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Libya ‘Open For Business’ As Bid Round Eyes Global Majors
...delsadiq meanwhile hailed the relative stability the country has witnessed recently, with existing partners like Repsol and OMV, as well as Italy’s Eni, recently resuming drilling in Libya for the first time since 2014 (MEES, 1 November 2024). “This is crucial for encouraging investors and allowing fo...
Volume: 68Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2025 -
UN Libya Envoy Quits, Slams Squabbling Politicians
...sources since 2014, further stalling the much-anticipated elections originally slated for 2021 (MEES, 17 December 2021). In an effort to revive the electoral process, Mr Bathily set up a High-level Steering Panel for Libya to determine the electoral laws in spring 2023. But the initiative failed to br...
Volume: 67Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 -
Libya’s Oil Revenues Hit By Soaring Products Import Bill
...22’s products import bill of $4.4bn was also a record, topping 2014’s $3.5bn, with 2023 on track to hit $4bn. Prevailing volumes and prices imply gross crude and condensate export earnings of $7.74bn for Q1, some $2.4bn above the official NOC/LCB figure of $5.3bn. The former figure equates to gross ea...
Volume: 66Issue: 17Published at Fri, 28 Apr 2023 -
Egypt’s Liquidity Crisis Sends IOC Receivables Bill Soaring Towards $3bn
...yptian independent EKH also grew in 2023, rising 38% year on year to $46.5mn, the highest end year total since 2014. The firm produces around 50mn cfd from the Tao and Kamose shallow-water fields north of the Sinai peninsula. While these amounts are nowhere near those owed by the big three, they re...
Volume: 66Issue: 16Published at Fri, 21 Apr 2023 -
ExxonMobil Quits Iraqi Kurdistan
...initially handed back the Betwata, East Arbat and Qara Hanjeer blocks (see table), due to a combination of geological and geopolitical issues. Qara Hanjeer in particular was located in a sensitive area in territory disputed with the federal government in Baghdad, and work had been held up over 2014...
Volume: 65Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2022 -
North Africa Gas Exports To Europe Fall Amid Russian Uncertainty
...th only limited upside possible. Algeria, Libya and Egypt’s combined 55.4bcm of exports last year – including volumes to Turkey and the UK – were the highest since at least 2014 (see chart 2). Simply keeping volumes at this level would be a massive achievement. ALGERIAN SUPPLIES TAPER OF...
Volume: 65Issue: 14Published at Fri, 08 Apr 2022 -
Basrah Gas Proposals Risk Undermining TotalEnergies Megadeal
...d Zubair fields which were awarded in Iraq’s first licensing round (LR1) in 2009 is now unattainable after their production plateau targets (PPT) were revised down in 2014 (MEES, 5 September 2014). As a result BGC wants to expand the scope of its operations beyond this trio of fields. But de...
Volume: 65Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2022 -
Iraq Awards Mansuriya Gas Field To Sinopec
...%). Development was derailed by security concerns in 2014 as IS expanded in northern Iraq (MEES, 10 October 2014). Then, following IS’ ouster, disagreement on commercial terms with erstwhile operator TPAO pushed Baghdad to take over the field in 2018 (MEES, 3 August 2018). In October 2020, the ca...
Volume: 64Issue: 16Published at Fri, 23 Apr 2021 -
Jordan Plans Nine Block Upstream Offering
...sha is operated by Jordan’s tiny National Petroleum Company (NPC), after BP pulled out of the tight gas development in 2014 as the reservoir failed to live up to initial expectations (MEES, 26 September 2014). NPC also has a production sharing agreement (PSA) for East Safawi and is assessing the Hamza fi...
Volume: 64Issue: 15Published at Fri, 16 Apr 2021 -
Neutral Zone Restart: 2mn Barrels Exported
...e currently en-route to Asia for the first time since 2014. Production from the PNZ is shared 50:50 by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, but the offshore Khafji field was shut-in in October 2014 (MEES, 24 October 2014) due to grievances over shared management. Output from the onshore portion (Wafra) was th...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 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
...th the IOCs. Similarly, Norway’s Equinor (then Statoil) in 2014 walked away from the Hassi Mouina license containing the Hassi Tidjerane and Tinerkouk fields: development was “not… commercial” (MEES, 29 May 2015). The 4bcm/y Ahnet tight gas project, though geographically distant, was also at one st...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Mena Drilling: GCC Records, North Africa Slump
...rth $18bn for the expansion of capacity at the Marjan and Berri offshore fields required merely to stand still (MEES, 12 July 2019). The last six years (2014 to 2019) saw the six highest Saudi annual rig count figures on record (MEES, 17 January), whilst at 114 for February and March the rig count re...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Iraq Asks IOCs To Slash Spending As Export Revenues Halve
...sra Oil Company official told Reuters. In the short term, this will limit the dues Baghdad owes to Iraq’s foreign operators. But, as happened after the 2014 oil crash, it will also significantly hinder much-needed oil and gas investment. Especially if as in late-2014 and early-2015, the government st...
Volume: 63Issue: 14Published at Fri, 03 Apr 2020 -
Qatar Invites EPC Bids For LNG Expansion
...ile Qatar is looking to bring IOCs in as partners – as is the case at the existing LNG facilities – QP is willing and able to proceed unilaterally if required (MEES, 19 October 2018). Since his appointment heading up QP in 2014 (MEES, 19 September 2014), Mr Kaabi has tightened commercial terms for IO...
Volume: 62Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019 -
QP Enters Argentina
...sets, this covers blocks in Mexico and Brazil. Indeed, Brazil is a rare source of international production for QP. It has had a 24% stake in Shell’s 50% operated BC-10 deepwater block since 2014 which can produce around 98,000 boe/d (mostly oil). The latest Argentina move is in keeping with QP’s ef...
Volume: 62Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019 -
MEES Interview With Iraq Oil Minister Thamir al-Ghadhban
...ere the contractor takes the full commitment for investment with a grace period to the host country and so on. They are a burden, especially when the price of oil is low, as we have faced since 2014, and for three or four years we suffered a lot. The budget was severely hit because of this commitment. Th...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Iraq Plans Major Pipeline Revamp To Enhance Export Flexibility
...ditha to Jordan’s Aqaba port, as well as a 160,000 b/d spur line to Jordan’s Zarqa refinery (MEES, 21 November 2014). The Basra-Haditha portion was to be constructed under an EPC contract, while Haditha-Aqaba would be under a build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) deal. The government was wary of fi...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Egypt ‘Zohrs’ Past Libya As Eni’s Top Gas Producer
...ipem 10000’ drillship which remains under contract at Zohr until well into the 2020s. Eni sees Zohr as the key global example of the ‘Dual Exploration Model’ it has put at the heart of its global upstream strategy since the 2014-15 oil price (and capex) collapse. This model seeks to minimize up...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Egypt Cuts Receivables Bill Amid Arbitration Threat
...diterranean blocks where the firm is planning on drilling two wells later this year and where Israeli firm Ratio Oil is in talks to take a stake (MEES, 22 March). UAE independent Dana Gas, on the other hand saw its receivables fall to $140mn at end-2018 down from $228mn a year earlier and a 2014 peak of $30...
Volume: 62Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2019