1. JGC Wins Management Contract For PETRORabigh Expansion

    ...cludes front end engineering for utilities and offsites, in addition to project managing the feasibility study for the expansion, MEES understands (MEES, 13 April). The study is to be completed by the third quarter of next year, and if the project gets the green light, construction should begin in 2011...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 26
    Published at Mon, 29 Jun 2009
  2. Syria’s 'Alaw Says Five IOCs Were Close To Signing PSCs Last Year 

    ...000 b/d of condensate, is scheduled to start up in the first quarter of 2010. Finally the Jihar Gas Project, which will have a capacity of 4mn cmd of gas, 180 t/d of LPG and 1,800 b/d of condensate, is due for completion in 2011. Syrian gas production is now averaging 21.6mn cmd, according to recent fi...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 26
    Published at Mon, 29 Jun 2009
  3. GE Energy Signs Contracts Worth More Than $500Mn For Al Dur IWPP

    ...30% of the kingdom’s existing electricity output, as well as 48mn gal/day (218,000 cmd) of desalinated water. The plant is scheduled to start commercial operation by mid‐2011 and is expected to cost $2.2bn to build, with the debt package pegged at around $1.7bn. The bank facility is carrying ma...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 22 Jun 2009
  4. QP Eyes Decision On 250,000 B/D Shaheen Refinery

    ...timates for start-up on Qatargas 4 Train 7, the last of Qatar’s LNG ‘mega-trains’, has slipped to 2011, MEES understands. “There is a lot of uncertainty on timing,” notes the source. “As they are fixing problems on Train 4, they assume they will be able to solve these same issues on the other trains. Bu...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 22 Jun 2009
  5. KRG Operators Vying For Position After Oil Exports Start-Up

    ...ll also feed into the pipeline. Meanwhile, Genel is also building a 60,000 b/d refinery at Koya near Taq Taq and Miran. Some 40,000 b/d of processing capacity will be in place by 2011, with the remaining capacity online in 2012, Heritage said. The $510mn refinery is guaranteed a tolling fee of $15...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 15 Jun 2009
  6. Turkey Reiterates Call For 15% Of Azeri Nabucco Gas

    ...rticipation in the rival South Stream pipeline. Turkey To Demand Re-Export Clause In 2011 Gazprom Contract Turkish Minister of Energy Taner Yildiz told Ilhas News Agency on 5 June that his country would demand the inclusion of a re-export clause in an extension of the first of three long-term supply co...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 15 Jun 2009
  7. Sofregaz Plans To Reactivate Varamin Gas Storage Project

    ...Varamin, 70km southwest of Tehran, NGSC Director of Engineering and Construction Mahmoud Nemati told the Ministry of Petroleum’s PIN news service on 8 June. Mr Nemati said the facility would have a gas storage capacity of 540mn cu ms, and would be expected to be completed by late 2011. Sofregaz wa...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 15 Jun 2009
  8. IEA Sees Tougher Financing And Weakening Demand Hitting Energy Investment

    ...l Total 2012 2014 150   Nsiko Nigeria Offshore Oil Chevron 2011 2015 10...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 22
    Published at Mon, 01 Jun 2009
  9. ESAI Estimates Call On OPEC Crude At Less Than 30Mn B/D Through 2011

    ...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LII No 22 1-Jun-2009 ESAI Estimates Call On OPEC Crude At Less Than 30Mn B/D Through 2011 Slow demand growth after 2008-09’s economic contraction will leave the call on OPEC crude under 30mn b/d through the end of 2011, according to Energy Se...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 22
    Published at Mon, 01 Jun 2009
  10. Saudi Aramco Details Upstream Progress, Riyadh Updates On Security

    ...09; 1.2mn b/d of Arab Light from Khurais due by June 2009; and the 900,000 b/d offshore Manifa project due in September 2011. Khursaniyah “will come on-stream in August [2008],” Mr Nasser said. “We are hoping for the end of July, but even with this slight delay, for Khursaniyah we had put in a ve...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 26
    Published at Mon, 30 Jun 2008
  11. Costs Climb At Citadel’s Musturud Refinery

    ...ich is 85% owned by Citadel and 15% owned by EGPC, will start up in 2011 producing 2.2mn tons/year of diesel and 1.5mn t/y of light products, of which 700,000 t/y are gasoline blend stocks....

