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Exxon: Turning Disadvantaged Barrels Into Advantaged Ones
...years of conflict following the 2011 revolution, ExxonMobil is also eying a return after more than a decade. It signed an MoU with the NOC in August (MEES, 8 August), to examine four offshore blocks located off the northwest coast and the country’s Sirte Basin. “This partnership agreement brings to...
Volume: 68Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2025 -
Algeria’s Plans For Shale Gas Development Remain A Distant Hope
...gned a headline agreement with Italy’s Eni for shale gas development in April 2011, and other headline deals followed. The government held an international shale gas workshop in February 2012. But the government faces major local opposition to the development of shale. In 2015, efforts to start assessing ex...
Volume: 60Issue: 42Published at Fri, 20 Oct 2017 -
Libya Output Continues To Rise In Wake Of Renewed Sirte Basin Production
...pacted Waha capacity. The Hess report implied crude production potential of 270,000-275,000 b/d, in line with the highest quarterly output achieved since 2011 (269,000 b/d for both Q1 and Q2 2013). The consortium had planned to increase capacity on the Waha fields to 500,000-600,000 boe/d by the de...
Volume: 59Issue: 42Published at Fri, 21 Oct 2016 -
Zueitina Restart Small Sign Of Hope For Libya’s Oil Prospects
...e terminal also provides a route to market for crude from the Nafoora field in the Sirte basin, operated by Libyan state firm Agoco in partnership with the Zueitina consortium. The field, which was producing about 60,000 b/d prior to the outbreak of conflict in 2011, has usually exported via the Ras La...
Volume: 58Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2015 -
US Shale A Threat To Mideast Condensate, Despite Oil Price Slide
...duce the firm’s exposure to political instability. Japan’s Gulf^ Condensate Imports (‘000 B/D) 2011 2012 2013 *2014 Qatar 15...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
UAE Sees Balanced 2015 Budget Despite Oil Price Fall
...tensifies. The budget is part of a three-year federal spending plan of Dh140bn ($38.1bn) for 2014-16. The three-year budget first introduced in 2011 intended to achieve sustained growth. Announcing the new budget, Shaikh Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktum, UAE Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, said health, ed...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Glimmers Of Hope As Egypt Craves Stability
...EGYPT Glimmers Of Hope As Egypt Craves Stability The prolonged period of flux that has held sway over Egyptian politics since the revolution in 2011 continues to affect oil and gas producers in the country. But there are signs that management changes at the petroleum mi...
Volume: 56Issue: 42Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2013 -
Atlantic Frontier Hots Up As BP Enters Morocco
...nverting a ‘reconnaissance contract’ (an initial exploration deal not requiring a drilling commitment) held since 2011 to a full exploration agreement. Kosmos says that the three blocks together “will allow integrated exploration over a significant portion of the Agadir Basin, one of the last re...
Volume: 56Issue: 42Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2013 -
Hidden Fuel Exposes Middle East Energy Policy Flaw
...tes. While making up only around 3% of the global population, over a third of the $523bn of global energy subsidies in 2011 were dispensed in the Middle East, according to the IEA’s 2012 World Energy Outlook. Eight countries in the region feature in last year’s top 20 list of subsidisers. “Su...
Volume: 56Issue: 42Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2013 -
Payment Delays Turn Independents Away From Egypt
...PC) 2011/12 bid round (which, after being put back twice, closed in April) a bid failed to materialize. By its second quarter results presentation on 23 August the company had dropped almost all mention of Egypt. The 2011-12 EGPC bid round, which was launched amid post-revolutionary op...
Volume: 55Issue: 42Published at Fri, 12 Oct 2012 -
Saudi Aramco Discovers New Gas Field
...ell-led South Rub΄i al-Khali Company (SRAK) appears to be potentially moving towards development phase, and even this development is for the Kidan sour gas field, discovered decades before the SRAK’s exploration program (MEES, 21 November 2011) . ...
Volume: 55Issue: 42Published at Fri, 12 Oct 2012