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Egypt & Eni Plan $1bn-Plus Zohr ‘Phase-3’ To Facilitate Cyprus Tie-Backs
...nds. The fate of Egypt’s gas output has gone hand in hand with the country’s largest producer Zohr since the Eni-operated field’s late 2017 start-up. Zohr output initially soared to peak at 2.96bn cfd for 1Q 2021 but had slumped to 1.5bn cfd by early this year following water breakthrough issues that be...
Volume: 68Issue: 17Published at Fri, 25 Apr 2025 -
Eni Egypt: More Zohr Woe As Reserves Downgraded
...Zohr ramped-up following its late 2017 start-up. But with Zohr output dropping from a peak of 2.74bn cfd in Q3 2021 to 2bn cfd currently on water infiltration issues, the country finds itself on the lookout to lease an FSRU as it looks to resume LNG imports in the coming months in a bid to pr...
Volume: 67Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 -
Egypt: Alarming Gas Output Decline Highlighted By Zohr Slump
...tput and that of Zohr are closely aligned and have been since 2019 when the field began ramping up following its late 2017 start-up. And while 2020 saw Egypt implement shut-ins which caused Zohr output to fall to 2.09bn cfd, 2021 rebounded to a record 2.74bn cfd. This was the same year that Cairo and En...
Volume: 66Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2023 -
ExxonMobil Quits Iraqi Kurdistan
...cked up five licenses in 2017 and a 60% stake in the region’s crude oil export pipeline to Turkey (MEES, 10 November 2017) – but there are growing questions over the ability of the Russian firms to operate smoothly after being hit by fresh sanctions in the fallout from the Ukraine invasion. As for Ex...
Volume: 65Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2022 -
Leviathan To Turkey Pipeline Talk Resurfaces
...mietta or Idku and/or a floating LNG (FLNG) facility to be moored in Israeli waters next to the Leviathan platform, 10km offshore Dor (see map). Since tentatively starting in 2017 with minimal volumes to Jordan’s Arab Potash plant on the Dead Sea, Israel’s gas exports have risen meteorically. Exports we...
Volume: 65Issue: 14Published at Fri, 08 Apr 2022 -
Mounting Debt Obligations Take Shine Off Of KRG Oil Revenue Boost
...ES, 21 January). Output dropped from 453,000 b/d in 2020 to 445,000 b/d last year, but gross oil revenues more than doubled to $9.12bn thanks to resurgent oil prices. This is the highest figure since the KRG brought Deloitte in to audit its oil sector in 2017 and began issuing quarterly reports. Gr...
Volume: 65Issue: 14Published at Fri, 08 Apr 2022 -
Kuwait Oil Expansion Gets $1bn Japan Boost
...rkover rigs throughout its fields.” This is considerably more than the one-year high 28 active rigs shown in the Baker Hughes Rig Count for February. According to KOC’s annual reports, drilling and workover activity peaked in 2017-18 with 672 new wells drilled and over 1,500 workover operations. This ha...
Volume: 65Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2022 -
BP’s Raven: Delayed Start Hikes Egypt Gas To New Highs
...en BP approved development back in March 2015 (MEES, 13 March 2015). The three phases of the project were supposed to provide a collective output boost of 1.5bn cfd. But decline at the first two phases – Phase-1, the Libra and Taurus fields, which came online at the end of Q1 2017 (MEES, 12 May 2017...
Volume: 64Issue: 17Published at Fri, 30 Apr 2021 -
QP Expands In Namibia
...creasing overseas footprint, not to mention plans to massively expand its LNG capacity and increase its operating role of its LNG facilities (MEES, 5 April), QP is well on the way to achieving plans set out by Mr Kaabi in 2017 to turn QP into “an International Oil Company” (MEES, 8 December 2017). This wo...
Volume: 64Issue: 14Published at Fri, 09 Apr 2021 -
Iraq Oil Revenues At Highest Level Since 2019 As Crude Tops $60/B
...tside the control of the federal government. The KRG’s exports from Ceyhan fell to just 360,000 b/d for March, Kpler data indicate, down almost 40,000 b/d on February and the lowest figure in three months. For Q1 as a whole KRG exports of 412,000 b/d were second only to 2Q 2020 as the lowest since 4Q 2017...
Volume: 64Issue: 14Published at Fri, 09 Apr 2021 -
Iraq & Total Reach Initial Deal On $7bn Of Projects
...ogress. Still, Total should fare better than US firms with any such administration, especially as it has proven willing to work with Iran through signing up to develop Iran’s South Pars Phase 11 project in 2017 (MEES, 7 July 2017), even if ultimately it withdrew in 2018 due to US sanctions (MEES, 24 Au...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
Exxon Plans 2021 East Med Drilling
...so plans to keep the purse strings tight this year (MEES, 5 February). But this has not stopped it following through on East Mediterranean expansion. The major only entered the region in early 2017 when it snagged Cyprus’ Block 10 in partnership with Qatar Petroleum (Exxon 60%op, QP 40%: MEES, 24 Ma...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
BP Write Offs: $2.3bn For Mauritania/Senegal, $950mn For Egypt
...BP’s recently-released 2020 report reveals that the major last year wrote off $2.26bn on its gas assets off Mauritania and Senegal as well as $952mn for Egypt. The Egypt figure appears to relate to the major’s share of the $12bn West Nile Delta project where output since 2017 start-up has ma...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
Baghdad-KRG Talks Raise Prospect Of Gas Development Deal
...northern provinces of Kirkuk, Salahuddin, Nineveh, Diyala and potentially further south. But politics – such as the fallout from the KRG’s contentious September 2017 independence referendum (MEES, 29 September 2017) – has always intervened. Still, energy-sector cooperation has continued de...
Volume: 63Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2020 -
Iran Eyes Key Project Start-Ups For 2020-21
...d Chinese state firm CNPC in 2017 under a high-profile $4.8bn contract. Phase-11 is meant to add 2bn cfd of gas and 80,000 b/d condensate, with the two firms having intended to achieve first-gas by March 2021 (MEES, 7 July 2017) until the 2018-sanctions derailed the project. Total in particular was br...
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 -
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 -
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