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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 -
Thailand Crude Imports: UAE Dominant, Mideast Share Squeezed
...*Key southeast Asian crude importer Thailand saw volumes slump 7% year-on-year to 988,000 b/d for 1H 2021, the first sub-1mn b/d first half figure since 2017. *Thailand has seen far fewer Covid-19 deaths than most countries in Europe or the Americas but is currently seeing the hi...
Volume: 64Issue: 30Published at Fri, 30 Jul 2021 -
Thailand LNG: Record Imports, Qatar Dominant
...ar figure of 1.59mn tons, up 72% year-on-year. Qatar’s 1H 2021 market share of 49.8% is the highest on a half-year basis since 2017, with the share hitting 51.4% for Q2 as Qatar supplied a quarterly record 1.04mn tons. *Nigeria and Malaysia were second and third respectively for 1H 2021, wi...
Volume: 64Issue: 30Published at Fri, 30 Jul 2021 -
Egypt Nuclear Plans Knocked Back
...ES, 15 December 2017). The $30bn project has been mainly funded via a $25bn loan from Russia itself. Repayment was due to begin by 2029 when operations at the plant were set to begin but inevitably that has now also been pushed back. Mr Adham says construction will not begin for another 12 mo...
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 -
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 -
Saudi Arabia Caps Gasoline Prices Amid Rising Inflation
...s slashed fuel subsidies over the past five years, and the upshot has been that even before the pandemic, domestic consumption of diesel and gasoline had fallen below their peaks of 2015 and 2017 respectively. However, the government’s decision to triple VAT from July 2020 has resulted in a sh...
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 -
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 -
Iraqi Parliament Seeks To Block NOC Appointments
...iticized the 2017 creation of Dhi Qar Oil Company (DQOC) . CAN INOC DELIVER? With Exxon heading to the exit, Baghdad may sooner or later have to step in and operate the 470,000 b/d WQ-1 field. But whether it has the capacity to manage this on top of the other fields, such as 250,000 b/d Majnoon, is an...
Volume: 64Issue: 28Published at Fri, 16 Jul 2021 -
Taiwan Crude Imports Edge Back Towards Normal; Mideast Share Still Depressed
...er 71% for both Q1 and Q2 compares to an average of 78% for 2017-19. Add in the record low figure of 69.2% for Q4 last year and the last three quarterly figures are the lowest since 2010. *Saudi Arabia remains number one supplier but saw volumes fall 5% year-on-year and 11% quarter-on-qu...
Volume: 64Issue: 27Published at Fri, 09 Jul 2021 -
Aramco Trading Caught In Crossfire Of UAE-Saudi Rivalry
...ding, its presence in Fujairah, it would be the second time in less than five years that geopolitical developments have impacted the emirate’s role as a regional hub. The UAE’s participation in the Qatar embargo from 2017 until January this year prevented Qatari vessels from calling at Fujairah. The up...
Volume: 64Issue: 27Published at Fri, 09 Jul 2021 -
Sparks Fly As Saudi-Emirati Economic Competition Intensifies
...aditionally held a clear dominance. In the UAE, Abu Dhabi’s Adnoc is planning to invest $122bn over 2021-2025, much of which is dedicated to expanding its crude oil production capacity from around 4mn b/d to 5mn b/d by 2030. Just five years ago, before the first Opec+ cuts came into force in 2017, the UAE wa...
Volume: 64Issue: 27Published at Fri, 09 Jul 2021 -
GCC Rig Count Stuck At 10-Year Low Levels For 1H 2021
...e first half of the last decade Kuwait consistently had a higher rig count than the UAE. For 2017 and 1H 2018 the two were neck and neck. But the UAE has been more than 10 ahead for every quarter since Q4 2018, save Q2 and Q3 2020 when the UAE was more dynamic than Kuwait in cutting rigs and the gap fe...
Volume: 64Issue: 27Published at Fri, 09 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 -
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 -
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 -
KRG Finances Remain Precarious Despite Export Revenue Boost
...arters of 2021 will doubtless have been markedly higher than in late 2020. EXPORTS ON THE RISE KRG crude exports from Ceyhan in 1Q 2020 averaged 465,000 b/d, their highest figure since Erbil lost control over most of Kirkuk’s producing fields to the federal government in October 2017 (MEES, 20 Oc...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 Jul 2021 -
India’s Reliance Signs Up To Key Abu Dhabi Downstream Project
...gn up to a ‘world-scale’ project. In 2017, Adnoc announced plans to more than triple its petrochemicals capacity to 14.4mn t/y by 2025 (MEES, 1 December 2017). As well as expanding its petrochemicals facilities, Adnoc is also working to move further along the value chain through the production of mo...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 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