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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 -
Turkey’s ITP Exit Sets Stage For Intensive Talks With Iraq
...aqi Kurdistan, where around 300mn cfd in capacity gains are expected by end-2026 from the Khor Mor and Chemchemal gas fields (see p2). The KRG signed a Gas Sales Agreement with Turkey in 2013 to export an initial 4bcm/year from 2017, rising to 10bcm/y by 2020. Turkey’s proposals could rekindle the KR...
Volume: 68Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2025 -
Egypt LNG Imports Ramp Up On Increased Regasification Capacity
...et growing gas consumption during the peak summer demand season. As of 24 July, Egypt had imported 580,000 tons of LNG, which would itself be the highest monthly total since September 2017 (see chart 1). Kpler is forecasting that July LNG imports could reach 860,000 tons, which would be a record mo...
Volume: 68Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2025 -
Shell Greenlights Egypt Offshore Project
...me since 2017 and prolong the project’s lifespan (MEES, 18 July). MEES learns that Shell plans to drill the Mina West-2 appraisal well in Q1 next year to firm-up volumes with first gas potentially by the end of 2026. Operator Shell (60%) and partner, Kuwait state firm Kufpec (40%) had initially ap...
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 -
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 -
Drone Attacks Force Shutdown Of Key Kurdistan Oil Fields
...ersee security since ISIS was ousted in 2017. The field fell under ISIS control in 2014, and the security situation in the area remains precarious. SANCTIONS RETALIATION? Iraq’s deal with HKN comes as Baghdad has been trying to convince US companies to invest in the country’s energy se...
Volume: 68Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
HKN Signs Preliminary Deal For Development Of Federal Field
...rces did not retake the field until 2017. Mr Abdulghani says that output is currently piped for processing at the neighboring Ajil field, operated by Kurdish conglomerate Kar. It is currently producing around 10,000 b/d. Output from Ajil and other small NOC fields is typically refined in federal re...
Volume: 68Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
Israel Strikes Cripple Yemen’s Fragmented Power System
...d refined products to the refinery’s storage tanks to supply the domestic market. SOLAR: A RAY OF HOPE Having suffered through a decade of civil war, many Yemenis have turned to solar PV power for a more stable supply of electricity. Back in 2017 the World Bank estimated around 50-75% of ho...
Volume: 68Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 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 -
Oman LNG: Record Volumes Generated $6.5bn Revenues For 2024
...joying a profitable turn in recent years. Following the resurgence of upstream gas output since the 2017 startup of the 1.5bn cfd Khazzan/Ghazeer tight gas project, Muscat has been racing to expand its liquefaction capacity. Back in 2022 Oman LNG completed debottlenecking work at its three-train Sur fa...
Volume: 68Issue: 27Published at Fri, 04 Jul 2025