1. Egypt Touts Block Awards But IOC Debts Mount

    ...periencing chronic delays. Originally slated for start-up in 2014, the 1bn cfd project will now likely come online in 2017. It is a delay that gas hungry Egypt can ill afford, and the government’s eagerness for future supply provides a powerful rationale for not letting payments to BP slip further....

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013
  2. Iran Targets Oman As Future Gas Export Hub

    ...gust). The two sides are hoping to sign the contract by the end of the Iranian year (ending March 2014). But before that can happen, Muscat and Tehran will have to navigate the often muddy waters of price negotiations – something which has historically proved to be much easier said than done. “We have no...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013
  3. Jordan LNG, Storage Plans

    ...JORDAN   Jordan LNG, Storage Plans   Thirteen companies and consortia have been prequalified by Jordan’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources to build a strategic products reserves terminal to the east of ‘Amman during 2014-15. The terminal will store 250,000-300,000 tons of...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013
  4. Iraq-’Aqaba Crude Export Pipeline Advances

    ...inching an agreement with ‘Amman on transit fees. The award for the Haditha-’Aqaba portion of the pipeline on a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) basis is expected by the end of 2014. A source familiar with the project says that Iraq’s State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) has issued a letter to the qu...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013
  5. Qatargas Inks $7bn UK LNG Deal With Centrica

    ...QATAR   Qatargas Inks $7bn UK LNG Deal With Centrica   Qatargas has signed a $7.1bn sales and purchasing agreement (SPA) with UK utility Centrica, to supply up 3mn tons/year of LNG to the Isle of Grain terminal in southeast England. The June 2014-December 2018 deal succeeds a pr...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013
  6. RAK Plans Solar And Water Bids, Eyes Coal

    ...UAE   RAK Plans Solar And Water Bids, Eyes Coal   Ras al-Khaimah (RAK) plans to invite bids for separate solar power and desalination plants worth a combined $450mn in a tender to be organized in 2014 by local private utility Utico. The solar plant will have 20MW capacity,  wh...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013
  7. OPEC Output Edges Up On Partial Recovery in Libya, Iraq

    ...believe production levels will only recover to around 1.3mn b/d through 2014,” it continued. Iraq Boost Iraq meanwhile boosted crude production in October by more than 120,000 b/d to 2.98mn b/d, despite reduced flows of crude oil through the key export pipeline extending from Kirkuk in the no...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013
  8. TAQA Turns A Profit

    ...the full commissioning of both units by early 2014." TAQA - Oil and Gas Output   3Q13 3Q12 North America     Crude (‘000 b/d) 17 16...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013
  9. Iran: Official Inflation 40%, Real Rate May Be Double

    ...anian year on 20 March 2014. This would be done by curbing liquidity growth (which rose more than five times in the past seven years) and adopting suitable monetary and fiscal policies. Some officials claim that the payment of cash handouts under the subsidies reform plan, initiated by the former go...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013
  10. Syria: 2014 Budget

    ...SYRIA   Syria: 2014 Budget   Syria’s draft budget law for 2014 envisages total expenditure of S£1,390bn ($10bn at the current official rate of $1=S£139), virtually unchanged from S£1,383bn ($9.9bn) in 2013. The 2014 budget consists of S£1,010bn ($ 7.3bn) for current ex...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013
  11. World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ Rankings, 2014*: MENA And Selected Other Countries

    ...World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ Rankings, 2014*: MENA And Selected Other Countries COUNTRY 2014 **(vs ‘13) COUNTRY 2014 (vs ‘13) CO...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013
  12. Genel Energy Gets New Export Route For Taq Taq Oil.

    ...frastructure was expected by end-2013 and full oil exports to start in the first quarter of 2014, it added. The KRG has been in dispute with Baghdad over the legality of its production-sharing contracts, payments to foreign contractors and control over regional resources. The Iraqi government has said that an...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013
  13. Gulf Petchem Firms Eye Additions To Busy Projects Schedule

    ...sts, and preparing a tender for front-end engineering design (FEED). Completion is scheduled for first quarter 2014.            Foster Wheeler was also earlier awarded a contract by Kuwait’s Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC), for a pre-feasibility study and market report for a proposed ar...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013
  14. Güriş Orders 53 Turbines For Wind Farms

    ...30 October that the projects are expected to be commissioned between late 2014 and summer 2015. The scope of work includes turbine delivery and a five-year service agreement. Siemens said that 25 turbines with a combined capacity of 77MW will be installed at the Fatma wind farm in Muğla. A to...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013
  15. Supply Challenge Still Alive Despite Shale Surge

    ...anks to rising indigenous oil and gas production in the world’s largest energy consuming market. Non-OPEC producers, led by the US, Canada and Kazakhstan, are expected to raise output in 2014 by 1.7mn b/d, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its last monthly oil report. It predicted de...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013
  16. Civil War And Partition Threaten Iraq

    ...nd a modus vivendi. The current instability coincides with plans to raise the export capacity of Iraq’s southern oil ports to 4mn b/d by the end of the first quarter of 2014.  Crude oil storage capacity throughout the country has been increased to over 7mn barrels. According to Deputy Prime Mi...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013
  17. Border Impasse

    ...nister of Energy Gebran Bassils early October announcement that the ministry had extended the deadline for IOCs to submit their bids. Originally set for September, the deadline has gradually been pushed back to 10 January 2014. In all likelihood, this is a moving target. Caretaker Prime Minister Na...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013
  18. UAE Issues 2014 Budget

    ...UAE   UAE Issues 2014 Budget The UAE cabinet on 27 October approved the 2014 federal budget with total expenditure of Dh46.2bn ($12.6bn), of which more than half is allocated to welfare. The original 2013 budget had projected expenditure at Dh44.6bn (Dh12.1bn), but the go...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013
  19. South Tunisia Gas Development Pushed Back

    ...the block was dry. Gulfsands says it plans to drill a further well in 2014. On Kerkouane a commitment well is slated to be drilled “prior to February 2014,” Gulfsands says.   ADX is in the process of further reducing its remaining 30% Chorbane stake signing a 28 November letter of intent to...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 49
    Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012
  20. Saudi Crude Burning For Power Continues To Rise

    ...l from the Yanbu’ refinery in 2014. But its main source of fuel will continue to be gas. Saudi Aramco’s total wellhead output averaged 9.88bn cfd in 2011. The year-end peak of 11.2bn cfd roughly equates to 7.84bn cfd of sales gas assuming a 30% loss in processing – although not all went to power ge...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 49
    Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012