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GCC Currencies: To Peg Or Not To Peg?
...untries’ currencies are pegged to the dollar (in Kuwait’s case as part of a currency basket in which the US currency is the key component), whilst all except Oman and Bahrain are members of Opec. SAUDI STRETCHED Saudi’s budget deficit of $19.4bn in H1 2017 was covered from a financing package of SR...
Volume: 60Issue: 34Published at Fri, 25 Aug 2017 -
Oman Taps Abu Dhabi For Wind Farm Cash
...scat government are overstretched, leading it to raise $10.55bn of funding from the international finance market already this year (see p12), the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) is already lined up to back the $200mn wind project. Raeco originally aimed to have the wind farm online in 2017. Ho...
Volume: 60Issue: 34Published at Fri, 25 Aug 2017 -
Oman Set To Shrink Deficit, But Not By Much
...urces of finance in a bid to plug its 2017 deficit. It hit the market for a $5bn conventional bond in March (MEES, 10 March) and raised $2bn from its first ever international Sukuk in late May (MEES, 9 June). This seemed more-or-less sufficient to cover the OR3bn deficit ($7.8bn at a fixed OR1=$2....
Volume: 60Issue: 34Published at Fri, 25 Aug 2017 -
Libya’s Oil Production Gains May Flatter To Deceive
...bya’s oil sector since late 2014 did not give much reason for hope. Prior to 2017, the last time that oil output had exceeded 600,000 b/d was in the first half of April 2015; the last time that it averaged more than 600,000 b/d over the course of a month was in November 2014. The figures for 2017 ha...
Volume: 60Issue: 33Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2017 -
Iran Bags Changuleh Oil Field Studies, Qualifies More Local JV Partners
...16 Study South Azadegan & Cheshmeh Khosh PNOC (Philippines) May 2017 Study Pazanan and Darkhovin Gazprom (Russia) May 2017...
Volume: 60Issue: 33Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2017 -
Saudi Petchems Firms Report Higher First Half Income As Profits Track Oil Price Rise
...ter than normal, as with the first quarter, due to new accounting rules introduced at the end of 2016 (MEES, 12 May). One firm, Alujain whose end-H1 2017 market capitalization was among the smallest at SR1.5bn, said on 17 August that it was unable to publish results on time but would issue them when “re...
Volume: 60Issue: 33Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2017 -
Gulf Crude Burn Falling In 2017, But By Less Than The Rise In Fuel Oil Use
...ntinuing to rise, they have a long way to go to achieve this. Saudi Arabia burnt 424,000 b/d of crude in its power plants in the first half of 2017, down 50,000 b/d on the same period a year earlier, though the June figure of 680,000 b/d was just 24,000 b/d below year-ago levels, cutting into the crude av...
Volume: 60Issue: 33Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2017 -
US Shale Output – Gains Continue Despite Cost-Cutting, Fewer New Rigs
...528 set in October 2014. July’s month-on-month gains, at 14, are the lowest since June last year: December 2016 to April 2017 saw an average of 50 rigs a month added. MORE WITH LESS? These figures so far chime with the ‘more for less’ mantra of US shale-focused companies in their recent Q2 ea...
Volume: 60Issue: 33Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2017 -
Egypt: Mid-Size E&Ps Still Living Hand-To-Mouth Despite Gas Renaissance
...velopment, which is 80% complete and due for December 2017 start-up, by managing to pay off a large part of the receivables the firm is owed. At the end of 2016 Eni was owed $611mn, with $420mn overdue, but that has now almost been halved to $310mn with no amount overdue. Eni’s 10% partner in Zohr, UK ma...
Volume: 60Issue: 33Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2017 -
Dana Gas: Profits Up, Litigation Up, Zora Write-Down Looms
...UAE firm Dana Gas this week reported a rise in profits and revenue for the first half of 2017 based on sharply higher oil prices, and lower capex, compared to the same period last year. But litigation is beginning to rival gas and oil production as Dana’s main line of business, with ho...
