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Saudi Aramco’s Master Gas System: A Work In Progress
...twork last year (MEES, 26 May 2020). SAUDI ARABIA: KEY POWER INFRASTRUCTURE SAUDI ARABIA SALES GAS* OUTPUT HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY CLIMBING YEAR-ON-YEAR (BN CFD)*CONVERTED FROM BTU TO CFD UNTIL 2011. SOURCE: SAUDI ARAMCO, MEES....
Volume: 64Issue: 32Published at Fri, 13 Aug 2021 -
Libya: Symptoms Of A Failed State
...shed hundreds to the streets this week across key parts of the war-torn country. The overthrow of long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 marked the beginning of a series of conflicts that has gradually led to a deep fragmentation of Libya. As a result, the ability of the ‘state’ to cater for the ba...
Volume: 63Issue: 35Published at Fri, 28 Aug 2020 -
IAEA Inspectors Return To Iran Sites Amid US Threats
...ternationally until US President Donald Trump unilaterally resumed sanctions in May 2018 – lost patience with Iran over the access issue and adopted a resolution calling for Tehran to “fully cooperate” with the IAEA (MEES, 19 June). Iran began its foray into nuclear power in 2011 with the operation of a 1GW re...
Volume: 63Issue: 35Published at Fri, 28 Aug 2020 -
Syria Gas Pipeline Blast
...a Jordan until 2011. The route is now used (in part) to supply Israeli gas to Jordan in the opposite direction (MEES, 1 November 2019). Syria’s gas sector has played a crucial, if oft overlooked, role in President Bashar al-Assad’s successful war effort. The government has managed to keep most ga...
Volume: 63Issue: 35Published at Fri, 28 Aug 2020 -
Qatar’s Oryx GTL Train 2 Offline Until 2Q21
...oject. However, its development cost trebled from $6bn at project go-ahead in 2006 to $18.5bn at project completion in 2011, while ramp-up to full capacity took a year longer than anticipated (MEES, 16 August 2013). Despite the problems experienced at Qatar’s two GTL plants, nearby Oman has designs to...
Volume: 63Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2020 -
Tunisia’s Oil Industry Faces Existential Crisis
...nce the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. If there is a potential upside it is that two smaller firms, Mazarine Energy and Panoro Energy, have both shown to be willing underdogs. Led by former Shell engineer Edward van Kersbergen, Mazarine came from nothing to produce upwards of 2,000 boe/d and ev...
Volume: 63Issue: 33Published at Fri, 14 Aug 2020 -
Washington’s Obsession With Syrian Oil: What’s It All About?
...Donald Trump is fixated on oil fields in Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria, and has finally found a US firm to ‘develop’ them. But is it anything more than a political play? Since the beginning of Syria’s civil war in 2011, supporters of President Bashar al-Assad’s government have often po...
Volume: 63Issue: 33Published at Fri, 14 Aug 2020 -
Egypt’s Debts To IOCs Again On The Rise
...rther investment as it did in the years following the 2011 revolution. Egypt has turned again to the IMF for $8bn, bagging $2.8bn via a rapid financing instrument (RFI) and the initial $2bn of a hastily-arranged $5.2bn Stand-by Arrangement (MEES, 12 June). This saw the country’s foreign reserves ri...
Volume: 63Issue: 32Published at Fri, 07 Aug 2020 -
Aramco Eyes Chinese Take-Away From Sabic Purchase
...en increasingly shifting towards Europe, with exports to Asia halving from 734,000 b/d in 20116 to 358,000 b/d last year. Sabic opened a technology center in Shanghai in late 2013 with the aim of becoming the “preferred technology partner” for its Chinese customers. The center is leading Sabic’s de...
Volume: 62Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019 -
Libya Plans Petchems Restart
...airman Mustafa Sanalla told MEES in June that its subsidiary Rasco also plans to restart the naphtha cracker at the petrochemical complex which would produce feedstock for the polyethylene plant (MEES, 5 July). Before the 2011 Libyan Revolution and the ensuing chaos knocked the complex out of op...
Volume: 62Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2019 -
Spain: Record Crude Imports, Record Opec, Record Libya
...0 B/D) *LIBYA, SAUDI, NIGERIA & MEXICO WERE THE TOP FOUR COUNTRIES FOR 2017, 2018 AND 1H 2019. RUSSIA AND IRAN ARE THE ONLY TWO OTHER COUNTRIES TO HAVE BEEN TOP ON A QUARTERLY BASIS SINCE 2011. SOURCE: CORES, MEES. SPAIN CRUDE IMPORTS (‘000 B/D): SIX-YEAR HIGH SAUDI VOLUMES & RECORD LIBYA FILL VO...
Volume: 62Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2019 -
Turkey’s Plan For The East Mediterranean: Disrupt, Stir Up, And Provoke
...y. CLAIMS AND COUNTERCLAIMS IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY Turkey certainly aims to show it means business. Since the 2011 discovery of the 4.2tcf Aphrodite field by US firm Noble Energy in RoC-awarded Block 12 - and the subsequent 2018 Calypso and 2019 Gl...
Volume: 62Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2019 -
Iraq Crude Exports Edge Up In July
...ightly. Baghdad has so far brought in $47bn this year, down just $800mn (see chart). If oil prices and exports hold steady, Iraq is looking at around $80bn in export revenues – just a hair behind last year’s $83.7bn and not far behind the 2011-14 days of $100/B oil when Iraq netted $85-95bn despite only ex...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Eni & Total Strengthen Cyprus Ties
...months. Appraisal wells are slated for Calypso on Block 6, Glaucus on Block 10 and also at the 4.2tcf Aphrodite field, Cyprus’ first gas discovery in December 2011. This would be the second appraisal well drilled at Aphrodite: the previous one was drilled six years ago. In June the pa...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Tunisia At The Crossroads
...llowing the 2011 ouster of long-time ruler Zine al Abidine Ben Ali and into a young democracy. As prime minister of the transitional government in 2011, the secularist Mr Essebsi could have caused all sorts of problems for the ‘Islamist’ Ennahda party which won the October 2011 elections. He chose not to...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Sudans Oil Deal Bears Fruit
...pacity of about 90,000 b/d, but this has not been reached since 2011, and damage to the fields in the intervening years is likely to have reduced production potential. Somewhat more likely is that the five fields could deliver an additional 80,000 b/d but that the gains will come from resources ei...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Turkey Mixes Business & Politics As Qatar LNG Surges
...G customer for 2017. TURKISH GAS IMPORTS (BCM) 1H18 v 1H17 % 1H17 2009 2010 2011 2012 20...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Sinai Insecurity: Sisi’s Achilles’ Heel
...cade intended to flush out Sinai-based militants. ‘Operation Eagle’ was launched in August 2011 and ‘Operation Sinai’ a year later but neither have effectively rid the region of militants. The main focus of COS has been around the towns of Arish, Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah, the region in the northeast of...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Oman’s Duqm Development: Dustbowl Or ‘Dubai’?
...ptember opening of a new passenger terminal: it remains to be seen if more flights will materialize. DUQM SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE (PLANNED) ALL ABOUT THE REFINERY The Special Economic Zone of Duqm (SEZAD) was established in 2011 to “diversify the national economy.” But recent mo...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Egypt’s Gas Surge Enables Planning Beyond Powergen Needs
...June, demand was a relatively comfortable 69% of output, versus a summer peak of 90% two years earlier. With the summer demand peak now over, no shortages have been reported. With production falling from a record 6.22bn cfd in December 2011 to just 3.89bn cfd in May 2016, Cairo was forced to be...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018