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Egypt’s Nuclear Megaproject Faces Uncertainty As Russian Funding Squeezed
...the Mediterranean coast 170km west of Alexandria. This was followed by a 2017 agreement greenlighting several contracts for construction (MEES, 15 December 2017), which effectively began in 2022 (MEES, 8 July 2022). Under the agreements, Russian state nuclear energy firm Rosatom will build the fo...
Volume: 67Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2024 -
Kufpec Eyes Portfolio Optimization After Exiting Norway & China
...cord 107,000 boe/d set in 2019 (see chart). Kufpec had previously aimed to reach 200,000 boe/d by 2020, but ultimately fell well short of this goal (MEES, 8 September 2017). NORWAY CLOSURE Kufpec’s foray into Norway began in 2013 with the purchase of Norske AEDC, the Norwegian su...
Volume: 67Issue: 02Published at Fri, 12 Jan 2024 -
Iraq’s Oil Revenues Down 15% From 2022’s Record
...e country dropping by 105,000 b/d to 911,000 b/d according to data intelligence firm Kpler (see chart 2). This is the lowest annual figure since 2017’s 845,000 b/d. Exports to India dipped to 741,000 b/d in June 2023, some 530,000 b/d below their March 2022 peak of 1.27mn b/d. Volumes however re...
Volume: 67Issue: 02Published at Fri, 12 Jan 2024 -
Egypt Gas Output & LNG Exports Slump To Multi-Year Lows For 2023
...Egypt’s gas output slumped to a six-year low 5.82bn cfd for 2023 with LNG ex-ports halving to 3.32mn tons despite record 835mn cfd imports from Israel. Egypt gas output fell for the second consecutive year, slumping 11% to 5.82bn cfd for 2023, the lowest level since 2017. While Egypt’s ma...
Volume: 67Issue: 01Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2024 -
Kuwait Seeks To Reboot Stalled Power Projects
...at instance bidders were assessed throughout late-2016 and early 2017, only for the whole process to fall apart in mid-2017 after PPP laws were amended. By mid-2019, KAPP and the Ministry had re-configured the main planned feedstock for Khairan from very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) to natural ga...
Volume: 67Issue: 01Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2024 -
Cyprus Gas Ambitions: From Dreams To Reality In 2023?
...e border. And with Eni either operating or partnering TotalEnergies on the key blocks on the Cypriot side of the border, it was well placed to look for ‘more Zohr’ in Cyprus. Though the first such well, July 2017’s Onesiphoros on Block 11 (Total 50%op, Eni 50%), only discovered sub-commercial vo...
Volume: 66Issue: 04Published at Fri, 27 Jan 2023 -
Imminent Russian Embargo Set To Boost Middle East-Europe Oil Flows
...ve-year average. However, middle distillate inventories only reached 240.2mn barrels in November, 31.9mn barrels below the 2017-2021 average.” Preliminary Euroilstock data shows a modest 800,000-barrel December rise, which would have left middle distillate inventories still well below average le...
Volume: 66Issue: 04Published at Fri, 27 Jan 2023 -
Kuwaiti Government Resigns. Again
...quired to ease the government’s reliance on direct oil revenues by tapping into its dollar reserves has been stuck since October 2017. With government ministers objecting to the debt relief bill, and MPs seeking to “grill” two cabinet ministers, the cabinet opted to resign. Prime Minister Sheikh Ah...
Volume: 66Issue: 04Published at Fri, 27 Jan 2023 -
Power Generation Set To Drive Middle East Oil Use Gains
...dustrial activity typically rises with economic activity. Consumption averaged 572,000 b/d for the first 11 months of 2022, up 70,000 b/d year-on-year. This is the highest figure since 2017, when the government implemented subsidy reforms to curb consumption and effectively pushed it out from power pl...
Volume: 66Issue: 04Published at Fri, 27 Jan 2023 -
Oman: Block 60 Oil Field Inauguration
...0,000 boe/d, and provides a welcome boost to Oman’s overall production capacity. But with renewed Opec+ production cuts in place until the end of the year, Oman will be unable to fully tap into this additional capacity (see p3). Block 60 was first discovered in 2017, with the first crude oil pr...
