1. Iraq’s Ageing Basra Infrastructure: Can It Take The Strain?

    ...e onshore bottlenecks. Yet it is far from clear whether or not BOC can sustain high exports through these facilities, and whether more SPM replacements are needed. All the four operational SPMs were installed between 2012 and 2014, although UK contractor Petrofac, which has a maintenance co...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 01 Sep 2023
  2. India 1h 2020 Crude Imports: A Tale Of Two Quarters

    ...test provisional data from the country’s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell shows imports of just 2.91mn b/d in July, only just above May’s 10-year low of 2.82mn b/d. June was almost 800,000 b/d higher at 3.59mn b/d, though this is still the third lowest figure since 2014 (see chart and p7 for full da...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 28 Aug 2020
  3. Saudi Bags Growing Share Of Key Chinese Market

    ...November 2018). China’s overall crude exports have risen 9.7% to 9.85mn b/d for the first seven months of 2019, but the Saudi gains are such that its market share has leapt from 11.7% for the first seven months of 2018 to 15.7% for Jan-July 2019. The latter is the highest share since 2014 when ov...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019
  4. Turkey Mixes Business & Politics As Qatar LNG Surges

    ...13 2014 2015 2016 2017 Russia (P) 12.57 -1.71 -12.0 14.27 19.47 17.58 25.41 26.49 26.21 26.98 26.78 24...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018
  5. China Crude Imports Grow At Record Rate: Can It Last?

    ...tensity,’ measured in megajoules per dollar (see chart). World Bank data to 2014 show this falling steeply, whilst data from China’s National Energy Administration (NEA), published 24 August, show a further 14.6% fall between 2013 and 2016, Reuters reports. In other words, China’s GDP growth figures of 6....

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 01 Sep 2017
  6. Asian Importers Increase Gulf Crude Addiction

    ...recent years has gone into reverse since the start of 2016. For Japan and South Korea, imports from the Gulf rose above 85% of their total in the second quarter this year; for India the total hit 65% in Q2 having fallen below 60% in 2014 (see chart, and p16 for full Indian import data). IE...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 02 Sep 2016
  7. Saudi Shrugs Off Calls For Action Over Oil Price, Revenue Collapse

    ...eir lowest oil revenue in at least a decade (see table). Presuming that prices and output remain at levels seen in first seven months of 2015, this implies that revenue for the year as a whole will be just over $560bn, 42% down on 2014, and less than half 2012’s record level. And even this makes se...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 28 Aug 2015