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Saudi Arabia Gas: New Facilities, Greater Flexibility
...RIL ('000 B/D) PRESUMES ALL FUEL OIL BURNT IN POWER PLANTS (SOME IS USED AS INDUSTRIAL & BUNKER FUEL). SOURCE: JODI, MEES. 3: SAUDI ARABIA SALES GAS OUTPUT HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY CLIMBING YEAR-ON-YEAR (BN CFD) CONVERTED FROM BTU TO CFD UNTIL 2011. SOURCE: SAUDI ARAMCO, ME...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
US Rigs Fall To New Low
...cord 76%. Of the latest fall, half (five) were in the Permian, leaving the total for the key Texas/New Mexico shale basin at 132, level with the April 2016 nadir as the low point in data since 2011. Permian drilling has actually been more resilient than elsewhere – all other key basins had already hi...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
Oman Feels The Pain As Export Revenues Plummet
...onomic outlook. A succession of six sizeable annual deficits since the 2014 price crash has gradually pushed-up Oman’s debt levels, and another substantial rise this year seems inescapable (see chart 2). Current spending jumped in 2011 as Oman sought to ride out ‘Arab Spring’ protests through higher pu...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
Algeria’s Sonatrach & Spain’s Naturgy Prepare For Gas Price Battle
...ttled for €1.5bn ($1.9bn), with Sonatrach taking a stake in the Spanish firm as part of the settlement (MEES, 20 June 2011). This stake stood at 4.1% in 2019. Naturgy and Sonatrach also partner each other on the Medgaz pipeline and recently upped their stakes to 49% and 51%, respectively (MEES, 5 Ju...
Volume: 63Issue: 25Published at Fri, 19 Jun 2020 -
Syria’s Block 26 Continues To Pump As UK’s Gulfsands Waits On Standby
...lfsands’ Block 26 was one of Syria’s most promising oil assets when the war erupted in 2011, forcing the UK minnow (and every other western firm) to declare force majeure and halt operations. The firm still retains 50% of the block, with Chinese state firm Sinochem holding the other half. But since 2014 wh...
Volume: 63Issue: 24Published at Fri, 12 Jun 2020 -
Algeria Looks To Reduce Reliance On Morocco Pipeline
...rocco and Spain, Medgaz was the more recent to start up in 2011. Capacity lags that of the 11.5bcm/y Maghreb–Europe Gas Pipeline (GME) which connects Algeria to Spain through Morocco. But Morocco is set to take ownership of its GME section next year. With the clock ticking the two countries have yet to...
Volume: 63Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020 -
Qatar Signs Record-Breaking Deal For LNG Tankers
...mn t/y, which it reached in 2011 (MEES, 8 April 2011). Nakilat lists its current LNG fleet as comprising of 69 LNG tankers including 31 Q-Flex (210-217,000m³) and 14 Q-Max (263-266,000m³) tankers. These Qatari tankers are literally in a class of their own: almost all non-Qatari LNG tankers are of a re...
Volume: 63Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020 -
Mena’s Poor Relations Turn To IMF To Weather The Covid-19 Storm
...START? Egypt’s tourism sector accounts for 6% of GDP, employs a tenth of the workforce and is a key source of foreign exchange (MEES, 20 March). And it had only just begun to get back on its feet following the 2011 Arab Spring and its ensuing instability. Tourism revenues hit a record high $13.03bn fo...
Volume: 63Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020 -
Saudi Arabia Taps Foreign Reserves To Fund Overseas Investments
...BRUARY 2011 IN APRIL ($BN) SOURCE: SAMA, MEES....
Volume: 63Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020