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 26
    Published at Mon, 30 Jun 2008
  12. Syrian Processed Gas Output To Rise To 28Mn CMD By 2010

    ...har Gas Project: The project will produce 3.7mn cmd of processed gas, 180 tons/day of LPG and 1,800 b/d of condensate from the Jihar and al-Mahr fields. The project is being undertaken for Hayan Petroleum Company by Petrofac, under a contact awarded in March 2008, and is due for completion in 2011 (ME...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 26
    Published at Mon, 30 Jun 2008
  13. Tunisia Increasingly Gas-Focused As Oil Production Dips

    ...th compression stations, this pipeline will have a capacity of 3.6 bcm/y and should be ready in 2011. Battling Reservoir Depletion Tunisia has had some success at shoring up its oil output in the last 18 months, with production expected to average 93,000 b/d in 2008, just 2% down on last year. Th...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 23 Jun 2008
  14. Soaring Oil Prices Push MENA Steel Demand To New Peaks

    ...mplex drilling and production technologies, which result in greater steel use as drilling distances increase. Tougher reservoir conditions also require special high quality down-hole steels. Saudi Aramco plans to add almost 3m b/d of crude production by 2011, but it is also making a considerable ou...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 23 Jun 2008
  15. Saudi Arabia’s Diversification Plans Take Shape As Ma'aden Receives Financing

    ...her operations can domestically access all three components, Mr Fallaj added. More than 70% of the project costs are fixed by a lump-sum turnkey (LSTK) contract, with key contractors provided by Germany, China, France, Spain and Finland. The phosphate project is set for completion in 2011. Target ex...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 16 Jun 2008
  16. Chevron To Participate In New Kazakh Export Route

    ...reement with Azerbaijan that allows Kazakhstan to transport crude through the 1mn b/d Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline (MEES, 9 June). The move effectively helps clear the way for the implementation of the KCTS. The pipeline is tentatively scheduled to come into operation in 2011 with an initial ca...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 16 Jun 2008
  17. Kayan Signs Loan Agreement, Breaks Islamic Project Finance Records

    ...tane from Saudi Aramco, with ethane provided at $0.75/mn BTU and the butane price based on an international benchmark, less a discount which has been fixed at 30% until 2011. “The Saudi Arabian government’s policy is to promote development of a primary and secondary domestic petrochemicals in...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 09 Jun 2008
  18. Spain’s Fertiberia To Build A $1bn Ammonia Plant At Arzew

    ...n funds, while the remaining 70% would be financed by bank loans. Separately, Algeria’s Minister of Energy and Mines Chakib Khelil said the completion of various petrochemical projects under way in Algeria would give it a 5% share of global fertilizer production by 2011, and help to reduce its fo...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 09 Jun 2008
  19. CPC Pipeline Reports First Profits

    ...rticipation in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) crude oil pipeline. The law opens the way for the Kazakhstan Caspian Transportation System (KCTS), which is to come into operation in 2011 with an initial 500,000 b/d capacity.   Batumi Oil Terminal (BOT) shipped 718,800 tons of crude oil and products du...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 09 Jun 2008
  20. BG Eyes Egypt’s Deeper Horizons, Still Plans A Third LNG Train At Idku

    ...e $3bn that it has earmarked for Egypt, up to 2011. Together with its partners in Egypt, BG produces more than 2.3bn cfd of natural gas, out of total Egyptian gas output of 5.7bn cfd (MEES, 17 March). As a gauge of BG’s rapid growth there, it should be noted that the UK firm only started pr...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 22
    Published at Mon, 02 Jun 2008