1. Kuwait Oil: Change At the Top As 2020 Target Dropped

    ...rgan was pumping at 1.7mn b/d. BP was brought in to help maintain production capacity at 1.7mn b/d with a technical service agreement (TSA) in 2014, which was subsequently upgraded to an enhanced technical service agreement (ETSA) in 2016 (MEES, 15 July 2016). Kuwait saw ETSAs as the best model fo...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2018
  2. Market Fundamentals Point To Choppy Outlook For Opec

    ...16’s 10.36mn b/d. In other words, since prices crashed in late 2014 amid the US Shale Revolution, the kingdom has actually been producing at record levels. LIGHT, TIGHT GLUT?                The other key planned cuts will come from UAE, Kuwait and Iraq, and all four of these, like neighboring Ir...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2018
  3. Libya’s NOC Forced To Shut In Key El Sharara Field

    ...utdown output level of 73,000 b/d was the highest since 2014 (see chart). NOC head Mustafa Sanalla at last week’s Opec meeting, eager to avoid being subject to output limits as part of the then under-discussion output deal, complained “we have internal cuts inside the country. Unfortunately, we have so...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2018
  4. Qatar: New 2.5GW Plant Powers Economic Growth

    ...erage electricity demand growth of around 10% a year during 2014-16, according to Kahramaa data. With thousands of visitors set to descend on Qatar for the 2022 World Cup, this could mean new peak demand records. With that in mind, Qatar still has major power projects due online in the near te...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2018