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Egypt Doubles Down On Attempts To Reverse Gas Slump
...e BG-operated WDDM project more than accounts for the remainder. Output from the BP/Eni fields is down by a total of 524mn cfd since 2011, with BG output down 440mn cfd over the same period, some 83% of the overall 1.15bn cfd fall in Egypt’s output since 2011. Eni has been keen to talk up its De...
Volume: 58Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2015 -
Saudi Mosque Bombings Shatter Illusion Of Security
...stern Province since the 2011 so-called Arab Spring revolutions. Riyadh has in the past blamed Iran for what it says is an attempt to foment strife amongst the Shia minority. It also blames Tehran for supporting the Houthi rebellion in Yemen, which prompted King Salman to order air strikes against the Ye...
Volume: 58Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2015 -
ENOC Moves Ahead With Offer To Absorb Dragon Oil
...though the UAE raised gasoline prices twice in recent years, it deferred a third price in the wake of the Arab revolutions of 2011, fearful of a backlash. Federal law requires that Enoc and its subsidiary Emirates Petroleum Products Company (Eppco) sell gasoline at the government mandated price. In 2011, th...
Volume: 58Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2015 -
Wintershall Exits Qatar Gas Block
...st. It comes as the German oil and gas company is struggling to maintain its output in Libya, where it produced up to 100,000 b/d of crude oil before the February 2011 revolution. Output has been erratic since and Wintershall has said that it does not see a return to pre-crisis production levels this ye...
Volume: 58Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2015 -
South Sudan: Remaining Oil Output Under Threat
...velopment (IGAD) going nowhere, and the crisis showing few signs of abating, the focus has once again turned to South Sudan’s oil fields, the country’s main revenue earner. Oil production is down from around 245,000 b/d pre-conflict, and 347,500 b/d in the second half of 2011, immediately after the So...
Volume: 58Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2015 -
Companies Scale Back Libya Expectations
...nce 2011 (MEES 24 April). The impairments “mainly related to the deteriorating security situation this quarter,” said Total’s chief financial officer, Patrick de la Chevardiere, in a conference call on 28 April. “We have fully impaired our onshore fields in Libya, which is most of the charge, as we...
Volume: 58Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2015 -
Saudi Aramco Oil, Gas Reserves At All-Time High
...DICATED) 2014 vs2013 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Morocco’s $4.6bn LNG Scheme Continues To Drum Up Interest
...d a 170MW steam turbine, requiring around 84 mn cfd (0.87 bcm/y). Supplies to the two plants were until October 2011, exclusively covered by the payment in kind – 0.75 bcm/y of gas that Morocco would receive from Algeria in return for transit rights. Morocco wanted to receive its transit fees in ca...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Egypt’s Deficit Up
...balances after the January 2011 revolution (including $3bn grants from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, in addition to E£20.3bn out of the E£29.7bn allocated to finance the first stimulus package), it did not have the same inflow in the corresponding period of 2014-15. If these exceptional inflows were to be ex...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Algeria’s Youcef Yousfi Ousted In Cabinet Reshuffle
...ined in 1998 as head of the petroleum economics studies division before becoming head of operational research and petroleum economics until 2004. His most recent role was as chairman and chief executive of the Algerian Petroleum Institute (IAP), a position he held for five years until 2011. Mr Khebri gr...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My (OPEC) Brother
...rticular market have failed miserably. In 2011, when the world lost nearly all Libyan output, Saudi Arabia came up with the notion that it could fill the void by creating a super-light, low sulfur blend mimmicing Libyan crude. But the Saudi cocktail found almost no takers: while the API gravity of the bl...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
US Tries To Soothe Gulf Arab Fears Over Iran At Camp David Summit
...nations sharing common interests. The GCC has been weakened by internecine disputes since the start of the so-called Arab Spring revolutions of 2011, often finding some of their members on opposite sides of the struggle against rising extremism in the region. The metastatic spread of Iranian in...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Libya Could Run Out Of Cash Sooner Rather Than Later
...ports of refined products. Public salaries dropped slightly from LD25.6bn in 2013 to LD23.8bn in 2014, but this was still more than 60% higher than the LD14.8bn the government spent on salaries in 2011. The drop in the oil price is likely to mean the government’s subsidies bill falls in 2015, but if the ad...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Bahrain 2015-16 Budget Deficit Soars
...ice exceeds $40/B. Four GCC countries, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE and Qatar set up in 2011 a Gulf development fund to disburse $10bn in grants over 10 years to finance Bahraini projects. This aid will be extremely timely in these hard times of low oil revenue (MEES, 1 March 2013). BAHRAIN BU...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Iran Selects 49 Oil, Gas Projects Open For Foreign Investment
...id at the Energy Security Summit 2015 in Berlin this week: “Iran cannot have the third or fourth largest oil reserves and export as much as [mid-sized producer] Azerbaijan.” With crude production and export levels at just 75% and 40% of what they were in 2011, before the latest round of US and EU-le...
Volume: 58Issue: 19Published at Fri, 08 May 2015 -
Zanganeh: six months for full Iran return to markets
...5mn b/d in 2011, before the latest round of US and EU-led sanctions on Iranian oil sales came into effect (see below). Regardless of how long this return takes however, Iran says Asia will continue to be its main target market, as is the case today, under sanctions. “Don’t worry about our oil st...
Volume: 58Issue: 19Published at Fri, 08 May 2015 -
Iraq, KRG Oil Export Deal Holds Despite Discrepancies
...0,000 b/d gives total Iraqi exports from Ceyhan of just over 514,000 b/d for April, the highest since June 2011. Of the 562,633 b/d that the KRG says it shipped to Ceyhan in April, 415,246 b/d came from “KRG-operated fields,” whilst 147,387 b/d came from “NOC operated fields.” The former includes both fi...
Volume: 58Issue: 19Published at Fri, 08 May 2015 -
Iran Readies Upstream Opening In Anticipation Of Nuclear Deal
...st 34% of what was envisaged as part of Iran’s fifth development plan (January 2011-March 2015). Already starved of investment from abroad, what little funds NIOC and the ministry does have for investment is being regularly raided by the government in order to pay out monthly cash handouts to the Ir...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015 -
Eni Ramps Up Western Desert Output As Cairo Looks To Cut Through Red Tape
...lehia, Ras Qattara, Raml and West Razzak, the Melehia permit, 300km west of Alexandria, accounts for over 75% of total output, some 54,000 b/d. The field’s output has ramped up rapidly since mid-2012 when Eni first tapped the fields deep formations (MEES, 28 May 2012). Back in 2011-12 Agiba produced 40...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015 -
Italy Ups Algerian Gas Imports As Lower Oil Prices Feed Through Into Contracts
...ood at 409.1 bcm in 2014, compared with 477.8 bcm in 2011, according to statistics from Eurogas, a fall of almost 15% over the past three years. Falling demand made it a buyers’ market and Europe’s main gas suppliers – Russia’s Gazprom, Norway’s Statoil, Algeria’s Sonatrach, and to some extent Qatar’s Ra...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015