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Egypt: New Deals Boost Gas Output, Oil Decline Continues
...the fourth quarter to be the highest of the year, and we anticipate exiting the year around 500mn cfd,” he adds. This in turn would be a two-year high if achieved, although still a far cry from the record 921mn cfd posted in 1Q 2014. While welcome news for Egypt, Apache’s gas gains are un...
Volume: 68Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2025 -
Algeria’s First Bid Round In A Decade: Will It Be A Major Success?
...Algiers is close to wrapping up its first bid round since 2014. It hopes to attract some of the largest international players, including possible country entries for US majors Chevron & ExxonMobil, and a re-entry for BP, with Asian and Gulf NOCs also a strong possibility. But one of the co...
Volume: 68Issue: 18Published at Fri, 02 May 2025 -
Aramco Supplies US With Carbon-Offset Crude
...ble). The emissions were derived from a baseline assessment of operations between October 2022 and September 2023. The process was independently verified by London-headquartered LRQA. Aramco says that the offsetting is in accordance with PAS 2060:2014, which states that offsets compensate for gr...
Volume: 67Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2024 -
Iraq Bidding: Chinese Firms Dominate
...gion’s rebounding oil output (see p5). In the upstream, it operates the Kurdish-controlled Khurmala dome portion of the giant Kirkuk oilfield and between 2014 and 2017 it controversially operated the field’s Avana Dome, and the nearby Bai Hasan field after Kurdish forces moved in claiming to secure th...
Volume: 67Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2024 -
Gulf Rig Count Surges As Services Firms Eye More To Come
...WN ON 2014-2019 LEVELS 3: ABU DHABI’S RIG-COUNT HIT A 3-YR HIGH 56 FOR APRIL WITH THE 42 ONSHORE RIGS WITHIN FIVE OF 2019’S RECORD 4: QATAR HAS BEEN STEPPING UP GAS DRILLING AS NORTH FIELD EXPANSION WORK GATHERS PACE SOURCE: BAKER HUGHES. 5: KUWAIT’S RI...
Volume: 66Issue: 19Published at Fri, 12 May 2023 -
Shell Egypt Slump Opens The Door For Chevron
...ft Shell-predecessor BG unable to meet its export commitments from the 7.2mn t/y ELNG export terminal which adjoins the WDDM processing facilities at Idku (MEES, 7 February 2014). Even the addition of UK major BP’s West Nile Delta (WND) project from 2017 wasn’t enough to reboot LNG exports. This pr...
Volume: 64Issue: 21Published at Fri, 28 May 2021 -
Adnoc-CNPC JV Awards EPC Contract For Offshore Block Development
...rku Island.” Adnoc Upstream Executive Director Yaser Saeed Almazrouei says “we are very pleased to commence the full field development of the Belbazem Offshore Block, together with our strategic partner CNPC.” AL YASAT’S GROWTH Al Yasat was established in 2014 and has two co...
Volume: 64Issue: 21Published at Fri, 28 May 2021 -
Eni’s Zohr Boosts Egypt Gas Output To New Highs
...PLORATION Russian state firm Rosneft, 30% partner at Zohr (Eni 50%op, BP 10%, Mubadala 10%), revealed in its 2020 annual report, released last week that “the drilling of a prospecting well” on the Shorouk block which houses Zohr is planned by July next year. Part of the original block awarded to Eni in 2014...
Volume: 64Issue: 19Published at Fri, 14 May 2021 -
Apache ‘Excited’ By Egypt Despite Output Plunge
...8). 1: EGYPT OIL OUTPUT FELL TO A 38-YEAR LOW OF 608,000 B/D FOR MARCH ('000 B/D) 2: APACHE GROSS EGYPT OUTPUT IS AT A 10-YEAR LOW BUT THE US FIRM HOPES A WELL-STOCKED INVENTORY WILL SEE A REBOUND 3: APACHE HIKES EGYPT CAPEX, BUT STILL JUST 40% OF 2014 LEVELS *IN...
Volume: 63Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2020 -
Libya’s North Hamada: Development At Last?
...ree wells in 2014 which were all successful, leading the government to declare second commerciality for structures B, C and J. By this time, Nafusah Oil Operations was set up consisting of Medco (25%op), LIA (25%) and NOC (50%) to handle development. Development plans are based on 2P reserves of 245mn ba...
