1. 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: 58
    Issue: 48
    Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015
  2. 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: 58
    Issue: 48
    Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015
  3. 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: 58
    Issue: 48
    Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015
  4. 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: 58
    Issue: 48
    Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015
  5. Oman Invites Bids For Building Duqm Refinery, Awards Liwa Cracker

    ...r a PET technology license. Ompet had planned to achieve financial close for its PTA/PET plant by mid-year, with a view to project start-up in 2017. However, the financial arrangements have yet to be concluded, which suggests that the PTA/PET plant start-up target is likely to be pushed into 20...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 48
    Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015
  6. Egypt Joins MENA Nuclear Club Through 4.8gw Deal With Russia

    ...pco E&C has started construction of the containment building for the last of its four 1.4GW reactors at Barakah. State nuclear firm ENEC says it is on schedule to start up one plant per year during 2017-20 (MEES, 25 September). Iran signed a deal with Rosatom to press ahead with two further 1GW re...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 48
    Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015
  7. BG Deal Brings Cyprus, Israel Gas A Step Closer To Egypt

    ...rket, rather than re-export as LNG, is concerned). This is especially the case given that, according to any conceivable timeframe, Zohr, slated for fast-track development with first gas in 2017, will come online years before Leviathan or Aphrodite (MEES, 23 October). Eni and Spanish firm Union Fe...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 48
    Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015