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Egypt: Record 2021 Gas Output But Outlook Uncertain
...ices headed south in late 2014, with 2020 seeing further cuts to capex budgets. … NOW FOR THE REBOUND? However Cairo has now moved to stop the rot by updating production sharing contract (PSC) terms that, key producers argued, failed to incentivize investment in mature ac...
Volume: 65Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2022 -
Abu Dhabi Gas Use Drops As Nuclear Meets Record Demand
...ctor. Despite a 9% annual increase in power generation last year, the power sector burned less hydrocarbons than in any year since 2014 according to state offtaker Ewec. Ewec purchases power from Abu Dhabi’s fleet of power plants as well as two plants in Fujairah with a combined power generation ca...
Volume: 65Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2022 -
Libya Outages Heighten Global Oil Supply Fears
...anwhile, the swearing in of a parallel government in Libya this week has heightened concerns of a return to fighting as the incumbent (internationally recognized) government in Tripoli refused to wield power. The situation is eerily reminiscent of the political division between 2014 and 2021 when two rival pa...
Volume: 65Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2022 -
Baghdad To Offer Gazprom Neft Better Terms
...oduction started in 2014. It has been a mainstay of mid-Euphrates oil production alongside CNPC’s Ahdab and Zhenhua Oil’s East Baghdad fields. Badra has a central integrated oil and gas processing facility with a capacity of 110,000 b/d and 155mn cfd. Gas is piped through a 100km pipeline to the 500MW Zu...
Volume: 65Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2022 -
India LNG Imports: Qatar Dominant As Buying Dips Amid Sky-High Prices
....16/mn BTU that India paid for Q4 supplies was the highest quarterly figure since 2014, it is well below the average price paid by other Asian importers. India’s average December import price of $13.66/mn BTU compares to $14.85/mn BTU for Japan and $19.50/mn BTU for China. This indicates that Indian im...
Volume: 65Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2022 -
Key Russian Investor Takes Over Syria Producer Gulfsands
...ate firm Sinochem holding the other half, the block has de facto been operated by Syrian state firm General Petroleum Corporation (GPC) since its restart in 2014. This restart came via a deal with the local Kurdish authorities who receive part of the revenues. Gulfsands does not receive royalties from on...
Volume: 64Issue: 12Published at Fri, 26 Mar 2021 -
Marib Conflict Threatens Yemen’s Struggling Oil Sector
...ipments for both crude feedstock and products output. Since Yemen’s civil war broke out in 2014 the damage inflicted on the country’s already long-suffering population has been severe. In 2015, Saudi Arabia entered the fray concerned that Houthi gains could essentially give rise to a Yemeni Hezbollah on...
Volume: 64Issue: 12Published at Fri, 26 Mar 2021 -
Petrofac Shut Out Of Key Abu Dhabi Market
...eas in January by a former Petrofac employee [former sales chief David Lufkin] under the Bribery Act 2010 in relation to historic contract awards in the UAE in 2013 and 2014.” The SFO says that the specific contracts were for the 2013 engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for th...
Volume: 64Issue: 11Published at Fri, 19 Mar 2021 -
IEA Shoots Down Speculation Of Emerging Super-Cycle As Oil Price Rally Stalls
...0,000 b/d for the quartet, but that is nothing in comparison to the 2.7mn b/d drop-off since 2014. As such, while the Call on Opec may remain below 2017 levels for the next five years, Opec’s strongest members can look forward to their market share hitting new heights. IEA SUPPLY & DEMAND FO...
Volume: 64Issue: 11Published at Fri, 19 Mar 2021 -
China’s Imports of Iranian Oil Jump: Will Biden Act?
...uld be the highest monthly figure since April 2019 according to Kpler. For what it’s worth the highest ever crude figure in the official Chinese import stats was 798,000 b/d set back in April 2014; April 2019 was just below this at 787,000 b/d. But whilst the official figures – which presumably re...
Volume: 64Issue: 11Published at Fri, 19 Mar 2021 -
Shell Sells Egypt Western Desert Assets To Cairn & Local Firm Cheiron
...ploration, with Shell and Apache securing a deal that would have paid them $4.60/mn BTU for shale gas production from the acreage (MEES, 19 December 2014). This compares to the $2.65/mn BTU paid for all current onshore gas output, including that of Shell. The three exploration blocks – South East Horus, We...
