1. 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: 65
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2022
  2. 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: 61
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2018
  3. 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: 61
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2018
  4. Middle East Remains Important Segment In Services Firms’ Portfolio

    ...art of the year, Schlumberger proclaimed the industry had “reached bottom of the cycle” (MEES, 28 April) but profits so far in 2017 for services firms have been slow in appearing. Schlumberger and Halliburton posted profits of $580mn and $360mn respectively in Q3, but that is a far cry from the multi-bi...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 27 Oct 2017
  5. Green Shoots Begin To Emerge As Oilfield Service Firms See Signs Of Revival

    ...bsgaard highlighted the IEA revising global oil demand upwards for 2017, and Opec’s plans to implement a production ceiling below current output levels at next month’s meeting, as indicators that oil prices could see “upward movements.” But tempering the optimism he says that “visibility remains li...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2016
  6. Dana: Egypt, KRG Payment

    ...na’s Egypt production by 160mn cfd and 5,600 b/d of condensate by 2017. $18Mn From The KRG            In Iraqi Kurdistan, Dana Gas says it received a cash advance amounting to $18mn, again a small part of the hundreds of millions of dollars the company says it is owed in back payments for gas an...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014
  7. QPI To Pull RWE Bid

    ...%, RWE 20%) deep-water concessions.   The project is not scheduled to be online until the end of 2017, following several years of delays.   The BP/RWE venture secured a rare pricing scheme from state firm, Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), that will allow for a $4.10/mn BT...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2013