Volume: 66Issue: 04Published at Fri, 27 Jan 2023 -
Oman Set For New Gas Highs With Block 10 Start-Up
...CORD GAS OUTPUT Shell and TotalEnergies have greatly increased their presence in Oman’s exploration acreage in recent years following BP’s successful development of Block 61’s 1.5bn cfd tight gas reserves. Block 61’s Khazzan development came online in 2017 and revitalized Oman’s gas se...
Volume: 66Issue: 03Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023 -
Oman’s Blocks 3 & 4 Suffer Output Fall For 2022
...REAM As it stands, all of Tethys’ production comes from Blocks 3 & 4, and even before last year’s problems the firm was keen to diversify. It snapped up three additional blocks between 2017 and 2020 and is optimistic about beginning commercial operations at one in the near future. After di...
Volume: 66Issue: 03Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023 -
South Korea Crude Imports: Saudi Up 23% To Record 995,000 B/D For 2023
...*South Korea, the world’s number four crude importer behind China, the US and India, saw volumes rise 7% to 2.81mn b/d for 2022, a three year high but 220,000 b/d shy of the record 3.03mn b/d set in 2017 (see table). *With volumes from Russia – 2021’s number five supplier with 15...
Volume: 66Issue: 03Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023 -
Aramco Trading Launches American Subsidiary
...ade fuels and base oils,” Aramco says. The ‘Port Arthur’ refinery has been wholly owned by Aramco since it paid $2.2bn to Shell to acquire the major’s 50% stake in the facility in May 2017 (MEES, 10 March 2017). Under the deal signed in March 2017, the 50:50 Motiva JV was broken up, with Aramco ge...
Volume: 66Issue: 03Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023 -
Intra-Kurdish Rift Risks United Position In Baghdad
...ghdad. That is no longer the case, especially since the 2017 death of PUK founder and long-time leader Jalal Talabani. With the KDP and PUK backing different factions in last year’s lengthy government formation process, the fissures between the two deepened further (MEES, 17 June 2022). That melodrama ha...
Volume: 66Issue: 03Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023 -
Record-Breaking Oman LNG Signs New Sales Deals
...G sector over the past seven years has been remarkable. Exports bottomed out in 2015 at just 7.91mn tons amid a narrative of decline as rising domestic demand from the power generation sector crimped feedstock availability. The September 2017 start-up of the 1bn cfd Khazzan tight gas development co...
Volume: 66Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2023 -
Opec Solidifies Gains In 2022 As Saudi Sets Output Record
...pacity dropped from 3.15mn b/d in 2017/18 to 2.63mn b/d in 2020/21 according to the latest KOC figures (MEES, 22 October 2021). Kuwait also suffered from the full shut-in of the Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ), from where oil output is split with Saudi Arabia, between May 2015 and February 2020 (ME...
Volume: 66Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2023 -
Saudi Crude Exports Rise To Five-Year High In 2022
...10.57mn b/d for 2022 (see p7) drove an 800,000 b/d year-on-year increase in the kingdom’s crude oil exports. Figures from data intelligence firm Kpler show that crude exports (excluding Saudi Arabia’s 50% share from the Partitioned Neutral Zone) exceeded 7mn b/d last year for the first time since 2017...
Volume: 66Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2023 -
Can Iraq Use Gulf Football Tournament To Score GCC Investment Hike?
...fice. Saudi Arabia’s newfound willingness to deal with its northern neighbor then became more apparent from 2017 (MEES, 27 October 2017). The appointment of Mr Maliki’s close-ally, new Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani, has been met with initial wariness from Riyadh (MEES, 18 November 2022), with hi...
Volume: 66Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2023 -
Qatar Takes FID On Huge Petrochemicals Complex
...CUS Qatar first announced plans for this major new petrochemicals venture in 2017, with Mr Kaabi telling MEES in an interview that it was planning a “world-scale” facility to process ethane from its mammoth North Field gas expansion project (MEES, 8 December 2017). This was a major development given th...
Volume: 66Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2023