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Oman Eyes Fourth LNG Train Taking Capacity To 15.2mn t/y By 2029
...untry has experienced a gas ‘renaissance’ since 2017 when BP brought online the massive Khazzan gas development. With the second phase Ghazeer expansion successfully added, the field now produces 1.5bn cfd, some 37% of the country’s current non-associated gas output. Added to this is new output from th...
Volume: 67Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2024 -
Egypt Braces For Prolonged Power Cuts
...ypt’s Electricity Ministry. Fuel oil imports though increased before that, rising to 237,000 tons (1.57mn barrels) for the week beginning 17 July, the highest in Kpler data going back to 2017. This coincided with the beginning of the power cuts. Last year Egypt ramped-up fuel oil burn, as it ma...
Volume: 66Issue: 31Published at Fri, 04 Aug 2023 -
KRG: Chevron, Genel Press Ahead At Sarta Despite Water Ingress
...latively painlessly. But, given the track record of similar issues elsewhere in Iraqi Kurdistan, it is clearly worth watching. Indeed, Genel is well aware of this given that water-cut issues at its Taq Taq field contributed to massive decline rates (MEES, 31 March 2017). Taq Taq output peaked at 13...
Volume: 64Issue: 31Published at Fri, 06 Aug 2021 -
Algeria: Key Oil Fields At 20-Year Low
...,000 b/d for 1H 2021 is up on 2020 but well down on typical 2017-18 volumes, echoing the long-term decline in the field’s gas output. In Salah, a second project grouping BP and Equinor with Sonatrach, is also in long term decline (see chart). *Algeria knows that it needs to attract more IOC in...
Volume: 64Issue: 31Published at Fri, 06 Aug 2021 -
China’s CNOOC Enters Key Abu Dhabi Concessions
...tablishment of the Al-Yasat JV (Adnoc 60%, CNPC 40%) to explore for oil (MEES, 2 May 2014). Production from Al-Yasat’s Bu Haseer field began in March 2018 (MEES, 27 April 2018). China’s presence in Abu Dhabi then picked up considerably in 2017 when CNPC and Chinese private-sector firm CEFC bought 8% an...
Volume: 63Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020 -
UAE Emerges As Libya’s Top Condensate Customer
...t, whilst Abu Dhabi sees Libya through a geopolitical prism, for Dubai it’s just business. And at least for now, Abu Dhabi appears to be displaying a level of toleration not afforded to the two previous key suppliers of condensate to Dubai’s Enoc: Qatar until the 2017 blockade (MEES, 9 June 2017), an...
Volume: 63Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020 -
KRG Gets Vote Of Confidence From Key Upstream Players
...st two years. Until recently, Erbil was squabbling with foreign operators over payments, which hindered investment and output (MEES, 10 February 2017) – a reality further exacerbated by the loss of revenues from 280,000 b/d worth of production after Baghdad retook key Kirkuk fields following the fa...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Iraq Crude Exports Edge Up In July
...rticularly to the post-2014 oil price crash when Iraqi revenues halved to less than $50bn a year. Higher oil prices have nonetheless given Baghdad some breathing room in the last couple years. The government ran a slight surplus in 2017 and a whopping $21.6bn surplus last year. Central Bank of Iraq data fo...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Now Or Never For Leviathan As Partners Re-Float LNG Plans
...lek and Ratio, are eying the further expansion of the field. Discovered back in 2010, the partners only stumbled to a final investment decision in 2017, and this for a greatly scaled back ‘Phase-1A’ project (MEES, 24 February 2017). Though first gas is on track for the end of this year, full field de...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Israel Awards 12 Blocks
...rael Opportunity took Zone D’s four blocks. All three zones are in the southern half of Israel’s EEZ (see map). The small blocks were grouped together in larger zones after a bid round launched 12 months earlier had failed to yield any big names (MEES, 15 December 2017). This tactic also appears to ha...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Yemen: OMV’s Risky Reentry Pays Dividends
...ude exports come from Blocks 10 and 14 in the east of the country (MEES, 15 September 2017). State firm PetroMasila operates the blocks, using some of the crude for local power generation and sending the rest via a 138km pipeline to Ash Shihr where it is exported to Asia. Exports in 2017 averaged 44...
