1. 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: 57
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014
  2. 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: 57
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014
  3. 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: 57
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014
  4. MENA Coal-Fired Power Gathers Steam As Egypt Plans Major Project

    ...chnology. RAK’s existing capacity is gas or diesel-fired (MEES, 8 November 2013). Next online will be a 318MW plant at Jerada in Morocco, due to be commissioned in fourth quarter 2017 by China’s Sepco III. This is one of two coal fired projects in Morocco – France’s GDF Suez is building a 1.39GW plant at...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014