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Libya ‘Open For Business’ As Bid Round Eyes Global Majors
...pecting to award the new contracts during the last week of November. In terms of eligibility, many small and medium companies – including several that were operating in Libya prior to the 2011 civil war – were left disappointed after realizing during the presentation that they do not meet the minimum op...
Volume: 68Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2025 -
Egypt Gulf Of Suez Renaissance: Can It Be Sustained?
...l was first discovered over 100 years ago. The region remained Egypt’s top oil producing province until 2011 when it was overtaken by the Western Desert. The region’s top producer is Dragon Oil, a subsidiary of Dubai’s state oil firm Enoc, with production reaching 66,000 b/d in February. Dr...
Volume: 67Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2024 -
Cyprus’ Aphrodite: Operator Chevron Mulls Cut-Price Tie-Back To Egypt Subsea
...r the 2011 discovery which lies 160km offshore on the Cyprus/Israel maritime border in 1750ms water depth. A development plan approved by Nicosia in November 2019 as part of a renegotiated PSC (MEES, 8 November 2019), envisaged five production wells and output of 800mn cfd, with tie-back di...
Volume: 66Issue: 14Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2023 -
ExxonMobil Quits Iraqi Kurdistan
...The US supermajor’s bold 2011 Iraqi Kurdistan entry sent shockwaves through Iraq. A decade later ExxonMobil has quietly packed its bags and quit its last remaining asset, Pirmam, without producing a drop from any of the six blocks it picked up. Any prospective replacement may eye a gas-re...
Volume: 65Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2022 -
Cyprus Set To Launch Reduced Drilling Campaign
...Eni and TotalEnergies are set to kick-off a two-well Cyprus exploration drilling campaign next month, two years after abandoning a six-well program. Chevron appears to have shelved an appraisal well on its 2011 Aphrodite find. Italy’s Eni and TotalEnergies, partners on seven blocks of...
Volume: 65Issue: 16Published at Fri, 22 Apr 2022 -
North Africa Gas Exports To Europe Fall Amid Russian Uncertainty
...bitious, particularly given the fall in exports from North Africa in the first quarter of the year. LIBYA FLOWS LOWEST SINCE 2011 Libya, which is another key supplier of gas to Italy through the 8bcm/y (775mn cfd) GreenStream pipeline, saw its exports hit a decade-low 3.2bcm (313mn cfd) last ye...
Volume: 65Issue: 14Published at Fri, 08 Apr 2022 -
Total Eyes 1mn b/d Of Gross Libya Output
...test to fly in on 21 April. Frequently hit by forced production shutdowns – whether due to civil unrest, budgetary issues or worker grievances – Libya has been a source of major disappointment to IOCs since the fall of long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. But even though Total’s net output ne...
Volume: 64Issue: 17Published at Fri, 30 Apr 2021 -
ExxonMobil Set To Exit Federal Iraq
...ant fields to reach full production capacity targets. Talks ultimately went nowhere. Iraq now aims to award a downsized 2.5mn b/d first phase to France’s Total (MEES, 2 April). The biggest controversy however was Exxon’s decision to sign up for six blocks in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2011, including as...
Volume: 64Issue: 16Published at Fri, 23 Apr 2021 -
Iraq Awards Mansuriya Gas Field To Sinopec
...arded have yet been finalized (MEES, 27 April 2018). Mansuriya development was originally awarded in 2011 to a consortium led by Turkey’s TPAO (22.5%op) alongside Korea’s Kogas (15%), and Kuwait Energy (since taken over by Hong Kong-listed UEG, 22.5%) and state-owned Oil Exploration Company (OEC 25...
Volume: 64Issue: 16Published at Fri, 23 Apr 2021 -
Egypt Gas Output Tops 7bn cfd As Oil Plummets To New Lows
...ch the Mediterranean share of overall output leapt to 73.2% for February, just fractionally below the all time high set in December 2011 (see chart 1). And even in the Mediterranean all is not plain sailing with BP’s West Nile Delta (WND) project having seen output collapse to just 250mn cfd (MEES, 26...
