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Eni Revises Up Zohr Reserves But Output Decline Continues
...ar-on-year, gives cumulative production since the field started up in late 2017 of 5.34tcf, implying an original recoverable resource of 9.84tcf (see chart 1). Zohr’s slump has been the key driver in Egypt’s overall gas output decline, with the field making up 37% of last year’s eight-year low 4....
Volume: 68Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2025 -
TotalEnergies Takes FID On 1mn t/y ‘Low-Carbon’ Oman LNG Bunkering Hub
...ctor in recent years. Output has risen every year for nearly a decade reaching an all-time high of 52bcm last year, and with growth attracting increased investment from international energy majors, the upwards trajectory looks set to continue. Driven by BP’s 2017 start-up of the massive 1.5bn cfd Kh...
Volume: 67Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 -
QatarEnergy’s Overseas Strategy Enters Pivotal Phase
...risk, with the majority of exploration wells ultimately coming up short. But by picking up a large, diversified slate of assets across the globe in partnership with highly proficient firms, QatarEnergy has maximized its chances of picking winners. CEO Saad Sherida al-Kaabi told MEES in late 2017...
Volume: 66Issue: 16Published at Fri, 21 Apr 2023 -
Prospects For A Prolonged Ceasefire Rekindle Yemen Oil Sector Hopes
...lf neighbours to the north but still attracted IOC interest since the 1980s. Production peaked in 2002 at 457,000 b/d and exports were still in excess of 100,000 b/d up until 2014 (MEES, 15 September 2017). Current output is estimated to be no more than 10,000-15,000 b/d mainly coming from the Ma...
Volume: 66Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2023 -
BP Taking Egypt Offshore Block As Raven Outages Persist
...itially started-up in 2017 through the Libra and Taurus fields but suffered steep production declines. Despite the latest Phase-3 Raven gas-condensate field being brought online almost 12 months ago, output has never reached the 1.4bn cfd initially planned when the project was sanctioned (MEES, 30 April 20...
Volume: 65Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2022 -
Eni Turns To North Africa In Gas Output Drive
...ODUCTION *NO NORTH AFRICA SPLIT AVAILABLE FOR 2021. ^EXCLUDING EGYPT. SOURCE: ENI, MEES. EGYPT GROWTH Egypt has been instrumental to Eni’s tilt towards gas since the start-up of the 21.5tcf offshore Zohr field in late 2017. The field posted record 2.74bn cfd output last year, contributing 40...
Volume: 65Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2022 -
Israel's Leviathan Hits Q1 Output Record As Expansion Plans Move Up The Agenda
...the block area, containing, according to the best assessment, over 2bn barrels of oil and more prospects are under maturation process,” the firm adds. In 2017, Ratio took a 20% stake in Block 47 off Suriname from operator, UK-based firm Tullow, which retains a 50% stake in the acreage. Here, Tu...
Volume: 64Issue: 16Published at Fri, 23 Apr 2021 -
Eni In Libya: What Does The Future Hold?
...bya’s share of Eni’s total net output has fallen to less than 10% for the first time since 2011 and is down from 21% as recently as 2017 (see chart 2). Even with such a steep fall in Libya’s share, the firm is looking to further decrease its exposure to the oft-troubled North African country “to better ba...
Volume: 64Issue: 15Published at Fri, 16 Apr 2021 -
Qatar Petroleum Moves To Take Full Ownership Of LNG Facilities
...monstrated at the height of tensions with neighboring Saudi Arabia and UAE after they imposed an economic embargo on Qatar in June 2017 which lasted until the beginning of this year (MEES, 8 January). Deep commercial ties with major US and European IOCs undoubtedly bolstered Qatar’s position with western go...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
Long Delayed Barzan Gas Project Starts Up
...panese firms – Idemitsu, Cosmo, Mitsui, and Marubeni (see map, main story). The most recent cause for delays was down to problems with pipelines linking the offshore wells to the onshore processing facilities. QP CEO Saad al-Kaabi said in 2017 “It’s delayed because we have had issues with the pi...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
Services Firms Eye Mena Resilience Amid US Shale Collapse: Is This Realistic?
...quentially. Schlumberger is the most regionally diversified of the three firms. Q1 was the second straight quarter that ‘Mideast & Asia’ revenue has been ahead of that for North America – the first occasion this has been the case since 1H 2017 (see chart). The Mideast & Asia share of overall Schlumberger re...
Volume: 63Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2020 -
Israel Orders Noble & Delek To Play Fair
...ecial purpose vehicle set-up to sell off those interests, which itself has 16.75% (MEES, 30 June 2017). By delaying the sale of its stakes it has managed to retain its veto rights and ensure Leviathan, where it will keep 45.34%, has been hitherto able to usurp Tamar in gas sales negotiations. Karish is...
Volume: 63Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2020 -
Low-Cost Middle East Reserves Aid IOCs In Price Slump
...ayed there since, with Total overtaking Exxon’s output in 2017. As such, while Exxon’s expansion focus has been on the US onshore, it shouldn’t be forgotten that it is still the Mena region’s second largest oil producer. TOTAL: MOST MENA BARRELS, LOWEST PRODUCTION COSTS Total is the Mena re...
Volume: 63Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 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 -
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 -
Chevron Goes All-In On The Permian
...l sector, but it may well lower the purchase price for any asset sale. And France’s Total, which bagged 12.25% stakes in Anadarko’s two Algeria blocks (208 and 404a) via its 2017 takeover of Maersk, would be the most likely suitor. In sharp contrast to Chevron, Total bigged up the attractiveness of...
Volume: 62Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019 -
RAK Bags Eni For Offshore Exploration
...January). Long a peripheral part of Eni’s portfolio with oil output of just 40,000 b/d in 2017 all from Iraq, the firm’s entry into two Abu Dhabi offshore concessions last year (MEES, 16 March 2018) bumped this up to a record 67,000 b/d for 2018. With new exploration assets in Abu Dhabi, Oman, Ba...
Volume: 62Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019 -
UAE’s Mubadala Sells Cepsa Stake To Investor Carlyle
...id €3.97bn for the remaining 52.95% in 2011. IPIC was then merged into Mubadala in 2017 (MEES, 24 February 2017). This left Cepsa sitting alongside a host of other energy-focussed Mubadala investments, including its subsidiary Mubadala Petroleum. Holding two wholly-owned energy entities with se...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Saudi Aramco’s Inner Workings: Bond Prospectus Lifts The Lid
...erations. Upstream is Saudi Aramco’s bread and butter. And the prospectus states that “As at 31 December 2017, the Company’s proved liquids reserves were more than five times the combined proved liquids reserves of the Five Major IOCs.” The firm is also increasingly focused on expanding its downstream fo...
Volume: 62Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2019