1. QatarEnergy To Take Over LNG Marketing Role

    ...naging Director (subsequently CEO) in 2014 (MEES, 19 September 2014). Mr Kaabi’s tenure has been characterized by three primary tenets – aggressive expansion, streamlining of operations and squeezing IOC partners. This latest initiative arguably facilitates all three and underlines the extent to wh...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 08
    Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023
  2. Saudi Efforts To Cut Oil Burn Take Backwards Step In 2022

    ...atistics (see p19 for full data) show a counter-seasonal increase in oil burn (crude and fuel oil) to 1.083mn b/d in December. This marked the second consecutive monthly rise, with December’s burn the highest on record for the month (see chart 2). The previous December record of 1.021mn b/d was set in 2014...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 08
    Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023
  3. Chevron Eying Egypt Tie-In For Cyprus’ Aphrodite

    ...4bn last year – from selling LNG as gas prices have soared. Shell, which has in the past had its own beef when Cairo reneged on letting it and precursor BG directly export WDDM gas (MEES, 7 February 2014), is not prioritizing Aphrodite development and has left negotiations to Chevron and Cairo, ME...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 17 Feb 2023
  4. Qatar’s 2022 Asian LNG Sales: Focus On Key New Term Market China Limits Revenue Gains From Record Spot Prices

    ...22 this remains well down on the record $44.0bn sales to the same five buyers back in 2014 (see chart 3). Back then Japan was the key buyer and paid an average of almost $18/mn BTU for its 16.1mn tons of Qatari LNG.   1: QATAR’S TOP ASIAN* LNG CUSTOMERS (MN TONS): CHINA SURGED AHEAD FOR 2022 WI...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 17 Feb 2023
  5. Baghdad - Erbil Oil Law Deal Stuck In Limbo

    ...Maliki’s priority appears to be holding the SCF together given the ever-present threat of Mr Sadr. “Maliki cannot risk a Sadr comeback. The Kurds have been financially struggling since 2014 and [to Mr Maliki] it is not the end of the world if they struggle for another year” muses the KRG so...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 17 Feb 2023
  6. Abu Dhabi Power Sector’s Gas Needs Dwindle

    ...ergy plants” (MEES, 20 January). As a result, thermal power plants generated just 71.5TWh in 2022, the lowest annual figure since 2014’s 70.6TWh. Moreover, upgrades to this fleet of power plants means that more electricity can be generated with less gas than in 2014. Gas consumption dropped to an 11...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 17 Feb 2023
  7. India 2022 LNG Imports: Qatar Volumes Surge To 8-Year High For 52% Market Share

    ...nce 2014.   *Unlike the key East Asian markets of Japan, China and South Korea, where Australia has in recent years overtaken Qatar as top supplier, Australia is nowhere in terms of Indian market share with a mere 0.44mn tons (2.1% market share) for 2022.   *India paid an average of $16...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 17 Feb 2023
  8. Majors Outspend Capex Targets Amid Record Profits

    ...y of $100/B. But they were higher over the years to 2014. The big change since then has been that capital spending remains restrained. The five firms’ total 2022 outlay of $95.6bn was less than half 2013’s $195.5bn, meaning much plumper margins (see chart). All five firms, nevertheless, su...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 06
    Published at Fri, 10 Feb 2023
  9. KRG’s Oil Sector Hangs By A Thread As Iraq-Turkey Arbitration Nears Closure

    ...mpromise on the region’s independent oil sector, or whether the KRG instead doubles down and pushes more volumes onto the grey market. WAITING ON PARIS             The origin of the dispute is in 2014, when the KRG completed its own independent pipeline connecting its oilfields to the Turkish bo...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 03 Feb 2023
  10. Opec Revenues Rise 50% To Eight Year High In 2022

    ...erged from 2020’s catastrophic Covid depths (see chart 1). Despite the huge back-to-back revenue gains, last year’s Opec export revenues look to have remained below 2014’s levels as the group’s fortunes have yet to fully bounce back from the price slump that began in the second half of that year. It is...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 03 Feb 2023