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DC’s Bahrain ‘Mideast Peace’ Conference: Deal of the Century or Damp Squib?
...rael-Palestine conflict once and for all. STICKS AND CARROTS It’s little wonder that Mr Kushner has chosen an investment rather than a political angle to kick off his Middle East peace initiative: since taking office in 2017, Mr Trump torched what little goodwill the US had left wi...
Volume: 62Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2019 -
Yemen Crude Reaches Europe
...The Marshall Islands-flagged British Eagle offloaded some 400,000 barrels of Yemeni crude at Italy’s Trieste port this week. While Italy has proven Yemen’s sole European customer since war erupted in 2015 (MEES, 15 September 2017), this may not prove the final destination. Trieste also su...
Volume: 62Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2019 -
Egyptian Med: Ha’py Days For Eni As Virgin Acreage Attracts Major Interest
...the Mena Congress in Cairo this week. In its 2017-18 annual report Egas delineated 11 possible blocks that could be put on offer (MEES, 25 January). But the official tells MEES that the state-run firm has changed the shape of the area and the size of some of the blocks with Norwegian firm PGS ha...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Adnoc Targets Big Gains From Transformational Foreign Partnerships
...reamlining of subsidiaries in 2017 (MEES, 20 October 2017). Equally notable is the revolution underway in reshaping Adnoc’s partnerships with foreign oil firms. The number of such firms partnered with Adnoc in its upstream operations has soared from 12 in 2014 to 17 currently (see chart 1). Moreover, th...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
UAE Gas Production, Consumption Rise To Record Levels
...2018, despite imposing an embargo on its neighbor in June 2017 (MEES, 9 June 2017). Qatari stats show that the emirate exported $1.41bn worth of goods to the UAE in 2018, the bulk of which will have comprised gas supplies through the Dolphin consortium’s pipeline (Abu Dhabi state firm Mubadala 51...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Opec Faces Extended Demand Slump
...mand for Opec crude peaked at 32.55mn b/d in 2017, more than 3mn b/d above the 2020 forecast. Will this peak ever be regained? *The bright side for Opec is that the IEA projects that global demand growth will accelerate in 2020 to its highest level since 2017. The IEA sees demand growth ri...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Iran Looks To Protect Lucrative Petchems Earnings From Tightening US Sanctions
...reements with foreign firms for a variety of petchems plants (MEES, 11 August 2017 and MEES, 17 March 2017). Among the firms signing agreements, Denmark’s Haldor Topsoe has since closed its Tehran office (MEES, 31 August 2018), while the other seven projects have not progressed further. One of these wa...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Dubai Looks To Clean Up Powergen Act With 2050 Plan
...r later release to turbines (MEES, 16 June 2017). The flagship project in Dewa’s solar program is the 5GW MBR Solar Park under development 50km south of Dubai city at Seih al Dalal. In March Dewa invited developers to submit qualification documents for an independent power producer (IPP) project fo...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Dubai’s Dragon Roars In To Egypt With BP Purchase
...timated $500mn for BP’s Gupco subsidiary, which manages the firm’s 12 concessions containing 45 fields in Egypt’s mature Gulf of Suez oil province. Output was 71,000 b/d for 2017-18, 11% of Egypt overall output, down from 72,500 b/d for 2016-17 and 78,000 b/d for 2011-12. Net output to BP is around 40...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Opec Output Rises In May Ahead Of Latest Crunch Meeting
...entually forced Opec, Russia and their allies to implement supply cuts from January 2017 that have broadly been in force ever since (MEES, 10 December 2016). Demand growth meanwhile has been speeding along in excess of 1mn b/d each year, including around 1.9mn b/d over 2015, and has been projected at 1....
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
GCC Rift Enters Third Year As Qatar PM’s Saudi Trip Ends In Acrimony
...abia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut off diplomatic relations with Qatar (MEES, 9 June 2017). The rift shows no sign of easing. Qatari Prime Minister Abdullah bin Nasser Al Thani last week became the first senior official to visit Saudi Arabia since the June 2017 flareup when he attended a series of su...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Saudi Aramco Trading Gets Fujairah Boost
...Saudi Aramco’s trading arm is ramping up activity as the state firm seeks to maximize profitability. A new Singapore office opened in 2017, and this week saw a branch open in the key Mideast bunkering port of Fujairah. As Saudi Aramco looks to develop new revenue streams, the state oil gi...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Ineos Signs Up With Aramco/Total For Satorp Integrated Petchems
...used this phrase in December 2017 to describe a plant to be built in the US for start-up in third quarter 2019 that it also said would have 120,000 t/y capacity and be the “world’s largest single PAO train.” A similar scale here seems likely. The two largest of the Ineos plants will require fe...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Oman’s 2019 Power Start-Ups Are Last Gas Burners In Project Pipeline
...-field operations across the huge Block 6 (MEES, 2 November 2018); and rural electricity provider Raeco’s 50MW wind farm being built at Harweel in the Dhofar region (MEES, 3 February 2017). OPWP has proposed a 1.5GW coal-fired power plant at Duqm on the Arabian Sea coast, but this project may be...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Algeria Cuts Deficit For 2018: Gains Will Likely Prove Short-Lived
...venue. Overall 2018 state revenues, at AD6,620bn ($56.5bn), were up 9.5% on 2017 in nominal dinar terms, though the gains fall to 4% in dollar terms given the continued slide of the Algerian currency against the greenback. $1 bought AD111 in 2017, AD117 in 2018 and an average of AD119 so far in 2019. Sp...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Oman Nears ‘Sin Tax’ Startup
...abia was the first to impose excise taxes in June 2017 (MEES, 2 June 2017), followed by the UAE in October 2017 (MEES, 6 October 2017) and Bahrain at the end of 2017. Qatar followed suit in January 2019, but Kuwait has yet to announce a date to impose excise taxes. Though the GCC is looking in...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Israel Extends Bidding
...ich took five blocks, while a consortium of Indian firms led by state giant ONGC Videsh took one (MEES, 24 November 2017). Israel hopes that, having purchased a data package, US major ExxonMobil will be the breakthrough entrant in the latest bidding (MEES, 15 March)....
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Can Oman Capitalize On Opec+ Production Deal?
...ok effect in January 2017, last week’s decision to reduce over-compliance means Oman has freedom to increase output (MEES, 22 June). The Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) will “coordinate amongst the countries with spare capacity” says Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih, adding th...
Volume: 61Issue: 26Published at Fri, 29 Jun 2018 -
Sharjah Launches Debut Licensing Round
...ring 2017 which covers the whole concession area. The smaller 264km² Area B was also fully covered by 3D seismic in 2017. However, the third area, Area C, while much larger at 1,184km² only has a small area of 3D seismic shot in 2013 along the border with Area B. Any successful bidders will be re...
Volume: 61Issue: 26Published at Fri, 29 Jun 2018 -
Eni Ramps-Up Zohr, Mubadala Farms In
...this year(MEES, 12 May 2017). This will mean Cairo will be able to bring an end to LNG imports which began in April 2015. Mr Molla signalled that a six-cargo tender awarded to trading firms Trafigura, Gunvor and Vitol for deliveries in July and August will likely be the last. “I don’t th...
Volume: 61Issue: 26Published at Fri, 29 Jun 2018