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Israel: Lots Of Gas But Where’s The Market?
...nceptual development plan released in March says it has completed the engineering feasibility study and is targeting FID by the end of 2017. “Base case is a gas FPSO with gas pipeline to shore and offshore liquids offloading. Energean’s intent is to execute the project via an established deepwater co...
Volume: 60Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2017 -
Gas Ousting Coal
...%. ISRAEL ELECTRIC CO^ FUEL MIX (%) 2017 FORECAST PRESUMES 20% PLANNED RISE IN GAS USE IS HIT WHILST OIL BURNING IS ENDED. ^IEC ACCOUNTS FOR 72% OF ISRAELI GENERATION CAPACITY. SMALLER GENERATORS ARE SOMEWHAT MORE RELIANT ON COAL. SOURCE: IEC, MEES CALCULATIONS....
Volume: 60Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2017 -
Oman LNG Records Rare Output Rise, But Revenue Falls Regardless
...cent levels. Any continued recovery, and there has been in the first two months of 2017, is likely to be relatively modest. Slow demand growth and the onset of fresh supplies from competitors such as Australia will extend the current supply glut for the next few years. EXPORT DESTINATIONS IN...
Volume: 60Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2017 -
Oman, Kuwait Sign Multi-Billion Refinery Deal
...ll be awarded in the next two months and that the foundation stone for the project will be laid at the end of 2017. UK’s Amec Foster Wheeler completed front end engineering design for Duqm refinery recently, while DRPIC has completed prequalification and invited bids for the EPC work. Mr Zedjali sa...
Volume: 60Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2017 -
Record US Oil Trade Belies Protectionist Rhetoric
....30mn b/d were only just below the four-year high of 10.34mn b/d set in Q3 last year. All this means that gross US oil trade – imports plus exports – hit a massive record of 16.24mn b/d. The equivalent a full 17% of the world’s oil output in the first three months of 2017 was either imported to or exported fr...
Volume: 60Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2017 -
BP Poised For Strong Year In Mena
...BP had a mixed 2016 in Mena with liquids output edging up while high natural decline rates at its Egyptian gas assets saw overall gas output fall. But with key startups set for the second half of the year and BP’s return to Abu Dhabi’s onshore, 2017 is set to be a major year. Recent years ha...
Volume: 60Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2017 -
Shifting Sands: Saudi Arabia’s PIF’s Changing Strategy
...o months of 2017. As the world’s biggest energy user, China is growing more reliant on crude imports. Economic growth has spurred higher demand, and falling domestic production has exacerbated the need for imports. The IEA projects demand to grow 340,000 b/d in 2017, in line with last year’s gr...
Volume: 60Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2017 -
Qatar Restarts Gas Expansion Plans As Iranian Output Of Shared Field Soars
...rrently planned to begin operations this year. ExxonMobil has a 7% stake and its 2016 Operational Review lists Barzan with its planned 2017-18 startups. Along with the 1.4bn cfd of natural gas, Barzan is also expected to provide Qatar with 22,000 b/d of field condensate, 6,000 b/d of plant condensate, 20...
Volume: 60Issue: 14Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2017 -
Egypt Tenders Wind Project As Three Megaprojects Begin Supplying Grid
...NSTRUCTION Project (contractor, online): GW Fuel Beni Suef (Elsewedy, 2017-20) 4.80 Gas Bu...
Volume: 60Issue: 14Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2017 -
Temporary Outages Help Opec Inch Closer To Target
...TPUT STILL 190,000 B/D ABOVE TARGET* (MN B/D) *TARGET OF 31.78MN B/D BASED ON DECEMBER AGREEMENT OF 32.5MN B/D MINUS INDONESIA, WHICH HAS SUSPENDED ITS MEMBERSHIP. SOURCE: MEES. OPEC WELLHEAD PRODUCTION, MARCH 2017 (MN B/D, MEES ESTIMATES) *INCLUDES SHARE OF NEUTRAL ZO...
