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Qatar Gas Exports Surge To Five Year High
...Qatari gas exports bounced back to five-year highs in April as seasonal maintenance work on LNG facilities was completed. Exports jumped above 16bn cfd in April for the first time since January 2019, and hit their highest level since June 2017 according to the latest figures from Jodi, pr...
Volume: 65Issue: 25Published at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 -
Oman LNG Bounces Back Following Maintenance Work
...mpletely changed the supply picture when it started up in 2017 (MEES, 29 September 2017). The 500mn cfd second phase Ghazeer came online in October 2020 (MEES, 16 October 2020), while the likes of Shell, Total and Eni have all taken up Khazzan-like acreage in recent years in a bid to replicate BP’s su...
Volume: 65Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 -
TotalEnergies First Again With Qatar LNG Expansion Deal
...e first firm to re-enter Iran, alongside China’s CNPC, during the country’s brief post-JCPOA re-opening. The pair signed a $4.8bn deal to develop Phase 11 of the South Pars gas field in 2017 (MEES, 7 July 2017), before exiting in 2018 after the US re-imposed sanctions on Iran (MEES, 24 August 20...
Volume: 65Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 -
Asian LNG Prices Steady As Korea Boosts Oman Volumes
...r 2017 to 2021 but has been overtaken by both China and India so far this year (MEES, 10 June). *Korea remains top LNG customer for the Middle East’s number two LNG exporter Oman (see p4). With Korean imports from Oman up 44% at 2.24mn tons for the first five months of 2022, Oman was just be...
Volume: 65Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 -
KRG Oil Sector In The Crosshairs As Baghdad Steps Up Legal Attacks
...ports around 100,000 b/d (MEES, 15 April) to Turkey’s Ceyhan Port via a KRG-controlled pipeline. Prior to being reclaimed by federal forces in 2017, the KRG took over most operations in Kirkuk for almost three years. On the dynamics of a potential arbitration between Baghdad and the IOCs, Shwan Zu...
Volume: 65Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2022 -
Tehran & Baku Agree To Double Gas Swap
...lume agreed upon last year (MEES, 3 December 2021). Mr Owji also claims that his country could even “easily” increase the amount swapped to “three or four times.” The original deal announced on 29 November 2021 ended a five-year hiatus in Iranian imports of Turkmen gas. Iran in early 2017 an...
Volume: 65Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2022 -
Qatar: 2026 Cracker Start
...nocoPhillips have secured stakes. The LNG expansion project will provide ethane feedstock for RLPP. When announcing the planned facility in 2017, Mr Kaabi told MEES that “for the first time in Qatar we are going to extract ethane before we liquefy. So we are going to have a major petrochemical plant in ad...
Volume: 65Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2022 -
Egypt Foreign Reserves At 5-Year Low As Cairo Awaits IMF Cash
....5bn at end-May, down $1.6bn on a month earlier for the lowest figure since June 2017 (see chart). This comes as Egypt’s economy continues to reel from high commodity prices linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Reserves have been on a downward trend since February despite key Gulf ally Saudi Ar...
Volume: 65Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2022 -
Key Sadara Chemicals Pipeline Boosts PlasChem Operations
...p). The Sadara complex is centered around a 1.9mn t/y mixed-feed cracker, which is able to process up to 53,000 b/d of naphtha and 85mn cfd of ethane and an aromatics plant producing 280,000 t/y of benzene and 134,000 t/y of toluene. The final Sadara unit started operations in 2017 (MEES, 18 August 2017...
Volume: 65Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2022 -
Saudi Foreign Reserves Edge Up Over April
...e second half of that year. They stabilized at slightly less than $500bn from 2017 onwards, before dropping sharply in early 2020 amid the huge Covid-19 disruption and bottomed out at $424bn in February. SAMA NET FOREIGN ASSETS EDGE UP TOWARDS END-2021 LEVELS IN APRIL ($BN) SO...