Volume: 64Issue: 14Published at Fri, 09 Apr 2021 -
Iraq & Total Reach Initial Deal On $7bn Of Projects
...entually scandal as Exxon entered the KRG in 2011 (MEES, 21 November 2011). The next nine years saw it packaged under a $53bn Southern Integrated Infrastructure Project (SIIP) that was almost finalized with ExxonMobil and PetroChina but also fell apart (MEES, 10 May 2019). Both companies were expected to fi...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
Cyprus Drilling Plans Slashed With Capex Cuts
...kkotrypis says. How long is anyone’s guess. And what of Cyprus’ first ever gas discovery, 4.1tcf Aphrodite, made in 2011 but stuck on the shelf ever since. Operator Noble of the US (35%) together with partners Shell (35%) and Israel’s Delek (30%) had planned a second appraisal well late this or early ne...
Volume: 63Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2020 -
Neutral Zone Restart: 2mn Barrels Exported
...nopec has a 400,000 b/d refinery. Sinopec also has substantial crude storage facilities at Maoming, having completed a 12mn barrel facility there in 2011. After Dar Salwa had left, the Monte Toledo Suezmax tanker then loaded another 1mn barrel cargo of Khafji crude and departed on 8 April. Monte To...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Cyprus: Aphrodite First Gas Slated For 2025
...December 2011 (MEES, 12 December 2011), but despite initial optimism it has failed to ignite a wave of industry for Nicosia. Instead, development has been stymied by the field’s location – 160km offshore in 1,750ms of water, straddling the maritime border with Israel – and low demand in Cyprus’ sm...
Volume: 62Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2019 -
Israel: Energean Bags More Reserves, But More Needed
...cm/y processing capacity and 800,000 barrels of oil storage, “leaving a further 3.4bcm/y of spare capacity for additional sales of discovered gas at Karish and the tie back of future discoveries,” Energean says. Karish and the 2011 Tanin discovery were purchased in 2016 for $148mn (plus a share of fu...
Volume: 62Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019 -
Egypt ‘Zohrs’ Past Libya As Eni’s Top Gas Producer
...e lowest figure since the Revolutionary year of 2011 (MEES, 11 January). Eni has plans to boost its gas production offshore Libya through the development of peripheral fields (MEES, 29 March). But overall Eni expects its Libya output to fall over the coming years (MEES, 13 April 2018) as the fi...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Libya: Key BP/Eni And Total Deals Yet To Materialize
...,000 km2 acreage – ‘Area A’ and ‘Area B’ in the Ghadames Basin bordering Tunisia and Algeria and a huge offshore block in the Sirte Basin – in 2007 committing to spend at least $900mn and drill 17 wells (MEES, 4 June 2007). But just as BP was to commence offshore and onshore drilling in February 2011...
Volume: 62Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2019 -
Iraq Bid Round Flatters To Deceive
...bstantially larger with 2017 gross output of around 80,000 boe/d, of which 80-90% was gas. UEG’s production is all in Pakistan, after acquiring BP Pakistan’s assets for $775mn in 2011. Output has increased under UEG, from around 35,000 boe/d under BP (10,000 b/d oil, 200mn cfd gas). ...
Volume: 61Issue: 17Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018 -
Waha: Total Says Done & Dusted, Libya Thinks Otherwise
...s US partners. Whilst Conoco and Hess (and hitherto Marathon) have since 2011 habitually excluded Libya from their output guidance, Total’s Mr Pouyanné says his firm has no intention of doing likewise. Libya, at 80,000 b/d net, now represents 5% of the company’s total liquids output. “Yes, it’s ta...
Volume: 61Issue: 17Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018 -
Eni Plans For Libya Output Drop
...2011, falling to about 260,000 b/d in 2017. Or maybe he is talking about crude only, where again the decline has already taken place: gross capacity from Eni-operated fields fell from about 305,000 b/d in 2010 to 210,000 b/d in 2017. “For 8 years, we had very good [output], but we didn’t in...
Volume: 61Issue: 15Published at Fri, 13 Apr 2018