1. New US Sanctions Hit Iran, Upstream Sector Already Stressed

    ...e project, tells MEES that when Pakistan invited contractors to bid for EPC work it told them to provide the finance themselves. “There isn’t that kind of money available in Pakistan and sanctions aren’t helping, so it won’t be completed in 2014,” he says. MEES learns that Iranian engineers – kn...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 29
    Published at Mon, 16 Jul 2012
  2. Iraqi Gas And Power Emerges As Critical Sector

    ...pital investment to kick-start the economy. Capital expenditure will grow to 40% of the budget in 2014 and 50% the following year, compared to 2011’s 31%, Mr Abadi predicts.  However, any economic development will not work without electricity, the lack of which currently costs the Iraqi economy an es...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 29
    Published at Mon, 18 Jul 2011
  3. Iraq Needs To Triple Power Capacity To Meet Short Term Demand Growth

    ...soil then dry gas from Badra  and Mansuria fields  Taji  4x40  2011  40mn cfd Dry gas from NGC  Akkaz 2x125  4x30  2014  105mn cfd Dry gas from Akkaz field  Ba...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 29
    Published at Mon, 18 Jul 2011
  4. Industry Questions Absence Of Major In Abu Dhabi’s Shah Gas Project

    ...train (MEES, 17 May). The plant will supply around 540mn cfd of gas into the UAE grid, with the bulk of the waste gas being toxic and corrosive hydrogen sulfide, by the third quarter of 2014. “The project can only be operated safely in a partnership with a major,” a UAE source told MEES. The te...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 29
    Published at Mon, 19 Jul 2010
  5. Nabucco Partners Sign Intergovernmental Agreement

    ...ll as Turkey apparently softening its stance on Nabucco, the 31 bcm/year pipeline project that is scheduled to start in 2014 received a significant boost with the surprise offer by Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at the signing ceremony to supply it with 15 bcm/year of gas. However, it re...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 29
    Published at Mon, 20 Jul 2009