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Israel Upstream To Continue Growing In 2022 Despite Minister’s ‘Green’ Pledge
...lek consortium were the two bidders but the award is currently awaiting arbitration (MEES, 15 January). Energean argues that Chevron and Delek were excluded from bidding for blocks in Israel’s bid rounds following a 2014 antitrust ruling (MEES, 2 January 2015). KEY EAST MED OFFSHORE FIELDS & IN...
Volume: 64Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 24 Dec 2021 -
KRG Repayment Obligations Offset Oil Revenue Gains
...l prices first crashed in late 2014 the KRG has sold billions of dollars of oil in prepayment deals to secure up-front cash. It has also accrued debts to IOCs in its oil sector by failing to pay on time, and it sold a 60% stake in its key crude oil export pipeline to Russia’s Rosneft and must now pa...
Volume: 64Issue: 50Published at Fri, 17 Dec 2021 -
Saudi Budgets For 2022 Surplus: First In Nine Years
...ices began to tumble in the second half of 2014 (see chart 1). Since then, the kingdom has notched up eight consecutive deficits for a cumulative $460bn, if the kingdom’s initial estimates for this year are accurate. For 2021, the government’s latest expectations are that it will accrue a $22.7bn de...
Volume: 64Issue: 50Published at Fri, 17 Dec 2021 -
LNG Prices Show No Sign Of Easing
...*South Korea, the world’s number three LNG importer paid an average of $15.92/mn BTU for November-arrival cargoes, the highest since December 2014. Taiwan, the global number five, paid an all-time high $21.32/mn BTU. *This indicates that Taiwan’s imports contained a much higher pr...
Volume: 64Issue: 50Published at Fri, 17 Dec 2021 -
Delek & Mubadala Complete ‘Historic’ Tamar Deal
...nin and were found to be operating as monopoly by a late 2014 antitrust ruling (MEES, 2 January 2015). They remain the key partners at Leviathan with 45.34% and 39.66% respectively, whilst Chevron remains operator at Tamar with a 25% stake. “This step of the transfer of rights and the exit of De...
Volume: 64Issue: 49Published at Fri, 10 Dec 2021 -
Opec Production Growth Picks Up In November, But Still Remains Well Under Output Ceiling
...awed” at the World Petroleum Congress in Houston this week. “It does not help when the pressure is mounting to stop all new investments in oil and gas. Across the industry, upstream capex fell by more than 50% between 2014 and last year, from $700bn to $300bn,” he says. TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Po...
Volume: 64Issue: 49Published at Fri, 10 Dec 2021 -
Qatar Unveils Overly Conservative 2022 Budget
...tari monthly export revenues exceeded $8bn for the first time since December 2014 and with pricing for Qatar’s term LNG sales incorporating a lagging oil-price linkage, Doha can look forward to strong early-2022 revenues. WORLD CUP SPENDING BOOST On the expenditure side of the ledger, Qa...
Volume: 64Issue: 49Published at Fri, 10 Dec 2021 -
Libya’s Mabruk Field To Restart In Early 2023
...Libya’s Mabruk Oil Operations says its eponymous field will restart production in the first quarter of 2023 at a rate of 25,000 b/d using Early Production Facilities. Mabruk has been shut in since 2014 when an Islamic State (IS) attack severely damaged its surface infrastructure (MEES, 6 Ma...
Volume: 64Issue: 49Published at Fri, 10 Dec 2021 -
Chevron Eying Egypt Collaborations, Exxon Expands In Cyprus
...rth Africa. Woodside previously had Libya and Mauritania assets, and back in 2014 was in talks to take a 25% stake in Israel’s Leviathan (MEES, 23 May 2014). Egypt last year listed Woodside as being among international firms to have expressed an interest in West Med acreage (MEES, 17 January 2020), so it...
Volume: 64Issue: 48Published at Fri, 03 Dec 2021 -
Iraq’s 2030 ‘Sustainable Transition’ Plan: Gas & Renewables To The Fore
...ld up by the Islamic State’s 2014-2015 rise, and in 2018 Iraq took the field away from a consortium led by Turkey’s TPAO. Even now, MEES understands that the Sinopec deal “has yet to be finalized.” As for Akkas, talks with the Saudis led by oil minister Ihsan Ismaael seem to have gone nowhere, an...
Volume: 64Issue: 48Published at Fri, 03 Dec 2021