1. Egypt Gas Producers Get Export Boost As Asian LNG Prices Rise

    ...s field, located in the North Damietta offshore block which also houses Atoll. Qattameya, discovered in 2017 in 108ms water has been tied back 45km to the Ha’py platform and “is expected to produce up to 50mn cfd,” BP says. The UK major is also readying start-up of the Atoll-4 well: it previously fl...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2020
  2. Dana Gas Sells Producing Egypt Assets To Texas-Based IPR

    ...lations with Sukuk holders (MEES, 18 August 2017) and had flagged up the sale of its Egypt assets as a preferred method of meeting the looming payment (MEES, 14 February). This suggests that Dana was hardly in a position to dictate terms in the latest sale, though a $90mn one-year loan with UAE lender Ma...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2020
  3. QP & Total Make Second South Africa Discovery

    ...panding internationally… my ambition is for Qatar Petroleum to be seen as an International Oil Company and be talked about at the same level as ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Total” (MEES, 8 December 2017). This ambition has led QP to partner with international majors at a host of overseas assets in...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2020
  4. Gulf Oil Giants Eye Enhanced India Ties

    ...pand their commercial links. The largest three oil producers in the Middle East (and Opec) are also India’s three largest suppliers (see chart). Opec No.2 Iraq overtook Saudi Arabia as India’s largest supplier in 2017 and has held on to the crown ever since, with both supplying record volumes last ye...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2020
  5. Saudi Deficit Falls To $11bn For Q3 As Non-Oil Sector Surges

    ...venues stay flat then the deficit could conceivably come in above $80bn. Q4 deficits in both 2017 and 2018 were more than $30bn. FINANCING THE DEFICIT       In order to finance last quarter’s $10.9bn deficit, the government turned to domestic debt. Overall, it raised $11.2bn domestically, opting en...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2020
  6. Qatar Government Revenues Drop in Q3

    ...rink by 4.5% this year. This would be the first time that the economy has shrunk on an annual basis since 2017, and this year’s decline is expected to dwarf that year’s 1.5%. The latest government figures show that the economy shrank by a massive 6.1% in Q2 versus a year earlier (see chart 1), and wh...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2020