1. Audit For Libya’s Central Banks

    ...estions related to the alleged squandering of Libya’s oil revenues since 2011. London-based Deloitte will carry out the audit which will “commence as soon as possible.”  ...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020
  2. Chevron Arrows In On East Med With $5bn Noble Takeover

    ...al will benefit Cyprus where Noble (35%op) partners Shell (30%) and Delek (30%) at the 4.1tcf 2011 Aphrodite discovery. The official plan is for late-2022 FID and for first gas in 2025. But this now looks ambitious (MEES, 26 June). The favored development option is tie-back to Egypt’s Idku LNG pl...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2020
  3. Wanted: A Stable Tunisian Government

    ...rked the end of Tunisia’s 11th government since the 2011 revolution. And there is little hope the next one will prove more durable, never mind effective. October parliamentary elections produced a deeply fractured 217-member assembly that took almost five months to agree on a government (MEES, 21 Fe...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2020
  4. Israel’s Delek Drilling Eyes $2.5bn Leviathan RBL Facility

    ...so has around 26% (22% directly, 3.8% indirectly – see chart) of 11.9tcf Tamar which it is obliged to sell by end-2021 under a 2016 anti-trust ruling (MEES, 19 August 2016). The firm’s only other significant assets are 30% of Cyprus’ undeveloped 4.1tcf  2011 Aphrodite discovery (MEES, 26 June), and th...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2020
  5. Algerian Gas To Italy & Spain Sees First Half Crash

    ...rst half, the lowest figure since Medgaz’ 2011 start up. Algeria is uneasy with the fact that the Moroccan section of the GME reverts to Rabat’s control next year. In anticipation of this, state-oil giant Sonatrach purchased a controlling stake in the Medgaz pipeline earlier this year and is wo...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2020
  6. Tethys Oil Expands In Oman With Extra Southern Block

    ...,000 b/d Blocks 3&4. Athens-based CCED holds 50% and Japan’s Mitsui holds the remaining 20%. Outside Blocks 3&4, Tethys’ only other producing asset is a 25% non-operating stake in a small Lithuanian field, netting it less than 100 b/d. Blocks 3&4 began pumping in 2011 and gradually ramped up to an an...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2020
  7. Taiwan Crude Imports: Total & Mideast Volumes Stay Low

    ...y major importer, suggest the world is in for a long slog in terms of the rebound of oil demand from Covid-19. At an average of 790,000 b/d for the first half of 2020, volumes are down almost 14% year on year (see table), putting the country on pace for the lowest annual figure since 2011. And th...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2020