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SAFCO Awards Saipem Contract For Jubail Fertilizer Plant
...2bn ($533mn). The plant is expected to start commercial production in the third quarter of 2014. SAFCO will utilize its own resources to finance the project, according to SABIC’s Chairman and CEO and SAFCO’s Chairman, Muhammad al-Mady. The new project, he said, “will strengthen SAFCO’s operational pe...
Volume: 54Issue: 51Published at Mon, 19 Dec 2011 -
Gulf Arab Producers: We Can Guarantee Energy Security
...tional Oil Company (ADNOC) pays ExxonMobil $1/B produced. ExxonMobil has a 9.5% stake in Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO), the consortium that operates Abu Dhabi’s largest onshore fields. The concession expires in January 2014. It also has 28% of Zakum Development Company (ZADCO), wh...
Volume: 54Issue: 50Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011 -
Qatar Moratorium Continues As North Field Proves Challenging
...til 2014 while the reservoir’s depletion is studied. ExxonMobil, which has been doing the study for about four years by collecting the data from all projects in the field, requested a 2014 deadline to give it 10 years of data to work with since major production started. The North Field’s st...
Volume: 54Issue: 50Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011 -
Iraqi Oil Sector Faces Year Of Challenge And Promise
...0,000 b/d in 2014. A new 255km, 400,000 b/d pipeline to tie in with the main Iraqi crude export line to Ceyhan is also planned at an estimated cost of $450mn, Mr Hayward, the former CEO of BP, said. The Shaikan Effect Gulf Keystone’s Shaikan field will be the largest single contributor to new KRG su...
Volume: 54Issue: 50Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011 -
Saudi Banks Show Big Appetite For Marafiq $1.2Bn Loan
...rrent 1.0gw production capacity to 2.5gw by 2014-15. The company is working on an expansion of its plant at Yanbu' that will take output from the current 1.0gw to 1.5gw by July next year. It is also adding the Yanbu' II power plant at the site, which will produce 750mw of electricity and 60,000 cmd of...
Volume: 54Issue: 50Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011 -
Qurayyah $2.8Bn Power Project Financing Completed
...Samsung and the MENA Fund. The project company – Hajr for Electricity Production Company – will be 50:50 owned by the developers and SEC. It will deliver electricity to SEC under a 20‐year power purchase agreement (PPA) commencing on 30 June 2014. Germany’s Siemens will provide all major eq...
Volume: 54Issue: 50Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011 -
Iran Announces 10,000 B/D GTL Project, But Faces Hurdles
...ll start in 2012. So far, there is slow progress being made in construction of the onshore facilities and it is very unlikely that the contractor will be able to complete them before 2014-15. Offshore the project has been faster, which suggests that Phase 12 production may be ready to start before th...
Volume: 54Issue: 49Published at Mon, 05 Dec 2011 -
Iran Casts Wary Eye On Shared Field As Qatar Celebrates LNG Success
...eaky horizontal drilling,” a state-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) official tells MEES. “Qatar’s best drilling sites are right on the median line, so if there is migration it would go our way,” he said. Qatar has a moratorium until 2014 on new projects in the field, while QP completes its study into re...
Volume: 53Issue: 51Published at Mon, 20 Dec 2010 -
Naimi Likely To Stay At Helm Of No 1 Global Oil Power
...entually discarded ExxonMobil-led Core Venture 2 of the Saudi Strategic Gas initiative, proposed in the early part of the decade. Closer at hand, the offshore Middle East Gulf 1.8bn cfd Karan gas development is set to start up next year. In 2014 the 2.5bn cfd Wasit gas plant, which will process gas fr...
Volume: 53Issue: 51Published at Mon, 20 Dec 2010 -
Shuweihat S3 Power Deal Suggests Dip In Financing Costs
...wer in summer 2013 and then gear up to full rates of 1.6gw before the 2014 summer peak loading period. It will be fueled by gas. Once the PPA is signed, ADWEA is expected to make a decision on the next IWPP or IPP. This was originally going to be Taweelah C, which was supposed to have been launched as...