Volume: 60Issue: 33Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2017 -
TransGlobe: Exploration Write-Dow, Cargo Delay
...ded 2,500-2,700 b/d of Canadian output in January – its only non-Egypt production. The firm now plans 2017 capex of $41.5mn (Egypt $35.4mn), towards the lower end of earlier guidance. TransGlobe priority for the second half of 2017 is to firm up the production potential of the Boraq discovery on th...
Volume: 60Issue: 33Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2017 -
Mini Egypt Bid Round As GPC Expands
...nancial year (to 30 June 2017), of which around 47,000 b/d is oil and around 22mn cfd gas. A 4 August oil minstry press release says output has since risen further, to a record 57,000 boe/d. For 2017-18 as a whole GPC plans output of 53,000 b/d crude and 30mn cfd of gas, an implied total of around 59,000 bo...
Volume: 60Issue: 33Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2017 -
Saudi Cuts Deficit, But Only Thanks To Higher Oil Price
...also some 26% less than the SR198bn ($52.8bn) figure in the original 2017 budget (MEES, 6 January). The improvement is thanks to the 62.7% (SR82.1bn) increase in H1 oil revenues versus a year earlier. Saudi Arab Light crude averaged $50.4/B in H1 2017, up 38.4% on the H1 2016 price of $36...
Volume: 60Issue: 33Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2017 -
Abu Dhabi Plans Further Offshore Reshuffling
...pplier (with just under 300,000 b/d for H1 2017), with Thailand in turn Abu Dhabi’s #3 customer (see data, p17). PTT has both production and development projects in Algeria and is a pre-qualifier for Iranian upstream awards. Russian state-firm Rosneft was prequalified for Adco but in the end didn’t su...
Volume: 60Issue: 32Published at Fri, 11 Aug 2017 -
Egypt Oil Output: Apache Looks To Low Hanging Fruit For Output Rebound
...Whilst gas has grabbed the headlines since Eni’s mid-2015 Zohr discovery, oil production has remained on a downward trajectory. Egypt’s crude and condensate output averaged just 623,000 b/d in the first half of 2017, the lowest for any comparable period since 1981. Egypt was a net crude ex...
Volume: 60Issue: 32Published at Fri, 11 Aug 2017 -
Iraq Makes Progress On Chronic Gas Shortage
...average 711mn cfd over the course of 2017 and plans to hit 1bn cfd the following year. So far this year, Iraq is certainly posting strong gains. Sales gas volumes are up 20% in the first half of the year to average 1.12bn cfd. The proportion of gas flared has fallen from 64.4% to 59.0% over th...
Volume: 60Issue: 32Published at Fri, 11 Aug 2017 -
Offshore Exploration: What Chance Of A Rebound?
...cent Q2 results of taking advantage of lower prices to increase investment in long-term projects. Exxon plans to increase capex over the coming years – albeit modestly. “As a rule going forward we are sticking with around $22bn in 2017, slowly ramping up [to $25bn] through the end of the decade,” IR...
Volume: 60Issue: 32Published at Fri, 11 Aug 2017 -
Mauritania: 15 Tcf Tortue FLNG Targets 2021 Start Up
...ars. In addition to being the largest discovery of 2017 in creating a second LNG hub in the region, the Yakaar results further de-risk the key play elements of the basin… Subsequent wells in our drilling program [have] a similar geologic setting,” Mr Inglis says. But with “~75% of undrilled pr...
Volume: 60Issue: 32Published at Fri, 11 Aug 2017 -
Oman Lines Up Duqm Contractors, Targets Products Exports
...oducts, to Asia and Africa in particular (see map). Oman produced 968,000 b/d of crude and condensate in H1 2017 and exported 809,000 b/d. Products trade in either direction is minimal, though most months see some diesel exports. Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas and Korea’s Daewoo E&C have been selected by DR...
Volume: 60Issue: 32Published at Fri, 11 Aug 2017 -
Opec Banks On Oil Demand Boost From Stronger Economic Growth
...Waning compliance with the Opec/non-Opec “declaration of cooperation” to curb crude output is severely hampering efforts to rebalance the crude market. Allied with strong production gains elsewhere, this poor compliance has helped keep global stock levels high, putting a lid on prices in 2017...
Volume: 60Issue: 32Published at Fri, 11 Aug 2017