Volume: 62Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2019 -
Tunisia Struggles To Halt Oil And Gas Decline
...ble). In theory an FPSO development here was slated to produce 15,000 b/d. In practice development was already long-stalled when Medco bought the assets for $128mn in 2014 (MEES, 29 August 2014). Medco says nothing on a buyer or price. But for sure the firm is making a hefty loss. The firm’s freshly-re...
Volume: 62Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2019 -
Adnoc Eyes Unconventional Riches As It Launches Second Bid Round
...rge new ones. The firm has broadened its partner-base considerably since 2014 as it replaced expiring multi-decade concessions. Last year’s bid round saw existing partners secure further acreage, but Thailand’s PTT was the only new partner brought in to the emirate. Previously Adnoc officials have fl...
Volume: 62Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2019 -
The Dragon Rises In The Middle East
...stream sector (MEES, 23 March). Conversely, China’s dependence on the Middle East for more than 40% of its oil imports (though this is down from 52% for 2014), means that the region is strategically crucial for Beijing. Having Chinese firms participating in the production of these imported volumes af...
Volume: 61Issue: 21Published at Fri, 25 May 2018 -
China’s Anton Oil Expands Iraq Presence As Shell Exits
...th BOC on 11 May, thereby lowering its PPT from 1.2mn b/d to 800,000 b/d by 2025. Current output stands around 400,000 b/d, which Lukoil vows to increase to 480,000 b/d by 2020. The Russian giant had already managed to renegotiate its PPT down once before, from 1.8mn b/d to 1.2mn b/d in 2014. ...
Volume: 61Issue: 20Published at Fri, 18 May 2018 -
Qatar Plans For 2019 Drilling To Fuel Massive LNG Expansion
...ceeded 14mn tons in Q1 2018 for the first time since Q1 2014, although March data is not yet available for India and Taiwan. The increase was driven by China, which imported a record 2.92mn tons, up 1.1mn tons year-on-year, as its insatiable appetite continues to grow. South Korea also saw a 780,000 to...
Volume: 61Issue: 19Published at Fri, 11 May 2018 -
Egypt’s Western Desert: Is Capex Boost Enough For Output Rebound?
...e second half of 2014. But the rebound in oil prices over the past year has seen key regional producer Apache double capex to $156mn for 1Q 2018 from the low of $78mn plumbed in 3Q 2016. With spending having averaged $154mn for each of the last three quarters, up from $83mn for the same period a ye...
Volume: 61Issue: 19Published at Fri, 11 May 2018 -
Oman: Khazzan Boosts LNG Exports To Record Levels
...0,000 tons from Oman, the highest volume since Q1 2014 (see data, p14). South Korean imports fell slightly in the Q1 compared with Q1 2017, down 290,000 tons to 1.2mn. The last three years have seen Oman move away from its almost exclusive dependence on the two import markets. In 2012 and 2013, So...
Volume: 61Issue: 18Published at Fri, 04 May 2018 -
Iraq Pursues Crude Capacity Gains As Revenues Rise
...20-2022. Mr Tealdi trumpeted Eni’s successes in boosting drilling efficiency. Last year saw 26 wells drilled using four rigs, against 21 in 2014 with 12 drilling rigs. It is targeting 32 new wells this year while maintaining just four rigs. Overall, there are currently 150 producing wells at Zubair, an...
Volume: 60Issue: 21Published at Fri, 26 May 2017 -
Libya Oil Output Set For Three Year High
...mbles on. As of 25 May, Libya’s average crude production for the month was about 770,000 b/d, surpassing every monthly average since October 2014 when output averaged 860,000 b/d. It is also a hike of more than a third on April output, when a shutdown at the Repsol-operated Sharara fields caused av...
Volume: 60Issue: 21Published at Fri, 26 May 2017 -
Tunisia: Key Gas Project Faces Further Delays As Unrest Grows
...en tied in as a producer (albeit likely at a significantly lower flow rate). But despite this modest boost gross output from Eni’s southern fields fell from 15,900 b/d in 2014 to 13,900 b/d in 2015 and 13,000 b/d last year. Eni says it has not been hit by the latest protests. However OMV has in re...
Volume: 60Issue: 20Published at Fri, 19 May 2017