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Gulf NOCs Target Cuts To Upstream Emission Intensity
...stream output (CO2e/boe) which they aim to reduce to 17kg CO2e/boe by 2025 from a 2017 baseline of 23kg. The CO2e measure includes emissions of methane – a far more potent greenhouse gas, especially over the short term – at a conversion factor of 1kg methane = 29.8kg of CO2e. Gulf NOCs fall into two br...
Volume: 67Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 -
Tunisia: 200mw Solar Plan
...lls for proposals in the past have met with threadbare success. The first such ‘call for projects’ in 2017 saw four projects totaling 22MW built, including the country’s only 2023 start-up – 10MW at Meknassy – whilst the three subsequent rounds (2018, 2019, 2020) have resulted in a princely 6MW of ca...
Volume: 67Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 -
DME Looks To Build On Momentum Into 2024
...utinely exported to China (see chart 1). Despite China’s dominance as an end-destination, trading on the exchange is conducted by a broad range of global participants. BACK TO THE FUTURE For DME Oman, the period 2017-18 was its heyday, during which all records for activity were set. Ho...
Volume: 66Issue: 43Published at Fri, 27 Oct 2023 -
Karish Start-Up Increases Israel Gas Competition
...mpany that was forced to sell a 50% stake in its Energean Israel operations to private equity firm Kerogen Capital for just $50mn in 2017 to help fund operations (MEES, 17 February 2017). ENERGEAN KEY ISRAEL OFFSHORE ACREAGE & ASSETS...
Volume: 65Issue: 43Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2022 -
Sarsang Expansion Facility Starts Up
...r this year (see chart). The new facility will be the first significant new capacity addition since the Atrush field, where Shamaran is also present, came online in 2017. While the Genel-operated Sarta came online in late 2020, results have been disappointing (MEES, 13 May) and output averaged ju...
Volume: 65Issue: 43Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2022 -
Hayan Abdulghani Appointed Iraq’s Oil Minister
...tired in 2020. He was previously the chairman of Basrah Gas Company (BGC) and director general of South Gas Company (SGC). Mr Abdulghani was appointed director general of SGC in 2017, switching from his previous role as director general of Basrah Oil Company (BOC), which oversees Iraq’s largest oil fi...
Volume: 65Issue: 43Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2022 -
Kuwait Sets Out Plan To Reverse Capacity Losses
...cilities to handle water produced alongside crude oil. DRILLING RAMP UP KOC drilled 431 development wells last year, the highest annual figure since 651 for 2017-18. Mr Hashem says that in order to achieve its goals, drilling will increase to average 500 wells per year. There will also be “ar...
Volume: 64Issue: 43Published at Fri, 29 Oct 2021 -
BP/Equinor Algeria Gas Output Crash
...s in 2Q20. Partners BP, Equinor and Sonatrach have struggled to halt production declines over the years, despite the completion of field tie-in and compression projects at the fields in 2017 and 2018 (MEES, 7 February 2020). Though Algerian gas output has seen a major turnaround this year (ME...
Volume: 64Issue: 43Published at Fri, 29 Oct 2021 -
Russia Overtakes KRG As Israel’s Top Crude Supplier For 2020
...plying a record stockbuild given lackluster demand (MEES, 4 September) – imports fell back to 208,000 b/d last quarter according to data intelligence firm Kpler. That marked the lowest quarterly figure since Q4 2017’s 197,500 b/d. Israel has had considerable success in diversifying its import slate si...
Volume: 63Issue: 43Published at Fri, 23 Oct 2020 -
Egypt Power Fuels: Renewables Rising, But Gas Remains Dominant
...24 (MEES, 9 November 2018). In the longer term nuclear capacity will be added to the mix, with four reactors with a combined capacity of 4.8GW due to begin operation at Dabaa on the Mediterranean coast during 2026-29 (MEES, 15 December 2017). ...
Volume: 63Issue: 43Published at Fri, 23 Oct 2020 -
US Challenging Saudi As World’s Top Oil Exporter
...eraging 6.96mn b/d, which is slightly less than 2017’s 6.97mn b/d. 2017 was the first year of the Opec+ production agreement which was temporarily eased in the second half of 2018. Crude oil exports may be down this year, but Saudi Arabia is sending record breaking volumes to the world’s number one im...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
Gulf Condensate Splitters Bring Economic, Strategic Gains
...gineering arm of the Tehran regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) built PGS. Work on phase one started in 2007 as the first sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program were introduced and was only completed in 2017 (MEES, 5 May 2017). With Iran again under sanctions but three PGS phases co...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
Qatar Axes HSFO Sales
...e of the first countries to limit the availability of marine fuels to only grades that are compliant with the International Maritime Organization’s 2020 regulation.” QP and state fuel retailer Woqod began providing bunker fuels in June 2017 to meet the fuelling needs of the Qatargas LNG fleet an...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
ACWA, Aramco Eye Bangla LNG
...ich is expanding its activities and in April traded its first LNG cargo (MEES, 7 June). State firm Petrobangla has two 3.75mn t/y floating storage and regasification units (FSRU), which are overwhelmingly supplied by Qatar. A 2.5mn t/y supply deal was signed with Qatargas in July 2017 and supplies be...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
Eni: Gulf Of Suez Boost
...y to increasing the country’s oil output which fell to 613,000 b/d for August, the lowest since March 2017 (MEES, 16 August). ...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
Thailand 9M19 Crude Imports ('000 B/D): Mideast Volumes, Share At Historic Low
...stomers. *But Thai crude imports have slid so far in 2019, with Q2 and Q3 seeing the first two quarters of sub-1mn b/d imports since early 2017. UAE volumes have slid even further, to 250,000 b/d for Q2 and 242,000 b/d for Q3, the lowest quarterly figure this decade, whilst September’s 141,400 b/d is the lo...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
Iraq: New Government, Old Problems
...bruary). In late 2017, former Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi was bullish on the prospects of replacing the irreparably damaged ‘federal’ pipeline from Kirkuk to the Turkish border, whilst restoring the route’s full length to Ceyhan to its nameplate 1.6mn b/d capacity. But nothing has been said on the plans th...
Volume: 61Issue: 43Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2018 -
Oman Farms Out 10% Khazzan Stake To Petronas
...ock 61 hosts the country’s greatest gas discovery to date, the Khazzan-Ghazeer asset, which boasts 10.5tcf gas reserves and 350mn barrels of condensate. Phase-1 production began last year (MEES, 29 September 2017), with full production of 1bn cfd and 30,000 b/d of condensate achieved in March (MEES, 30...
Volume: 61Issue: 43Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2018 -
Services Firms: Mideast Growth Picks Up, But US Slows
...“more of a pause than a long-term structural issue.” The latest dip in US shale activity comes on the back of massive growth that saw the company’s North America revenues leap 37% to $9.2bn for the first nine months of 2018 (just shy of the 2017 annual total) as US crude output soared to top 11...
Volume: 61Issue: 43Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2018 -
Upstream Costs: Can Services Firms Get Majors To Split The ‘Rent’?
...13 and $175bn in 2014, the five supermajors’ collective capex had fallen to just $97bn for 2017, with only a slight uptick planned for this year (MEES, 9 February). Key oilfield services firms have felt the heat. Collective profits for the biggest two, Schlumberger and Halliburton, collapsed fr...
Volume: 61Issue: 43Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2018