1. Qatar Continues To Boost Budget Expenditure In 2012-13

    ...owth in the hydrocarbon sector slowing down to 3% due to Qatar’s self imposed moratorium on the development of new North Field projects until 2014, while substantial investment in infrastructure, coupled with increased levels of production in Qatar’s manufacturing sector is projected to boost growth in th...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 04 Jun 2012
  2. Bahrain Narrows In On Preferred Bidders For LNG Import Terminal

    ...mpany, Nogaholding, told MEES. The tender board, which meets weekly, will then decide whether to approve the choice, and if it does the results will be published. The tender specifies the import of LNG equivalent to 400-800mn cfd of gas for 15 years starting in 2014. Like the other Gulf countries, with th...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 04 Jun 2012
  3. Saudi Aramco Steps On The Gas

    ...gnificant for gas will be the start-up of the offshore 1.3bn cfd Hasbah and 1.2bn cfd Arabiyah non-associated fields in 2014 to feed the Wasit gas plant, currently under construction. Ordinary supply of 2.5bn cfd will produce 1.75bn cfd of sales gas and can be augmented to 3.05bn cfd in peak summer demand mo...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 04 Jun 2012
  4. Kuwait Discovers More Burgan Reservoirs, Plans Water Injection

    ...ra structure – one of the fastest-depleting reservoirs, MEES learns. The project needs collection, treatment and injection facilities by 2014 for as much as 1mn b/d of water. When Burgan first started producing nearly 70 years ago some individual wells were producing 15,000 b/d. “Today additional we...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 26
    Published at Mon, 27 Jun 2011
  5. IEA Medium Term Forecast Sees Demand Growing By 1.2Mn B/D Annually For 2010-16

    ...versify away from ‘traditional’ OECD markets into lucrative Asian markets. The Middle East will remain the key supplier, accounting for 47% of global exports in 2016. IEA World Oil Supply And Demand Outlook 2010-16 (Mn B/D) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 20 Jun 2011
  6. Kuwaiti Real GDP Growth Expected To Hit 4.7% In 2011, NBK Says

    ...ojects (MEES, 27 September 2010). The ambitious KD31bn ($112.8bn) plan – ending in 2014 – calls for spending an amount close to KD5bn ($18.2bn) on infrastructure in the 2010-11 fiscal year. However, the government expects actual spending to only be around the KD2.5bn ($9.09bn) mark, or 50% of the to...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 20 Jun 2011
  7. Saudi Authorities Set To Overhaul Private Sector Employment Rules, BSF Says

    ...ployment quotas. Ultimately, the government’s aim is to create of 1.12mn new jobs for Saudi citizens by 2014. In its latest Saudi Arabia Economics report, BSF warns: “the initial shock of Nitaqat, if enforced with vigor, could lead numerous smaller businesses to shut down, shake already feeble fo...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 20 Jun 2011
  8. Alstom Awarded €500Mn EPC Contract By Dalia For 835MW Tzafit Power Plant

    ...s-fired power plant at Tzafit in Israel. The contract covers the supply and construction of two 417mw gas-fired combined cycle units as well as associated civil works and switchgear. The plant will be located 40km southeast of Tel Aviv and commissioned in 2014. Alstom is expected to sign a 20...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 13 Jun 2011
  9. Saudi Aramco Accelerates 900,000 b/d Manifa Offshore Project

    ...ojects – 1.2bn cfd Arabiyah field and the 1.3bn cfd Hasbah field. They are to come on stream in 2014. While Saudi Aramco’s crude output in 2010 was slightly down from the previous year at 7.91mn b/d, it boosted gas production by over 600mn cfd over the previous year to hit 9.39bn cfd as full ca...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 13 Jun 2011
  10. Shah Field Doubts Cast Shadow Over Abu Dhabi’s Petchem Ambitions

    ...stream projects including the $10bn, 500mn cfd Shah gas field, Nick Wilson reports from Abu Dhabi. Partially state-owned petrochemical firm Borouge’s ethylene cracker expansion to 3.6mn tons/year by 2014 depends on the integrated completion of five upstream sources of ethane and building two new NG...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 06 Jun 2011
  11. Total Farms In To Qatar’s Offshore Block BC

