1. Majors Look To Cling On To ADCO Stakes

    ...bid by state-owned ADNOC, their 2% in ADCO translates into 36% of total production.   Regardless of these percentages, the stakes are high and the Abu Dhabi authorities are keeping their legacy foreign oil operators on tenterhooks as they consider options ahead of contract expiry in January 2014...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013
  2. Algeria’s 2014 Draft Budget Ups Deficit By 12.4%

    ...ALGERIA   Algeria’s 2014 Draft Budget Ups Deficit By 12.4%   Algeria’s 2014 budget indicates a deficit of AD3,438bn ($43.6bn at $1=AD78.8), up 12.4% on 2013. The 2014 deficit will represent 18.1% of GDP, up from 12.8% for 2013. The draft law was presented to parliamentary co...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013
  3. IMF Downgrades MENA Growth Forecasts

    ...REGIONAL   IMF Downgrades MENA Growth Forecasts   Real GDP growth in the MENA region is expected to decline to 2.1% in 2013 from 4.6% in 2012, before rising to 3.8% in 2014, according to the IMF latest six-monthly World Economic Outlook released on 8 October. The 2013 pr...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013
  4. Kuwait Finance Minister Calls For Leaner Public Sector And Reforms

    ...10 2011 *2012 *2013 (P) 2014(P) Oil and gas exports ($bn) 82.6 48.9 61.8 96.7 11...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013
  5. OPEC Output At Near Two Year Low In September On Iraqi Outages

    ...13 percentage points in 2014, and raises other risks.   The third scenario, given the present difficulties for the global economy, envisages the same $150/B spike, accompanied by greater adverse effects on confidence, with capital retreating to safe havens and a persistent decline in equity pr...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013
  6. Marafiq Extends Jacobs’ Project Management Contract

    ...C contract – reportedly worth $1.05bn – was awarded in early 2011 to South Korea’s Hanwha Engineering and Construction. Construction work began in March 2011 and project start-up is expected in 2014. The Yanbu’ 2 power plant will mainly run on heavy fuel oil, although it will also be able to use Ar...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2012
  7. Gulf Turns To Unconventional Gas To Ease Shortage

    ...ate-owned Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO). Bahrain will take a decision by the first quarter of 2012 on awarding an LNG import terminal contract (MEES, 15 August) to import 400-800mn cfd of LNG for 15 years starting in 2014. But it will only drill the first Awali field pre-Khuff deep gas ex...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 41
    Published at Mon, 10 Oct 2011
  8. Barzan $10Bn Gas Project Financing Attracts 30 Banks

    ...the ECA-covered facilities, the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Kexim are providing direct loans to the Barzan project. Pricing on the direct ECA funding typically comes in below the level paid to the commercial banks. Barzan is planned for start-up in 2014 and ex...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 41
    Published at Mon, 10 Oct 2011
  9. Abu Dhabi To Take ADCO Concession Renewal Decision By Year-End

    ...ncession when it expires in January 2014, an official from a major tells MEES. The consortium’s international oil company shareholders are concerned that the Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) will award fields to the lowest bidders, in a decision that will affect Abu Dhabi’s oil production for 30 years, Ni...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 41
    Published at Mon, 10 Oct 2011
  10. BP’s SEEP Pipeline Option Stirs Southern Gas Corridor Debate

    ...rmitting process unscathed, and this is thought to involve giving them an equal share of the project’s benefits both in gas and rates of return. The problem with offering equity is the states involved, except for Turkey, will have already spent several tens of millions of euros by 2014 on integrating th...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 41
    Published at Mon, 10 Oct 2011
  11. Algeria Rediscovers Virtues Of Long Term Commitment

    ...ing to be short or long, you just have to look at the LNG supply/demand curve. If you lack LNG, the whole market worldwide is going to miss gas. If you have excess of LNG, the whole market of LNG is going to be long,” he continued. “We believe around 2014 Europe will be competing with Asia for LN...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 41
    Published at Mon, 11 Oct 2010
  12. Kasaizadeh Targets Implementation Of LNG Projects By End-2014

    ...anian Gas Exports, in Tehran on 5 October, that the company now expected that all three of its major LNG export projects will be implemented by the end of 2014. He said that that the first plan to materialize would be the Iran LNG project, due on-stream in 2012, which is being financed exclusively by...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 41
    Published at Mon, 13 Oct 2008
  13. Petrofac Wins Hasdrubal FEED Contract From BG Tunisia

    ...a a newly constructed pipeline. The facilities will also produce separate liquid propane and butane products. BG Tunisia plans to invest $600mn in developing the offshore Hasdrubal field and a further $400mn to extend the production plateau of its Miskar operations to 2014....

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 41
    Published at Mon, 10 Oct 2005