Volume: 61Issue: 31Published at Fri, 03 Aug 2018 -
Iraq Takes On Mansuriya
...er development. Kuwait Energy, in its 2017 financial statements, bemoaned the Iraqi government for having “so far refused to entertain any request for change in terms.” It reclassified the field’s 2P reserves as contingent resources whilst impairing the asset in full (MEES, 25 May). The oil ministry sa...
Volume: 61Issue: 31Published at Fri, 03 Aug 2018 -
Zohr Almost There As Egypt Plots Further Gas Gains
...ntracted by Eni to drill two wells offshore Cyprus at the end of 2017 and start of 2018. “Regarding our wells in Cyprus, we plan to restart a drilling campaign before the year end with new wells, two additional wells, to be drilled back-to-back,” Chief Exploration Officer Luca Bertelli says. Eni op...
Volume: 60Issue: 31Published at Fri, 04 Aug 2017 -
Libya: Cautious Optimism With Output At 3-Year High
...C? Output from the key Sharara fields in the southwest of Libya averaged 189,000 b/d in Q2, and 251,000 b/d in June according to figures given in the H1 2017 interim report of Spain’s Repsol, leader of the Akakus JV which operates the fields. Repsol’s net figures were 23,000 b/d for Q2 and 29,800 b/d fo...
Volume: 60Issue: 31Published at Fri, 04 Aug 2017 -
Genel Makes Profit in H1 2017, Clock Is Ticking On KRG Gas Plans
...Despite KRG-focused Genel Energy’s production collapsing, the firm swung to profit in H1 2017. Reduced oil output means gas development is more important than ever. The precipitous collapse in Taq Taq output has seen Genel’s only producing operated-field fall to barely 25% of the firm’s ne...
Volume: 60Issue: 31Published at Fri, 04 Aug 2017 -
Oryx Experiences More Hawler Delays
...d-2016 (MEES, 12 May). With focus shifting from Hawler’s disappointing Demir Dagh field to Zey Gawra, Oryx said in a December 2016 presentation that it was targeting 12,000-15,000 b/d by end-2017, but this will be another missed target. Its planned capex for the second half of 2017 has been slashed from $29...
Volume: 60Issue: 31Published at Fri, 04 Aug 2017 -
Algeria: In Amenas Gas Boost But Oil Set For Further Slide
...oject is the Central Areas Field Complex in the Berkine Basin: operator Eni on 29 July reiterated that it “expects” the 44,000 b/d project to start-up in 2017. As for key current fields, latest figures for gross liquids output from the Anadarko-operated facilities in the Berkine Basin that process ou...
Volume: 59Issue: 31Published at Fri, 05 Aug 2016 -
Kuwait, Saudi Spat Over Neutral Zone Heats Up
...olation of the bilateral agreement, he adds. He also says that work to cut emissions had begun in 2011 and was due to be completed in 2017. Mr ‘Umair says in the letter that the Kuwaiti side had suggested to the Saudis that production resume at Khafji at a reduced rate of 100,000 b/d, but that the Sa...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
BG: Egypt Down 52%
...feline when the company signed a preliminary agreement with a Noble Energy-led consortium to pipe gas from Israel’s offshore Leviathan field to Idku. Under the letter of intent, Israeli gas would start flowing from 2017-18 at a rate of 700mn cfd in a 15-year supply deal. ...
Volume: 57Issue: 31Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2014 -
Abu Tabul Commissioning To Kick Start Oman Gas Boost
...nths, in an effort to boost much needed short-term supplies, ahead of the planned 2017 start-up of the 1bn cfd Khazzan tight gas project in Block 61 (MEES, 20 December 2013). Despite overseeing a significant hike in gas output over the past 10 years, Oman is facing an ever increasing gas feedstock sh...
Volume: 57Issue: 31Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2014