1. Abu Dhabi’s ADCO Targets 1.8Mn B/D Oil Capacity

    ...rporation (GHC) and 30% by Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), which won part of the $1.3bn Shah and Sahil field development contract last year. Phase 2, scheduled to come on stream by 2014 ,will add another 70,000 b/d of new capacity, which will come from Bab, Asab and North East Bab. Me...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 08
    Published at Mon, 22 Feb 2010
  2. Bulgaria’s Share In Burgas-Alexandroupolis Pipeline To Be Controlled By Finance Ministry

    ...34mn b/d), with completion scheduled for 2014 (MEES, 11 January).  Azerbaijan intends to boost gas exports to Iran to 1.2-1.5mn cmd by the end of February, Reuters reported on 12 February. The two countries signed a new gas sales and purchase agreement in January (MEES, 18 January). During 20...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 08
    Published at Mon, 22 Feb 2010
  3. PDO Reports Production Increases And Four Discoveries In 2009

    ...2,000 b/d, in line with the company’s 540,000-560,000 b/d target. Gas production, meanwhile, increased to 410,000 boe/d from 390,000 boe/d in 2008. On the back of ongoing and new enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects, PDO’s oil production target is likely to remain stable up to 2014, the Undersecretary of th...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 08
    Published at Mon, 22 Feb 2010
  4. Algeria Unveils 2010 Budget With 12.9% Increase In Expenditure

    ...ll also focus on the domestic market. According to a recent government report the plan is expected to achieve an average growth rate of 5% over 2010-14 and to reduce unemployment to less than 10% by 2014 from 11.3% in 2008 with the creation of some 3mn new jobs.    Limited Effect Of Global Financial Cr...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 07
    Published at Mon, 15 Feb 2010
  5. Albu-Kamal Petroleum Company Outlines Block 27 Plans

    ...d drill four more wells in the second quarter. Later the company plans to drill eight production and development wells at the field and maximum production is expected to rise to 4,500-5,000 b/d by 2014. The development budget for 2010 is put at $15mn. Tatneft signed a production sharing contract (PS...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 07
    Published at Mon, 15 Feb 2010
  6. Bulgaria Ratifies Nabucco Agreement, Hungary Gets Serious On South Stream

    ...reed to expand the pipeline’s capacity to 67mn tons/year (1.34mn b/d), with completion due in 2014 (MEES, 11 January).   China expects natural gas deliveries from Turkmenistan through the newly-opened Trans Asia Gas Pipeline to reach 5.8 bcm during 2010. The 1,800km dual pipeline was inaugurated in De...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 06
    Published at Mon, 08 Feb 2010
  7. A Tentative Forecast For Iraq’s Oil Production 2010-20

    ...enario is indicative: Iraqi Oil Production (Mn B\D) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2.7 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.5 7.8 These figures are based on achieving the plateaus in the giant fields in the first licensing round as we...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 06
    Published at Mon, 08 Feb 2010
  8. North Africa’s Largest Project Financing Eyes Finishing Line

    ...TK) contract and is scheduled for completion in 2014 (MEES, 24 August 2009). It was originally due on stream in 2011 at a cost of $2.25bn (MEES, 26 January 2009, 30 June 2008)....

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 05
    Published at Mon, 01 Feb 2010
  9. EU Strengthens Southern Gas Corridor Plan With Iraq MOU

    ...gin initial deliveries of around 8 bcm/year in 2014. The 3,300km pipeline will have a capacity to deliver 31 bcm/y and is hoping to secure gas supplies from Azerbaijan and Iraq. Eventually supplies may come from Egypt and possibly Turkmenistan. Azerbaijan has stated it intends to supply Nabucco, pr...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 05
    Published at Mon, 01 Feb 2010
  10. Gazprom To Buy 2 BCM Of Azerbaijani Gas In 2011

    ...purchasing as much Azerbaijani gas as possible is seen as a political move designed to pre-empt Azerbaijani gas sales to the EU-backed Nabucco gas pipeline, which is hoping to secure gas supplies from Azerbaijan’s offshore Shah Deniz contract when Stage 2 comes into operation in 2014-15. St...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 05
    Published at Mon, 01 Feb 2010
  11. Erdogan Supports Qatari Gas Pipeline To Turkey

    ...nsideration. Other recent developments in Turkey include: Hurriyet Daily News has reported that Socar and Turcas Refining, which owns Petkim Petrokimya Holding (Petkim), is to build a 10mn tons/year refinery at the Petkim Aliaga Complex in Izmir and have it in operation by 2014. The new plant is to...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 05
    Published at Mon, 01 Feb 2010
  12. Tunisia Calls For Bids To Build Two 350-500MW Power Plants

    ...n-operate (BOO) basis, of a combined cycle 350-500mw power plant at Bizerte in northern Tunisia. The development program envisages the power station coming on-stream in 2014, with the option of a second phase, doubling the plant’s capacity. The contract would be awarded to a private company on a 20...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 05
    Published at Mon, 02 Feb 2009
  13. Yemen Accelerates Upstream Efforts As Oil Production Falls

    ...ock 51 and 275,000 b/d of water. Crude output is expected to fall to around 10,500 b/d by end-2008. “With the existing wells and the wells we are drilling in 2008, we have oil until 2014 at which date we will be producing around 3,500 b/d of oil,” Mr Lett said. The PSA on the Block expires in 20...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 08
    Published at Mon, 25 Feb 2008
  14. Importing Water From Iran Would Lead To Higher Consumer Prices, Parliament Hears

    ...quirements in 2001 totaled 266mn gallons/day, and are expected to rise to 477mn g/d in 2014, 587mn g/d in 2021, and 645mn g/d in 2025. The project to import water from Iran has been proposed by a UK-registered consortium, Gulf Utilities, comprised of Kuwait’s Gulf Water Company and Energy Investment Co...

    Volume: 45
    Issue: 08
    Published at Mon, 25 Feb 2002