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Qatar Targets 380,000 B/D From Al Shaheen
...%, TotalEnergies 30%) since 2017. A multi-phase development plan kicked off in 2017 and has helped the firms revive the field’s fortunes. Production appears to be on course to rise above 300,000 b/d this year. Kpler data shows exports increasing by 12% so far this year, implying average output of mo...
Volume: 68Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2025 -
Inpex Mulls Exit From Iraq’s Eridu
...ctor firm. The partners estimate the field has 7-12bn barrels of oil in place, of which more than 400mn is recoverable with estimated potential output of 250,000 b/d. Attempts to move the field to development have dragged since its discovery in February 2017, though the ministry confirmed late last ye...
Volume: 65Issue: 40Published at Fri, 07 Oct 2022 -
Eni, Shell & OMV In Tunisia: Will They Stay Or Will They Go?
...oblem at Baraka has brought combined output at the fields down to a measly 1mn cfd from around 13mn cfd in early 2017. The two fields have lots of potential and would have fared much better “if they were managed better. The reserves are there,” the source says. Though Eni is Tunisia’s top oil pr...
Volume: 62Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019 -
Tunisia’s Upstream: Can It Emerge From A Lost Decade?
...nce summer 2017 when strikes knocked out a slew of output in the deep south (MEES, 2 June 2017). Gas output at 182mn cfd up to August is an 11-year low. Barring an end-year miracle, Tunisia will see another fall in its oil and gas output for 2019. Why has this happened? “It is a combination of na...
Volume: 62Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019 -
Dana Gas Egypt Asset Sale: Can It Garner Interest?
...gust). “If there is a time to start doing some portfolio management, now is a very good time to do it,” Mr Allman-Ward says. Why Dana would want to put all its eggs in the KRG basket is less clear: it is only two years since it settled a major legal dispute with Iraqi Kurdistan (MEES, 1 September 2017...
Volume: 62Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019 -
KRG Gas: Key Producer Eyes Alternatives To Rosneft’s Stalled Turkey Pipeline
...Dana Gas says Pearl could build 100km pipeline to Turkey border itself. Stalled development of a gas export pipeline from Iraqi Kurdistan to Turkey is forcing the region’s key gas developer to look at alternatives. A pipeline to Turkey was to have been built by next year under a September 2017...
Volume: 62Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019 -
Iraq Exports Record Crude In Q3 Despite Opec Deal
...tably stable so far in 2019 hovering either side of $20bn, in contrast to the previous year when the range was a much broader $4.2bn, and indeed 2017’s $4.7bn. Overall, absent a much greater than expected drop in federal crude export volumes, annual exports ought to rise for the sixth consecutive ye...
Volume: 62Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019 -
Egypt Gas Hub Ambitions Gather Pace
...d LNG import bill which came to $10.3bn in 2017. Since receiving its first cargoes in April 2015 the bulk of the LNG Egypt received was in 2016, when imports totaled 979mn cfd of gas, some 20% of the country’s total gas consumption – which would in turn have been higher had more gas been av...
Volume: 61Issue: 40Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2018 -
Iraq: Record Oil Exports, Revenues At 6-Year High
...which appear on the cards but cannot be discounted – full year revenues are set to total around $87bn. This would be a 46% increase on 2017’s $59.5bn and the highest figure since 2013’s $89.2bn (see chart 2). DIVERSE EXPORT SLATE Iraq has a relatively broad slate of crude buyers, al...
Volume: 61Issue: 40Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2018 -
East Med Gas Development: Hang Together Or Hang Separately
...ock in the second half of next year. By then – given that Eni plans two late 2017/early 2018 wells across its blocks, and that (barring discoveries) there is no drilling planned after this – by late 2018 either a new chapter will be opening in East Med gas, or the Cypriot one will be close to closing (se...
Volume: 60Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2017 -
Cyprus Drilling Plans: Make Or Break?
...the existence of a ‘Zohr-like’ carbonate reservoir offshore Cyprus is “very promising.” In plain English it was a flop. Previous drilling had focused on sandstone plays resulting in Aphrodite, Cyprus’ only discovery to date, and the nearby Israeli Tamar and Leviathan. Of the five planned 2017...
Volume: 60Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2017 -
Abu Dhabi Oil Shakeup Continues With Offshore Consolidation
...alan fields which produce around 20,000 b/d. Cosmo expects first oil from Adoc’s Hail field in the first half of 2017, with full production projected to be 20,000 b/d. Another 10,000 b/d is provided from the Total-operated Abu al-Bukhoosh field, and around 7,000 b/d from the Bunduq field. These are tr...
Volume: 59Issue: 40Published at Fri, 07 Oct 2016 -
Iraq’s Falling Crude Burn Bolsters Exports
...Iraqi exports have remained largely static this year, but are set to increase in the fourth quarter as seasonal crude burn falls. With increased gas supplies freeing up more crude for export, Iraq’s 2017 export target looks eminently achievable. Iraq’s draft budget for 2017 envisions ex...
Volume: 59Issue: 40Published at Fri, 07 Oct 2016 -
Egypt Enjoys Unexpected Bid Round Success
...nority partner RWE by 2017, and is active drilling in other offshore acreage. In addition to Eni, compatriot Edison also now holds three contiguous East Mediterranean deepwater exploration blocks. The Italian firm signed up for the North Port Fouad block with Irish independent Petroceltic in the la...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
Payment Problems, And Solutions
...ll raise production by 160mn cfd and 5,600 b/d of condensate by 2017. Dana plans to drill 37 new wells and do work over at an equivalent number of existing wells. The investment drive will result in 8-9mn barrels of additional condensate, says the firm. Italy’s Edison has come to a similar ag...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
Algeria Bid Round Flatters To Deceive
...erator at Timissit with a 30% stake, with Shell holding 19% and Algerian national oil company Sonatrach taking up its mandatory 51% stake. The consortium plans to drill two exploration wells and conduct seismic surveys until 2017. While the block is not thought to contain any shale deposits, it lies cl...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
Foreign Investors Look For Streamlined Algerian Oil Bureaucracy As Shell Exits
...and-off over the price Sonatrach will pay for the gas; Total hopes – especially in light of the revisions to Algeria’s oil law – that the terms will reflect the difficulty of developing what it considers to be ‘unconventional’ deposits. Total has put back estimated first production to 2017...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012 -
Thailand’s PTT, PetroVietnam and China’s CNOOC Expand In Algeria
....25% 2.9 3tcf reserves. Development approved late 2011 Q3 2017 'Ain Tsila Petroceltic 37%op, Sonatrach 51%, ENEL 12% 30 3....
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012 -
Cyprus Tenders For Short-Term Gas Supply
...s offshore, that resource is unlikely to be available for domestic use before 2017-18. “DEFA therefore requires a short-term supply of natural gas to provide an alternative energy supply to Cyprus for the period to 30 September 2018 while the project for the commercialization of Cyprus’ own natural ga...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012 -
Jordan Signs MOU With Canadian Firm For Shale Oil Project
...art production at the rate of 20,000 b/d of crude from shale oil by 2016. It also plans to complete a 460mw power plant by 2017 which would burn shale oil. A second Jordanian-British firm, Karak International Oil (KIO), is exploring near the city of Karak, 100km south of ‘Amman and intends to produce up...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012