1. Mauritania’s Banda Integrated Gas Project Progresses

    ...ergy needs. UK based Tullow took Banda in 2011 from Malaysia’s Petronas and announced commerciality a year later (MEES, 22 February 2013) before having to cut back on investments when prices began to drop in 2014. Development plans only recovered recently when Banda and the nearby 0.9tcf Tevet fi...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2025
  2. Libya’s Oil Rise: The Risks Ahead

    ...IS IS UNLIKELY TO BE RECEIVED UNTIL EARLY 2021. SOURCE: MEES. CREAKING INFRASTRUCTURE              While Mr Sanalla was no doubt seeking to play up the challenges NOC faces, there is also serious weight to what he says. The chaos following the 2011 overthrow of long-time leader Muammar Ga...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2020
  3. Libya’s Rising Output: Now For The Hard Part

    ...l company and we will follow closely what they are doing to recover operations on those fields,” he says. Elsewhere Total’s Libya situation is also one of ‘no change.’ “Offshore, we are operating Al Jurf as usual,” he said of the field that, with only a small interlude in 2011, has steadily pr...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 18 Nov 2016
  4. Oxy Set To Quit Iraq’s Zubair After Payment Frustration

    ...shore concession (see p2), whilst negotiations with Oman look to extend Block 9 beyond its December 2015 expiry.  OXY MENA CRUDE OUTPUT (NET, '000 B/D)   2011 2012 2013 2014 Qa...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015
  5. IPIC Subsidiaries Team Up In Abu Dhabi Upstream

    ...u Dhabi’s state-owned International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) in 2011 and has since developed into an international investment vehicle for its parent. IPIC also directly owns a 20.8% stake in Japan’s Cosmo Oil, which – like Cepsa – is primarily a downstream firm in its home country. Bu...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014
  6. Energy Efficiency Key To Adapting To High Prices, Says IEA

    ...st,” says Dr Birol. “They were $544bn worldwide in 2012, a significant increase over 2011.” He adds that Mideast governments were responsible for half the total subsidies: “Fossil fuel subsidies are bad for the country’s budget, bad for the environment, bad for efficiency, and bad for the poor. Ut...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 15 Nov 2013
  7. Ankara Poised To Unleash KRG Upstream Investment

    ...t-10     Discovery on first well drilled by OMV, but second well stopped in late 2011. Rovi, Sarta See Chevron above. Ma...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2012
  8. Exploration Shows Signs Of Revival In Yemen

    ...rn of the year, Yemen’s ministry has been hard at work trying to restore the country’s battered oil industry, and in turn hike production back up to levels seen in the early 2000s. Production in the volatile state has been in constant decline with BP estimating the country’s 2011 output at 22...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2012
  9. 'Democratic' Bumps Fail To Prevent Libyan Gains

    ...oduction forecasts set back in September 2011. Libya’s refineries and petrochemicals plants are operating at “more than 350,000 b/d” or 90% of their capacity, he added.   He acknowledged that production has sometimes varied sharply in recent months but added that these “problems and hiccups” ar...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2012
  10. Libya Weighs Options For Gas Development

    ...LIBYA   Libya Weighs Options For Gas Development   Libya is targeting a 1bn cu ft/d hike in gas output to 3.5bn cfd by 2015. But the future of the country's only LNG plant, mothballed since February 2011, is up in the air.   Nouri Berruien, chairman of Li...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2012
  11. Egypt Extends Gas Bidding; TransGlobe Awarded Oil Blocks

    ...EGYPT   Egypt Extends Gas Bidding; TransGlobe Awarded Oil Blocks   Canadian independent TransGlobe was the biggest winner from Egyptian state firm EGPC's 2011-12 bid round. But the deadline for more recent gas-focused bidding has been put back three months amid sc...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2012
  12. Egypt Agrees To Raise Gas Exports To Jordan

    ...2011 (MEES, 9 September).      Prior to the downfall of the Mubarak regime in January 2011, Jordan’s electricity generation was 80% fuelled by Egyptian gas, sold at concessionary prices. But since then Egyptian gas exports to Jordan were severely disrupted because of the frequent acts of...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2012
  13. Oman Tenders Seven Exploration Blocks

    ...rious Potential? Of the three offshore licenses, Block 59 is the only virgin block. Blocks 18 and 41 were both awarded to India’s Reliance Industries on the basis of exploration and production sharing agreements (EPSAs) in 2005 and 2007 respectively, before the company relinquished them in 2011 af...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2012