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Turkey’s ITP Exit Sets Stage For Intensive Talks With Iraq
...ghdad largely emerged as the winner in an arbitration case against Ankara for facilitating independent Kurdish oil exports between 2014 and 2018 (MEES, 31 March 2023). Before the shutdown, the ITP carried up to 400,000 b/d of Kurdish crude and around 70,000 b/d of Federal Kirkuk production to Ceyhan. Th...
Volume: 68Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2025 -
Qatar’s NFPS Ensures Legacy LNG Facilities Maintain Capacity
...tar carried out was the Plateau Maintenance Project (PMP) which started up in 2014. It involved brownfield work in the North Field and a revamp to onshore facilities aimed at maintaining the 10mn t/y capacity at its oldest three trains (MEES, 17 October 2014). Like the PMP project over a decade ag...
Volume: 68Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
Drone Attacks Force Shutdown Of Key Kurdistan Oil Fields
...ersee security since ISIS was ousted in 2017. The field fell under ISIS control in 2014, and the security situation in the area remains precarious. SANCTIONS RETALIATION? Iraq’s deal with HKN comes as Baghdad has been trying to convince US companies to invest in the country’s energy se...
Volume: 68Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
HKN Signs Preliminary Deal For Development Of Federal Field
...supply nearby power plants. That said, oil ministry data seen by MEES put output below 10,000 b/d in early-2024 and an informed source says operations have been undermined by the security situation in the area. The field suffered severe damage after the ISIS takeover in 2014 and Iraqi security fo...
Volume: 68Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
BP Sets Sights On Expanded Libya Operations With New MoU
...riodically expressed a desire to exploit over the past decade (MEES, 30 May 2014). In 2014, NOC’s then-chairman Mustafa Sanalla spoke optimistically about Libya’s unconventional oil and gas potential. He said that “a lot of homework will be done to evaluate these resources,” but since then NOC has lacked the re...
Volume: 68Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2025 -
Oman Posts Record Gas Output For 1H 2024
...om 2023’s record 5.0bn cfd. Production has been on a sharp upwards trajectory over the past decade, rising from 3.5bn cfd in 2014 thanks to the commercialization of sizeable unconventional gas deposits. Total gas availability is higher still at 5.4bn cfd, a figure that includes approximately 20...
Volume: 67Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2024 -
Algeria Adds Power Capacity
...rea had previously indicated 2025 completion for the project (MEES, 7 January 2021). When awarded in 2014 the target for completion was 2017....
Volume: 67Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 -
Egypt Gas Woes Continue As Output Slumps At BP’s Raven
...ases, output peaked at 2bn cfd in 2008 but had halved by 2014, with output now just 300mn cfd. Shell is moving ahead with Phase-10 and Phase-11 of the project but here any additional output will be offset by decline and the project may struggle to make it past the end of this decade. At Zohr th...
Volume: 67Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 -
Opec Keeps Output Steady In June
...jors’ relationship with the Nigerian authorities. As IOCs continue to exit from onshore and shallow blocks, NNPC has declared ‘a state of emergency’ in the industry, pleading for more collaboration to bring output to 2mn b/d – something that hasn’t been achieved since 2014. VENEZUELA EYES 90...
Volume: 67Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2024 -
Egypt’s New Petroleum & Electricity Ministers Face Mounting In-Tray Challenges
...thority and the Shipbuilding Company in Ismailia and Port Said. He has also served in several leadership roles, including as Chairman of the Cairo Airport Company (2013-2014), the Holding Company for Airports and Air Navigation (2014-2016), and the Cairo Glass Manufacturing Company (since 2016). EC...
Volume: 67Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2024 -
China Deals Push Qatar LNG Back To Top Spot
...uivalent to China’s total spot purchases from Qatar over the 2014-2021 period. This was enough to lift spot sales to Asia by nearly 2mn tons to a six-year high 8.5mn tons, with modest gains also registered for spot sales to India and even Japan. Meanwhile, spot sales to Europe edged up by just 35...
