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Iraq Upstream Prospects Improve As Exxon Mulls Return
...censing round. Relations between Iraq and Exxon deteriorated after the firm controversially entered the Kurdistan Region in 2011, with Baghdad barring the major from bidding in subsequent rounds. By 2021, ExxonMobil was looking for the exit door, but the oil ministry repeatedly blocked Exxon’s attempts to se...
Volume: 68Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2025 -
Israel Halts Tamar & EMG Flows As Fight With Hamas Continues
...thering output from 2011’s 3.5tcf Aphrodite discovery (MEES, 25 January 2013), other more recent Cyprus finds, and potentially Leviathan, which lies just 30km from Aphrodite, too. Cyprus’ current Energy Minister George Papanastasiou was quick to highlight Cyprus’ attractiveness during the ‘Cyprus Ga...
Volume: 66Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2023 -
Egypt’s Stretched Finances Boosted By Record Suez Canal & LNG Revenues
...untries,” the CBE says. 1: EGYPT'S TRADE BALANCE: 2021-22 SAW A RECORD $43BN DEFICIT DESPITE THE FIRST OIL & GAS SURPLUS SINCE 2011 SOURCE: CBE. MEES. 2: EGYPT’S SERVICES BALANCE: RECORD SUEZ CANAL REVENUES & DOUBLING IN TOURISM RECEIPTS ENABLED EGYPT TO NOTCH UP A 3-YEAR HI...
Volume: 65Issue: 41Published at Fri, 14 Oct 2022 -
Turkey’s East Med Drilling Campaign: Politics By Other Means
...illships and seismic vessels, TPAO had little experience of going it alone. All of its prior offshore exploration efforts were with international partners and none turned up commercial discoveries (MEES, 21 November 2011). You have to start somewhere, but TPAO’s lack of expertise doesn’t point to an ef...
Volume: 63Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2020 -
Chevron Completes Noble Deal
...mar which started up in 2013. It also assumes operatorship of Cyprus’ 4tcf 2011 Aphrodite discovery (see map, p8). Development of the two giant Israeli fields has been constrained by a lack of sales outlets. But Chevron is looking to get the ball rolling on Phase-2 Leviathan expansion which would li...
Volume: 63Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2020 -
NOC Eyes Russian Firms’ Return
...NOC sees its longer term output gains coming from new developments. But for this, it needs to persuade firms that have not been active in Libya since the 2011 war to return. On 5 October NOC all but announced Russia’s Tatneft had returned to Libya, welcoming “progress of seismic surveys be...
Volume: 62Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2019 -
Egypt, Ethiopia Hit Dam Deadlock
...Tripartite talks between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in Khartoum about filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) broke down last week with Cairo calling for international mediation. Announced in 2011 the $5bn, 6GW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has suffered several de...
Volume: 62Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2019 -
Qatar Drilling Tender Imminent
...rm expects to take final investment decision (FID) on its US Golden Pass LNG export terminal (QP 70%, ExxonMobil 17.6%, ConocoPhillips 12.4%) in the next few months. Initially opened as an import terminal in 2011, the US Shale Revolution forced a rethink and the partners plan to re-purpose Golden Pa...
Volume: 61Issue: 41Published at Fri, 12 Oct 2018 -
Libya Looks To BP/Eni Deal To Unlock Upstream Investment
...oduction workers have almost all been Libyans. Violence surrounding Libya’s February 2011 uprising, which led to Qadhafi’s overthrow in October that year, prompted all IOCs to quit the country. Output rapidly rebounded in 2012, briefly hitting pre-war levels of 1.5mn b/d in early 2013. But a much to...
Volume: 61Issue: 41Published at Fri, 12 Oct 2018 -
Gulf States Fund Allies
...Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE have pledged a $10bn financial aid package to support Bahrain’s fragile finances and finalized a $2.5bn financial assistance program to Jordan to shore up its ailing economy. Bahrain’s economy has struggled following protests in 2011 and the mid-2014 co...
Volume: 61Issue: 41Published at Fri, 12 Oct 2018 -
Kuwait Gets Light Oil, Gas Boost Despite More Political Turbulence
...in reality. The Jurassic liquids were originally classified as condensates, but subsequently reclassified as light crude in order to help Kuwait hit its target of 4mn b/d crude production capacity by 2020 (MEES, 11 April 2011). Of this, 3.65mn b/d is slated to come from KOC, with the remainder fr...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Egypt Gas Output Set To Hit 5-Year High By Year-End
...illing is planned before the end of the year (MEES, 18 August). Zohr’s discovery has been the catalyst in helping Cairo regain some of the trust from IOCs after receivables soared to $6bn-plus in 2013 amid economic meltdown after the country’s 2011 revolution. But Cairo is confident that its re...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Iran Caspian Swap Shop
...ighboring Caspian countries (MEES, 14 November 2011). Oil swaps were developed in the 1990s to mutually benefit both parties: Iran would import oil from nearby Caspian countries to supply its northern refineries, thus averting the costlier transportation of Iranian crude from southern fields; the Caspian co...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Tobruk Power Redux
...ised before an EPC contract begins, so further delay is likely. Turkey’s Enka Teknik has begun work to complete the 640MW Ubari power plant – also nominally gas-fired, but able to burn diesel – abandoned with Qadhafi’s 2011 ouster (MEES, 22 September)....
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Saudi Signs Nuclear Deal With Russia But Continues To Play The Field
...an Bushehr-1 2011 1.0 1 3.5 Rosatom built. Operation intermittent until 2013 Under Co...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
US Lifts Sudan Sanctions
...cession of South Sudan in July 2011. Oil production was about 130,000 b/d in 2016, according to the latest data from the Sudan government. This is up compared to the previous four years, when output fluctuated in the 100,000-120,000 b/d range. But it is less than a third of the 462,000 b/d produced by th...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Oman Announces New Bid Round As Record Output Continues
...uts the north-western border with Oman, along with Oxy’s Block 9 and PTT’s relinquished Block 44. Again a tight gas play, the last well was drilled in 2011. The final onshore offering is Block 49, which is on the south-western border with Saudi Arabia. To the east of the block is DNO’s Block 36. DN...
Volume: 59Issue: 41Published at Fri, 14 Oct 2016 -
OPEC Production Slips In September Despite Iraqi, Gulf Increments
...iling, in place since December 2011. Production from the group’s top producer Saudi Arabia stayed high at 10.24mn b/d in September, though this was down from 10.31mn b/d in August, as domestic demand continues to weaken from its summer peak. Saudi output has fallen month-on-month since June, when it hi...
Volume: 58Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2015 -
IMF: Reforms Key If Iran To Benefit From Nuclear Deal
...pital could result in upward pressure on the real exchange rate, Mr Cerisola says. Iranian crude oil production is holding at around 2.9mn b/d, down from around 3.6mn b/d in 2011, before US and EU sanctions on the sale of its oil were introduced. But, the IMF warns that “risks to the outlook are si...
Volume: 58Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2015 -
Iran: The Subsidies Dilemma
...rty wanted the other to be identified with the action. Sizable declines in annual receipt from oil exports – from $118bn in 2011 to an estimated $24bn in 2015 – due to drastic declines in oil export volumes (from 2.5mn b/d to 1mn b/d) and oil prices falling (from $108/B to less than $40/B) – ha...
Volume: 58Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2015