Volume: 60Issue: 14Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2017 -
Return Of Iranian Crude Makes Big Splash In Europe
...bstantially higher figure this year, although 2011’s volume looks set to elude it. 2017 has got off to a relatively strong start according to initial results. Spain was the third largest EU buyer of Iranian crude last year with 49,900 b/d (see chart 2) and in January it lifted more than twice this at 91...
Volume: 60Issue: 14Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2017 -
Egypt Receivables: A Glass Half Full Or Half Empty?
...ll of $396mn (47%) from the end-2015 figure of €771mn ($837mn), with the total down almost $500mn over two years (see table). “The residual amount outstanding at the reporting date has been further reduced by a payment dated January 2017 amounting to $240mn (€228mn).” BP, is more coy; its latest an...
Volume: 60Issue: 14Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2017 -
BP Egypt Output: Only Good News?
...nual report released 6 April, also flags up the Nooros field on the Abu Madi West block split with Eni (75%, BP 25%) in the shallow offshore Nile Delta as a key 2016 success. Output here hit plateau levels of 875mn cfd gas and 7,000 b/d condensate in January 2017, less than 18 months after discovery, BP...
Volume: 60Issue: 14Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2017 -
Egypt Foreign Reserves Hit Six-Year High But Still Long Way To Go
...e country. The governor also says that the improved financial situation has helped the balance of payments as non-oil exports rose and remittances from Egyptians overseas increased. DRAFT BUDGET APPROVED Egypt’s cabinet on 29 March approved a draft budget for the 2017-18 financial year, wh...
Volume: 60Issue: 14Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2017 -
Kuwait Plans To Double Debt Ceiling To $66bn
...s debut Eurobond offering which was three times over-subscribed. Despite the appetite for Kuwaiti debt, the offering was less than the $10bn expected (MEES, 17 March). Mr Salih said the amount raised covered the majority of Kuwait’s financing needs from international markets for 2017. Even under the cu...
Volume: 60Issue: 14Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2017 -
Aramco Sees Petchems SMEs As Key To Vision 2030 Transformation
...opylene rubber 75; ethylene vinyl acetate 70; polyethylene terephthalate 420 Sabic/Celanese Jubail 2017 Polyacetal 50 Sabic/Mitsubishi Ju...
Volume: 59Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2016 -
Upstream Investment Slump Presages Output Crunch, Oil Chiefs Warn
...ffontaines. RECOVERY IMMINENT According to the IEA, supply and demand in the oil market will rebalance by 2017. “In 2016 we should see a surplus of about 1mn b/d following a 2mn b/d surplus in 2015; in 2017 there will be a balancing, with demand higher than supply going forward over the rest of the next 5 ye...
Volume: 59Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2016 -
Prince Muhammad’s Vision 2030: Far Sighted Or Over-Ambitious?
...l giant Saudi Aramco, scheduled for 2017. He expects this to value the company at $2-3 trillion. The IPO will be floated on the Saudi stock market, but there are ideas of offering the Aramco shares outside Saudi Arabia, potentially via a New York-based fund. Thus Aramco will be transformed from an...
Volume: 59Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2016 -
Majors Downgraded, Gulf Sovereigns To Follow?
...sing oil prices. Brent has averaged $45/B since mid-April, some $12/B higher than the agency’s $33/B 2016 oil price assumption (it was February’s decision to downgrade its oil price assumptions that triggered Moody’s ratings review for oil-linked companies and sovereigns; its 2017 oil prices assumption wa...
Volume: 59Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2016 -
Total, Eni, Shell Downgraded; BP Escapes
...st production scheduled to come onstream in 2016-18, as well as rising prices, will lead to improvements in the company’s pressurized cash flow-based metrics in 2017 and beyond.” Key among these new “shorter-cycle higher return projects” is Egypt’s Zohr, which is slated to produce from late 2017, ra...
Volume: 59Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2016