1. Oman Hits Record Gas And Condensate Output For 2023

    ...tput increases (see chart 1). The biggest gains came with the 2017 start-up and subsequent expansion of the huge Khazzan tight gas field on Block 61 (BP 40%op, OOC 30%, PTTEP 20%, Petronas 10%: MEES, 7 July 2023). Gas sector momentum shows signs of continuing into 2024, with international companies pu...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 26 Jan 2024
  2. Saudi Investment Primes DME For Regional Expansion

    ...ainst the DME Oman contract, but DME has long targeted Iraq’s Somo (MEES, 15 September 2017) and Saudi Arabia’s financial backing may tempt it to make the switch from Platts Oman. The partners have sought to emphasize that “ensuring the integrity of the DME Oman contract” is of the utmost priority an...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 26 Jan 2024
  3. South Korea 2023 Crude Imports: Saudi Dominant, UAE Biggest Gainer

    ...*South Korea, the world’s number four crude importer after China, the US and India, imported 2.73mn b/d for 2023, down 3% year on year and 300,000 b/d below the record 3.03mn b/d set in 2017.   *Saudi Arabia remained clear number one supplier with 955,000 b/d for a 35% market share de...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 03
    Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2024
  4. Iran Faces Blowback After Rocket Attacks Hit Iraq, Pakistan & Syria

    ...nior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies. “Iran is pressuring the KDP to align with its agenda for Iraq. Iran has not forgiven the KDP for spearheading the 2017 [Kurdistan independence] referendum and siding with Sadr and Halbousi against the PMUs after the 2021 elections,” he ex...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 03
    Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2024
  5. Iran’s High Winter Gas Demand Dampens Transit Hub Ambitions

    ...llowing a five-year hiatus after Turkmengaz in 2017 halted flows over claims that NIGC owed it $1.8bn for previous deliveries (MEES, 13 January 2017). This was officially resolved last June according to NIGC after Baghdad paid some $2.76bn from Iran’s frozen energy dues in Iraq. The nature of the Tu...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 03
    Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2024
  6. 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: 67
    Issue: 03
    Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2024
  7. 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: 67
    Issue: 02
    Published at Fri, 12 Jan 2024
  8. 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: 67
    Issue: 02
    Published at Fri, 12 Jan 2024
  9. 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: 67
    Issue: 01
    Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2024
  10. 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: 67
    Issue: 01
    Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2024