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Tunisia’s Oil & Gas Output Falls Amid IOC Disinterest
...thout considering the firm’s limited technical capabilities. For Shell, the exit has been a long-time coming. It has only reluctantly operated in Tunisia since being landed with Miskar and Hadsrubal through its 2016 takeover of BG Group. It tried and failed to sell the assets for $500mn in 2017 (ME...
Volume: 65Issue: 34Published at Fri, 26 Aug 2022 -
Anbar Power Plants To Build Case For Akkas Gas?
...lamic State terrorist group and was only re-captured in 2017 by government forces. But the price was the extensive destruction of the facility. The Ministry awarded another $82mn for reconstruction work which has been led by a local Iraqi contractor since at least 2020. The plant’s first 125MW unit wa...
Volume: 65Issue: 34Published at Fri, 26 Aug 2022 -
Aramco’s Overseas Downstream Expansion: Much More To Come
...vestments “We’re looking at highly integrated complexes that have more than 50% liquid to chemical [conversion rate].” One such investment that was struck back in 2017 but has suffered repeated delays is the Pengerang Refining and Petrochemical (PRefChem) JV with Petronas, which operates a 300,000 b/d co...
Volume: 65Issue: 33Published at Fri, 19 Aug 2022 -
Oman: Fitch Upgrade
...scat is looking to streamline its debt portfolio having “prepaid the remainder of the pre-export financing facility taken out in 2017 ($1.3bn) and repaid a maturing $3.6bn loan from China.” The Fitch upgrade follows that of S&P which upgraded Oman to ‘BB’ with a stable outlook in April 2022. ...
Volume: 65Issue: 33Published at Fri, 19 Aug 2022 -
Algeria’s Petchems Push
...mething of a resurrection of previous plans that have struggled to advance (MEES, 3 February 2017). Of the two, one is a 1mn t/y mixed feed cracker slated for the industrial zone at the port of Skikda, while the other is a new methanol plant at Arzew for which previous plans stated a 1mn t/y ca...
Volume: 65Issue: 33Published at Fri, 19 Aug 2022 -
Iraq’s Output Hits Export Capacity Limits
...to a nominal 5.4mn b/d, in reality capacity is considerably lower due to storage constraints, inadequate pipeline capacity and insufficient pumping stations. A further 600,000 b/d-capacity terminal, Khor al-Amaya (KAAOT), has been offline since 2017 due to pipeline leaks. Perhaps wary of a re...
Volume: 65Issue: 32Published at Fri, 12 Aug 2022 -
Oman’s Economy Rebounds With $2bn 1H Surplus
...ndensate’s exemption from Opec+ cuts since January 2020 (MEES, 6 December 2019). GAS AMBITIONS Ç And condensate output is set to continue to rise over the longer term given the sultanate’s focus on developing gas/condensate plays. The 2017 start-up of BP’s 1bn cfd Khazzan tight gas project re...
Volume: 65Issue: 32Published at Fri, 12 Aug 2022 -
Italy Imports Record Volumes Of Russian Crude
...erall crude imports leaping 16% year-on-year and by 23% versus Q1 to 1.35mn b/d for Q2, the highest figure since Q3 2019 and within 50,000 b/d of the all-time record set in Q4 2017. *Unlike, for example, TotalEnergies and Shell in northern Europe, Italy’s refining sector is dominated by in...
Volume: 65Issue: 32Published at Fri, 12 Aug 2022 -
Iran’s Energy Sector: Lots Of Bluster But Limited Progress
...m/year to the sultanate for re-export through the Oman LNG facilities (MEES, 14 March 2014). Notably, Oman was to be supplied with volumes from the Kish field. In 2017 a new route was approved to avoid UAE waters (MEES, 24 March 2017), but other than that there was no apparent progress between the ea...
Volume: 65Issue: 31Published at Fri, 05 Aug 2022 -
Saudi Budget Surplus Tops $20bn
...Saudi Budget Surplus Tops $20bn Freshly released Ministry of Finance figures show that Saudi Arabia posted a $20.8bn surplus in Q2 – by far the highest figure since the ministry began releasing quarterly figures in 2017. Revenues were up across the board, rising by nearly $25bn to $98...
Volume: 65Issue: 31Published at Fri, 05 Aug 2022