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Iraq Prepares To Launch GTL Project
...int venture between state-owned Qatar Petroleum (51%) and Sasol (49%) – has because of problems with its slurry bed and air separation units produced at a maximum of about 90% of its capacity. Sasol aims to debottleneck the plant to reach design capacity by 2014, and also plans to add further trains, ta...
Volume: 55Issue: 27Published at Mon, 02 Jul 2012 -
Thin Exploration Returns Leave Libya Reliant On EOR-Fuelled Expansion
...d 72, awarded in 2003). BP, which has three deepwater areas further offshore from Hess and Repsol (Areas 37, 38 and 39) will be hoping to extend the region’s discoveries when it restarts drilling in 2013 or 2014 (MEES, 4 June). Although Hess’s exploration efforts have been moderately su...
Volume: 55Issue: 27Published at Mon, 02 Jul 2012 -
Abu Dhabi Raises Crude Production Capacity Target
...t their targets. The Supreme Petroleum Council is to decide the future of ADCO’s concessions, which cover the emirate’s major onshore producing fields and which are due to expire in January 2014. More than 10 firms have been invited to prequalify by mid-July (MEES, 25 June). This will be the co...
Volume: 55Issue: 27Published at Mon, 02 Jul 2012 -
Kuwait’s SPC Wants 530,000 B/D Al-Zour Option, Parliament Starts Shell Probe
...hrain, scheduled for completion in 2014. It will avoid populated areas in both countries. If Bapco chooses the 450,000 b/d refinery expansion option, the pipeline’s capacity can be increased above 350,000 b/d bydrag reducing agent (DRA) injection. The main reasons for the new pipeline are to improve th...
Volume: 54Issue: 27Published at Mon, 04 Jul 2011 -
ADNOC’s New Chief To Focus On UAE Fuel Crises
...erational by its latest deadline of 2014. One of the reasons for the delays is the cumbersome decision making process of the conglomerates that own the field concessions. ADNOC has not yet announced who will replace Mr Suwaidi as head of the exploration and production division. The choice of which ex...
Volume: 54Issue: 27Published at Mon, 04 Jul 2011 -
Qatargas Seals 20-Year LNG Supply Deal With Argentina’s ENARSA
...e delivery of 5mn tons/year of LNG. This would be delivered to ENARSA’s Southern Cone LNG hub – an offshore LNG floating storage and regasification unit – for a period of 20 years. This deal, starting in 2014, is Qatargas’s first long term supply agreement with a South American country, and is ex...
Volume: 54Issue: 27Published at Mon, 04 Jul 2011 -
A Realistic Outlook For Iraq's Oil Production In 2030
...5mn b/d in 2015, 5.5mn b/d in 2017 and 7mn b/d till 2020. 7 Based on 2011 projections of Merrill Lynch, Iraq will have the capacity to produce 4.4mn b/d in 2015. 8 Based on the Iraqi government’s five-year development plan, which included plans for all economic sectors till 2014...
Volume: 54Issue: 27Published at Mon, 04 Jul 2011 -
Tighter Sanctions Aimed At Iran’s Energy Sector
...fining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) is launching a massive downstream expansion. If realized, Iran would add over 1.5mn b/d of brand new refinery capacity at a cost of over $27bn, not to mention expansion of 1.1mn b/d at existing refineries at a cost of $11.4bn, and all by 2014. Tehran has also an...
Volume: 53Issue: 27Published at Mon, 05 Jul 2010 -
Iraqi Cabinet Gives Initial Approval Of $17Bn Shell Gas Deal
...st a working number. It could change,” Iraq’s deputy oil minister for the downstream, Ahmad al-Sham'a, tells MEES. Funding will be staggered with $450mn to be paid in 2013, $1.25bn in each of 2014 and 2015 and $1.2bn in 2016, news reports said. The deal, which brings together SGC (51%), Shell (44%) an...
Volume: 53Issue: 27Published at Mon, 05 Jul 2010 -
Kazakhstan Introduces New Subsoil Law, Enhancing State Leverage
...ginning will be delayed. We therefore, expect no substantial volumes of oil in the period from 2014 to 2016 to justify construction of the KCTS.” However, KCTS is due to be completed in 2016-17 to handle expanded output from Kashagan (MEES, 7 June)....
Volume: 53Issue: 27Published at Mon, 05 Jul 2010 -
Musturud Refinery Project Attracts Additional Lenders
...mpletion is planned for 2014....
Volume: 53Issue: 27Published at Mon, 05 Jul 2010 -
IEA Medium Term Outlook Sees Crude Demand Growth Averaging 540,000 B/D To 2014
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LII No 27 6-Jul-2009 IEA Medium Term Outlook Sees Crude Demand Growth Averaging 540,000 B/D To 2014 The International Energy Agency (IEA) has forecast global oil demand as growing by 0.6% or 540,000 b/d per year on average between 2008 and 2014, fr...
Volume: 52Issue: 27Published at Mon, 06 Jul 2009 -
Poland Signs Long-Term Agreement For Qatari LNG
...d Polish state firm PGNiG, and calls for the delivery of 1.5 bcm/year of gas (1mn tons/year of LNG) over the period 2014-34 to an LNG receiving terminal to be built at Swinoujscie on Poland’s Baltic Sea coast. Mr Grad said that the contract would be worth around $500mn/year, and that the LNG wo...
Volume: 52Issue: 27Published at Mon, 06 Jul 2009 -
Saudi Aramco And ConocoPhillips Relaunch Yanbu' Refinery Bidding
...re being floated around last year. Major packages for Yanbu', which is scheduled to start up in the third quarter of 2014, include a coker unit, crude facility, gasoline unit, hydrocracker, tank farm, offsite pipelines and high voltage electrical packages, as well as other infrastructure pa...
Volume: 52Issue: 27Published at Mon, 06 Jul 2009