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Oman State Firm Sees Oil & Gas Output Drop Amid Opec+ Cuts
...ose to Block 9. Block 30 is located to the east of Block 9 and is a gas play awarded to Oxy in 2017 (MEES, 24 November 2017). OQ says the partners are assessing the next phase of development, while Oxy has previously said that it intends for the nearby Block 62 to act as a hub for any Block 30 ou...
Volume: 64Issue: 18Published at Fri, 07 May 2021 -
Iraq Offers To Buy Exxon Wq-1 Stake ‘In Kind’
...mmercial terms remain a major hurdle (MEES, 22 September 2017 & MEES, 3 April 2020). Iraq’s motivation in having BOC take over from Exxon may be due to continued hopes of a future sale to a western IOC, as well as concern over the extent to which its oil sector is becoming reliant on Chinese firms (ME...
Volume: 64Issue: 18Published at Fri, 07 May 2021 -
Exxon Hikes 2020 Permian Forecast, Eyes Q4 Start-Up At Sabic JV Cracker
...orms. These knocked 800,000 b/d (18%) from Texas’ overall crude output and saw US production as a whole fall to the lowest level since 2017 (see chart 2). Despite the storms, Exxon’s Q1 figure was up 12% year-on-year. Exxon’s 2021 spending will be highly focused on “prioritized investments” where Ex...
Volume: 64Issue: 18Published at Fri, 07 May 2021 -
Japan LNG Imports At 3-Year High As East Asia Sees Record Q1
...88mn tons, the highest quarterly figure since 1Q 2017. Number four was the USA with a record 2.72mn tons (see table). *The bumper Q1 Japan volumes coming on top of quarterly records from China (MEES, 23 April) and South Korea (MEES, 16 April) mean that overall East Asian imports were up 15% ye...
Volume: 64Issue: 18Published at Fri, 07 May 2021 -
Another One Bites The Dust: Shell To Quit Tunisian Upstream
...bruary 2017), nor did state-power firm Steg’s chronic inability to pay Shell for gas produced. As of end-2018 debt-ridden Steg owed Shell some $230mn. With the current dire state of the country’s finances (see p10), it is unlikely matters have improved since. Shell has previously tried and failed to se...
Volume: 64Issue: 18Published at Fri, 07 May 2021 -
Kuwait Receives Bids For $1bn Jurassic Gas Production Facilities
...5mn b/d to 1.7mn b/d (MEES, 5 February). A key gathering project for Burgan, the $1.3bn 120,000 b/d GC-32 is facing significant delays. Under a 2017 award, UK firm Petrofac was due to bring GC-32 online in mid-2020, but the latest targets are for a start-up later this year. Kuwait newspaper Al An...
Volume: 64Issue: 18Published at Fri, 07 May 2021 -
Saudi Deficit Shrinks As Capex Responsibility Switches To PIF
...F That government spending came in at $56.6bn in Q1, the lowest figure in three years, was largely due to a huge drop in capital expenditure (capex). At $4bn, capex was the lowest figure since the Ministry of Finance began releasing quarterly updates in 2017, coming in well below the previous low of...
Volume: 64Issue: 18Published at Fri, 07 May 2021 -
Bahrain In Talks With Neighbors Over GCC Gas Grid
...xt month, no expansion here is viable for the foreseeable future. Saudi Arabia was in fact in talks with Qatar over potential gas imports before the embargo began in June 2017 (MEES, 8 December 2017). That option is now gone, but energy ministers from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have all ra...
Volume: 63Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2020 -
Saudi Arabia Looks To Expand Iraq Footprint
...aken Iran’s dominance in Baghdad (MEES, 1 September 2017). As Bruce Riedel, a former CIA analyst and Middle East expert on the US National Security Council told MEES in 2018, Saudi Arabia’s evolving relationship with Iraq is “perhaps the most enlightened part of current Saudi foreign policy” (ME...
