1. Oman Gas Sector Set For Leap Forward In 2024

    ...Oman’s gas renaissance continues apace, with both Shell and TotalEnergies set to advance key projects in 2024. The key near-term limiting factor is not upstream potential but outlets for new production, Shell’s country chief tells MEES. Until 2017 the outlook for Oman’s gas sector was wo...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 51/52
    Published at Fri, 22 Dec 2023
  2. Angola Quits Opec Over Quota Reform Process

    ...ll. Angola signed up to a 1.673mn b/d Opec+ allocation from January 2017, but even when production restrictions eased, it was unable to bring output back to anything approaching pre-2017 levels (see chart). Luanda will be hoping that free from the prospect of Opec+ production limitations, the country wi...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 51/52
    Published at Fri, 22 Dec 2023
  3. Kuwait’s New Emir Criticizes Political Divisions

    ...tober 2022 did KPC finally began operations at its long-awaited 120,000 b/d GC-32 project which was due online in 2020 after a $1.3bn 2017 award to the UK’s Petrofac (MEES, 31 March 2017).  …WITH DELAYED PROJECT AWARDS                                   The minister’s claims are backed up by a 30 Oc...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 51/52
    Published at Fri, 22 Dec 2023
  4. Harbour Expands With Wintershall Takeover

    ...ich in turn was formed in a 2017 merger (MEES, 1 December 2017). That deal left Wintershall Dea with substantial Russian assets, which, in a further complicating factor will be excluded from the Harbour transaction. As will one of Wintershall Dea’s key Mena assets, the ‘Wintershall’ fields in Li...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 51/52
    Published at Fri, 22 Dec 2023