1. South Tunisia Gas Development Pushed Back

    ...the block was dry. Gulfsands says it plans to drill a further well in 2014. On Kerkouane a commitment well is slated to be drilled “prior to February 2014,” Gulfsands says.   ADX is in the process of further reducing its remaining 30% Chorbane stake signing a 28 November letter of intent to...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 49
    Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012
  2. Saudi Crude Burning For Power Continues To Rise

    ...l from the Yanbu’ refinery in 2014. But its main source of fuel will continue to be gas. Saudi Aramco’s total wellhead output averaged 9.88bn cfd in 2011. The year-end peak of 11.2bn cfd roughly equates to 7.84bn cfd of sales gas assuming a 30% loss in processing – although not all went to power ge...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 49
    Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012
  3. Baghdad Sets Road Show Date

    ...velopment project. Lukoil is hoping to start ramping up a 200,000 b/d Phase 1 of the 1.8mn b/d project at the end of 2013. Field capacity could eventually rise to hit 400,000 b/d by 2014. But sometime that year, this project, and others, are likely to “hit a wall,” sources say, unless significant efforts ar...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 49
    Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012
  4. Aramco Awards Contracts To Maintain Production Capacity

    ...fshore oil field – has been producing since the early 1950s and has reserves of 35bn barrels. The work will be finished by end 2014 and includes a tie-in platform and auxiliary platforms. Engineering firms bidding for the work include Houston-based McDermott and Italy’s Saipem under their existing Long Te...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 49
    Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012
  5. Bapco Nears Sitra Decision Time

    ...e equivalent of 400-800mn cfd for 15 years starting in 2014. “We need the gas. Without this gas…all our other plans, all the refinery plans and modernizations mean nothing,” one Bahraini oil executive tells MEES....

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 49
    Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012
  6. TAQA Secures $1.1Bn Deal For BP UK Assets

    ...a. The deal comes amid general recovery in relations between Abu Dhabi and BP as the major seeks to renew its stakes in historic upstream concessions, which expire in January 2014 (MEES, 16 November).   “We think this acquisition is a great strategic fit for TAQA,” the company’s head Carl Sh...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 49
    Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012