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Kurdistan’s Gas Ambitions Advance With Chemchemal Kickoff
...rk had fallen victim to a period of tumultuous relations with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), with lengthy arbitration from 2013 to 2017 holding back development at both Khor Mor and Chemchemal (MEES, 13 July 2018). But that episode is in the past and Chemchemal’s development will ensure no...
Volume: 68Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2025 -
KPC Seeks IOC Investment As It Chases Down 4mn B/D Target
...wait and Saudi Arabia. The two subsidiaries are in the process of being merged as KPC seeks to streamline its operations (MEES, 26 July 2024). KOC capacity fell from 3.151mn b/d in 2017-18 to just 2.629mn b/d in 2020-21, before gradually edging up to its current levels. The firm hasn’t released ca...
Volume: 67Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
New Egypt Gas Increments Slow Output Declines
...t to lift the project’s output to 420mn cfd, the highest level since 2017. It’s still a far cry from peak WDDM output of just over 2bn cfd in 2008. Since then, new development phases have aimed to keep the project alive rather than return output to previous heights. Shell is now looking for an in...
Volume: 68Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
Israel-Iran Conflict Exposes East Med Gas Interdependence
...d blockade of Qatar between 2017-2021. Since then, relations have improved and Doha deposited $5bn in Egypt’s Central Bank in 2023 to help its ailing economy. In the energy sector, QatarEnergy has been slowly expanding its Egyptian upstream footprint since first entering in 2021 (MEES, 15 November 20...
Volume: 68Issue: 27Published at Fri, 04 Jul 2025 -
Kuwait Boosts Capacity At Key Fields
...abia. Kuwait’s oil sector is rebounding from a series of setbacks at the turn of the decade which saw KOC capacity slump from 3.15mn b/d at the end of the 2017-18 financial year in March 2018 to just 2.629mn b/d three years later. KOC capacity is supplemented by around 200,000 b/d from the PNZ – Ku...
Volume: 67Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2024 -
Egypt Gas Woes Continue As Output Slumps At BP’s Raven
...Egypt gas output is below 5bn cfd for the first time since early 2017. It’s not only top producer Zohr which is in decline, output at BP’s Raven, the country’s number two, has halved over the past 18 months. Egypt’s gas output figures go from bad to worse. Latest oil ministry data has pr...
Volume: 67Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 -
Egypt Gas Output Continues Decline As Minister Eyes Exploration Surge
...ought online in mid-2024 although MEES understands this will only offset natural declines from the project’s remaining gas fields, with output expected to remain at around 200mn cfd. BP’s WND has also been beset with issues since its Phase-1 Libra and Taurus fields started up in 2017, with both th...
Volume: 66Issue: 28Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2023 -
Kuwait Banks On Burgan Boost To Hit 3.2mn B/D
...test target is a downgrade from late-2021’s ambition of hitting 3.5mn b/d by 2025 (MEES, 29 October 2021). The bulk of Kuwait’s crude oil capacity comes from Kuwait Oil Company’s (KOC) operations. KOC capacity peaked at 3.15mn b/d in 2017/18, but slumped to just 2.629mn b/d by 2020/21 (MEES, 22 Oc...
Volume: 66Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2023 -
Oman Gas Reserves Upped 7% To 24tcf
...an’s 54,000 b/d Block 5 (MEES, 21 January). RECORD BREAKING GAS OUTPUT The latest reserves figure is only slightly below the record 25 TCF figure recorded for 2018 following discovery of BP’s giant Khazzan field on Block 61. Khazzan, which started up in 2017, is the centerpiece of Oman’s ga...
Volume: 66Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2023 -
Kuwait Upstream Costs Soar
...ntre (GC-32) which was intended to offset declines elsewhere at the field. The 120,000 b/d facility was awarded to British firm Petrofac in March 2017 and was scheduled to come online in mid-2020. It has yet to be completed. UNCONVENTIONAL AND DIFFICULT The other major ju...
