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Iraq Eyes Gas Boost With Signing Of Fifth Licensing Round Contracts
...OIIP although only 20-30% of this is expected to prove recoverable – around 480-720mn barrels. An oil well was drilled in 1976 and tested 4,000 b/d of gas-rich oil from the field’s first pay in the Upper Cretaceous, with high pressure damaging the rig. In 2017, projections were for state-owned Mi...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Oman Envisions Ambitious Gas Developments But At A Cost
...ntures. The start-up of BP’s 1bn cfd Khazzan tight gas project in 2017 spurred Oman’s gas revolution, with the second phase 500mn cfd Ghazeer play boosting the sultanate’s production to record levels when it came online in 2020. This success sparked international interest in Oman’s unconventional gas pl...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Adnoc Gas Poised For $50bn Valuation
...sted back in 2017 (MEES, 16 February 2018). Assuming that Adnoc achieves the high end of its valuation, this will be the second IPO carried out by the group to raise $2bn in less than a year. In May, the flotation of a 10% stake in the Borouge petrochemicals firm raised $2bn, becoming the largest IPO in...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
QatarEnergy To Take Over LNG Marketing Role
...e in one place. And the savings are huge. Two billion riyals operating costs saved annually” (MEES, 8 December 2017). The post-RasGas system had grown somewhat less unified of late, with QatarEnergy establishing its own LNG trading team. The new entity was announced in November 2020 with a ma...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Cairo Launches $10bn Privatization Drive In Bid To Plug Financing Hole
...ile Egypt agreed to hand over the two islands in 2017 in a deeply unpopular move (MEES, 4 August 2017), it has yet to finalize the deal. EGYPTIAN STATE-OWNED ENTITIES SLATED FOR 2023 PRIVATIZATION *NREA (NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY AUTHORITY). **SCA (SUEZ CANAL AUTHORITY). ^CBE (CENTRAL BA...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Egypt’s Cheiron: FID For 150mn Cfd West El Burullus
...e ‘East Alexandria’ block which was put on offer last month in a bid round launched by state gas firm Egas (MEES, 6 January). Cheiron purchased West El Burullus from Engie in 2017 (MEES, 19 May 2017), with the French firm the previous year having taken FID on the stand-alone development of the WE...
Volume: 66Issue: 06Published at Fri, 10 Feb 2023 -
OMV’s Upstream Focus Drifts East
...only began producing there in the second half of 2018 when the Sarb & Umm Lulu concession began production. But the firm’s links to the UAE are deep and go back much further than this. Abu Dhabi state investor Mubadala took compatriot’s IPIC 24.9% stake in OMV after the two funds merged in 2017 – IP...
Volume: 66Issue: 06Published at Fri, 10 Feb 2023 -
Kuwait’s KPC Suffers Steep Budget Cuts
...e third GCC member of Opec is on an altogether different path. Kuwait’s production capacity has been shrinking in recent years. State firm KOC, which is responsible for the bulk of Kuwait’s upstream operations, saw capacity decline from 3.15mn b/d for 2017/18 to 2.63mn b/d in 2020/21 (financial ye...
Volume: 66Issue: 06Published at Fri, 10 Feb 2023 -
Kuwait Plans ‘Extraordinary’ $87bn Budget For 2023-24
...6.83bn ($22.5bn). Still, absent a huge oil price shock, Kuwait still looks set to generate a sizable deficit next year. Financing the deficit will remain a challenge for Kuwait, which has been unable to raise debt since 2017 as parliament has repeatedly blocked a new debt law. TAPPING STATE EN...
Volume: 66Issue: 06Published at Fri, 10 Feb 2023 -
KRG’s Oil Sector Hangs By A Thread As Iraq-Turkey Arbitration Nears Closure
...,000 b/d through the link. PIPELINE TO THE WORLD The stretch of pipeline in Kurdistan was built and operated by domestic firm KAR and had an initial capacity of 300,000 b/d. This was expanded to 700,000 b/d and then in June 2017 Russian state-firm Rosneft took a 60% stake and invested in ex...
Volume: 66Issue: 05Published at Fri, 03 Feb 2023 -
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