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Saudi Solar Gains Momentum, But Hydrocarbons Still Dominate Project Pipeline
...nstruction contracts for the PP13 and PP14 plants near Riyadh in 2015, while SEC and state petroleum firm Aramco awarded the Fadhili cogeneration project in early 2017, to provide electricity and process heat for the Fadhili gas processing plant, which started up in late 2019. The two solar projects on...
Volume: 63Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2020 -
Algeria Inks E&P MoUs
...omising discoveries in Libya until it quit the war-torn country in 2017. The Turkish state firm is also currently causing headaches for Cyprus with its ‘exploration activities’ in the eastern Mediterranean (see p3). ...
Volume: 63Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2020 -
Egypt Halts LNG Exports As Eni & Shell Bear The Brunt Of Gas Surplus
.../B.” In normal terms, Egypt’s gas renaissance has been a great success story. From a sizable gas deficit for 2014-17, new output led by Eni’s giant Zohr, which came online in December 2017, has meant that since late 2018 the country has had a gas surplus (MEES, 17 May 2019), with exports hitting an ei...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Algeria: Southwest Pipeline Progress, But Field Development Lags
...uat gas project – the UK-firm announced last week that after ramp-up delays, Touat was producing “close to plateau rates” (MEES, 3 April). Repsol-operated Reggane Nord, at 2.9bcm/y, was the first element to start up in late 2017. Here partner Edison is in the process of quitting with talks for So...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Mena Drilling: GCC Records, North Africa Slump
...ans to raise capacity to 5mn b/d, though it hopes to be able to cut costs by squeezing contractors (see p3). Kuwait’s Q1 average rig count of 53 was, likewise, second only to the record 55 set in 2017. *Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, is in the midst of a multi-year campaign to bolster the co...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Saudi Arabia Extracts Huge Cut Commitment From Russia
...als stretching back to January 2017, Saudi Arabia was cutting by an order of magnitude greater than Russia. This was exacerbated by last December’s deal under which Russia managed to get its condensate excluded – and subsequently increased output – while Saudi Arabia promised to cut an additional 40...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Egypt Petchems Producers Target New Products, Increased Exports
...lyethylene (PE) plant (MEES, 7 February). The polybutadiene plant will cost $180mn and take two years to build. Ethydco produced 367,000 tons of ethylene in 2019, as well as 363,000 tons of polyethylene for local consumption and export. Ethydco’s exports during 2017-19 earned $929mn. NEW CH...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Iraq Asks IOCs To Slash Spending As Export Revenues Halve
...cord 4.63mn b/d last year, due largely to its immense low-cost reserves. With things back to “normal” following defeat of the Islamic State insurgency in 2017, Baghdad eyed a massive overhaul of its energy sector, including several new refineries, revamped export infrastructure, production capacity in...
Volume: 63Issue: 14Published at Fri, 03 Apr 2020 -
Firms In The KRG: How Low Can They Go?
...e return to regular, reliable payments in 2017, the slew of small firms focused on the region – including Norway’s DNO, London-listed firms Genel and Gulf Keystone; and Canada’s Oryx, Western Zagros and Shamaran – put together a strong run of form. Excluding the 2017 loss of 280,000 b/d Avana Dome an...
Volume: 63Issue: 14Published at Fri, 03 Apr 2020 -
Specter Of Overbrimming Stocks Threatens Vulnerable Producers
...cord levels. Absent huge production outages in excess of those arranged by Opec+ during January 2017-April 2020 these stockbuilds will take more than a year to unwind. This will exert severe downwards pressure on any price gains into at least 2021. ...
Volume: 63Issue: 14Published at Fri, 03 Apr 2020 -
Saudi Refinery Turnarounds Boost Crude Supply
...rch). Aramco’s 550,000 b/d Ras Tanura plant will be shut down for 5-6 weeks beginning 1 June as part of a $2.4bn clean fuels upgrade. which will enable production of Euro-5 specifications fuels from 2021 (MEES, 13 January 2017). The Satorp joint venture of Aramco and France’s Total shut down the re...
Volume: 63Issue: 14Published at Fri, 03 Apr 2020 -
Egypt Cuts Oil Import Bill As Refineries Up The Pace
...ices (MEES, 11 October 2019). Demand for diesel peaked at 297,000 b/d in 2016 and has since fallen for three consecutive years to 271,000 b/d in 2019. Demand for gasoline has eased slightly since peaking at 170,000 b/d in 2017. But with gas now accounting for almost all thermal power generation in Eg...
Volume: 63Issue: 14Published at Fri, 03 Apr 2020 -
Saudi Economy: Modest Diversification Efforts Face Bleak Outlook
...oject as it depends on the extent to which not just Saudi Arabia, but also themajor oil-consuming economies, are affected by Covid-19. However, it seems inevitable that it will be considerably sharper than 2017’s 0.7% contraction. The weak economic performance in 2017 was the key driver behind Ri...
Volume: 63Issue: 14Published at Fri, 03 Apr 2020 -
Algeria: Sonatrach Boss Falls Victim To Politics
...months over an alleged role in a corruption scandal involving the now-dissolved Brown & Root-Condor JV (KBR and Sonatrach) which he headed (MEES, 20 August 2007). He was brought back from the dead in 2017 and took over from Amine Mazouzi as CEO of Sonatrach (MEES, 21 April 2017), with Al...
Volume: 62Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2019 -
Abu Dhabi’s Taqa: Upstream Down Despite Price Recovery, Power Steady
...t losses from 2013 onwards forced the company to rethink its finances. In 2018 Taqa reported a net profit of AD398mn ($108mn), an increase of 145% from the $44mn reported in 2017. This return to profit came after a four-year period of net losses which cumulated in a 2015 deficit of AD19bn ($5....
Volume: 62Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2019 -
Aramco Buys Shell’s Sasref Stake In Push To Increase Downstream Control
...tiva JV, following which the Saudi firm assumed complete control of the 600,000 b/d Port Arthur refinery (MEES, 10 March 2017). The bond will help fund Aramco’s $69.1bn purchase of the 70% of state-led conglomerate Sabic currently held by sovereign wealth fund PIF (MEES, 5 April). Although Ar...
Volume: 62Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2019 -
Sudan Secures Gulf Aid
...though the US lifted some trade and economic sanctions on Sudan in October 2017, it remained on Washington’s list of sponsors of terrorism (MEES, 13 October 2017). Mr Burhan says a Sudanese delegation could travel to the US this month to discuss the removal of Sudan from this list, although while the mi...
Volume: 62Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2019 -
Syria To Lease Tartous Port To Russia
...Damascus is set to lease Tartous seaport on the Mediterranean to Russia for 49 years, Russia’s deputy prime minister said following a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russia’s TASS reported this week. The 49-year lease for “economic uses” follows a 2017 deal that saw Moscow ba...
Volume: 62Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2019 -
KRG: Shewashan Production Suspended
...oducing a mere 1,000 b/d last year before production was halted altogether. The main culprit was water-cut issues which also saw output phenomenally collapse at nearby Taq Taq (MEES, 31 March 2017). Despite the disappointing news, the KRG’s recovering oil sector has cause for considerably optimism: MEES fo...
Volume: 62Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2019 -
QP Enters Argentina
...forts to transform the company through international expansion. QP CEO Saad al-Kaabi said in 2017 that “we are seriously looking at entering Mexico, and we are looking at some of the South American countries” as well as keeping an eye on African opportunities. The firm is also eying US upstream as...
Volume: 62Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019