1. Benchmark Crude Prices

    ...12 2011 WTI 103.4 105.5 105.95 104.47 95.79 94.17 94.42 94.18 95...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 32
    Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2013
  2. Germany’s RWE Faces Challenging Sale Of North African Assets

    ...rprisingly Libya’s 2011 civil war set back RWE’s plans: RWE had been exploring the two blocks since 2003 (spending $500m in the process) and development plans were already drawn up pre-revolution. The country’s continued instability will no doubt deter at least some potential purchasers. Exploration in Libya ha...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013
  3. Twilight Looms For OPEC’s Golden Age

    ...ars on the trot! Gas has also emerged as an increasing revenue driver, enabling Qatar in 2011-12 to post OPEC’s strongest earnings gains (see table 1).   Table 1: OPEC Members’ Petroleum Exports By Value ($Bn)   2005 20...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013
  4. GCC: UAE And Saudi ‘Readiest’ For Renewables

    ...ssil fuels and subsidized energy prices present “prominent barriers to investment in renewable energy projects,” the organization’s ‘Renewable Energy Readiness Assessment Report: The GCC Countries 2011-12’, published on 22 July says.   The UAE gets the highest score of 4.75 out of 7, while Sa...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013
  5. Iran To Syria’s Financial Rescue, Again

    ...en secretive about his country’s finances since the beginning of the uprising in March 2011, announced an Iranian concessionary aid package of around $7bn, consisting of a $3bn credit line to import crude oil and petroleum products, a $3bn concessionary loan and a further $1bn credit line (MEES, 31 Ma...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013
  6. OPEC’s Dilemma

    ...OPEC   OPEC’s Dilemma   Two new dimensions to international oil markets are creating a real dilemma for OPEC and may be sowing the seeds of a major oil price shock. The first is the fall-out from the “Arab Uprisings” that began early in 2011, and the second is the de...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013
  7. Benchmark Crude Prices

    ...13 2012 2011 WTI 107.89 105.95 106.64 104.47 95.79 94.17 94.42 94...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013
  8. Qatar Petroleum JV Looking To Export US Shale Gas As LNG

    ...an to build a 15.6mn tons/year capacity LNG export facility adjacent to its existing Golden Pass LNG receiving terminal. Nick Wilson writes.   The Golden Pass receiving terminal was opened in 2011 to import up to 15.6mn t/y of LNG from Qatar. The Golden Pass Products joint venture (QP 70%, Ex...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012
  9. Cyprus Seeks Short Term Gas Deal With Israel

    ...cember 2011, can be developed to supply the island. Cyprus is keen to arrange an interim solution to its urgent natural gas needs as soon as possible. It currently has the highest electricity charges among European Union (EU) member states as it relies entirely upon heavy fuel oil and diesel for power ge...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012
  10. Mauritania Looks To Offshore Gas To Fuel Its Energy Future

    ...kely near term option, with development plans envisaging tying back crude production to the Chinguetti FPSO (the 1.6mn barrels capacity Berge Helene). Chinguetti is 80km offshore in 900ms of water.   Tullow in October 2011 received 18-month extensions for the portions of its PSC A and PSC B li...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012
  11. CGES Sees Crude Prices Rising As Buyers ‘Prepared To Pay A Premium’

    ...r prompt oil.”   Global crude inventories fell sharply in 2011 and have only been partially rebuilt during the first half of this year, CGES said, adding that market tightness has been “exacerbated by the dislocations caused by the sanctions on Iran.” It said that “delays in getting the ri...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012
  12. China’s Crude Oil Imports Rise In July, Iran Supply Down Sharply

    ...ina Crude Oil Imports 2011-12     2012 2011 Imports Jul Jun May Apr Mar Fe...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012
  13. KMG EP Reports Output Down In First Half, Begins Modernization

    ...SPIAN   KMG EP Reports Output Down In First Half, Begins Modernization Kazakhstan’s KazMunaiGas Exploration Production (KMG EP) reported on 14 August that in the first half of 2012 it produced 6.057mn tons of crude oil (248,000 b/d), which is 4% less than in the same period of 2011. The decline was ma...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012
  14. Egypt’s Finance Ministry Loans EGPC $600Mn

    ...ise the total amount of loans extended to EGPC since 2010-11 to $5.75bn, in addition to financial guarantees from the ministry to the oil sector in 2011-12. EGPC is also said to be seeking to borrow from Arab lending organizations $600mn to ease the liquidity crisis from which the corporation is cu...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012
  15. Iraq Denies It Is Helping Iran Avoid International Sanctions

    ...ayer in Iraq and the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, especially after the withdrawal of the US army from Iraq in December 2011. Tehran is one on Iraq’s main trading partners and has plans to boost the volume of bilateral trade between the two countries from the current estimate of $11...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012
  16. Iran Plans 1.5GW Hydropower Capacity Addition This Year

    ...zazadeh said that the 1.5gw of capacity due on-line this year comprises six new units: two at the Gotvand Dam hydropower plant and four at the Siah Bisheh plant. Iran’s total power generation capacity is estimated at 53gw (MEES, 23 May 2011).  ...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012
  17. Russia Consolidates Its Position In Iraq Upstream Petroleum

    ...rmed a new consortium with KMG in October 2010, leading to winning 'Akkaz gas field with a remuneration fee of $5.50/boe. And after the withdrawal of KMG due to the delay in concluding the contract, Kogas took full control of the deal on its own in June 2011.   So, for the PetroVietnam/Premier Oi...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012
  18. Libyan Upstream Activity Picks Up

    ...latively minor work but collectively they signal that widescale maintenance is now underway. Other tenders are for exploration (see Table 2). AGOCO has been busiest of all. Although most of Libya’s oil infrastructure escaped 2011’s fighting unscathed, AGOCO’s key Sarir and Mesla fields on Block NC-65 (Area 12...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 34
    Published at Mon, 20 Aug 2012
  19. Oil Roils Kurdish Politics

    ...gitimate authority in Iraq.’ Ankara gets to have its cake and eat it. And the Kurds, as usual, get left with nothing.”   There is little doubt the recent years of KDP rule have brought substantial economic benefit, but there are rising concerns over corruption (MEES, 21 November 2011). In the wake of...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 34
    Published at Mon, 20 Aug 2012
  20. US Continues Iran Clamp-Down, As Standard Chartered Pays Penalty

    ...isse; $88.3mn by JP Morgan Chase (Iranian as well as Cuban violations) in August 2011;  and $350mn by Lloyd’s. Also, $176mn from Barclays in August 2010. OFAC said on 14 June that National Bank of Abu Dhabi agreed to remit $855,000 to settle potential civil liability for 45 transactions that appear to ha...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 34
    Published at Mon, 20 Aug 2012