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Mideast Drilling Stays Firm, Recovery Elsewhere Will Have To Wait
...illing at near-record levels in 2017, in stark contrast to the global trend of upstream underinvestment. The rig count for GCC countries was a collective 288 in September, just 17 off the all-time high of 305 set last October, and up 26% since the start of 2014 despite low oil prices and stretched bu...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Aramco Targets Indian Refinery JV End-2018 In Major Investment Push
...to a market where it has this year lost its position as top crude supplier to Iraq. India is the world’s third largest oil importer, buying an average 4.26mn b/d for the first seven months of 2017. But whilst India’s overall imports are up 3% year-on-year, those from Saudi Arabia, at 728,000 b/d for Ja...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Saudi Signs Nuclear Deal With Russia But Continues To Play The Field
...0 1 5.5 Rosatom building. Work started Mar 2017 Planned 10...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Opec Members Set For Major Revenue Boost Despite Slow Rebalancing
...Opec-led production curbs since the start of 2017 have so far failed to bring about the planned market rebalancing. They look likely to be extended to at least the end of 2018. But while global oil inventories remain well oversupplied, this year’s price gains are set to boost Opec revenues by ar...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
KRG: Russian Oil Firms Ensure Kremlin’s Tacit Support
...cure more than 80,000 b/d of crude to send through a re-opened Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline. And as that crude can currently find its way to market via the Kurdish pipeline, is it worth the expense? Iraq’s economy is in rough shape and on track for a 2017 budget deficit in excess of $20bn (MEES, 8 Se...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Aramco IPO: Is 2018 Deadline Doomed?
...ction to ‘Recent Growth-Enhancing Structural Reforms’. Three key reforms essential to capital market development have been successfully implemented the IMF says: the launch of the Nomu secondary equity market in March 2017, the introduction of the T+2 settlement cycle for securities in April 2017 and th...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
IMF On Saudi: Reform Needed But Not Too Fast
...nsolidation is beginning to bear fruit, reforms to improve the business climate are gaining momentum; and a framework for accountability and transparency in the government sector is largely in place. The IMF expects the Saudi fiscal deficit to fall to 9.3% of GDP in 2017, substantially lower than 2016’s 17...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Algeria Reverses 2017 Austerity In Free-Spending 2018 Budget
...Algeria is on its third strategy in as many years for ‘dealing’ with low oil prices. 2015-16 saw ‘full steam ahead’ with fingers crossed prices would rapidly rebound. 2017 saw it slam on the brakes as the coffers ran dry. Now Algiers plans to totally reverse course, firing up the printing pr...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Mena Top 3 For 2017-22 ‘New Renewables’ Growth*
...CAPACITY GROWTH (GW): UAE & MOROCCO PLAN IMPRESSIVE-SEEMING SOLAR AND WIND ADDITIONS... ...BUT MOROCCO IS THE ONLY COUNTRY WHERE RENEWABLES WILL BE A KEY PART OF THE 2022 POWER MIX (GENERATION BY SOURCE, TWh) *IRAN IS TOP INCLUDING HYDROPOWER. SOURCE: IEA ‘RENEWABLES 2017...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Iran Inks Petchems Deals With Shell, Sojitz; Tatneft Signs Up For EOR
...rms, with well-connected local firm Persia Oil and Gas (MEES, 7 October). At the signing of the NPC/Shell deal, deputy petroleum minister Amir Zamaninia said Iran aims to sign upstream deals worth $10bn by the end of the current Iranian year in March 2017. IRAN’S POST-SANCTIONS PRELIMINARY PE...
Volume: 59Issue: 41Published at Fri, 14 Oct 2016 -
Liwa Plastics Delayed To 2020
...ogram. The company is also spending $2.1bn on expanding – from 116,000 b/d to 197,000 b/d – and upgrading its Sohar refinery. The schedule here has also slipped, from 2016 to Q1 2017 (MEES, 19 August), with the UK’s Petrofac and Korea’s Daelim the key contractors. Orpic is also building 290km of 93...
Volume: 59Issue: 41Published at Fri, 14 Oct 2016 -
Opec Cut Plans: Will They Happen? Will They Work?
...ices what will be the reaction from the shale oil production and how will that once again affect the market?” Without any Opec action, the IEA expects the market to rebalance in the second half of 2017 Mr Birol says. This is backed up by data from its latest Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR), re...
Volume: 59Issue: 41Published at Fri, 14 Oct 2016 -
Saudi Debt Doubles, Further Rise Planned With Imminent Bond Launch
...e exact stake has yet to be decided upon. On timing, Mr Nasser says that the market is now recovering and “we expect it to recover even more in 2017, and I think the time in 2018 will be almost right.” All potential listing locations remain on the table for the kingdom, including New York, London, Ho...
Volume: 59Issue: 41Published at Fri, 14 Oct 2016 -
Algeria Gets Real With $50/B 2017 Budget Oil Price
...Algeria is finally adopting a realistic oil price of $50/B in its 2017 draft budget, instead of the $37/B “reference fiscal price” which was assumed in all previous budgets since 2009. This bore no resemblance to actual market prices, especially at times when the price of Algeria’s Saharan Bl...
Volume: 59Issue: 41Published at Fri, 14 Oct 2016 -
Gulf Equity Markets: Change Is Afoot
...d the introduction of securities lending and covered short selling regulations. The proposed changes will be the subject of new regulations published by the CMA in the first half of 2017 (MEES, 20 May). “Whilst some of these amendments focused on loosening previous rules on participation and ow...
Volume: 59Issue: 41Published at Fri, 14 Oct 2016 -
Climate Change Takes Centre Stage Ahead Of COP 21
...e end of September to start a national cap-and-trade system in 2017. ...
Volume: 58Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2015 -
UAE To Spend $35bn On Reducing Gas Imports For Powergen
...an $50/B, Mr Mazru’i maintains that the UAE’s plan to raise oil output capacity to 3.5mn b/d by 2017, compared with 2.78mn b/d for 2014, will not be delayed by the fall in crude prices....
Volume: 58Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2015 -
Aramco Advances Downstream Plans With Petro Rabigh, Sadara Progress
...me in next year and the chemicals plants – polyurethanes intermediates and polyurethanes products – in 2016 and into 2017.” Sadara’s cracker will be the first in the Middle East to process naphtha – the project has feedstock agreements in place for up to 53,000 b/d of naphtha and 85mn cfd of et...
Volume: 58Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2015 -
Iran Reveals Impact Of Bushehr Outages, UAE And Jordan Pass Nuclear Milestones
...anian contractors. The UAE’s nuclear program, meanwhile, appears to be on schedule to deliver one 1.4GW plant each year during 2017-20. Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) says Korean contractor Kepco has poured first concrete for the reactor building of the Barakah-3 plant. Construction is ex...
Volume: 57Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014 -
MOL Confident Of Future In Kurdistan
...tends to raise production from the block to an expected minimum 50,000 boe/d by 2017-18. Early production from Akri Bijeel began in March this year at a rate of 3,500 boe/d and Mr Dodds says it is expected to ramp up to 10,000 boe/d by the end of the year. The temporary facilities are to test zones wh...
Volume: 57Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014