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  1. Egypt Drilling: Shell Kicks Off 9-Well Campaign As BP Readies Plans

    ...ell is setting its sights beyond Egypt for WDDM backfill options. Shell (35%) and partners Chevron (35%op) and Israel’s NewMed (30%) in May filed a development plan for Cyprus’ 2011 Aphrodite discovery which could see 650mn cfd production tied back to the WDDM offshore facilities (MEES, 2 June). Mi...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 33
    Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2023

  2. Tunisia’s Oil Industry Faces Existential Crisis

    ...nce the 2011 Tunisian Revolution.  If there is a potential upside it is that two smaller firms, Mazarine Energy and Panoro Energy, have both shown to be willing underdogs. Led by former Shell engineer Edward van Kersbergen, Mazarine came from nothing to produce upwards of 2,000 boe/d and ev...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 33
    Published at Fri, 14 Aug 2020

  3. Egypt Gas Exploration Focus Shifts East As Output Record Nears

    ...UCHES 6BN CFD IN JUNE, JUST SHY OF DECEMBER 2011’S RECORD 6.22BN CFD SOURCE: JODI, EGYPT OIL & GAS, MEES.   JORDAN: THE COMEBACK?   Egypt last week signed a deal to resume gas exports to Jordan, ostensibly from early next year. A 9 August statement from Jordan’s energy ministry sa...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 33
    Published at Fri, 17 Aug 2018

  4. Japan’s Inpex Eyes Iran Return Post-Sanctions

    ...pan’s biggest supplier in the first six months of 2015 has been Saudi Arabia, followed by the UAE and Russia. These volumes from Iran are well down on pre-sanctions levels however. In 2011, before sanctions on the purchase of Iranian crude oil were introduced, Japanese imports from Iran averaged 31...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 33
    Published at Fri, 14 Aug 2015

  5. Kurdistan Grapples With ISIS Threat; Oil Output Steady For Now

    ...reign oil companies, including ExxonMobil, whose entry into Iraqi Kurdistan in 2011 gave the KRG a claim of legitimacy that the smaller independents could not provide. Evacuations Continue But with evacuations of foreign staff underway by several of the more than 50 operators in the Kurdish oil se...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 33
    Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2014

  6. Competition Heats Up Over 2.8Mn B/D West Qurna-1

    ...2011. Baghdad then warned the US firm had to choose between its investment in federal Iraq and the KRG. Exxon’s KRG investment exacerbated already tense Iraqi political relations, catalyzing Washington to engage closer with Iraqi energy matters (MEES, 1 March).   However, as yet Baghdad ha...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 33
    Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013

  7. Former Algerian Minister Latest Casualty In Widening Oil Corruption Scandal

    ...nventional oil and gas fields after yet another dismal international auction in 2011, when only two of 10 blocks were awarded, one of which to Sonatrach.   But Mr Yousfi, who took over in the midst of the Sonatrach scandal, has had to cope with the fallout that ensued, including senior staff changes wi...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 33
    Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013