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US Sanctions On Vs Oil Terminal Give Iraq A Headache
...ll as Iraqi oil” in the past through AIS signal spoofing in the Gulf. Iraqi authorities are investigating whether any volumes had been sold to either of the two companies in recent months. Between 2017 and 2019, Mr Said’s UAE-based Al-Iraqia Shipping Services & Oil Trading FZE (AISSOT) was given ex...
Volume: 68Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
DME Oman Trades Soar As It Clinches Tadawul Investment
...ont-month trading volumes soared by 22% year-on-year over the first half of 2024, rising to the highest level since 2H 2017 (see chart 1). Momentum has been building for some time as physical traders grow increasingly confident in the contract. The DME Oman futures contract is a physically de...
Volume: 66Issue: 37Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2024 -
Shell Completes The Set For Qatar’s NFE Expansion
...Qatar rounded off partner selection for its $28.75bn 32mn t/y North Field East (NFE) LNG expansion project on 5 July by bringing Shell into the fold. Qatar’s LNG expansion has been hotly anticipated ever since it was first unveiled in 2017 (MEES, 7 April 2017), but amid a global energy crunch it...
Volume: 65Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2022 -
Qatar LNG Expansion Partners Eye Liquids Riches
...eviously told MEES that “there is nothing determined that we want to sell to anyone in particular. Some is sold on the spot market, some short term, some longer term. Our marketing guys just market it to get the best price” (MEES, 8 December 2017). NFE ethane is earmarked for a 2.08mn t/y ethane cr...
Volume: 65Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2022 -
Oman Unveils 2021 Upstream Bid Round
...ospect, which had been slated for 2020, appears to have been dropped amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The relinquishment “after an unsuccessful exploration programme” marks Mol’s departure from Oman after having relinquished Block 43B in 2014 (MEES, 31 March 2017). BLOCK 23: OFFSHORE APPETITE? Th...
Volume: 64Issue: 29Published at Fri, 23 Jul 2021 -
Shamaran Expands Kurdistan Presence With Transformative Sarsang Entry
...turned to the region in 2017 when it acquired the minority Sarsang stake as part of its takeover of Denmark’s Maersk Oil. Shamaran says that “the Acquisition is highly accretive and transformative to Shamaran as it grows from a single asset company to a multi-field producer and paves the way for fu...
Volume: 64Issue: 28Published at Fri, 16 Jul 2021 -
Mauritania’s Tortue Delayed To 2H 2023 Amid 15% Cost Hike
...llow majors TotalEnergies, Exxon and Shell snagged swathes of Mauritania acreage in 2017 and 2018, they to date have drilled just one well between them – TotalEnergies’ August 2019 ‘Richat’ dry well on block C-9. TotalEnergies has since relinquished both this block and two others leaving it with just tw...
Volume: 64Issue: 27Published at Fri, 09 Jul 2021 -
Energean Advances Israel Drilling Plans
...2017 (MEES, 15 December 2017), These blocks include the sites of the potential fourth and fifth wells of Energean’s 2022-23 program: wildcats targeting the 1.1tcf Hermes prospect on Block 31 and the 2.7tcf Hercules prospect on Block 23 (see map). These are potentially costed at $50mn each ve...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 Jul 2021 -
Delek’s Leviathan Endgame: Chevron Entry, Debt Mountain Make Sale All But Inevitable
...cember 2017), may well be interested. Indeed, if Chevron comes to be seen as having escaped lightly in geopolitically terms from its decision to enter Israel, this may well lead other majors and large IOCs to see the country in a different light. For Total and Eni, with Lebanon exploration and a he...
Volume: 63Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020 -
Oil Services Firms: Mideast The Relative Bright Spot Amid North America Carnage
...05, 32.8%) for the first time. And whilst Baker Hughes has since 2017 not split oilfield services revenue by region (aside from ‘North America’ and ‘International’), the Middle East with Asia has almost certainly overtaken North America’s share here too given that the International share rose to a re...
