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Egypt Indicators Show Recovery Is Gathering Pace
...arter of 2016. It has since risen steadily with Q1-3 2017-18 revenue of $7.25bn up 155% year-on-year. The Suez Canal, another source of much needed income for Cairo, also saw revenue dip in 2016, to $5.005bn versus 2014’s record $5.465bn. But the growth in shipments of US oil and LNG to Asia has pr...
Volume: 61Issue: 27Published at Fri, 06 Jul 2018 -
Libya Oil Output Breaches 1mn B/D
...th US firms Marathon, ConocoPhillips and Hess, has also fallen short of NOC targets. The state firm had the Waha consortium down for output of about 120,000 b/d by June, but it has been struggling to produce 80,000 b/d since it came back onstream in September 2014 after a hiatus of almost two years (ME...
Volume: 60Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2017 -
Iraq: Bumper Oil Export Volumes Cushion Impact Of Oil Price Drops
...17 2016 2015 2014 Gulf ('000 b/d) 3,247 +5 +1 3,...
Volume: 60Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2017 -
Iran Aims For Total Reboot Of Oil And Gas Sector
...PC was then ejected in 2012 due to lack of progress (MEES, 2 July 2012). The Chinese firm appears to have been partially forgiven for this, and for similarly slow work at South Azadegan from where it was given the boot in 2014 (MEES, 9 May 2014). Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh says the partners’ “in...
Volume: 60Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2017 -
Total Talks Crackers On Both Sides Of Gulf
...09, having signed the shareholders agreement that officially cemented their relationship in June 2008. Construction of the refinery took place during 2010-13. Satorp shipped its first products cargo in September 2013 and reached full operational capacity in mid-2014 (MEES, 15 August 2014). ...
Volume: 60Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2017 -
Saudi’s Economy Gets Boost From MSCI Announcement
...uld put Saudi Arabia in the top 10 emerging markets, according to EFG Hermes. The other Mena markets included in the MSCI index are Qatar and the UAE, which were upgraded to EM status in 2014, as well as Egypt. Along with improved liquidity, valuations and stock prices on the Tadawul, Saudi’s in...
Volume: 60Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2017 -
Morocco Faces Socioeconomic Headwinds As Deficit Overshoots, Growth Slows
...16, down from $628mn in 2015 and a record $1.381bn in 2014 (though the price of gas shipments is oil-linked this linkage is delayed). These economic headwinds will make it more difficult for Morocco to tackle the youth unemployment (22.5% of the labor force in 2016, up from 20.8% in 2015 according to...
Volume: 60Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2017 -
Egypt: Oil Drilling Uptick On Higher Prices, Output To Follow?
...Independents in Egypt have rapidly responded to rising oil prices. Egypt’s oil output has fallen by 35,000 b/d since peaking at 700,000 b/d in mid-2015. The output record came on the back of sustained high drilling levels – with the country’s oil rig count at around 40 during the whole of 2014...
Volume: 59Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2016 -
Saudi Electricity Taps China For $1.5bn, Takes Expansion Funding To $33bn
...nistry of Finance in 2014 in addition to government’s regular long term backing (MEES, 17 July 2015). The loan from Chinese state bank ICBC also takes SEC’s capital projects fundraising for 2016 to $3.8bn – just half way through the year this already exceeds the previous record of $3.7bn, hit in both 2014...
Volume: 59Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2016 -
Opec On Track For Record Annual Output Despite Unplanned Outages
...eaking lows (MEES, 1 July). OPEC WELLHEAD PRODUCTION, June 2016 (MN B/D, MEES ESTIMATES) June '16 vs May'16 vs Jun '15 May '16 Apr '16 1H16 vs 1H15 1H15 2015 2014 S Ar...
Volume: 59Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2016 -
Egypt Finally Pays Off $7bn Debt To Qatar, Backer Of Previous Islamist Government
...rch). Egypt recorded a budget deficit of E£311bn in the first 11 months of fiscal 2015-16, up from E£262bn in the corresponding period of 2014-15, according to the June Financial Monthly recently published by the Ministry of Finance. The 11-month deficit in 2015-16 exceeds by 24% the projected deficit of...
Volume: 59Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2016 -
Abu Dhabi Streamlining Creates $135bn Energy Fund With Global Reach
...June). IPIC reports that it recorded a net loss of $2.6bn in 2015, down from a $1.5bn profit in 2014. Revenue fell around 30% to $35.8bn as low oil prices resulted in the devaluation of many of its oil and gas investments. Its upstream stakes give it working interest production of just over 20...
Volume: 59Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2016 -
Iran: Payments Start Flowing But Fear Factor Remains
...ese were tightened further in 2011 which led its roughly $420bn economy to shrink by about 9% in the two-year period that ended in March 2014, according to the IMF. From then until January 2016, when sanctions were broadly lifted in return for nuclear curbs, Iran’s ability to continue trading oil pr...
Volume: 59Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2016 -
Kuwait Eyes Short Term $17bn Debt Market Boost; Longer-Term Reform Is Needed
...self was more than twice the KD2.31bn Kuwait ran up in 2014-15, its first deficit since 1999-2000. Last year’s deficit was considerably less than the KD8.18bn deficit it expected to run as recently as February, despite Kuwait’s main crude export stream averaging less than the budgeted price. Mr Sa...
Volume: 59Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2016 -
Sanctions Aside, Iran Left With Plenty To Do Ahead Of Upstream Opening
...ercome most, if not all, of the buyback’s shortcomings (MEES, 19 June). WORLD GAS RESERVES BY COUNTRY (TCM) 2014 % of total 2010 2000 Iran 34...
Volume: 58Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2015 -
Algeria’s Energy Thirst Appears Unquenchable - And Unsustainable
...ns in 1H 2014 (MEES, 12 December 2014). With the completion of Sorfert, Algeria’s total nameplate fertilizers and methanol capacity is around 3.94mn t/y (MEES, 19 December 2014). Gas requirements from fertilizer plants are expected to grow further this year. Sonatrach’s Al Djazairia Al Omania Li...
Volume: 58Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2015 -
Petroceltic Struggles To Bridge Funding Gap
...the start of the year. The firm now forecasts 14,000-15,000 boe/d for 2015, well below not only 2014’s 22,500 boe/d, but also its January’s previous 16,600-18,500 boe/d 2015 forecast (see table). Egypt, where the 2015 output forecast has been slashed by 3,000 boe/d since January, accounts for 85% of...
Volume: 58Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2015 -
Erbil-Baghdad Deal Teeters As KRG Cuts Oil Supply To Somo, Plans Bonds
...had increased independent oil sales due to what it said in a statement was “the significant debt backlog" arising from the budget cuts of 2014 imposed by the federal government and the need to pay down debts accumulated in 2014 from prepayments for oil sales. The region's financial difficulties, it...
Volume: 58Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2015 -
Egypt Hopes To Attract IOCs To Its Western Mediterranean Waters
...elds, leading to a decline in the gas production rate and an inability to connect compensatory wells.” The ministry had expected gas output to hit 5.4bn cfd during the July 2014-June 2015 fiscal year. But output for the first nine months (ie to April 2015) averaged just 4.57bn cfd. According to th...
Volume: 58Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2015 -
Opec Data Charts Saudi Refining Surge, But Plans Are Slipping
...REGIONAL Opec Data Charts Saudi Refining Surge, But Plans Are Slipping Opec’s eight Mena members added 6.7% to their combined crude distillation unit (CDU) capacity in 2014, according to the organization’s Annual Statistic Bulletin 2015. Most held capacity steady, with only Saudi Ar...
Volume: 58Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2015