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Apache Hits Egypt Output Record Despite Capex Cuts
...US independent Apache boosted its gross Egyptian output to 362,000 boe/d in Q3, the highest level in more than three years. Gains came despite swingeing capex cuts. Apache’s gross oil production hit 216,500 b/d in Q3, up 5% on Q2, with the boost coming from the firm’s late 2014 Ptah and Be...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
Anadarko Bids For Apache, Steps Back
...13). Apache, together with Shell, is pioneering shale exploration in Egypt: the firms late last year finalized a deal with Egypt to drill the first horizontal wells into shale rock on the Western Desert’s Northeast Abu al-Gharadig Block (MEES, 19 December 2014). The gas price agreed with both firms is...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
Sonatrach Names New VPs
...stream and downstream projects. Changes at the management level of Alnaft, the regulatory body responsible for overseeing tender procedures, are also under way, MEES understands. Only four blocks out of 31 were awarded in Algeria’s latest round in late 2014, with sources citing the usual lack of fi...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
EBRD New Energy Funds
...s first proposed last year, at a time when the World Bank had announced backing for Morocco’s 350MW Noor 2 and 3 concentrated solar projects ($519mn) and 100MW Tafilalt solar PV plant ($26mn), and Jordan’s 117MW Tafila wind farm ($221mn – MEES, 24 October 2014). The Khalladi wind farm is to be bu...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
Jordan Budgets For Ambitious 2016 Spending, Revenue Hike
...nefited from project aid from the $5bn GCC development fund set up in December 2011 by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE following the eruption of the Arab Spring, with each country pledging $1.25bn for the kingdom (MEES, 10 May 2013). He notes that this fund has already disbursed JD456mn in 2014...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...15 2014 2013 2012 WTI 41.75 45.97 45.13 46.32 45.44 46.62 58...
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Egypt Tourism Receipts (% Of Current Account )*
...Egypt Tourism Receipts (% Of Current Account )* *ANNUAL NUMBERS ARE FOR FINANCIAL YEARS FROM 1 APRIL. SOURCE EGYPT FINANCE MINISTRY, MEES. > Tourism’s share of Egypt’s current account receipts had rebounded to just shy of 12% during the 2014/15 financial year, after dropping to ju...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
BP Still Hopeful Of Kirkuk Deal
...Kirkuk, parts of which fell under KRG control after Iraqi troops withdrew rather than fight the advancing militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) – otherwise known as Islamic State (IS) – in the summer of 2014. It is, however, conducting work through contractors under a me...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
Genel Energy Steps On Kurdish Natural Gas
...oduction is expected in 2016 and gas for export scheduled to start in the first half of 2018, though the KRG has an option to request gas for domestic use in 2016. The agreement will allow Genel to honor its September 2014 gas sales agreement with Turkey for 10Bcm/year of Kurdish gas. Genel will be en...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
Baghdad, KRG Take First Step Toward Deal
...aq’s revenues and to 17% of refining volumes for domestic consumption, it says. This is only a fraction of the KRG’s annual entitlement from the 2014 federal budget, which was never passed. Under an informal agreement between Erbil and Baghdad, the KRG was to receive 17% of federal revenues but the KR...
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Oman Output Boost Plans Intact Despite Oil Price Slide
...eraged 947,900 b/d – largely in line with the 950,000 b/d average output target for 2014 it announced in March this year (MEES, 7 March). “There is no intention to phase out or delay any projects, and expenditure will continue as planned,” Finance Ministry Undersecretary, and former Undersecretary to...
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MENA Active Drilling Rigs, October 2014.*
...MENA Active Drilling Rigs, October 2014.* October Br...
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UAE Says Oil Price Will Not Impact Expansion
...ergy. Emirates LNG ‘’We expect to develop new gas fields and launch new projects to import LNG. These projects include the awarding of a contract for the Emirates LNG project in Fujairah by the end of 2014 or early 2015,” he told national news agency WAM in an interview on 9 November. The pr...
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UAE Keeps Oil Majors Guessing On Onshore Renewal
...pan’s Jan-Sep 2014 Oil Imports (‘000 B/D) Japan Oil Imports From Abu Dhabi (‘000 B/D) Japan too has a strong hand. The UAE is the second largest exporter of crude to Japan after Saudi Arabia (see below and p26) and Japan already has upstream stakes in the UAE, both of them in of...
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IEA: LNG To Maintain Steady Share Of Interregional Gas Trade Through 2040
...INTERNATIONAL IEA: LNG To Maintain Steady Share Of Interregional Gas Trade Through 2040 Global gas supply and demand dynamics will be closely monitored by LNG suppliers, including Qatar. In its World Energy Outlook 2014, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says that it expects Ja...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
Mideast Refining Surge To Continue Through 2040
...om 8.5% to 12.2%, while OPEC sees a hike from 8.1% to 11.5% (see Table 1). The IEA’s World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2014 envisages Middle East refinery throughputs rising from 6.6mn b/d in 2013 to 8.5mn b/d in 2020 and 10.6mn b/d in 2040. OPEC’s World Oil Outlook (WOO) 2014 (MEES, 7 November), sees ru...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
OPEC To RECLAIM Market Share in 2020s, IEA Says
...plications for upstream plans across the globe, but especially in areas where price levels are critical for certain projects – namely North America and Brazil. “According to our estimates, if oil prices remain at these levels, the capital spending in 2015 in the US will decline up to 10% compared to 2014...
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Egypt Cuts Deficit On Back Of Gulf Cash, But More To Do
...EGYPT Egypt Cuts Deficit On Back Of Gulf Cash, But More To Do Egypt cut its budget deficit to 12.8% of GDP for the year to June 2014. This is down from 13.7% for 2012-13, though still well up on 9.8% for 2010-11. Though the deficit rose in nominal terms to E£255.4bn from E£239.8bn the pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
Oil Prices: Uncertainties, Confusion And Conspiracy
...REGIONAL/SAUDI ARABIA Oil Prices: Uncertainties, Confusion And Conspiracy OPEC’s ‘need’ to maintain $100/B-plus sowed the seeds of recent oil price falls. What happens next? By-Paul Stevens* Oil prices have been falling. From 2011 to June 2014 the OPEC basket consistently av...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
Japanese Crude Oil & Condensate Imports, Q3 2014 (‘000 B/D)
...Japanese Crude Oil & Condensate Imports, Q3 2014 (‘000 B/D) 3Q Vs 2Q14 3Q Vs 3Q13 Jan-Se...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014