Volume: 66Issue: 30Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 -
Egypt Blackouts Led By Heatwave, Gas Shortages
...ports of piped Israeli gas. The blackouts bring to an end a near-decade long period of steady electricity. Recognizing the importance of steady electricity supply, President Sisi has invested heavily in upgrading the country’s power fleet since coming to power in 2014, with three CCGTs totaling 14.4GW of...
Volume: 66Issue: 30Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 -
Kuwait’s Four Year Government Program Gets Little Support
...position-led assembly, only a handful of MPs showed support, rendering the passage of the approximately 30 proposed laws questionable. One law in particular saw almost unanimous opposition – the contentious Debt Law. Kuwait ran a series of eight consecutive budget deficits (see chart) between 2014/15 an...
Volume: 66Issue: 30Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 -
Japan’s PM Eyes Oil, Gas Cooperation From Middle East Tour
...G. The end-2021 expiry of Jera’s contract to purchase 5mn t/y of LNG from Qatar resulted in volumes plummeting. Having tussled with Australia and Malaysia to be Japan’s largest LNG supplier a decade ago, Qatari supplies have slumped from 16.14mn tons in 2014 to just 2.88mn tons for 2022 (see ch...
Volume: 66Issue: 29Published at Fri, 21 Jul 2023 -
Libya Oil Outages Highlight Continued Instability
...vel with late-2019 as the highest monthly figure since February 2014 (see chart 3). 1: LIBYA’S CRUDE OUTPUT LEVELS HAVE BEEN HIGHLY VOLATILE SINCE THE EARLY 2011 REVOLUTION (‘000 B/D)… *AS PER OPEC ASB FOR SOME YEARS (INCLUDING 2022) THIS DOES NOT TALLY WITH NOC’S BY-CONCESSION FIGURES. NA...
Volume: 66Issue: 29Published at Fri, 21 Jul 2023 -
Algeria Oil & Gas Revenues Fall Back From Record 2022
...*Algerian state firm Sonatrach earned $21bn in oil and gas export revenues for the first five months of 2023. On an annualized basis this equates to $50.8bn, well down from 2022’s 9-year high $60bn, but is still the second highest since energy prices tanked in late 2014 (see ch...
Volume: 66Issue: 28Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2023 -
Egypt Rig Count At 8-Year High As Western Desert Activity Ramps Up
...e highest since December 2014. However, to date there is little sign of an increase in output. Despite Apache and the Capricorn/Cheiron JV having focused drilling on oil-rich prospects rather than less remunerative gas (MEES, 30 June), the region’s oil output has yet to pick up: the latest figure of 28...
Volume: 66Issue: 28Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2023 -
Israel’s Leviathan: FID For 1.4bn Cfd Expansion, But FLNG Plans Stall
...own) and its then partners at the Tamar field came close to an agreement with a Korean consortium to secure an FLNG for Tamar expansion. A year later a deal to sell 25% of Leviathan to Australia’s Woodside also fell through – the deal had targeted FLNG for the field’s development (MEES, 23 May 2014...
Volume: 66Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2023 -
Questions Over Australia’s LNG Future Open Opportunity For Qatar
...June). These alone added to current supplies would propel Qatar above Australia’s 2022 volumes. Should Australian supplies fail to return to 2021’s record levels, then Qatar could be challenging for the No.1 position in China in the second half of the decade for the first time since 2014. Qa...
Volume: 66Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2023 -
Qatar & Oman Cash In As Asian LNG Buyers See Record Import Bill Even As Volumes Slump
...gures set in 2013 and 2014 when both Korea and Japan took far higher volumes than for 1H 2022 (see chart 2). *One interesting feature of Qatar’s exports to Asia is the sharply different average prices paid for Qatari volumes – both a feature of whether key long-term contracts were struck in a bu...
Volume: 65Issue: 30Published at Fri, 29 Jul 2022