1. Japan’s Crude Imports Rise 9.25% In March To 4.209Mn B/D

    ...853mn b/d and an increase of 11.28% over the February 2011 crude import figure of 3.783mn b/d. March imports from the Middle East averaged 3.452mn b/d, up by 7.72% from the February average of 3.205mn b/d but only 0.44% above the year-on-year average of 3.437mn b /d in March 2011. Saudi Arabia continues to be...

    Volume: 55
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  2. Saudi LPG Prices Respond To Slow Propane Demand, Support For Butane

    ...n 740.00 735.00 2011 1 Jan 935.00 920.00 2012 1 Jan   850.00   91...

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  3. Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices ($/B)

    ...L PRICES/OPEC   Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices ($/B)   Algeria (Dated Brent + / - Adjustment Factor; $/B)                 2012 2011   May Ap...

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  4. Anadarko Gets Algerian Boost, El Merk Delayed

    ...gerian production dipping to 50,000 b/d, from 55,000 b/d for the first quarter 2011 (see table and graph). Higher oil prices mean the firm received a lower share of production due to the terms of the company’s production sharing contract (PSC) for Block 404a, which it operates, despite gross production ri...

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  5. IMF Says Bahrain’s Political Unrest Reduces GDP Growth To 2% In 2011

    ...hrain   IMF Says Bahrain’s Political Unrest Reduces GDP Growth To 2% In 2011 Real GDP growth in Bahrain in 2011 is expected to reach about 2%, down from 4.1% in 2010, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest Article IV consultation with Bahrain. Disruptions caused by protests du...

    Volume: 55
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  6. MOL To Sell Nabucco Shares, BEH Uncertain Over Project’s Future

    ...e only company that has expressed interest in joining Nabucco of late (MEES, 10 October 2011). It is unlikely that Bayerngas would join Nabucco before 16 May.   In related news, Bulgaria’s BEH has also expressed doubts about the feasibility of Nabucco. At a press conference in Baku on 28 Ap...

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  7. Eni ‘In Good Shape’ For Kashagan Start-Up

    ...tober 2011).  ...

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  8. TPAO Begins Drilling Well In Northern Cyprus

    ...ptember a concession by the Turkish-Cypriot administration to explore for hydrocarbons within the 40% of the island that has been occupied by Turkish forces since 1974 and was also awarded a number of offshore concessions encompassing most of the island (MEES, 5 December 2011). The move followed the start of...

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  9. TransGlobe Looks To Egyptian Future With Western Desert Expansion

    ...quisition approvals) as well as a 60% operator’s interest in the nearby South Mariut concession. TransGlobe says it expects the deal to close by early June. This follows TransGlobe’s June 2011 $3mn purchase of the 50% operator’s stake at South Alamein from Spain’s Cepsa. Final approval of this deal from the Eg...

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  10. South Africa Increases Oil Imports From Iran

    ...ns in February to 505,908 tons in March, with Iranian revenues on supplies for the two months estimated at $364mn and $434mn respectively. The monthly cost of Iranian imports for South Africa was estimated at an average $280mn in 2011. Sasol normally takes around 20% of its oil imports from Iran but ha...

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    Issue: 19
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  11. Noble’s Leviathan-1 Well Stopped Short Of Target Depth

    ...uth Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) for a feasibility study on an LNG floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility (MEES, 28 November 2011).   Mr Stover also said that Noble was closely managing production from the Mari-B field, Israel’s sole source of na...

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  12. Luberef $1.1Bn Financing For Yanbu Expansion Gathers Momentum

    ...madan, which falls in July/August this year.   Halliburton subsidiary KBR won the contract to supply Luberef’s Yanbu' refinery with its solvent deasphalting technology (MEES, 14 March), while Jacobs secured the front end engineering and design contract for the expansion (MEES, 7 February 2011). Th...

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  13. New SAMA Data Shows Jump In Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Assets

    ...739,197 1,404,955   Source: SAMA.   Jadwa Investment said in a report on the subject that it estimates the kingdom’s net foreign assets rose to almost $600bn by the end of 2011. “This is very high and represents a core strength of the economy,” commented Jadwa. The position pr...

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  14. Production At Heglig Restarts As UN Issues Dispute Ultimatum

    ...e total withdrawal of all forces from disputed territories, as well as an end to air raids by the North and a solution to the oil payment dispute that has been raging between the two sides since the South’s secession from the north in July 2011. Negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan would also ne...

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  15. TAQA Gets Green Light To Begin Work On Dutch Gas Storage Project

    ...use earth tremors, increase noise levels and disrupt animal habitats (MEES, 15 August 2011). These fears and objections were deemed “unfounded” by the Dutch courts, however, having found no evidence of a link between the planned work on the project and an increased risk of tremors. “Although experts co...

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  16. Iraq’s NOC Works To Reverse Capacity Slippage

    ...tal since June 2008. On 26 May, the finance ministry proposed a 2012 budget that foresees a 25% increase in spending to $98.45bn, based on an oil price of $85/B, Reuters reported. The 2011 budget is based on an oil price of $76.50/B and had projected a deficit. But higher prices than envisaged wi...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 22
    Published at Mon, 30 May 2011
  17. CGES Warns Of Mounting Pressure On OPEC To Raise Output

    ...ear whether the IEA would follow through on this implied threat.” CGES Global Supply/Demand Balance (Mn B/D) 3Q10 4Q10 1Q11 2Q11 3Q11 4Q11 2009 2010 2011 World Oil Demand 88.7 89...

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  18. South Stream Receives Qualified Support From EC

    ...reement, which will formally incorporate France’s EDF and Germany’s BASF into the consortium, should be completed by the end of 2011. By that time German utility E.ON, which already controls 15% of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline, could also join in the project, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller told a press co...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 22
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  19. TBL Submits New Pipeline Study To Bulgarian Authorities

    ...sessment study to the Bulgarian environment ministry. This incorporates the ministry’s corrections and “reservations” that resulted in the rejection of the original study by Sofia (MEES, 15 November 2011). In a 23 May statement, TBL said: “After a series of consultations with the Bulgarian environmental an...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 22
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  20. Oman’s PDO Launches Five-Year Plan

    ...port for 2010 PDO said it would “invest heavily”, but did not give figures. “The company’s ambitious oil exploration plans for 2011-15 call for extensive 3D seismic data acquisition, continued search for completely new geological opportunities, as well as the drilling and testing of approximately 14...

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    Issue: 22
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