1. Oman Maintains Upstream Spending Despite Revenue Collapse

    ...rst half of the year was 99.6% of the same period last year, when annual expenditure was only marginally down on 2014’s record OR5.19bn ($13.5bn at a fixed OR1=$2.597). In fact, state capital expenditure (capex) in the first half of the year is up 13% year-on-year against 2015 at $1.53bn, though op...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 36
    Published at Fri, 09 Sep 2016
  2. Algeria: Crude Exports Down But Piped Gas Exports Soar

    ...rhaps due to the inclusion in the Sonatrach stats of condensate processing units – both figures are up, and up by a similar amount. The first half refinery throughput average suggests that Algeria is on track to match or even beat its annual throughput record, which was also 593,000 b/d and set in 2014...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 36
    Published at Fri, 09 Sep 2016
  3. SEC Set For Split By Year-End

    ...ailable to SEC for supplying customers via the grid. Ecra says that peak load in 2015 was 62.26GW, which was 10.1% higher than the 56.55GW for 2014. Last year Ecra estimated that Saudi Arabia’s peak power load could reach 75GW in 2020 (MEES, 2 September). So far Saudi generators plan to add almost 28...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 36
    Published at Fri, 09 Sep 2016
  4. Egypt OKs Foreign Arbitration For Renewables, Cuts Solar Tariffs

    ...ectricity regulatory agency was quoted by Al Borsa as saying that the original tariffs were decided on the basis of a feasibility study carried out in September 2014. He attributed the lowered solar PV tariffs to a subsequent reduction in development costs for solar capacity....

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 36
    Published at Fri, 09 Sep 2016
  5. Mixed Opec Messages Add To Price Volatility As Output Hits New Record

    ...Jan-Aug‘16 v Jan-Aug‘15 Jan-Aug‘15 2015 2014 Saudi Arabia*^ 10...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 36
    Published at Fri, 09 Sep 2016
  6. Libya Faces Further Output Fall, Degraded Capacity With Chronic Under-Investment

    ...y producers since instability reduced output to zero at the Repsol-led Sharara/Murzuq fields and Marathon/Conoco/Hess-led Waha in late 2014, both with theoretical 300,000 b/d-plus capacity. Figures for January, the last comprehensive breakdown available, showed Agoco producing 239,000 b/d and SO...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 36
    Published at Fri, 09 Sep 2016
  7. Zueitina: Export Restart

    ...eitina terminal, which has an export capacity of 250,000 b/d, was shut down in April 2014 and has operated for only brief periods since - most recently in October 2015 (MEES, 6 November 2015). It has been closed throughout 2016, and in January was the target of attacks by Islamic State. The reopening of...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 36
    Published at Fri, 09 Sep 2016
  8. IMF To Assist Egypt In Raising Bilateral Aid

    ...e first seven months of 2016, down 2% from the same period of 2015 and 7% from the same period of 2014 (see chart 2). At least this ‘fall’ can be put down to the strength of the dollar. The same cannot be said for tourism revenues which have been in free fall since the January 2011 revolution. Re...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 36
    Published at Fri, 09 Sep 2016