Saudi Crude Exports At 3-Year Low: Oil Burn Peaks Amid Opec Curbs

...cord 1.02mn b/d for the year as a whole, up from MEES’ previous 991,000 b/d 2017 forecast (MEES, 18 August). Increased oil burn has directly hit the volume of crude available for export. Crude exports, at 6.693mn b/d in July, were down for the fourth straight month and at their lowest level since Au...

Algeria Oil Output At 14-Year Low, Gas Exports Slump

...Algeria's oil output was just 1.551mn b/d in July, the lowest figure since 2003. Algeria’s crude output fell to just 1.065mn b/d in July 2017, the lowest since September 2003, whilst NGLs output, at 486,000 b/d, was at its lowest since December 2013, according to official figures su...

US Growth Revised Down As Rig Count Falls

...rch 2015’s record of 5.67mn b/d this month, although August projections had it achieving this last month. This was due to downward revisions to 2017 output from the Eagle Ford shale formation of southern Texas which was hit by Hurricane Harvey late last month (though the downgrades are also to pr...

What Embargo? Qatar Products Exports Hit Two-Year High

...e lowest since 2009, and domestic demand of 230,000 b/d had more than doubled since 2010. Despite the earlier outages, exports ought to breach 500,000 b/d for 2017 for the first time since 2013. Crude oil exports also rose in July to a four-month high of 496,000 b/d. The upshot is that total Qa...

Dubai Breaks Solar Capacity, Power Pricing Records With CSP Project

...70 Current Capacity 28.83 Projects Awarded:                                                                           13.57 Adwea (2017) Al-Mirfa CCGT (Ga...

Rosneft Plans Key Gas Pipeline To Unlock Kurdish Exports to Turkey

...creasingly competitive Turkish market. Turkey imported 45.4bcm of gas in 2016, of which number one supplier Russia provided 24.5bcm (54%). Imports are on course to soar to 55bcm in 2017, with Russian supplies growing to 29bcm, though Russia’s market share (53%) is broadly steady (see chart).  The ca...

KRG Receives Chevron Boost

...200 b/d at its Shewashan field over 2017. But while it completed a 10,000 b/d early production facility and a fourth well last quarter, output languishes at around 1,100 b/d due to water-cut problems....

Iran Signs For $10bn Chinese Credit, Eyes A Further $25bn

...int projects (MEES, 1 September). Iran is among the Middle East’s main suppliers of crude to China, with exports averaging 612,000 b/d in the second quarter of 2017, although Russia and Angola have recently been top suppliers, followed by Saudi Arabia (MEES, 28 July). Chinese energy companies have be...

Bahrain Taps Debt Market For Record $3bn

...gative reviews in recent months. It is therefore paying considerably higher rates on the bond than its fellow GCC states. S&P lowered its assessment of Bahrain to BB-, three notches below investment grade, in December 2016 and furthermore added a negative watch on 2 June. “At the end of February 2017...

Oman Oil $1bn Loan

...er Libor with the firm flagging it up as a “competitive new source of funding [which] will enable us to reduce reliance on government funding, so [the government] can redeploy resources to other areas of the economy” (MEES, 1 July 2016). Faced with a gaping 2017 budget deficit of OR3bn ($7.8bn) ca...

US Shale Oil Output (Mn B/D): Set To Break 2015’s Record This Month, Though The Latest Figures For 2017 Have Been Revised Down