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Socar Completing First Appraisal Well In Umid Field
...-40mn tons of condensate.” The well will be completed this month and be followed by a second appraisal well in 2011. A Socar official told MEES that the company “could finish the exploratory phase by late 2012 - early 2013, even though the company has not yet decided on the timetable and cost of a po...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
IGB Pipeline Agreement Signed, Bulgaria Looks To IBR Link
...Traikov said that Bulgartransgaz, Bulgaria’s state owned transmission system operator (TSO), will invest another €11mn to complete the project by 2011. Its initial capacity is estimated at 1.5 bcm/y, which will be increased to 3 bcm/y and later 4.5 bcm/y to match the capacities of the IGB and In...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
CNPC To Boost Turkmen Gas Imports To Meet Winter Demand
...mpared to a contracted annual volume of 5.8 bcm/y. CNPC controls almost 90% of the country’s gas network and announced on 1 December that it plans to expand this network by 80% or 40,000km in the period 2011-15. It expects imports from Turkmenistan to reach 15 bcm/y by the end of 2011....
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Salehi Says Loading Of Nuclear Fuel At Bushehr Completed
...ant.” He said he hoped the plant would be connected to the national electricity grid by mid-February. The plant is expected to generate 400mw for the first three months of operation. If all goes to plan, output is expected to reach full generation capacity of 1gw by June 2011....
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Energy Minister Invites Inquiries From Onshore Seismic Surveyors
...formation with the ministry by 25 January 2011, according to a report by Lebanon’s official National News Agency. Lebanon is hoping to develop its energy sector as soon as possible. In August of this year the parliament passed a hydrocarbon law, but a number of measures have yet to be taken before im...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
BSF Says Saudi State Expenditure Increasing Breakeven Oil Price
...pected to continue over the next few years, though it will decline slightly as a result of still limited private sector activity, Banque Saudi Fransi (BSF) said in a new report. The bank anticipates expenditure of SR590bn ($157bn) in the budget for 2011 which, while a 9.3% increase from this year’s SR...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Petrobras And MMHC Finalize Coke Plant Deal
...nstruction will begin in the first quarter of 2011, with start-up earmarked for early 2013, local daily al-Riyadh quoted the holding group’s managing director ʹAbd al-Aziz al-Hamwa as saying. The required initial investment will be $450mn, to be funded in equal shares by the two parties with the possible in...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Sudan Anticipates Growth In Mining Sector
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIII No 49 6-Dec-2010 Sudan Sudan Anticipates Growth In Mining Sector Sudan expects minerals to contribute $3bn to the country’s GDP in 2011, with its go...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Syria To Launch New Offshore Bidding Round In Early 2011
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIII No 49 6-Dec-2010 syria Syria To Launch New Offshore Bidding Round In Early 2011 Syrian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Sufian 'Alaw sa...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
ADX Farms Out Further 10% Of Chorbane Permit
...nuary 2011. The multi-reservoir Sidi Daher prospect is located close to the port of Sfax, near a number of producing oil fields, and is the largest structure to have been mapped on Chorbane. ADX estimates that the prospect has recoverable oil potential of 44mn barrels of oil in the Abiod formation, wh...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Koç Holding And AES Plan Joint Venture For $4-5Bn Energy Investment
...6.5mn. Upon closure of the deal, which is expected to take place in the second quarter of 2011, the shareholders of the AES-Entek Elektrik Uretim AS joint venture will be AES (49.62%) and the Koç Group (49.62%) and certain minority shareholders (0.76%). The new joint venture is expected to invest $4-...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Dubai Receives First Qatar LNG Shipment
...r a period of 15 years, with the aim being to help the emirate cope with peak summer demand for electricity. Shell, the largest investor in Qatar, is a 30% shareholder in the 7.8mn t/y Qatargas 4 project, which is set to begin producing LNG in February 2011. The UAE already receives Qatari gas vi...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Union Railway Awards Consultancy And Preliminary Engineering Contracts
...cluding testing and commissioning. “In early 2011, we will tender for construction contracts for phase zero to build the railway line,” Union Railway CEO Richard Bowker said. The joint venture will also supervise preliminary engineering work and contract formation for parts of the next two stages. Ph...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Debt Crisis Threatens To Undermine Dubai’s Independence
...bn in 2011, MEES understands. Also, Dubai typically runs a big current account deficit, which at the first six months of this year was around Dh8bn ($2.1bn). The information released in October this year with a Dubai sukuk offering suggested that the cash based nature of Dubai’s public finances re...
Volume: 52Issue: 49Published at Mon, 07 Dec 2009 -
OPEC Output Hits Post-Oran High Amid Tepid Demand, Buoyant Prices
...stem and revenue streams. Towards the end of next year, new production from Iraq will start to come on stream. Significant increments are also due from Angola and Nigeria in 2011. OPEC will need to start working in 2010 on these issues and Luanda might prove the place to start. Should prices slip sh...
Volume: 52Issue: 49Published at Mon, 07 Dec 2009 -
OMV Chief Says Nabucco Timetable “Very Ambitious”
...cision by late 2010 and a start to construction work in 2011 to allow gas deliveries via Turkey by 2014, “is very ambitions and to some extent out of our control.” OMV is leading the Nabucco project, but Mr Ruttenstorfer appeared keen to tone down recent optimism about the availability of gas from Az...
Volume: 52Issue: 49Published at Mon, 07 Dec 2009 -
Hijacked Greek Crude Tanker Arrives Off Somali Coast
...e Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) and NATO comprising 30 ships as well as a fleet of maritime patrol aircraft based in Djibouti. In November, 'Umar 'Abd al-Rashid, Prime Minister of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) announced a new plan to eradicate piracy by 2011 (MEES, 9 No...
Volume: 52Issue: 49Published at Mon, 07 Dec 2009 -
ENOC Affirms Commitment To Dragon Oil Shares Purchase Despite Dubai Debt Crisis
...ard of ENOC has undertaken to the independent committee that it will not sell, or accept any offer (including any partial offer) for, the shares ENOC holds in Dragon Oil until at least 31 December 2011.” The statement again expressed ENOC’s position that the offer of acquisition “represents a hi...
Volume: 52Issue: 49Published at Mon, 07 Dec 2009 -
Signals Of A New Floor And Ceiling For Crude Oil Prices
...I And Brent Prices ($/B) WTI Brent 2011 2010 2009 Q409 Q309 2011 2010 2009 Q409 Q3...
Volume: 52Issue: 49Published at Mon, 07 Dec 2009 -
Iran’s Refining Expansion On Track To Meet Gasoline Deficit, Says FACTS
...adan. These three projects alone will produce enough gasoline to eliminate all imports in the short term. The Abadan upgrade will be completed in 2010, Arak in 2011-12 and Isfahan in 2012-13.” There will be crude distillation unit expansions at the Lavan, Arak, Tabriz and Isfahan refineries, which wi...
Volume: 51Issue: 49Published at Mon, 08 Dec 2008