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Iraq Eyes Japanese Replacement For Inpex Stake
...ch as JX Nippon are unlikely to be willing to replace Inpex given the risky operational environment. Located in Dhi Qar province and discovered by Lukoil in 2017, Eridu is one of Iraq’s largest discoveries in recent years....
Volume: 66Issue: 05Published at Fri, 03 Feb 2023 -
Wintershall Dea and Sonatrach Eye Low Carbon Opportunities
...ggane Nord project which started up in 2017. Algeria is hoping to convert several MoUs signed with IOCs to concrete investment deals under its recently activated 2019 oil law. Eni is so far the only confirmed company to have been awarded a concession under the law’s improved terms (MEES, 17 December 20...
Volume: 65Issue: 08Published at Fri, 25 Feb 2022 -
Borouge Partners Consider IPO
...noc Distribution shares began trading in 2017 (MEES, 1 December 2017), while an IPO of Adnoc Drilling was carried out last year (MEES, 10 September 2021)....
Volume: 65Issue: 07Published at Fri, 18 Feb 2022 -
BP/Equinor Algeria Gas Output Rebounds In 2021
...is was still almost 300mn cfd lower than 2017’s record 815mn cfd. In Salah’s output rose 19% to 571mn cfd in 2020 – the second lowest on record after 2020’s 481mn cfd. Partners BP, Equinor and Sonatrach have struggled to halt production declines over the years, despite the completion of field tie-in...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
Lamprell: First Saudi LTA Award
...o offshore production deck modules and associated pipeline and subsea cables. The UAE firm’s primary facilities are in Hamriyah, Sharjah, but in 2017 it signed a joint venture agreement with Saudi Aramco, national shipping carrier Bahri and Hyundai Heavy Industries to establish and operate a ma...
Volume: 64Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2021 -
KPC Prepares To Streamline Subsidiaries With Reshuffle
...5,000 b/d refinery and a 22mn t/y LNG import terminal are slated to start up this quarter. Kipic was only established in 2017, but looks set to be merged back into KNPC. Elsewhere, with Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) CEO Ali Shehab retiring, he will be replaced as acting CEO by Abdulnasser al-Fulaij, th...
Volume: 64Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2021 -
KRG: Oryx Downgrade
...etaceous reservoirs.” Still, despite the reserves downgrade, 2019 saw Oryx’s most positive year yet in Kurdistan. Hawler is currently producing a record 14,500 b/d, having seemingly put previous geological woes behind it. Output stood at just 3,000 b/d in 2017, grew to 10,000 b/d by end 2018 (MEES, 15 Ma...
Volume: 63Issue: 09Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2020 -
Aramco Trading Signs Kuwait Crude Deal
...Saudi Aramco’s trading arm, Aramco Trading (ATC) is rapidly stepping up its activities. Overall liquids traded in 2017 totaled just 1.40mn b/d, jumped to 2.17mn b/d in 2018 and 4.5mn b/d in 1Q 2019. The firm aims to reach 6mn b/d by the end of this year (MEES, 19 July 2019). It appears to ha...
Volume: 63Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2020 -
Egyptian Firms Win Nuclear Work
...ich Egypt will begin repaying the loan (MEES, 15 December 2017). ...
Volume: 63Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2020 -
Algeria’s 3.5BCM/Y Ain Tsila ‘Ahead Of Schedule’
...in line with the September 2022 timeframe outlined when Petrofac was last March awarded the key $1bn EPC contract (MEES, 15 March 2019); given Algeria’s record of chronic delays sticking to this latest target no doubt feels like a victory. The project had originally been slated for 2017 start-up (ME...
Volume: 63Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2020 -
Qatar 2019 Powergen Record
...evious annual record of 43.9TWh in 2017. An all-time high of 5.65TWh was recorded in August, while December was just the latest in a long series of monthly records (see charts). Rising energy consumption is far from unusual in the GCC, but the scale of the annual increase in Qatar is remarkable. That sa...
Volume: 63Issue: 07Published at Fri, 14 Feb 2020 -
Bahrain Studies ‘Mega’ Fertilizers
...uity in GPIC: Bahrain’s Nogaholding investment vehicle; Saudi Arabia’s Sabic Agri-Nutrients; and Kuwait’s state petchems firm PIC. The planned gas study suggests GPIC is considering developing a new fertilizers complex to utilize gas from a huge tight oil and deep gas discovery made at the end of 2017...
Volume: 63Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2020 -
Iraq-Saudi Border Crossing Progresses
...ghdad – partly in a belated recognition that rebuffing the Iraqi government might help counter Iran’s stronghold there (MEES, 27 October 2017). The Saudis agreed to reopen the crossing in August 2017 (MEES, 1 September 2017), and the move is expected to facilitate trade and more movement between the two co...
Volume: 62Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2019 -
Adnoc Starts Pre-FEED For New Refinery
...noc Refining earlier this month restarted the residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) at its 417,000 b/d Ruwais West refinery. The key unit was out for two years after being damaged in an early 2017 fire. The RFCC shutdown forced Adnoc to export fuel oil normally processed there while importing re...
Volume: 62Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2019 -
Kurdistan’s Tawke Field Reserves Downgrade
...The Tawke block’s (DNO 75%op, Genel 25%) Peshkabir field has been covering up for sizeable production declines at the main Tawke since late 2017. Output was a healthy 128,000 b/d in January, but the Tawke field’s was just 74,000 b/d against 54,000 b/d - a 21.3% annual decline (MEES, 8 Fe...
Volume: 62Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2019 -
Saudi Crude: Top In Korea
...7,000 b/d in 2018, up more than 120,000 b/d on 2017 volumes, including a record 434,000 b/d in December and 269,000 b/d in January. Volumes from Algeria also more than doubled to 44,200 b/d, translating into a 41.5% rise to $1.264bn in Algeria’s export earnings from Korea. Both Algeria’s Saharan Blend and Ea...
Volume: 62Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2019 -
QP Triple Boost
...ES, 30 January 2015). But the state firm stepped up activities in 2017 and the number of deals reached a crescendo last year (MEES, 21 December 2018). Qatar is now reaping the benefits, reaching FID on the key US Golden Pass LNG export terminal this week (see p6) and notching up its first ever ov...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
Iran Claims Gasoline Record
...rt of Bandar Abbas which would add 77,000 b/d. The previous Gulf Star phases were brought online in April 2017 and February 2018 (MEES, 26 October 2018). These gains may be sufficient to enable the halting of gasoline imports, which averaged 55,000 b/d over the first half of 2018. ...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
Iraqi Kurdistan Government Formation Edges Closer
...chirvan Barzani himself has become president, having effectively held the position since November 2017 when his uncle (and Masrour’s father) Massoud Barzani stepped down in the wake of the September 2017 independence referendum (MEES, 22 September 20`7). The KDP’s opponents frequently accuse the party of ne...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
Lebanon To Cut Electricity Subsidy
...ansfers’ to the state electricity company Electricité du Liban. The government forked out over $740mn in 1H 2018 alone on such payments, and $1.33bn in 2017. Subsidy cuts would also rationalize consumption, which given heavy subsidies (but also theft from the power grid), puts further strain on the el...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019