Volume: 63Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020 -
Israel’s Delek Drilling Eyes $2.5bn Leviathan RBL Facility
...ble and Delek have struggled to overcome geopolitical headwinds to fulfill the field’s full potential. It took seven years from 2010 discovery before FID was finally taken in 2017. And this was for a greatly scaled back 12bcm/y (1.2bn cfd) development, little more than a third of planned 3.2bn cfd ou...
Volume: 63Issue: 29Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2020 -
Tethys Oil Expands In Oman With Extra Southern Block
...opted a similar strategy with blocks 49 and 56. Tethys acquired a 100% interest EPSA for Block 49 as part of Oman’s 2017 bid round, launching a 3D seismic campaign a year later (MEES, 14 December 2018). Per its Q1 report, Tethys says there have been no changes to 2020 plans to commence drilling – the 4,...
Volume: 63Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2020 -
Israel Gas Market: Competition Heats Up, Litigation Abounds
...21 to sell the remainder of its current 22% stake (MEES, 30 June 2017). At Leviathan they have 39.66% and 45.34% respectively (see charts). This gives Noble, and especially Delek, a strong incentive to favor sales of gas from Leviathan over Tamar. Noble and Delek collectively have 47% of Tamar, ri...
Volume: 63Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2020 -
Energean Retains East Med Focus In Cut-Price, Cut-Scope Edison Deal
...9bcm/y Reggane, which started up in December 2017 (MEES, 22 December 2017), and Norwegian North Sea discoveries – were ones for the future, Abu Qir is in steep decline. Abu Qir output (100% Edison) was 45,500 boe/d (225mn cfd gas and 5,500 b/d condensate) for 2019. This is well down from 270mn cfd in 2017...
Volume: 63Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2020 -
Egypt: Ain Sukhna Hub Plans Gather Pace
...pacity is rising to 7.2mn barrels (see p7). This also includes expansion at Sidi Kerir, where Aramco is to lease 222,000 m³ of gasoil storage. EGPC receives roughly 500,000 barrels per month of crude oil from Saudi Aramco, under a deal which began in late 2017, while it also receives varying rates of tr...
Volume: 62Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2019 -
Israel Bid Round Flops
...cal firm Israel Opportunity. It is yet another disappointing turn-out for Israel, just 12 months after a previous bid round flopped (MEES, 24 November 2017). Hopes were raised that US major ExxonMobil, which has made recent forays into Egypt and Cyprus, would take part after it purchased a $50,000 da...
Volume: 62Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2019 -
Iraq’s Tight Margins Take Toll On Foreign Majors
...Iraq gives some of the tightest margins of any Mena oil producer, and it shows. The largest majors operating in Iraq netted barely 250,000 b/d of crude in 2018 (see table). And that was down from around 350,000 b/d in 2017. This is largely due to Baghdad’s technical service contracts (TS...
Volume: 62Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2019 -
Energean Hits East Med Major League With Cut-Price Edison Purchase
...e in Egypt and Algeria. It operates the 270mn cfd Abu Qir field off Alexandria, and has 11.25% of the 280mn cfd Repsol-operated Reggane North development in southwest Algeria which started up in late 2017 (MEES, 22 December 2017). Both dwarf Energean’s current production of just 4,100 b/d, all fr...
Volume: 62Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2019 -
Upstream Capex Edges Up But Recovery Remains US-Focused
...be seen. Global upstream spending is slated by the IEA to rise by 5% to $472bn this year on the back of 2017’s modest 4% increase – though this followed a cumulative fall of near 50% for 2015 and 2016. The projected 2018 upstream spend of $472bn in the IEA’s freshly-released World Energy In...
Volume: 61Issue: 30Published at Fri, 27 Jul 2018 -
Shell Enters Mauritania
...e maritime border with Senegal as well as four Mauritanian deepwater exploration blocks. Total took two deepwater blocks last year, whilst Exxon in December signed PSCs for three deepwater blocks (MEES, 8 December 2017). Chevron (with QP) and Eni have deepwater blocks off Morocco to the north. Bl...
Volume: 61Issue: 30Published at Fri, 27 Jul 2018