Volume: 53Issue: 51Published at Mon, 20 Dec 2010 -
SEC Finalizes $1.33Bn Islamic Financing With Local Banks
...ogram, which will see approximately SR21bn ($5.6bn) invested in three new power plants – at Rabigh, Riyadh and Qurayah – between April 2012 and April 2014, adding 5.2gw in new capacity (MEES, 4 October)....
Volume: 53Issue: 51Published at Mon, 20 Dec 2010 -
Syria’s 2011 Draft Budget Targets Lower Deficit
...bsequently the deficit/GDP ratio is projected to rise slightly to 6% in 2012, before falling to 5.8% in 2013, 5.5% in 2014 and 5.4% in 2015, according to the government budget statement that was presented to parliament. The budget was approved by the cabinet on 12 October and is currently being debated in...
Volume: 53Issue: 50Published at Mon, 13 Dec 2010 -
Qatar Delays Barzan Project Due To Domestic Gas Supply Surplus
...st the World Cup that year. Qatar has a surplus of gas for its domestic market and is delaying the start up of the 1.5bn cfd Barzan project to 2015, from the planned 2014, MEES learns. Barzan’s gas from the North Field – the final project approved under the moratorium on further developments of th...
Volume: 53Issue: 50Published at Mon, 13 Dec 2010 -
GCC Power Grid Project Nears Completion
...ich it is boosting to 2.5gw next year and to 3.6gw by 2014, which is expected to be greater than demand. Qatar plans to boost its power production to more than 8.707gw by 2011, from 4.263gw at the end of the second quarter of 2008. GCC Electricity Ministers Approve Single Tariff A meeting of the GC...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Ma'aden Aluminum Financing Oversubscribed, Attracts 16 Lenders
...d 380,000 t/y for the rolling mill. First commercial production from the smelter and mill is scheduled for early 2013. First production from the mine and refinery is set for early 2014. Alcoa will supply alumina to the smelter in the interim period. Ma'aden holds 74.9% of the joint venture; Al...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
IEA Revises 2010 Oil Demand Growth Forecast Upward By 130,000 B/D
...rket Report (MTOMR), it said (MEES, 6 July). “Global oil product demand is seen growing by 1.4% or 1.2mn b/d per year on average between 2009 and 2014, from 84.9mn b/d to 90.9mn b/d, with non-OECD demand accounting for more than half of global demand for the first time ever by mid-decade,” the re...
Volume: 52Issue: 51/52Published at Mon, 28 Dec 2009 -
Doha Rules Out New Gas Export Projects Post-Moratorium
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LII No 50 14-Dec-2009 Doha Rules Out New Gas Export Projects Post-Moratorium Qatar on 7 December gave its clearest message yet surrounding gas policy when it reviews its moratorium on new projects in 2014. Absolutely no new grassroots gas export pr...
Volume: 52Issue: 50Published at Mon, 14 Dec 2009 -
RWE Sees Gas Supply Agreement With Turkmenistan In 1H10
...pacity booking will get under way during the first half of 2010. Half of the pipeline’s capacity will be reserved for third-party shippers. Partners are looking for Nabucco to become operational with initial shipments of gas from Iraq or Azerbaijan in 2014-15 (MEES, 30 November, 9 November, 12 Oc...
Volume: 52Issue: 50Published at Mon, 14 Dec 2009 -
Libya Delays Plans To Raise Production Capacity To 3Mn B/D Until 2017
...iro that gas production has recently doubled to over10 bcm/year from 5.4 bcm/y in 2005. Since 2007 NOC has signed a number of development agreements with partners to raise output from the development of existing oil fields, but many of these plans are not likely to be completed until 2014 at th...
Volume: 52Issue: 50Published at Mon, 14 Dec 2009 -
OMV Chief Says Nabucco Timetable “Very Ambitious”
...cision by late 2010 and a start to construction work in 2011 to allow gas deliveries via Turkey by 2014, “is very ambitions and to some extent out of our control.” OMV is leading the Nabucco project, but Mr Ruttenstorfer appeared keen to tone down recent optimism about the availability of gas from Az...
Volume: 52Issue: 49Published at Mon, 07 Dec 2009