1. Oman Gas Sector Set For Leap Forward In 2024

    ...Oman’s gas renaissance continues apace, with both Shell and TotalEnergies set to advance key projects in 2024. The key near-term limiting factor is not upstream potential but outlets for new production, Shell’s country chief tells MEES. Until 2017 the outlook for Oman’s gas sector was wo...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 51/52
    Published at Fri, 22 Dec 2023
  2. Angola Quits Opec Over Quota Reform Process

    ...ll. Angola signed up to a 1.673mn b/d Opec+ allocation from January 2017, but even when production restrictions eased, it was unable to bring output back to anything approaching pre-2017 levels (see chart). Luanda will be hoping that free from the prospect of Opec+ production limitations, the country wi...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 51/52
    Published at Fri, 22 Dec 2023
  3. Kuwait’s New Emir Criticizes Political Divisions

    ...tober 2022 did KPC finally began operations at its long-awaited 120,000 b/d GC-32 project which was due online in 2020 after a $1.3bn 2017 award to the UK’s Petrofac (MEES, 31 March 2017).  …WITH DELAYED PROJECT AWARDS                                   The minister’s claims are backed up by a 30 Oc...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 51/52
    Published at Fri, 22 Dec 2023
  4. Harbour Expands With Wintershall Takeover

    ...ich in turn was formed in a 2017 merger (MEES, 1 December 2017). That deal left Wintershall Dea with substantial Russian assets, which, in a further complicating factor will be excluded from the Harbour transaction. As will one of Wintershall Dea’s key Mena assets, the ‘Wintershall’ fields in Li...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 51/52
    Published at Fri, 22 Dec 2023
  5. Kuwait’s Cabinet Looks Ahead To A Troublesome 2024

    ...rrorism related charges. As well as the political figures, those pardoned included Shafi al-Ajimi who was jailed in 2021 for financing Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front in Syria, and Hassan Abdul Hadi Hajeyah who was sentenced in 2017 to life in prison for heading the infamous ‘Abdali Cell’. The group ha...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 15 Dec 2023
  6. Egypt’s Financial Woes Mount: Record Debt & Deficit As Devaluation Looms

    ...th the IMF. But as oil prices have risen in recent years gasoline and diesel subsidies have reappeared by the back door (MEES, 10 November). The E£119.4bn ($3.9bn) budgeted for 2023-24 spending on oil products subsidies is the highest since 2017-18 in Egyptian pound terms and 2018-19 in dollar te...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 15 Dec 2023
  7. Iran Plans Major Gas Storage Expansion To Face Winter Shortages

    ...a pipeline to consumers. In addition to meeting local demand in the high season, the gas storage facilities were envisioned to reduce reliance on imports from Turkmenistan, which peaked at around 9.3bcm in 2017. GAS GIANT WITH PUNY STORAGE    Iran boasts the world’s second largest proven gas re...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 49
    Published at Fri, 08 Dec 2023
  8. Saudi Arabia Budgets For $21bn Deficit In 2024

    ...sults, which show a 41.5% year-on-year increase to $54.1bn in capital expenditure. This is the highest figure since 2017, and with much of the investment responsibilities having been moved off-budget to state entities such as PIF, this indicates significantly higher investments than six years ago. De...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 49
    Published at Fri, 08 Dec 2023
  9. Egypt Looks To Kickstart WestMed Exploration With Seismic Surge

    ...fine their exploration strategies,” PGS says. Cairo previously commissioned PGS to shoot 2D seismic right across the Herodotus Basin in 2017-18 (MEES, 25 January 2019), before choosing to only offer up blocks comprising the nearer-shore portion of the Basin in subsequent drilling. BP DE...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 48
    Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2023
  10. Yemen’s Breakthrough Truce Threatened By Houthi Military Attacks

    ...mbined cycle power plant. Yemen’s oil and gas sector had been declining since long before the onset of civil war. Production peaked in 2002 at 457,000 b/d with exports remaining above 100,000 b/d until 2014 (MEES, 15 September 2017). However, since the start of the conflict and the Saudi-led in...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 48
    Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2023
  11. India Crude Imports: Iraq Rebound As Russia Remains Dominant

    ...Latest official Indian crude import stats for October show volumes from Iraq rebounding to 1.06mn b/d, the highest since March, and the first over 1mn b/d since April. Iraq was India’s top supplier every year from 2017 to 2022 but Russia has surged ahead this year. India’s imports from Ru...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 48
    Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2023
  12. Algeria-Turkey LNG Deal

    ...gerian LNG. Nevertheless, Turkey has taken in excess of its contractual term volumes of Algerian LNG every year since 2017, whilst Turkey has been Algeria’s top export market for each of the past six years. For 2023, Algeria-Turkey volumes are on track to challenge the annual record of 4.37mn to...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 48
    Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2023