1. Iraq Crude Exports Edge Up In July

    ...opping 40% of oil revenues. Having posted seven consecutive quarters averaging $6bn/month oil export revenues (which per annum works out to at least $72bn), it is fair to say that Iraq has escaped the 2014-2017 mess of low prices and low revenues. The challenge now is even bigger: how does Iraq tr...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019
  2. QP Expands Overseas

    ...nce 2014), South Africa (MEES, 8 February), and, above all, in Qatar, where Total has 30% of the 300,000 b/d Al Shaheen field. And it’s not just upstream. Last month QP signed an $8bn US Gulf petchems tie-up with ConocoPhillips (MEES, 19 July). Following the latest deal, which awaits Guyana’s re...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019
  3. Now Or Never For Leviathan As Partners Re-Float LNG Plans

    ...d Belgium’s Exmar to provide a Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) study for the construction of an FLNG facility for Leviathan. This is not the first time that the partners have attempted to promote FLNG as part of Leviathan’s development. In 2014 Australia’s Woodside pulled out of a $2bn de...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019
  4. Israel Awards 12 Blocks

    ...though that is due to be completely sold off by 2021 as part of another antitrust ruling from 2014 (MEES, 2 January 2015). Edison early this year said it was relinquishing Royee but later committed to drilling the block by September as part of a deal with 70% partner Ratio, which would in turn take 15...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019
  5. China Takes Record Saudi Crude As Iran Volumes Fall To 9-Year Low

    ...cord 5.61mn b/d from Opec and a record 4.27mn b/d from the Middle East. That said the Mideast share, at 43.2% of total 1H 2019 imports, is well down on the annual peak of 52% hit in 2014. China remains vulnerable to any disruption in the Straits of Hormuz, but much less so than Japan which sourced a wh...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019
  6. Tunisia At The Crossroads

    ...2014. Mr Essebsi won Tunisia’s first free presidential election and his Nidaa Tounes party took the most seats in the legislative elections. Nidaa Tounes formed a coalition with the Ennahda party (alongside two others) which sought to tackle deep socioeconomic challenges. In 2016, the co...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019