1. Qatar’s NFPS Ensures Legacy LNG Facilities Maintain Capacity

    ...tar carried out was the Plateau Maintenance Project (PMP) which started up in 2014. It involved brownfield work in the North Field and a revamp to onshore facilities aimed at maintaining the 10mn t/y capacity at its oldest three trains (MEES, 17 October 2014). Like the PMP project over a decade ag...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025
  2. Algeria: Fresh Output

    ...19 averaged 1.025mn b/d, and while this is up 5,000 b/d year-on-year, it still represents a 15% fall over the past five years. Output averaged 1.209mn b/d in 2014, but has declined each year since amid investment declines. The picture on the gas front is also worrying. In the first four months of 20...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2019
  3. Upstream Investment: Are Shortfall Fears Overblown?

    ...The IEA and others continue to flag up an investment ‘shortfall’ and supposed coming supply crunch. Are such worries overstated? Global upstream capex was $434bn in 2016, a multi-year low. This was down 25% from 2015 and 40% below the 2014 peak of $730bn, according to the IEA’s ‘World En...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 21 Jul 2017
  4. Algeria Re-Tenders 3.6bcm/y Ain Tsila Gas Development

    ...September 2014. In June 2015, Petroceltic was still bullish that the EPC award would be made by the end of the year: then Chairman Robert Adair flagged up a likely EPC award and the start of development drilling “before the end of 2015,” with progress here “the key determinants” of hitting the th...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 21 Jul 2017
  5. Iraq: Record Products Imports Eat Into Crude Export Earnings

    ...maximize the proportion of their crude output refined domestically in order to maximize revenue, Iraq saw a mere 8% of its crude output refined domestically in April and May, the lowest figure on record. Refinery output nosedived in June 2014 when Islamic State (IS) captured the 310,000 b/d Ba...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 22 Jul 2016
  6. Genel Ramps Up KRG Output As Exports Rise

    ...liver in excess of 100,000 b/d net to Genel on peak days in the January-June period from its working interest in the Taq Taq and Tawke fields. The figure compares with average net output from the Kurdish fields of 69,000 b/d in 2014. The recent production boost, Genel says, helped the Kurdistan Re...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2015
  7. Iran Boosts Salman Output

    ...e field has 46 oil wells, and 10 water injection wells. This boost in Salman oil output comes as part of a $2bn Iranian Oil Ministry plan announced in 2014 aimed at boosting offshore production. The ministry has long made expediting the development of the fields Iran shares with its ne...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2015
  8. Partex Sees Adco Opportunity As BP, Shell Shun Terms

    ...s a partnership of Adnoc with 60%, Total, BP, Shell and ExxonMobil each with 9.5% and Partex with 2%. When the concession expired in January 2014, Adnoc qualified its four oil Major ex-partners but excluded Partex, as it tried to expand participation to bring in more Asian companies and other European an...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2015
  9. Kuwait Energy Gets Iraq Reserve Boost, Output Up

    ...oil equivalent (boe) at end-2014. Block 9 alone accounts for 507.5mn boe. KEC posted record annual working interest production of 25,252 b/d for 2014, up 8% on 2013. Output rose further to 26,820 b/d in Q1 this year (see table) but likely dipped in Q2 with production at the firm’s Block 5 license in...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2015
  10. Israel: New Gas Law

    ...w of 1952 has few requirements of the operator: several only have a 5% stake, the minimum under current rules (see table, MEES, 5 December 2014). A common pattern of recent years has been for firms with little-to-no oil experience to snap up the rights to offshore licences in the hope that the 2009 an...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2015
  11. Oryx Aims For 200KBD

    ...anned appraisal wells, scheduled for late 2013-early 2014, could add to this and the firm has identified three further prospects. Drilling has begun on two of these: the AAS-1 well on the Ain al-Safra prospect spudded on 10 June and the Zeg-1 well spudded in late April. Oryx, which recently listed in To...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013