil supremo when he was energy minister from 1999 to 2010. But the Sonatrach CEO was the man to call when the industrious Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour headed the state-oil giant between 2017-2019 (MEES, 26 April 2019). Sonatrach is...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
Saudi Arabia Gas: New Facilities, Greater Flexibility
...ming years, with work underway to add substantial gains through a mix of associated and non-associated gas processing capacity. First up is the Hawiyah Gas Plant Expansion Project. Contracts were awarded in 2017 to add 1.07bn cfd processing capacity, which will bring capacity up to 3.86bn cfd by Ju...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
Lebanon-IMF Talks Stall As Economy Deteriorates
...vernment. Saudi Crown Prince Muhmmad bin Salman has largely steered clear of Lebanon following the alleged kidnapping of former PM Saad al-Hariri in 2017 (MEES, 24 November 2017). Just this week, Emirati minister of state for foreign affairs Anwar Gargash told CNBC that “If we see some of our friends, ma...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
Ecomar Thinks Big After Fujairah Refinery Start-Up
...vernment in 2007. Germany’s Uniper reached commercial operation of a 67,000 b/d refinery in 2017 (see map). Two plans to build refineries at Fujairah came to nothing. Former Abu Dhabi investment house IPIC abandoned a planned 200,000 b/d conventional refinery in 2016, before its merger with Mubadala (ME...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
Tunisians Demand Oil Jobs
...Protestors clashed with police in Tunisia’s southern Tataouine province this week demanding the government hand jobs to the unemployed in the region’s oil industry. In 2017 protestors blocked the region’s main pipeline at Kamour, shutting in all oil and gas output from Tataouine and Ke...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
Israel Offers Exploration Block
...y award will be for an initial three years, with two potential two-year extensions each carrying a one-well drilling commitment. Israel’s previous two bid rounds launched in 2017 and 2018 failed to attract any big names with the most recent awards, finalized late last year, awarding two co...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
Oman Condensate Output At Record Highs
...quids output, the share of condensate continues to grow. Condensate output over the first five months of 2019 is running at a record high of 115,000 b/d, up from 2018’s annual record of 107,000 b/d and 2017’s 86,000 b/d. Conversely, at 856,000 b/d for January-May, crude output is on track for a five-ye...
Volume: 62Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2019 -
Chevron Phillips Wins Stake At Major Qatar Petchems Project
...troleum has launched its renewed petrochemicals push, announcing on 24 June that it will partner with US JV Chevron Phillips Chemical in constructing a 1.9mn t/y ethane cracker. This is a considerable expansion from the original project scope of 1.6mn t/y floated in 2017. The project also entails co...
Volume: 62Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2019