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Mauritania’s Banda Integrated Gas Project Progresses
...n provide momentum to this (MEES, 15 August). Banda is located roughly 61km southwest of Nouakchott, to the east of the Chinguetti field (see map). Chinguetti is Mauritania’s only ever commercial oil field, but having started up in 2006 production stopped in 2017. UK major Shell held the su...
Volume: 68Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2025 -
Oxy’s Oman Strategy Struggles To Hit Its Stride
...ock 9 for gas lift and sale.” However, any gains from this work have evidently been more than offset by declines elsewhere. Oxy still holds three blocks it is exploring which could make the difference. The company picked up Block 51 under Oman’s 2017 bid round (MEES, 21 December 2018). Oxy last year fl...
Volume: 66Issue: 46Published at Fri, 17 Nov 2023 -
Egypt Gas Output Makes Late-2020 Recovery Despite BP Collapse
...TPUT SLUMP FOR BP’S WND One of the key projects, along with Eni’s Zohr, that has helped boost Egypt’s Mediterranean output in recent years was BP’s 5tcf West Nile Delta (WND), which started-up in April 2017 (MEES, 12 May 2017). But MEES understands both Phase 1, Libra and Taurus fields, an...
Volume: 63Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2020 -
UAE Joins Shale Revolution With Unconventional Gas Start Up
...irly soon” (MEES, 29 May). However, the region’s leading unconventional player is Oman, where BP brought the 500mn cfd Ghazeer project online last month (MEES, 16 October). Ghazeer is the second phase development of Block 61’s tight gas reserves, following the 2017 start-up of 1bn cfd Khazzan ou...
Volume: 63Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2020 -
EOG Goes Big On Oman Shale With Farm-In At Tethys’ Block 49
...stream (MEES, 25 September), Houston-based EOG Resources is making its second foray into the sultanate, this week taking 50% of Tethys Oil’s Block 49, which is located next to EOG’s recently-acquired Block 36 in the south west of the country (see map). Tethys acquired Block 49 in 2017 (MEES, 24 No...
Volume: 63Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2020 -
Bab Expansion Plans Grow
...Adnoc is investing $489mn to further expand its key onshore Bab field to 485,000 b/d. Work was already underway through a 2017 contract to expand the field from 420,000 b/d to 450,000 b/d by next year (MEES, 17 November 2017). The EPC contract for the latest expansion was awarded to Gr...
Volume: 62Issue: 46Published at Fri, 15 Nov 2019 -
Oman Offshore Ambitions Creep Forward
...illing next year will be in Oman, the first deep offshore drilling in Oman, so it’s quite important,” he says. “That is most likely gas or gas/condensate, and we are drilling only seven months after the acquisition [closed], which is a big achievement.” Eni acquired Block 52 operatorship in 2017 (ME...
Volume: 62Issue: 46Published at Fri, 15 Nov 2019 -
Iran Digs Deep With Massive Heavy Oil Find
...elds including Darquain, Mansuri, Sepehr, Ab Teymour, Jufeyr and Susangerd (see map). Several of these fields in the ‘West Karun’ region bordering Iraq were among those that Iran sought to offer up to foreign investors in 2017 (MEES, 23 June 2017). Indeed the ‘new’ field appears to at least in pa...
Volume: 62Issue: 46Published at Fri, 15 Nov 2019 -
Iraq: Lukoil Not Happy
...lt in recent weeks. The West Qurna-2 expansion is not the only Lukoil project under threat. Lukoil also operates Block 10 (60%, 40% Japan’s Inpex) where it has been looking to develop its 2017 2.5bn barrel-plus Eridu discovery (MEES, 3 March 2017). The find was dubbed Iraq’s “largest in decades”: Ir...
Volume: 62Issue: 46Published at Fri, 15 Nov 2019 -
Adnoc Eyes Unconventional Route To Gas Independence
...ing in shale – though, to be fair, he lists the Middle East as a key “strength” (MEES, 17 November 2017). Total’s President of Exploration & Production Arnaud Breuillac told MEES during Adipec that “the wells that we are going to frack within the coming weeks could be tied back in less than a year fr...
