1. QP Ousts Maersk At Key Qatari Oil Field Amid Sectoral Revamp

    ...tar announced on 28 June. Maersk’s current 25-year 100% operating production sharing contract (PSC) at al-Shaheen expires in July 2017. This will be replaced by a joint venture comprised of Total (30%) and state oil firm Qatar Petroleum (QP, 70%). Often seen as incidental to Qatar’s economy due to th...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 26
    Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2016
  2. Algeria: No Cash, Investment Slashed… Output To Soar. Come Again?

    ...nual report indicate that the company sees Algeria’s oil output rising to 75mn tons/year (1.62mn b/d using a 1 ton =7.86bl conversion factor for light Saharan Blend crude) in 2017 and 2018, before increasing further to 77mn tons (1.66mn b/d) in 2019 and 82mn tons (1.77mn b/d) in 2020. Algeria produced 1....

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 26
    Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2016
  3. Algeria Seeks Schedule Discipline For New Refineries, Hints At Outside Equity Need

    ...fineries to raise refining capacity from 651,000 b/d now to almost 1mn b/d. Mr Mekmouche says that if oil prices stay above $60/B from 2017 there is a “high probability” that Sonatrach will be able to finance all its projects “from its own resources.” But prices of around $30/B would leave pe...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 26
    Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2016
  4. Dubai Sets New PV Cost Benchmark In 800MW Phase Three Of Solar Park

    ...rgest single-site solar park in the world. A 13MW first phase was connected to the grid in 2013, while the 200MW second phase is scheduled to become operational in 2017. Dubai’s success with reducing electricity costs in its second and third phase solar park bids will likely be scrutinized with gr...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 26
    Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2016
  5. Egypt Boosts Offshore Gas In Bid To Turn Around Output Slump

    ...ok to expedite development. Start-up by end 2017 is targeted, ramping up to 2.7bn cfd by end-2019. This is highly ambitious: the IEA considers first output “by the end of the decade” more realistic (MEES, 17 June). Nonetheless, Eni is pressing ahead. On 20 June it awarded Schlumberger subsidiary On...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 26
    Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2016
  6. Oman’s PDO Bags $4bn Loan To Facilitate Bumper $20bn Upstream Plans

    ...bt service will rise from 30% of revenue last year, to 41% this year and 55% in 2017.  MOODY'S GCC SOVEREIGN CREDIT RATINGS - 14 MAY DOWNGRADES     Rating (outlook) was chg notes Saudi Arabia A1 (stable) Aa3 (st...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 26
    Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2016