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Kuwait, Saudi Spat Over Neutral Zone Heats Up
...ould be borne by the Saudi government.” The Kuwaiti minister also argues that under the March 2014 order by the Saudi environmental authority to shut down Khafji, the joint operating company has five years to deal with gas emissions. The decision to halt operations with immediate effect was a vi...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
Kuwait Awards $11.5Bn Contracts For 615,000 b/d Al-Zour Refinery
...yond early 2019” (MEES, 26 June). Once complete, the refinery will process heavy crude from the country’s new fields, KNPC Chief Muhammad Ghazi al-Mutairi said in 2014. The fuel oil produced at Al-Zour will be used at the country’s power plants, he added. While KNPC can now award contracts, the pr...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
Iran Gets The Show On The Road For Contract Launch
...er since the IPC’s soft launch in Tehran in February 2014. The latest available information on the proposed terms were published by MEES last month (MEES, 19 June). Foreign oil companies have even been sending executives to the Iranian capital in recent weeks to learn more about the new te...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
Nuclear Accord To Herald New Chapter In Iran Relations With Total
...e nuclear talks began in 2013, with the first coming in February 2014 (MEES, 7 February 2014). PETCHEM PROPOSALS Iran is also looking to extend its energy cooperation with France to the mid and downstream sectors, Mr Zanganeh said, as well as the manufacture of oil and gas equipment for do...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
Lebanon: Political Intransigence Blocks Upstream Progress
...oved incapable of making important decisions on the country’s future. This includes a nomination for the post of President – a position that has been vacant since May 2014. In addition, two decrees crucial to opening up a potential bid round for acreage in the country’s offshore have failed to move fo...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
Algeria’s Upstream Challenges In Four Graphs
...emingly written earlier) 2014 report says “the engineering, acquisitions, construction and preparation to have [BMS] operating will be completed in the first half of 2015, and first production is expected around July.” Again, production appears to have not yet begun. Cepsa has since 2011 been owned by Abu Dh...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
New Suez Canal Begins Testing Ahead Of 6 August Grand Opening
...ninsula which borders the canal has seen hundreds of people killed since President Sisi came to power. The $8.5bn project was locally funded through investment certificates launched by Egypt’s central bank (MEES, 19 September 2014). An average of 49 ships per day traversed the canal during the fi...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
Saudi Petchems Firms Double Profits In Q2
...lling prices of products for Q2 compared to the prices from the corresponding quarter in 2014 has led to a drop in profit, Mr Binyan adds. The same reason was given to the profit decline in the first half of this year against the earnings in the first six months of last year. Mr Binyan says that Sa...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
OPEC Holds Ground After Russia Talks
...ergy demand growth, according to data supplied by BP. This makes markets sensitive to any sign of a slowdown in consumption in the Asian powerhouse. Growth in China has been slowing. BP says energy consumption grew by 2.6% in 2014. This, it says, was less than half the 10-year average growth rate of...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
Syria: Territorial Disintegration Looms As Conflict Enters New Stage
...e year averaged 9,934 b/d, according to Syrian Oil Minister Sulaiman al-‘Abbas, virtually unchanged from the 2014 average of 9,330 b/d. This puts crude production at a mere 2.4% of the 385,000 b/d Syria was producing before the start of the uprising in March 2011. Gas production in the first ha...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
Libya Oil: A Write-Off?
...ayed a substantial part in a 49% reduction in profits for the second quarter, compared to the first quarter of the year, and a 64% drop compared to the same period of 2014. Underlying replacement cost profit for the quarter was $1.3bn, compared with $2.6bn for the previous quarter and $3.6bn for the se...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
UAE Takes The Lead In Scrapping Energy Subsidies
...nsumption of diesel and gasoline averaged 63,000 b/d and 73,000 b/d respectively in 2014. For 2014 as a whole the discount of pump prices for gasoline and diesel to international prices in effect cost the UAE authorities some $970mn. The Emirates National Oil Company (Enoc), the retailer owned by the Du...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
Algeria Ducks Decisive Action With Supplementary 2015 Budget
...beit modest, cut falls on the capital budget, which is reduced by 2.8% (see table). The effect of weaker oil prices on Algeria’s fiscal balance is palpable, with the latest trade figures showing a deficit of $7.78bn, compared with a surplus of $3.17bn for the first half of 2015 (see table). The 2014...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...15 2014 2013 2012 WTI 48.52 49.36 51.69 59.86 59.43 58.02 48...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
Korea Cuts Buying Of Gulf LNG Despite Price Collapse
...th 2014. Outside of the MENA countries, Indonesia (No 3 overall) and Malaysia (No 4 ) are Korea’s key LNG suppliers (see table, p5). YEMEN LNG OUT Yemen was Korea’s fifth largest supplier for 2014 – and conversely Korean state firm Kogas the biggest customer of Total-led Yemen LNG. But first ha...
Volume: 58Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2015 -
Another Summer Of Discontent For Iraq’s Basra Amid Power Shortages
...tput was flared, up from 67% a year earlier. With gross production rising, the absolute volumes of flared gas have risen further: up by 69mn cfd or 5.5% versus January-May 2014, and almost double 2010 levels (see table). Exacerbating the impact on the population of southern Iraq is that alternate fu...
Volume: 58Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2015 -
In Search Of Iran’s Market Share
...like Saudi Arabia, Iraq has a friendly, some would say subservient, relationship with Tehran. But such friendship has not always extended to the oil marketing sphere - particularly as Iraq ramps up exports. Iraq shipped a record 3.5mn b/d of crude in June, up 1mn b/d on 2014 volumes, and has plans to...
Volume: 58Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2015 -
UAE Links Fuel Prices To Global Markets From 1 August
.../B ($0.49/liter) for 95 ron unleaded gasoline, and $70/B ($0.44/liter) for diesel. However, pump prices were also at similar levels a year ago, when, of course, international market prices were far higher. To give an indication of potential savings MEES has crunched the numbers for 2014, when UAE co...
Volume: 58Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2015 -
Lebanese Economy Needs Electric Shock Therapy – IMF
...fugees from war-torn Syria continues to dominate Lebanon’s short-term economic outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says “electricity reform is an urgent priority” for the Beirut government to kick-start its economy. The Lebanese presidency has lain vacant since May 2014, while a lack of co...
Volume: 58Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2015 -
Sadara Inks $3.8bn Power Deal
...ter plus wastewater treatment to be supplied by local utility Marafiq under a SR70mn ($18.7mn) deal (MEES, 21 November 2014). Though Sadara says its feedstock prices will be “subject to the same market forces [as those of] Sadara’s products,” in reality, prices are low and heavily subsidized with th...
Volume: 58Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2015