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Egypt Nuclear Plans Near Go-Ahead, Saudi Looks To Standardize Plant Design
...shehr-2 2024 1.0 1 5.5 Rosatom building. Work started Mar 2017 Pl...
Volume: 60Issue: 48Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2017 -
Opec/Russia ‘Historic’ Strategic Alignment: Can It Hold?
...rward, Mr Falih says that Nigeria and Libya have pledged that 2018 production will not exceed this year’s levels. They will not “surprise on the upside” he says. Given the volatility of their output, this presumably means their maximum output in 2017 – some 1mn b/d for Libya and 1.84mn b/d for Nigeria – ra...
Volume: 60Issue: 48Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2017 -
Libya’s Waha Ramps Up Output To 260,000 b/d But Challenges Lie Ahead
...s 159,000 b/d in 2013, down from 270,000 b/d in 2009 and 282,000 b/d in 2010. 1: LIBYA WAHA CONSORTIUM CRUDE OUTPUT (‘000 B/D) *21 NOV. SOURCE: CONOCO, MARATHON, HESS, MEES CALCULATIONS. 2: LIBYA’S NOC FALLING SHORT OF LATE 2017 1.25MN B/D TARGET ('000 B/D) ^MABRUK OU...
Volume: 60Issue: 48Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2017 -
North Africa Focus For German $15bn Upstream Tie-Up
...tterOne, which is headed by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman. At the time Wintershall was also interested in acquiring DEA. DEA & WINTERSHALL: KEY MENA ASSETS *WINTERSHALL LIBYA OFFICIALLY HAS 100%, BUT GAZPROM HAS 49% OF WINTERSHALL LIBYA. 80,000 B/D IS CAPACITY FIGURE. 2017 OUTPUT HAS AV...
Volume: 60Issue: 48Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2017 -
Jordan Budgets For Lower Deficit, Cost Rationalization In 2018
...venues. Unveiling the draft budget to parliament on 25 November, Finance Minister Umar Malhas, said that the deficit (after foreign grants) is projected to fall to JD543mn ($766mn at JD1=$1.41), or 1.8% of GDP in 2018 from the revised JD752mn, or 2.6% of GDP in 2017. Budget expenditure in 2018 will ri...
Volume: 60Issue: 48Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2017 -
Iraq’s Unattractive Contracts Claim Fresh Victim As Shell Eyes The Exit
...ost. Current futures prices indicate that annual oil export revenue for 2017 is on track to surpass 2015 figures and rise above $60bn (see table p10). Of course these price and revenue gains are all contingent on the Opec deal holding - and working - and the next test of this is a planned 9 December me...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Basra Seeks Petrodollars
...vember, Basra Provincial Chairman Sabah al-Bazuni declared that the province had sued the Finance Ministry over the petrodollar payments, claiming that Baghdad owed it ID16trn ($13.5bn) over the past three years – this is more than 15% of the 2017 budget’s full projected spend of $80bn. The fight was al...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Leviathan Partners Line Up Funding But Still Short On Sales
...rm is negotiating a loan of around $400mn to help cover the rest of its share of development costs. The firms envisage taking a positive final investment decision on Leviathan by “end 2016/early 2017,” Noble says. “Six years of challenges [at Leviathan] are finally behind us… the dream is finally mo...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Traders Clean Up In Egypt LNG Import Tender
...is is almost 25% higher than the latest spot purchase price – $6.10/mn BTU for November – paid by leading global buyer Japan (MEES, 11 November). MEES understands that Q1 2017 cargoes have been awarded at a slope of 14-15% to Brent and 12% over the remaining cargoes. FSRU DELAY Oil Mi...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Aramco Sets Out Petchems Targets As Sadara Plant Inaugurated
...fore a permanent repair could be undertaken (MEES, 7 October). Rabigh 2 was originally scheduled to start up its first units in 2016, but the venture recently announced that construction is now not expected to be completed until the second quarter of 2017. Delays and scope changes have also raised the pr...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Oil-Poor Arab States Get Multilateral Finance Boost For Renewables
...pe that will continue to grow,” EBRD power chief Nandita Parshard says. The first project under the SPREF program will be the 120MW Khalladi wind farm near Tangier, Morocco. Khalladi is being developed by Saudi private energy developer Acwa Power for start-up in late 2017. Morocco currently has 79...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Opec Agrees To Cut, But Questions Remain Over Implementation
...tential 1.8mn b/d cut – with the ‘non-Opec’ portion slated to be finalized at a 9 December meeting – is due to come into force on 1 January 2017, but is far from a done deal, and implementation will likely be problematic. The meeting is tentatively slated for Doha, but this has yet to be finalized. Th...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Schlumberger Joins List Of Firms Knocking On Iran’s Door
...ll comply with laws governing operations in Iran, there is a significant risk – although this is a factor that oil firms are used to dealing with – that President Elect Donald Trump will change US law on sanctions when he enters the White House in January 2017. Mr Trump has publicly condemned the li...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Saudi Cash Injection: Better Late Than Never
...pect banks’ operating environment to remain challenged by low non-oil GDP growth of 0.8% this year and 2.0% in 2017, versus the 2010-15 average of 6.2%, these developments should provide a boost to the system liquidity. This, in turn, will support banks’ funding and profitability in 2017,” Moody’s sa...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Algeria Raises More Taxes In 2017 Austerity Budget
...Algeria is raising more taxes and cutting spending in its 2017 austerity budget which was approved on 22 November by parliament, in a bid to offset the fall in oil revenue from lower oil prices. The budget still needs the green light from the Algerian Senate. Only some details about the in...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Tunisia Bags $10bn Aid
...is shortfall. The 2017 budget deficit is projected to fall to TD5.4bn ($2.3bn) according to the budget law. Tunisia plans to tap the international debt market with a €1bn Eurobond in January to cover the budget deficit, according to a government source. In August it raised a $500mn five-year Eu...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
KNPC To Close Shuaiba In 2017
...KNPC To Close Shuaiba In 2017 Kuwait’s state refiner KNPC will shut down its ageing 200,000 b/d Shuaiba refinery permanently by April 2017, more than two years earlier than planned the company said this week. This follows a series of unplanned closures, most recently due to a fire in a he...
Volume: 58Issue: 48Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015 -
Egypt Looks Beyond Current Storms To Gas-Fueled Upland
...cent corporate presentation, adding that Shell’s previous drilling had targeted offshore Egypt’s “classical Tertiary clastic play.” Eni’s confidence in its new model was such that it drilled the Shorouk block’s Zohr prospect despite there being no contractual obligation to do so before a second, 2017...
Volume: 58Issue: 48Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015 -
Edison Hopes For More Zohr
...cense in the latest bidround (MEES, 9 October). It also has the Israeli Neta and Royee licenses immediately to the east of its Egyptian offshore acreage. “We plan on drilling North Thekah more towards the beginning of 2017. We would consider drilling Port Fouad in 2017 – potentially back to back to No...
Volume: 58Issue: 48Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015 -
A New Vision: Kurdistan, A Major Gas Province?
...itial 4 bcm/year of natural gas to Turkey from 2017, rising to 10 bcm/year by 2020 and with the option of increasing to 20 bcm/year thereafter (MEES, 11 April 2014). However, Mr Hawrami acknowledged that the KRG’s financial strains mean that the timeline would likely “slip by six to twelve months, to 2019 pe...
Volume: 58Issue: 48Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015