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Tunisian CO2 Study May Scupper Plans For Zarat Development
...om West Africa, providing a steady revenue stream despite cashflow constraints having led PA to slash capital expenditure by more than 80% for 2012. A commitment well for the company’s Makthar permit in northwest Tunisia has been pushed back to 2014 with the company granted two years’ licence ex...
Volume: 55Issue: 35Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012 -
Mauritania Looks To Offshore Gas To Fuel Its Energy Future
...late to whether development will be of gas alone or include oil. Tullow also expects to take a final investment decision next year with first commercial production from between two and four wells slated for 2014 or 2015. Other nearby offshore discoveries, also operated by Tullow, could potentially be ti...
Volume: 55Issue: 35Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012 -
Libyan Upstream Activity Picks Up
...ould add substantial oil and gas production increments from late 2014 (see Table 1). Eni, through its Mellitah Oil joint venture with Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC), plans to move two key projects to construction next year. Both are heavily reliant on existing infrastructure, making ra...
Volume: 55Issue: 34Published at Mon, 20 Aug 2012 -
Oil Roils Kurdish Politics
...r late 2013, but realistically this is unlikely to be completed before 2014 (MEES, 28 May). In the meantime, Turkish firms continue to consolidate their position the region. On 6 August Genel Energy announced it was boosting its 23% stake in the OMV-operated Bina Bawi block to 44%, with $240mn ac...
Volume: 55Issue: 34Published at Mon, 20 Aug 2012 -
Algerian Gas Set For Boost From 3.7 BCM/Y Petroceltic Development
...gineering and design (FEED) is slated for 2013 with construction set to begin in 2014. Second Farm-Out Planned Petroceltic plans to sell a further stake in the project in order to fund its share of $1.5bn expected capital expenditure to first gas, a massive amount for a company whose market ca...
Volume: 55Issue: 32Published at Mon, 06 Aug 2012 -
Qatar To Boost Naphtha Output From GTL Plant And Condensate Splitter
...09. By 2014 it will have debottlenecked and installed a gas oil hydrotreater to produce low sulfur diesel – less than 10ppm. Europe’s demand for low sulfur diesel of this quality will increase during 2014-16 as its tightened product specifications kick in. The splitter’s current production ca...
Volume: 54Issue: 35Published at Mon, 29 Aug 2011 -
Shell Offers LNG To Bahrain At Near Oil Price Parity
...augen in its tender to import LNG. The tender is unusually flexible – only specifying the import of 400-800mn cfd of LNG for 15 years starting in 2014 – and leaving it up to firms to propose their own ways to achieve it. It has attracted a variety of solutions from low cost, fast start-ups to Sh...
Volume: 54Issue: 33Published at Mon, 15 Aug 2011 -
Oil Producers See Budgets Pressured By Social Unrest, Crude Dip
...e kingdom will remain in a comfortable fiscal position. However, thereafter it faces a very different environment unless spending and oil trends change, it warned. The government will be running budget deficits from 2014, which become substantial by the 2020s. By 2030, foreign assets will be dr...
Volume: 54Issue: 33Published at Mon, 15 Aug 2011 -
Egypt Grapples To Support Energy Sector; Reshuffle Delays Musturud
...advertently held up the planned $3.7bn Musturud refinery. Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum 'Abd Allah Ghurab said at the end of July that Cairo plans to invest $1bn in exploring for gas and oil in the Sinai Desert up to 2014. The only details he gave were that the plan includes 60 wells and aims to boost re...
Volume: 54Issue: 31Published at Mon, 01 Aug 2011 -
Gulf LNG Producers Facing Greater Competition From Australia In Asia-Pacific
...rector, Chevron Australia. Chevron said in June it secured conditional approval from Western Australia’s Environmental Protection Agency – the first of several environmental green lights that Chevron needs before making the FID. The project owners say it will produce 8.9mn t/y in 2014, with first cargoes ex...
Volume: 54Issue: 31Published at Mon, 01 Aug 2011 -
Hawrami Eyes Filling Half Nabucco, As Pipeline Consortium Targets Iraqi Gas
...on as 2014, Mr Hawrami says. Last year, OMV and MOL formed a joint venture with the UAE’s Crescent Petroleum, potentially worth $8bn, for the development of the Khor Mor and Chemchemal fields to supply gas into Nabucco (MEES, 25 May 2009). A dispute between Mr Hawrami and Crescent put a stop to dr...
Volume: 53Issue: 35Published at Mon, 30 Aug 2010 -
Egyptian Refinery Takes Top Spot In African Project Financing
...C) consortium along with GS Engineering and Construction. The contractors estimate that they will complete construction and operational testing in the second half of 2014, with full operations beginning in 2015. With $2.6bn coming from senior and subordinated debt, the remaining $1.1bn of the $3....
Volume: 53Issue: 34Published at Mon, 23 Aug 2010 -
Egyptian Refinery Takes Top Spot In African Project Financing
...C) consortium along with GS Engineering and Construction. The contractors estimate that they will complete construction and operational testing in the second half of 2014, with full operations beginning in 2015. With $2.6bn coming from senior and subordinated debt, the remaining $1.1bn of the $3....
Volume: 53Issue: 33Published at Mon, 16 Aug 2010 -
Abu Dhabi’s Gas Crunch Worsens
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIII No 32 9-Aug-2010 MEES Agenda Abu Dhabi’s Gas Crunch Worsens Abu Dhabi’s gas crisis will worsen until 2014, and continue until 2017 unless it finds an alternative to domestic gas, due to delays in major development projects. It already faces a 2b...
Volume: 53Issue: 32Published at Mon, 09 Aug 2010 -
Question Mark Hangs Over ADNOC Oil Concessions
...om six oil fields in a 21,000 sq km a concession area, ends in January 2014 (MEES, 22 February). It aims to have a production capacity of 1.8mn b/d by 2017, according to ADNOC. An offshore oil joint venture, ADMA-OPCO – ADNOC 60%, BP 14.67%, Total 13.33% and Japan Oil Development Company (JODCO) 12...
Volume: 53Issue: 31Published at Mon, 02 Aug 2010 -
North Africa Forges Ahead With Refinery Upgrades, Expansions More Elusive
...amant that the project will be completed by the second quarter of 2014. However, he concedes that the global financial crisis, which caused difficulties in securing financing and procuring materials, has delayed the project and driven up the costs. It was originally due on stream in 2011 at an estimated co...
Volume: 52Issue: 34Published at Mon, 24 Aug 2009 -
EU Balkan States Considering Arab LNG Imports Via Greece
...ansmission system operator DESFA, Panayiotis Kanellopoulos told MEES on the sidelines of the conference that “Revythousa’s capacity is expanding. Planning has already commenced to increase its existing storage capacity by almost 70% by 2014.” Mr Hatzidakis had told the conference that “Greece is also pl...
Volume: 52Issue: 31Published at Mon, 03 Aug 2009 -
Greece Emerges As Major Gas Player With Participation In South Stream Pipeline
...e 10 bcm/y gas exports to Europe anticipated from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz field are not expected to reach the market until 2014 or later. At the same time StatoilHydro, which controls 25% of the Shah Deniz consortium, has announced that it will join EGL in the construction of the Trans-Adriatic Pi...
Volume: 51Issue: 33Published at Mon, 18 Aug 2008