1. KRG: Genel Finalizing Taq Taq Exit

    ...Genel Energy says it has agreed terms with Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government for exiting the Taq Taq PSC, noting that this will “remove the risk of any residual decommissioning liabilities.” Taq Taq was the largest IOC-operated field in Kurdistan in 2014 with 103,000 b/d output, peaking at 11...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2025
  2. BP-Baghdad: Kirkuk Deal Close?

    ...story at Kirkuk, but earlier talks fell apart in 2020 following a three-year study initially commissioned in 2013, which was interrupted by the rise of the Islamic State in 2014. In August last year, both parties re-engaged in negotiations to develop the field’s Baba and Avanah domes, as well as the ne...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 02
    Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2025
  3. Libya’s Waha: Hess Confirms Total, Conoco Each Paid $75mn For Stakes...

    ...d restored three wells to production that had been offline since 2014, adding a total of 2,500 b/d to production....

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 27 Jan 2023
  4. South Korea: Record LNG Import Bill As Australia Overtakes Qatar

    ...$21.48/mn BTU for its 2022 LNG imports, including a monthly record $29.19/mn BTU in September, it should come as no surprise that the country’s overall import bill smashed previous highs: at a cool $50bn it was twice the 2021 figure and almost $19bn above the previous record of $31.4bn set in 2014...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 03
    Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023
  5. EBRD: $54mn For Morocco Wind

    ...March 2014). Morocco together with Egypt leads the Mena region in terms of wind with 1.4GW of installed capacity (MEES, 2 April 2021)....

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 01
    Published at Fri, 07 Jan 2022
  6. Morocco Extends Coal Deal

    ...d were developed under a 30-year power purchase agreement signed in 1997. Taqa added a further 700MW of coal-fired capacity at the plant in 2014, taking total capacity to 2.056GW (MEES, 26 September 2014). The deal extends Rabat’s commitment to coal, which provided over 50% of Morocco’s el...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020
  7. Egypt Gas Back On The Rise

    ...e global market amid suppressed prices (MEES, 20 December 2019). The lion’s share of output comes from the Mediterranean, where output rose to 4.281bn cfd for November. At 64.3% of overall output, this was the highest since March 2014, and nearly double the January 2017 nadir of 37%. The key co...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2020
  8. Taqa Completes $3.5bn Refinancing

    ...ter oil prices collapsed in 2014. This focused on cutting capital expenditure and reducing debt (MEES, 17 November 2017). Taqa’s main business segments are power and water, mainly in the UAE but also internationally, as well as upstream oil and gas. Upstream Taqa has producing operations in Iraqi Ku...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 02
    Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2020