    ...ploration wells drilled by 2014. “The farm-in transaction is another step forward in the partnerships forged with Qatar Petroleum and CNOOC, and reflects Total’s commitment to expanding its exploration and production operations in promising geological basins,” stated Christophe de Margerie, Total’s CEO. To...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 06 Jun 2011
  12. DEWA Invites 18 Developers To Bid For Dubai’s First IPP

    ...ivate partnership framework,” commented one UAE power expert. DEWA and its advisers, which include HSBC, plan to have a conference with developers in about a month’s time, and this will also include one-to-one meetings with the prospective bidders. The Hassyan I project’s startup is scheduled for 2014...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 06 Jun 2011
  13. The Forthcoming Exploration Blocks Bid Round In Iraq: Issues For Consideration

    ...d ID241.92bn for 2014. 3  Though the annual investment allocation for the exploration program is on an upward trend, the proportion to total plan investment allocation remains constant at 3.73% on both the aggregate and annual levels. This would lead me to suggest that the investment allocation fo...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 06 Jun 2011
  14. IEA Medium Term Forecast Sees Demand Growing By 1.2Mn B/D Annually To 2015

    ...pectations about longer term market fundamentals have all helped shape recent oil price tends, over and above the influence of more traditional physical drivers.” IEA World Oil Supply And Demand Outlook 2009-15 (Mn B/D) 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 OE...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 26
    Published at Mon, 28 Jun 2010
  15. Gazprom And Eni Finalize Deal For EDF To Join South Stream, Consider Routing Options

    ...the main trunk pipeline. The pipeline has reportedly passed hydraulic tests, and will replace a 116km pipeline built in the 1990s. This is the first component of CPC’s plan to more than double the pipeline’s net export capacity to 67 mn tons/year by 2014 at an expected cost of $4.5bn.   Tr...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 26
    Published at Mon, 28 Jun 2010
  16. Lebanon Approves Electricity Sector Reform Plan

    ...neration capacity by 2014 and 5.0gw after 2015, which is required to keep pace with the economic development of Lebanon. The plan envisages an investment of $4.87bn to raise capacity to 4.0gw. The Government of Lebanon expects to invest up to $1.5bn, with $2.3bn coming from the private sector and the $1bn fr...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 26
    Published at Mon, 28 Jun 2010
  17. Domestic Demand Challenge Highlighted By Saudi Aramco Report

    ...expand gas production and processing capacities by 4.5bn cfd by 2014, an increase of 40% over current capacity.” It is working to bring its first non-associated offshore gas field into production – the 1.8bn cfd Karan project. Karan involves output from 19 wells on four producing platforms, with ga...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 21 Jun 2010
  18. KMG And CNPC To Build Intra-Kazakh Link To Central Asia Gas Pipeline

    ...be transferring some 5 bcm/year of gas to China by the end of the year. KMG President Kairgeldy Kabyldin said the Beyneu-Shymkent pipeline would have a capacity to deliver 15 bcm/y of gas. A first stage, to be completed by the start of 2014, would have capacity to deliver 10 bcm/y and would allow Ka...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 21 Jun 2010
  19. Final Agreement Signed For Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline

    ...a 1,900km gas pipeline to export up to 21mn cmd of South Pars gas to Pakistan beginning in 2014. Iranian Deputy Minister of Petroleum Javad Ouji told reporters at the contract signing ceremony that Iran will now build the remaining 300km of the Iranian section of the project, which will connect Ir...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 21 Jun 2010
  20. GDF Suez Signs Finance, Power Agreement For Riyadh IPP

    ...P is one of three IPPs in the kingdom designed to add 5.2gw to the domestic grid by 2015. The first project was the Rabigh IPP (MEES, 17 August 2009). The 1.8gw heavy fuel oil-fired Qurayyah project is the next on the slate for development, with planned startup in April 2014. Advisers on the east co...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 21 Jun 2010