Volume: 65Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2022 -
Tethys Banks On Oman Knowledge To Develop Hidden Gems
...19). Starting in 2017, Tethys made the jump into becoming an operator in its own right in Oman, snapping up Block 49 on the Saudi border (MEES, 24 November 2017). In 2019 it acquired a 20% stake in Block 56 on the south east coast of Oman (MEES, 1 November 2019) and last year it acquired a further 45% in...
Volume: 64Issue: 25Published at Fri, 25 Jun 2021 -
QP, TotalEnergies Team Up Offshore Suriname
...out at the same level as ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Total” (MEES, 8 December 2017). He subsequently added that “we want to be with the main players, we don’t see ourselves as a national oil company per se anymore, we look at ourselves as like any other IOC. We always say we want to be one of...
Volume: 64Issue: 25Published at Fri, 25 Jun 2021 -
Baghdad Wary That BP Is Looking To Exit Iraq
...mpany (BOC) does not hold a share of ROO, it is contractually the owner of the field. Since 2017, BOC has seconded almost 5,800 employees to ROO. ROO plays a huge role in Basra’s economy, and employs 22,000 people “via contractors who support Rumaila’s activities through a large supply chain” according to...
Volume: 64Issue: 24Published at Fri, 18 Jun 2021 -
Gulf Keystone Provides Timely Boost To KRG Oil Sector
...ich is supplemented by a heavier 250 meter column of 14-22°API crude (MEES, 10 March 2017). Shamaran’s latest presentation says that the firm expects to “generate quarter-on-quarter production growth with increasing contribution of heavy oil.” OUTPUT GETS HEAVIER The KRG has been de...
Volume: 64Issue: 24Published at Fri, 18 Jun 2021 -
IEA Calls On Opec+ To Open The Taps In 2022
...tention turns to ending the production cuts. If they are unwound entirely then the market will be oversupplied, but with Opec+ having had some form of cuts in place for most of the period since January 2017, “cuts fatigue” will play a major role. 1: WHICH OPEC MEMBERS HAVE THE CAPACITY TO REGAIN BA...
Volume: 64Issue: 24Published at Fri, 18 Jun 2021 -
Saudi Arabia Burning Record Oil Volumes
...ar. Crude oil burn is up year-on-year, but is broadly within historical norms. At 407,000 b/d in April, it was up by 52,000 b/d year-on-year to the highest April figure since 2017. For fuel oil meanwhile, consumption of 637,000 b/d was up nearly 100,000 b/d from 2020, to by far the biggest April fi...
Volume: 64Issue: 24Published at Fri, 18 Jun 2021 -
LNG Markets: Demand Robust As Prices Hit $12/mn btu
....4mn tons for 5M 2021. *Japan has been the top global LNG importer since the 1970s and was only topped by China for the first time ever on a monthly basis in November 2019 (MEES, 10 January). Having only overtaken South Korea for global number two spot in 2017, there is now a fair chance that Ch...
Volume: 64Issue: 24Published at Fri, 18 Jun 2021 -
Iran Goes To The Polls, Or Not
...ads the judiciary and is a close ally of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Mr Raisi also stood in the previous election in 2017 when he was soundly beaten by then incumbent Hassan Rohani (MEES, 26 May 2017). Four years of progressively-tightening sanctions under US President Trump tempered su...
Volume: 64Issue: 24Published at Fri, 18 Jun 2021 -
Iraq: Qayara Restarts With 10,000 B/D Trucked To Kirkuk Refinery
...st $2/B (MEES, 11 September 2020). The difficult-to-handle grade was also blamed for inflicting infrastructure damage. With the nearby 14,000 b/d Qayara Refinery offline since March according to local media, output is most probably being trucked to the 56,000 b/d Kirkuk Refinery partly refurbished in 2017...
Volume: 64Issue: 24Published at Fri, 18 Jun 2021 -
Egypt’s Zohr Struggles With Water Breakthrough
...er the years proved the rule more than the exception for fields in Egypt’s Mediterranean deepwater. ‘Exhibit A’ in this regard is BP’s $9bn West Nile Delta project. By the time the ‘Phase 3’ Raven field came online in April output from Phases 1 and 2 – which only started up in 2017 and 2019 re...
Volume: 64Issue: 23Published at Fri, 11 Jun 2021