Volume: 65Issue: 29Published at Fri, 22 Jul 2022 -
Exxon Starts Cyprus Seismic, Eyes More Wells
...elded the giant 21.5tcf Zohr field on the other side of the Cyprus/Egypt maritime border. It was Total that confirmed that the ‘Zohr-like’ play extended into Cypriot waters, though its 2017 Onesiphoros well on Block 11 failed to find commercial quantities of gas (MEES, 15 September 2017). Once En...
Volume: 65Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2022 -
KRG: DNO Blames Ministry Shake-Up For Tawke Slowdown
...minant field and as recently as 2017 was still producing in excess of 100,000 b/d. DNO says that there have been “no new wells coming on production at the Tawke field in more than a year,” and that as a result natural decline has taken its toll, with Q2 output down 19% on a year earlier. DNO says the pr...
Volume: 64Issue: 30Published at Fri, 30 Jul 2021 -
Algeria: Record Gas Output
...an 3bcm higher than the previous record for the first five months of the year set at 42.32bcm for 5M 2017 (see chart 1). This puts Algeria on track to smash annual output records of 94.8bcm and 94.5bcm set in 2016 and 2017 respectively, and possibly even break the 100bcm mark. That said, an an...
Volume: 64Issue: 29Published at Fri, 23 Jul 2021 -
Offshore Declines Prevent Qatar From Capitalizing On Opec Exit
...tar’s biggest field is the offshore Al Shaheen field off the north coast, which forms the emirate’s Al Shaheen export grade (28° API, 2.4% Sulfur). The field was previously operated by Denmark’s Maersk under a production sharing agreement (PSA) which expired in 2017. Upon expiry, France’s TotalEnergies re...
Volume: 64Issue: 28Published at Fri, 16 Jul 2021 -
QP, Exxon Ramp Up Barzan Gas Output
...e onshore processing facilities, which has forced a complete rebuild. The Barzan partners had eyed 2017 start-up until they detected a gas leak in the offshore pipeline network. QP CEO Saad Sherida al-Kaabi told MEES in late 2017 that “we have had issues with the pipeline. That is not a secret. Th...
Volume: 64Issue: 27Published at Fri, 09 Jul 2021 -
BP Drilling Offshore Egypt
...% TO JUST 1.1BN CFD FOR 2020 (BN CFD) SOURCE: ENI, MEES CALCULATIONS. Further to the west, BP’s largest project offshore Egypt, West Nile Delta (WND) has suffered even steeper declines. Output from its first two phases, which only started-up in 2017, has fallen precipitously to ap...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 Jul 2021 -
China’s CNOOC Enters Key Abu Dhabi Concessions
...tablishment of the Al-Yasat JV (Adnoc 60%, CNPC 40%) to explore for oil (MEES, 2 May 2014). Production from Al-Yasat’s Bu Haseer field began in March 2018 (MEES, 27 April 2018). China’s presence in Abu Dhabi then picked up considerably in 2017 when CNPC and Chinese private-sector firm CEFC bought 8% an...
Volume: 63Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020 -
UAE Emerges As Libya’s Top Condensate Customer
...t, whilst Abu Dhabi sees Libya through a geopolitical prism, for Dubai it’s just business. And at least for now, Abu Dhabi appears to be displaying a level of toleration not afforded to the two previous key suppliers of condensate to Dubai’s Enoc: Qatar until the 2017 blockade (MEES, 9 June 2017), an...
Volume: 63Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020 -
Iran’s Petropars Wins $1.3bn South Azadegan Contract
...ofile firms were interested in developing South Azadegan (MEES, 29 January 2016). The likes of Total, Shell, Petronas, Inpex and Rosneft (MEES, 8 September 2017) were all linked to the field until the re-imposition of US sanctions nixed Iran’s plans. LOCAL FIRMS STEPPING UP With IOCs unwilling to...
Volume: 63Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2020 -
Algeria Gas Fields Slump
...mpression project doubled output to a record 815mn cfd in 2017. Q2 output was just 493mn cfd (see chart 2). But natural decline doesn’t explain In Salah’s precipitous Q2 slump. Faced with a huge decrease in export demand for its gas (MEES, 26 June), Algeria has been cutting production across a number of ke...
Volume: 63Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2020