Volume: 64Issue: 10Published at Fri, 12 Mar 2021 -
Egypt LNG Exports At 9-Year High Amid Seasonal Buying Bonanza
...rst made these claims at the start of 2014 they were somewhat spurious: MEES number-crunching at the time showed that, whilst Cairo had indeed diverted gas to the domestic market, output decline was the primary reason for BG’s failure to meet export commitments (MEES, 7 February 2014). With WDDM ou...
Volume: 64Issue: 10Published at Fri, 12 Mar 2021 -
Saudi Deficit More Than Doubles To $78bn For 2020
...udi Arabia, bringing the cumulative deficit since 2014 to $437bn. Ministry projections point to continued deficits out to at least 2023, which would take the cumulative total to $502bn. This year’s deficit is at least projected to fall back closer to 2019 levels at $37.6bn. This is primarily pr...
Volume: 64Issue: 10Published at Fri, 12 Mar 2021 -
Apache Resigned To Further Fall In Egypt Oil Output
...very measured.” With the firm’s Egypt capex and rig count already having fallen to the lowest in over a decade, further cuts are planned for 2021 with an average of just five rigs set to be active in Egypt versus a peak of 27 in 2013 and 2014 (see chart 2). This means output is all but gu...
Volume: 64Issue: 09Published at Fri, 05 Mar 2021 -
Repsol & Shell Leave Morocco; Repsol Quits Iraqi Kurdistan
...iting pending official ratification.” Repsol has since 2014 held 75% of Ghrab Offshore Sud, a deepwater ‘Atlantic margin’ block some 100km northwest of Rabat (state firm ONHYM has 25%) and further offshore from the firm’s 2009 'sub-commercial' Anchois discovery. The sole activity here in recent years ha...
Volume: 64Issue: 09Published at Fri, 05 Mar 2021 -
India LNG Imports Soar To Snag Top Spot For Qatar & Abu Dhabi
...tar remains well ahead in India, with a 39.5% market share for 2020. However, Qatar’s market share has fallen for each of the past seven years: the record 11.9mn tons Qatar supplied in 2014 gave it a market share of over 85%. *But Qatar isn’t the only Mideast producer for which India is the ke...
Volume: 64Issue: 09Published at Fri, 05 Mar 2021 -
Algeria’s Sonatrach Halves Planned 2020 Spending
...ss cash to spend. This is truer this time around than the 2014 oil price crash when Algeria had a record $195bn in foreign reserves saved for a rainy day (MEES, 7 February). Algeria has been rapidly drawing this down as if recent years were as bad as things could get – by the end of 2019 reserves we...
Volume: 63Issue: 13Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2020 -
Egypt Gas Burn Falls Despite Powergen Record
...el, although the fact that most of Egypt’s gas turbines can also burn HFO means that some of these plants burnt liquid fuel at times during 2014-17 when gas was scarce. Egypt also has 1.87GW or 3.3% of capacity for which light fuel oil (mainly diesel) is the primary fuel. These are mainly older pl...
Volume: 63Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2020 -
Egypt Refiners Hit New Highs
...e lowest since February 2014. Products demand fell to 662,000 b/d for January, the lowest since July 2018. For 2019 as a whole, demand fell to a 10-year low 694,000 b/d. Egypt’s refiners processed a record 275,000 b/d of imported crude in January, helping to counter stagnating local production. Cr...
Volume: 63Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2020 -
Asian LNG Prices ($/Mn Btu): Have Spot Prices Bottomed Out?
...JAPAN SPOT PRICES FALL TO RECORD LOW^, QATAR SALES TO KOREA STILL EARNED THREE TIMES THE SPOT PRICE IN FEBRUARY BUT TERM PRICES ARE SET TO TUMBLE IN LINE WITH OIL *AVERAGE OF REUTERS WEEKLY ASSESSMENTS FOR THE DELIVERY MONTH IN QUESTION. ^SINCE ASSESSMENTS BEGAN IN MARCH 2014. ALL DA...
Volume: 63Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2020