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Algeria Prepares Oil & Gas Bid Round
...Algeria plans to launch its first oil and gas bid round since 2014 early next year as it seeks to kickstart foreign investment into its upstream sector. Algeria is preparing to launch an oil and gas bid round under its new oil law by the first quarter of 2023 as it seeks to reinvigorate it...
Volume: 65Issue: 44Published at Fri, 04 Nov 2022 -
Iraq Oil Export Revenues Hit Three Year High
...s soaring oil prices. The average price of Iraqi crude exports surged to $79.38/B for October, the highest figure since October 2014. With oil prices staying high in early November and Iraqi output set to rise further as Opec+ production cuts ease further (see p8), Baghdad can look forward to si...
Volume: 64Issue: 44Published at Fri, 05 Nov 2021 -
Israel Offshore Awards: Small Firms, Smaller Commitments
...rt of the former Daniel West block. Two wells were drilled by Calgary headquartered GeoGlobal in 2012, one on each of Myra and Sara, but both came up dry (MEES, 5 December 2014). Ratio, then partnering Energean, initially attempted to farm-in to Myra and Sara in 2014 in a deal ultimately rebuffed by Is...
Volume: 62Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2019 -
KRG-Baghdad Deal Needed To Unlock Northern Potential
...fore the recapture of Kirkuk: federal Iraq stopped exporting via its own Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline in April 2014 when Islamic State fighters entered the region, which forced Baghdad to strike a deal to export via the KRG pipeline in late 2014, facilitated by now-PM Mr. Abd al-Mahdi (MEES, 21 November 2014...
Volume: 61Issue: 44Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2018 -
Algeria: In Amenas Hits Record Production As In Salah Output Halves
...arter results nor the earnings call that followed made any mention of the firm’s Algeria acreage, while the only mention in the firm’s quarterly IFRS report for Q2 was of a $524mn write-off against its share in the Bourarhat licence area in the Illizi basin dating back to Q4 2014. AIN TSILA DUE BY MI...
Volume: 60Issue: 44Published at Fri, 03 Nov 2017 -
Iraq’s Giant Rumaila Field: BP-Baghdad Talks Loom Large
...ateau Target (PPT) for West Qurna-2 – down from 1.2mn b/d to 800,000 b/d suggests Baghdad could be amenable to such an offer. BP’s Rumaila PPT is set at 2.1mn b/d, downgraded already from 2.85mn b/d (MEES, 5 September 2014). BP is far from alone in being well off the pace, as Iraq called on IOCs to cu...
Volume: 60Issue: 44Published at Fri, 03 Nov 2017 -
Algeria Raises Oil Output On Merk Record, Ourhoud Rebound
...mpression project involves two gas turbine driven compressors and expansion of the inlet liquid handling and associated utilities. BP first announced the investment in 2009, for 2014 start-up (MEES, 10 August 2009): it was already running behind schedule before the January 2013 attack knocked it further off co...
Volume: 59Issue: 44Published at Fri, 04 Nov 2016 -
IEA Chief Warns Against Aggressive Capex Cuts
...essure since 2014, amid growing LNG supplies, slower economic growth and competition with cheaper coal, causing the differential between regional gas prices to narrow sharply. Just this week, the US’ Henry Hub gas benchmark fell below $2/mn BTU for the first time in three years. “One should think ab...
Volume: 58Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2015 -
Kuwait Oil Revenue Hit By Double Whammy Of Prices, Neutral Zone Outage
...nthly takings and the lowest such figure since 2009. Kuwait’s monthly crude export revenues peaked at $6.9bn for 2012 and averaged $6.3bn as recently as the first half of 2014, MEES calculations indicate. Of course the collapse in oil prices in the second half of 2014 is responsible for the lion’s sh...
Volume: 58Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2015 -
Dow To Raise $3bn From Cutting Kuwait Petchem Stakes
...rough a divestment of a portion of the Company’s interests,” as part of a larger scheme to divest between $7bn and $8.5bn of assets by mid-2016 (MEES, 21 November 2014). Though Dow and PIC cooperate on several JVs, the two have a rocky history that may explain Dow’s desire to reduce its exposure to Ku...
Volume: 58Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2015 -
South Sudan Mortgages Future Oil Output
...afigura has signed up to pre-finance crude in South Sudan. In early 2013, the firm signed a pre-financing deal on crude shipments from the government that was revised in early 2014. Under the revised agreement, the trader agreed to pay up front for eight 1mn-barrel cargoes, which would be lifted over a 16...
Volume: 58Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2015 -
Dana Plays Hardball With The KRG
...escent Petroleum, its largest shareholder, and maintain payments till the case runs its course. The ruling sets a precedent for foreign contractors in the Kurdish region, many of whom are yet to be paid their costs after Baghdad cut off federal funds. With Iraq’s 2014 federal budget still to be approved (se...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
East Med Gas Development: Pipeline Politics Drive Floating Solutions
...peline to Greece -1,536 Fail *5tcf Gas, Mar 2014 Lng Prices. ^Net Present Value. Source: Sapienta Economics. The industry consensus is that with a slew of LNG projects set to come onstream in the coming years – in Australia, Mozambique and po...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
Leviathan Go-Ahead Awaits Egypt Deal
...al: DEFA (Natural Gas Public Company)^ Cyprus n/a^ 10-Jul 4.2-10 0.15-0.35 0.6-1 58-97 *Implied Average Volumes. ^Tender Closes November 2014...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
Genel Energy Gets New Export Route For Taq Taq Oil.
...frastructure was expected by end-2013 and full oil exports to start in the first quarter of 2014, it added. The KRG has been in dispute with Baghdad over the legality of its production-sharing contracts, payments to foreign contractors and control over regional resources. The Iraqi government has said that an...
Volume: 56Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013 -
South Sudan Orders Oil Production Restart
...vernments to raise output. The IEA said last week it expected Sudan to produce 70,000 b/d on average this year, which should jump to 90,000 b/d in 2014, before dipping to 60,000 b/d in 2017. “Sudan and South Sudan are expected to rebound to a combined 360,000 b/d by 2015, though still 10...
Volume: 55Issue: 44Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2012