Volume: 61Issue: 46Published at Fri, 16 Nov 2018 -
Egypt Gas: More Discoveries Needed To Meet Ambitious Output Target
...t for the beginning of 2019” at its North El Arish block. This is a rare piece of good news for Dana in Egypt. Output has slipped from 39,600 boe/d (mainly gas) in the first nine months of 2017 to 34,500 boe/d in the first nine months of 2018, at the firm’s onshore Nile Delta acreage. “This de...
Volume: 61Issue: 46Published at Fri, 16 Nov 2018 -
Israel: Noble Plots ‘Near-Term’ Leviathan Go-Ahead, But More Sales Needed
...US firm Noble Energy says that sanctioning of development of its 22 tcf 2010 Leviathan field offshore Israel is “on track for end 2016/early 2017.” The firm now says that it can sanction phase 1 of development based only on domestic sales, and a modest export deal to Jordan. But given th...
Volume: 59Issue: 46Published at Fri, 18 Nov 2016 -
East Med Bidding: Israel Launches Round, Cyprus Progress
...Israel’s highly anticipated bid round for 24 offshore blocks (MEES, 30 September) was finally launched on 15 November after almost five years of no new exploration rights being granted. The deadline for the submission of bids is 21 April 2017 while winners will be announced on 15 July. Po...
Volume: 59Issue: 46Published at Fri, 18 Nov 2016 -
Libya’s Rising Output: Now For The Hard Part
...Libyan output is at a two-year high. IOCs are skeptical on a further hike. NOC chief Mustafa Sanalla says production is running at 600,000 b/d and that NOC retains its plan to raise this to 900,000 b/d by the end of the year and 1.1mn b/d in 2017. The 600,000 b/d figure, in line with ot...
Volume: 59Issue: 46Published at Fri, 18 Nov 2016 -
Abu Dhabi Reaffirms Output Hike Pledge As Adco Stalemate Continues
...The UAE remains committed to increasing oil production to 3.5mn b/d by 2017. Delegates at last year’s Adipec conference eagerly anticipated an announcement on which companies would be awarded shares in the 40% of the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Petroleum Operations (Adco) concession av...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
Iran: It’s All About The Contracts For Total
...d of the current government’s term in August 2017, according to a 6 November report by state news agency Mehr. The Total CEO conjectured that without foreign assistance, Iran will likely be restricted to increasing production by “300, 400, 500,000 b/d;” even after this “it will take time.” On...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
IEA Rolls Up Sleeves In Run-Up To Climate Conference
...llion (ppm) by 2030 – a level deemed synonymous with limiting global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels. The IEA claims the transition to a low-carbon world is under way, citing the introduction of policies such as the US Clean Energy Act and China’s plans to start a carbon trading scheme in 2017...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
BP Still Hopeful Of Kirkuk Deal
...ploration and production, tells MEES that preparations are under way to start the third and final phase of development to take output towards the new, revised plateau of 400,000 b/d by 2017. Halfaya is operated by PetroChina with a 45% stake. Its partners are: Petronas (22.5%) and Total (22.5%) and Iraq’s So...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
UAE Says Oil Price Will Not Impact Expansion
...hieved by 2017 but slippages have pushed the date further into the future, though there is no doubt that Abu Dhabi will eventually make its promised contribution to global oil supplies. Still, uncertainty over the future makeup of the lapsed Abu Dhabi onshore concession (see p15), preparations to ne...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
UAE Keeps Oil Majors Guessing On Onshore Renewal
...volvement in building Abu Dhabi’s first nuclear power plant, due to become operational by 2017, it won the right to develop three oil fields in partnership with Adnoc. Like Japan, it also has a crude storage deal with Abu Dhabi. OXY: It’s Complicated For US mini-major Occidental (Oxy), the situation is...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014