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Libya Crude Exports Surge As Officials Hail ‘Golden Opportunity’ For Investors
...e highest quarterly figure since the country’s 2011 revolution. In the first nine months of the year, exports averaged a record 1.19mn b/d, up 24% from 965,000 b/d in 9M 2024 (see chart 1). Meanwhile, output figures continue to hit record highs, averaging 1.38mn b/d for the first nine months of...
Volume: 68Issue: 45Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2025 -
Russia’s Tatneft Returns To Libya, Again
...tneft’s on/off exploration work in Libya since the 2011 revolution set off a decade of – still ongoing – political instability. The firm last year returned to drill appraisal well ‘B2’ on Block 4, but results were not made public (MEES, 22 October). NOC says it held a meeting with Tatneft officials wh...
Volume: 65Issue: 45Published at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 -
Apache Egypt Oil Output Slumps To 11-Year Low
...opped to 14, the lowest number since Q3 last year. Inevitably gross oil output has also declined, falling to an 11-year low 161,100 b/d for Q3, down 7% on Q2 and down 27% on record oil output of 220,000 b/d set in Q3 2011 (see chart 2). “Gross production declined as a result of significant drilling ac...
Volume: 63Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2020 -
Record Saudi Gas Output Helps Prevent Oil Burn Spike
...D) CONVERTED FROM BTU TO CFD UNTIL 2011. SOURCE: SAUDI ARAMCO, MEES. 2. SAUDI OIL BURN WAS FLAT YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q3 DESPITE INCREASED POWER DEMAND ('000 B/D) *PRESUMES ALL FUEL OIL CONSUMPTION IS BURNED: SOME IS USED IN MARINE BUNKERING. EXCLUDES SMALL VOLUMES OF DIESEL. **JULY-AUG AC...
Volume: 63Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2020 -
Cyprus Advances Aphrodite Development
...Cyprus issued its first ever “exploitation license” this week to the partners in the 4.2tcf Aphrodite gas field. Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis says the event is “especially important” whilst cautioning that this is just the first step in a long road before Aphrodite, discovered in 2011, ca...
Volume: 62Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2019 -
Israel: Pipeline Bottleneck Blunder Adds to Exports Headache
...19,” with “technical evaluation” and “flow reversal planning” ongoing – the route was previously used to ship Egyptian gas to Israel. But volumes halted in 2011 amid pipeline bombings, political disputes and an underlying shortage of Egyptian gas to export (MEES, 1 August 2011). Noble’s timeline lo...
Volume: 61Issue: 45Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2018 -
Reality Sets In As KRG Imagines Life With Less Oil
...eld, which South Korea’s Kogas signed a contract to develop in 2011 (MEES, 13 June 2011). Akkaz was slated to produce 400mn cfd, but security concerns and the Islamic State’s advance halted development. US-mediated talks over joint KRG-Iraq control of international border crossings in Iraqi Ku...
Volume: 60Issue: 45Published at Fri, 10 Nov 2017 -
Iraq Says OPEC ‘Price War’ Partly To Blame For Revenue Fall, $84Bn Deficit
...54mn b/d the previous month. The drop coincides with falling global oil prices, which have declined by 30% since June. The result was a whopping $675mn drop in revenues from oil sales in October to $6.241mn, the lowest since February 2011. Maliki Blamed For Reserve Fund Collapse All th...
Volume: 57Issue: 45Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2014 -
Egypt Touts Block Awards But IOC Debts Mount
...e February 2011 revolution (and level with the second half of 2010), however August gas output of 5.43mn cfd (56.1bcm/y) remains 9% down on pre-revolution levels (61.6bcm for 2010). The gas shortage has been exacerbated by domestic consumption, which has continued to rise rapidly despite ec...
Volume: 56Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013 -
Libya: No End In Sight To Instability
...ternational oil company active in the east. Failure to achieve real or lasting increases in Libyan oil output is a common theme since July. Prior to this, Libya had surprised the oil markets by reviving output at a remarkable pace after the 2011 revolution brought production to a standstill. For much of 20...
Volume: 56Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013 -
Iran Targets Oman As Future Gas Export Hub
...t negotiated the gas price yet,” Mr Zanganeh said. “We have agreed to transfer gas to Oman first, and then look for a market in the region from there.” Iran and Oman came agonizingly close to reaching a gas supply agreement in 2011, but talks broke down after the Iranian side had a sudden change of...
Volume: 56Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013 -
November Political Changes Unlikely To Impact Energy Macro-Trends
...ian purchases as a proportion of total Gulf crude exports will rise to some 12.7mn b/d out of 15.9mn b/d, or 79.9%, up from around 73% in 2011. Saudi reliance on Asia-Pacific is slightly less marked (see table) but the same trend still holds – in 2002 Asia-Pacific took less than 50% of Saudi exports. It...
Volume: 55Issue: 45Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2012 -
Iraqi Oil Sector Set For Major Change
...ocks last year (MEES, 21 November 2011). One source notes: “You know a Rosneft entry as ‘nominal’ operator could give Baghdad a fig leaf that it got rid of Exxon for the KRG investment, and you know they could have worked out an arrangement with Rosneft whereby they stayed in effective control.” Ho...
Volume: 55Issue: 45Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2012 -
Libya’s AGOCO Looks To New Ghadames Production Heartland
...velopment in October 2010, although awards were overtaken by 2011’s fighting. NC-100 contains more than a dozen oilfields discovered by Bulgarian firm Geokom in the late 1980s and early 1990s. However their relatively small size and lack of nearby infrastructure coupled with tough contractual te...
Volume: 55Issue: 45Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2012 -
Algeria’s South West Gas Project Boosted By Pipeline Award
...t the biggest share would likely come from Total’s Ahnet tight gas project, where the company plans 4 bcm/y plateau production. Total submitted a development plan in July 2011, which envisaged 2015 start-up. However discussions with the Algerian authorities remain ongoing, with Total thought to be an...
Volume: 55Issue: 45Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2012 -
Unrest Threatens To Scupper Yemen Oil Sector Investment Hopes
...etings Yemen’s President ‘Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi has urged foreign oil companies to increase their investments. Crude production in Yemen has been in steady decline over the past 10 years or so, with BP estimating the country’s 2011 production at 228,000 b/d, down 24% from the 2010 figure of 30...
Volume: 55Issue: 45Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2012 -
Cyprus Awards Four Offshore Licenses
...s Corporation (Kogas) were awarded the licenses for Blocks 2 and 3. Two of the blocks adjoin Block 12, where Noble Energy discovered 7 tcf (198 bcm) of natural gas in December 2011. Blocks 2, 3 and 9 are positioned on the eastern sides of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and Blocks 3 and 9 are ad...
Volume: 55Issue: 45Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2012 -
Israel Gas Sector Development Faces Setbacks
...0mn outlay. The fields were considered by many to be a ‘safe bet’ – the consortium had shot detailed seismic over the offshore area in June 2011, a year before the drilling begun on the Myrah block. The results indicated a high probability (between 50-90%) of as much as 6.5 trillion cu...
Volume: 55Issue: 45Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2012