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Bahrain: Ambitious Gas Plans Boosted By LNG Import Go-Ahead
...A operates Bahrain’s largest power plant, the 1.54GW Al Dur plant, and plans to add a further 1.5GW in 2017 (MEES, 11 December 2015). MEES calculates that this will require an additional 170mn cfd of gas. But the biggest planned increase in gas demand in the next few years is set to come from wh...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
Bapco: Bids In For Refinery Expansion
...e EPC contract in the first half of 2017 with a view to having the expanded plant fully operational by the end of 2020. The refinery expansion will take place at the same time as construction of a new 350,000 b/d pipeline – which will replace an aging 230,000 b/d pipeline – to bring some of the pl...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
Kuwait: New Oil Minister Eyes Neutral Zone Restart
...cember). Many campaigned against the government’s recent fuel subsidy cuts and other measures designed to curb Kuwait’s budget deficit, set to reach KD9.7bn ($31.8bn) in the financial year to March 2017 (MEES, 11 November). Despite the gasoline price hikes (see table) Kuwaiti fuel is still the second ch...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
Eni Bags $2.1bn From Zohr Sell-Off
...hr. Both firms have the option to buy a further 5% by the end of 2017 when Zohr is slated to come onstream. Though the option is “on the same terms” the deal is structured in such a way that the price paid will be higher. Rosneft’s $1.575bn payment and BP’s $525mn include pro-rata “reimbursement of pa...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
Eni Forces Sonatrach Gas Sales Concessions
...eakeven on our Gas and Power business, as we promised in 2017,” he adds. The renegotiated agreement covers almost 20% of the gas imported into Italy and is another step in Eni’s adjustment of its long-term gas supply contracts and optimizing costs in its gas and power unit, the company says. The deal fo...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
Coal: Dubai Starts Work On 2.4GW Plant, Part Of 21GW Mena Expansion
...rada Morocco Sepco III 0.32 1.45 Under construction, start-up 2017 Safi Mo...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
Non-Opec Production Agreement Raises As Many Questions As Answers
...The 10 December finalization of an agreement between key non-Opec producers and Opec to cut production by almost 1.8mn b/d is set to hasten the market’s rebalancing, the IEA and Opec both agree. Both have also revised upwards their forecasts for global demand in 2017 in their monthly oil ma...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Majors In The KRG
...nada’s Western Zagros as operator of the Garmian block in southwestern Kurdistan in May. Both partners have 40%. • Production comes from the Sarqala field, which is producing around 5,500 b/d of light oil from one well. Spudding of a second well has been pushed back from H1 2017 to Q3 2017, bu...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
Iraq Budgets For Higher Revenue In 2017 As Oil Prices Rise
...Iraq is on track to record a massive $21.5bn deficit in 2016, a modest improvement on last year’s $26bn. The recently-passed 2017 budget projects a deficit of ‘only’ $18.4bn, though a conservative oil price assumption means it may undershoot. Iraq is banking on higher oil revenues in 2017 to...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
Oman Eyes Debt Market
...Oman is planning to issue $1.5-2bn of international bonds in 2017 to plug its budget deficit, senior central bank official Ali Hamdan al-Raisi says. Finance ministry official Muhammad Jawad bin Sleiman adds that Oman has yet to decide whether it will be a normal bond or loan, or sukuk. Om...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
Gulf Finance: Rise Of The Renminbi
...nks for the 30-year tranche of Saudi’s $17.5bn bond issued in October – Asian investors bought 22% of the $6.5bn Saudi 30-year notes. Saudi is expected to tap the international bond markets again in 2017 as it seeks to reduce its budget deficit. Asian banks, including Chinese, have considerable ex...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016