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Iraq’s Integrated National Energy Strategy: Summary And Key Recommendations
...cessarily uncertain, and a range of production profiles therefore has been considered for planning purposes. Iraq’s primary upstream strategic objective now is to ensure that the development of these fields proceeds expeditiously, aiming for production by the end of 2014 at a rate between the me...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013 -
Project Delays Smother Iraqi Capacity Growth
...jnoon was supposed to start-up late May. But customs delays on vital equipment have pushed launch back to around October; privately operators concede a 2014 start-up is a possibility. Majnoon is due to come onstream at 100,000 b/d and ramp up to 175,000 b/d. Delays on Majnoon and Badra raise question ma...
Volume: 56Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2013 -
Technip Awarded Iraq And Abu Dhabi Refinery Contracts
...ew to completion in 2014. The company recently said the Ruwais expansion project was more than 85% complete. The expansion is mainly aimed at keeping pace with rising domestic demand for cleaner gasoline and jet fuel, while also enabling the export of products to Asia. Takreer says the objective of th...
Volume: 56Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2013 -
Iraqi Politics: Sinking Into The Morass?
...shkhabour pumping station near the Turkish border. The construction of the Kurdish line inside Iraq is scheduled to be completed by year-end, with commercial throughput expected during early 2014. However, under the constitution, only Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) is allowed to export Iraqi oi...
Volume: 56Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2013 -
Occidental Eyes Sale Of All Mideast Assets
...Nuhayyan. Oxy’s instability looks set to continue with Oxy announcing that Mr Chazen will leave the post of CEO at the end of 2014. It creates a problem for Oxy in the ADCO concession bidding. The SPC members have to decide to which firms they will give stakes in their top producing fields, and th...
Volume: 56Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2013 -
Wintershall Qatar Gas Plans
...ploring Qatar. By end-2013/early 2014, Chinese state firm CNOOC and French major Total are expected to drill their first well in exploration Block BC. In Qatar, Total in May 2011 took a 25% stake in exploration Block BC (MEES, 26 April). A potential export option is Abu Dhabi-based Dolphin En...
Volume: 56Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2013 -
Iraqi Infrastructure Crunch Begins To Bite
...e Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) area (currently running at half of 300,000b/d capacity), Chairman of the Prime Ministerial Advisory Committee Thamir Ghadhban said. Next year 500,000 b/d of new capacity should be added, with around 700,000 b/d in 2014, to achieve a sustainable capacity target of...
Volume: 55Issue: 26Published at Mon, 25 Jun 2012 -
Abu Dhabi Invites IOCs To Prequalify – Partex’s 2% Stake Up For Grabs
...rtex (2%) – which expire in January 2014, while replacing Partex with a newcomer that can bring finance or technology to the consortium – or auction off individual fields, which produce a total of over 1.4mn b/d. Prequalifying submissions have to be in by mid-July. Partex’s 2% stake is a historical qu...
Volume: 55Issue: 26Published at Mon, 25 Jun 2012 -
Oman Anticipates More LNG Exports On Back Of BP Upstream Output
...ditional exports in the period post-2016 after BP has ramped up to ‘to be agreed with government’ production levels for tight gas. In 2014 plans for 2016-onwards production and demand levels will be firmed up and the options to export, or not, will be clearer.” Oman LNG (government 51%, Shell 30...
Volume: 55Issue: 26Published at Mon, 25 Jun 2012 -
BP Starts Drilling Of First Risha Gas Well
...said to be currently receiving 30mn cfd of gas from Egypt instead of the 300mn cfd needed to fuel the country’s power plants (MEES, 11 June). Jordan Plans LNG Terminal By 2014 Jordan plans to begin importing LNG via a gas terminal which is to be built on the Red Sea port of 'Aqaba by...
Volume: 55Issue: 26Published at Mon, 25 Jun 2012 -
IMF Says Kuwait’s 2012 Economic Outlook Positive Despite Political Instability
...blic Pension Fund. In 2008-09, KD5.5bn were transferred. KD1.1bn is budgeted for each year from 2010-11 to 2014-15. 4. Excludes debt of Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund related to asset management operations. 5. Excludes special drawing rights and IMF reserve position. 6. Change in the Ku...
Volume: 55Issue: 26Published at Mon, 25 Jun 2012 -
Nogaholding Poised For Bahrain Energy Sector Expansion
...e pre-Khuff contains commercial volumes of gas. A final investment decision on pre-Khuff development is not expected until 2014. Like the GCC, which is gas-short apart from Qatar, Bahrain is a “gas consumer rather than supplier,” stresses Shaikh Mohamed. But recent developments help consumers, he sa...
Volume: 55Issue: 25Published at Mon, 18 Jun 2012 -
‘Revolutionary’ Economies Face Financing Woes
...nking On A Euro-Rebound The World Bank predicts a sharp rebound in the two key Arab Spring economies of Egypt and Tunisia, with growth of 3.6-3.8% for 2013 and 4.6% by 2014, “more in line with their underlying potential.” But this may prove optimistic given that it is predicated on a stabilization of...
Volume: 55Issue: 25Published at Mon, 18 Jun 2012 -
Iran Condensate Severely Discounted, Gulf Producers Face Changing Market
...ach full production and export capacity by 2014, but it is still unclear how it will market it all. Qatar must now determine its future direction as a condensate seller that has committed most if not all of its export availability. “Tasweeq has to ensure that it doesn’t target both condensate and LPG at...
Volume: 55Issue: 25Published at Mon, 18 Jun 2012 -
Bahrain Tender Board Continues To Evaluate LNG Import Terminal Bids
...the 5th OPEC International Seminar in Vienna on 13 June. The winner is expected to be announced before the end of the year and then the front end engineering and design (FEED) will start. The tender specifies the import of 400-800 cfd of LNG for 15 years starting in 2014. Like the other Gu...
Volume: 55Issue: 25Published at Mon, 18 Jun 2012 -
Petrokemya And Tecnicas Reunidas Plan To Establish ABS Plant
...change website. The ABS project is expected to be mechanically completed during the fourth quarter of 2014. The project will produce a variety of grades of ABS to support the automotive and electrical appliance industries. ...
Volume: 55Issue: 25Published at Mon, 18 Jun 2012 -
Kuwait’s Oil Minister Stands Firm Against MPs, Appoints Senior Management
...urisly as chairman and managing director. KOTC plans to build nine tankers by 2014 – taking the total to 33 (MEES 30 January). Mr Khashti is a veteran KPC executive whose positions have included heading Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) and Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (Kufpec). Mr Bourisly be...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
New Algerian LNG Capacity Faces Lack Of Gas
...sition to supply them a final investment decision (FID) has been repeatedly put back. The project, which had been due on stream in 2014, will almost certainly be shelved later this year. Italy, which remains Algeria’s top export customer, is already linked (via Tunisia) by the TransMed pi...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
NIORDC Announces Oil Products Agreement With Iraq
...ana that the two sides confirmed an agreement for the construction of a 270km gas pipeline by December 2014 for the supply of 25mn cmd of Iranian gas to the Baghdad and al-Mansoura power plants. Mr Owji added that Iraq again expressed its support for a 5,800km gas pipeline linking Iran with Iraq, Sy...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
Pakistani President Reaffirms Commitment To Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline
...s government was committed to complete its part of the 7.8 bcm/year capacity pipeline by 2014. In related news National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) director of gas distribution Mostafa Sheikh Bahaie told reporters on 5 June that the Iranian component of the Iran-Pakistan pipeline was almost 75% co...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012