1. Total Aims To Become Mena’s Dominant IOC

    ...ying the groundwork for production gains in 2017. Total is increasingly focusing on this region: unlike its peers, which are increasingly focusing any spare cash on the US in general and Texas’ Permian basin in particular (MEES, 4 November). With global upstream investment having declined for two st...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 47
    Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2016
  2. Eni Touts Zohr As East Med Hub

    ...OM THE ORIGINALLY-IMPLIED 22.5 TCF. ^OFFICIAL START-UP END 2017. SOURCE: MEES, BASED ON ENI STATEMENTS & PRESENTATIONS.   DRILLING EXPEDITED IN SEARCH FOR MORE ZOHR Eni is set to drill Block 9 in late 2017, Mr Barberis says. Eni drilled two previous wells here in early 2015. These fl...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 47
    Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2016
  3. Qatargas Ramps Up Output At Ras Laffan 2 Splitter

    ...mpletion in Q3 2016. While a recent Ministry of Development Planning report said start-up had been pushed back from Q4 2016 to 2017 (MEES, 24 June), the latest information suggests a Q4 2016 start-up is still possible. Ras Laffan 2 will process untreated condensate from the giant offshore North Field. Th...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 47
    Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2016
  4. Morocco Awards Three PV Projects, As Mena Gets Serious About Solar

    ...ll as 80MW at Laayoune and 20MW at Boujdour in the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. Construction will begin in Q1 2017 and take 12 months. Acwa says the Noor PV1 electricity price is US¢4.8/kWh. This lowest bid is significantly higher than the ¢2.99/kWh for the 800MW third phase of the 5GW solar pa...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 47
    Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2016
  5. ‘Iran Is A Risk…The US Is A Risk’ Total’s Pouyanné Speaks To MEES

    ...oduction, 9% last year, more than 4% this year, more than 4% next year. We have a huge portfolio of projects. The strategy for me is that in a commodity business with volatility you need to invest when the price is low because the costs are lower too. But you need cash to do that. From 2017 we will again sa...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 47
    Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2016
  6. Saudi Delayed Payments Risk Slowing Economy Further

    ...nth confirmed that the Petro Rabigh 2 expansion had been pushed back to the second half of 2017 due to delays in the schedule and scope changes in the work program (MEES, 7 October). A contractual dispute with South Korea's SK Engineering & Construction led to the 400,000 b/d Jazan refinery being pu...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 47
    Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2016