Volume: 63Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2020 -
Kuwait Eyes First Exports After Clean Fuels Upgrade
...726,000 b/d at two plants in March 2017, when KNPC shuttered the 200,000 b/d Shuaiba refinery after a series of unscheduled outages. Once CFP is finished Kuwait’s next refining capacity increase will come at a new 615,000 b/d refinery at Al-Zour. This is running behind schedule, with start-up ac...
Volume: 63Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2020 -
Lebanon-Sonatrach Fuel Scandal Lays Bare Energy Sector Corruption
...ddy and Raymond Rahme, who have a variety of business interests – including alleged ties to the Barzani family in Iraqi Kurdistan. Around 2017, the firm emerged as a heavyweight in the Lebanese products sector, suspiciously underbidding in several gasoil and gasoline contracts – an oil trader te...
Volume: 63Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2020 -
Oman Smashes Output Records
...,000 b/d in 2017 to 148,000 b/d so far this year – mainly a product of the Khazzan gas field ramp up and 2018 and the Rabab Harweel project coming online last year (MEES, 6 December 2019). ...
Volume: 63Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2020 -
KRG Oil Sector Risks Unwinding In 2020
...evitable (see box, p3). The current situation is the most perilous the KRG has faced since Baghdad reclaimed swathes of territory in the aftermath of the ill fated September 2017 referendum on independence (MEES, 29 September 2017). Oil prices have crashed so far that revenues now fall well short of th...
Volume: 63Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2020 -
Low Cost Qatar Targets Counter Cyclical Investment
...cess cargoes, prices there are just as weak (MEES, 1 November 2019), and as a result export revenues had plunged to their lowest level since 2017 (MEES, 1 May). Cutting volumes below Qatar’s 77mn t/y capacity could provide a price-boost, but QP doesn’t intend to provide a helping hand to rival pr...
Volume: 63Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2020 -
Eni Offshore Egypt: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
...gust has been exacerbated by the effect of Covid-19. March saw just 3.00bn cfd burnt in power generation, a three-year low. Overall Egyptian gas demand remained flat quarter-on-quarter at 5.65bn cfd but down 8% on Q3 2019’s peak 6.17bn cfd (see chart 3). Up until 2017, the majority of Eni’s Egypt ga...
Volume: 63Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2020 -
Saudi Prioritizes Core Markets As Crude Exports Drop
...ich is actually down from around 1.9mn b/d in April. Volumes shipped to No.2 buyer Japan have soared in early May. They are now running China relatively close at more than 1.5mn b/d. The most that Japan has ever imported from Saudi Arabia over the course of a month was 1.44mn b/d in February 2017...
Volume: 63Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2020 -
Saudi Gasoline, Jet-Kero Consumption Slumps In Lockdown
...ril and May. The lowest figure in Jodi’s records is 246,000 b/d from January 2002. Saudi gasoline consumption had been falling previously anyway. Having peaked at 599,000 b/d for 2017, price increases in 2018 as part of watered-down measures to ease subsidies resulted in two consecutive annual de...
Volume: 63Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2020 -
Asian LNG Pricing: Term Premium Set To Collapse
...e set to finally slump in June, and then further in July and August as lower oil prices fully work themselves through into LNG contracts. *Japan and Korea, long the two largest LNG importers (Japan remains global number 1, Korea was overtaken by China in 2017) are the two with the highest le...
Volume: 63Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2020 -
Mena Renewables Projects Tap Chinese Funding
...the Gulf power sector. But Silk Road is not the only China-based investor (see table 2). In 2017 a consortium of Chinese state banks led by state credit guarantee agency Sinosure fronted $1.6bn of the $2.1bn cost of Jordan’s 554MW Attarat oil-shale-fired power development (MEES, 28 April 2017...
Volume: 62Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2020 -
Algeria’s Revised 2020 Budget: More Questions Than Answers
...rex reserves which had already fallen to $60bn by the end of March, just 30% of their level six years earlier (MEES, 1 May). President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ruled out both foreign debt and the country’s previous ruse of printing money (MEES, 13 October 2017) as a way of financing the fiscal de...
Volume: 63Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2020