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Political Comment (10 November 2008)
...ndate for the Americans’ continued presence in Iraq at the end of the year. According to Iraqi national security adviser Muwaffaq al-Ruba'i on 6 November, “they accepted many, many of our requests,” including the removal of a clause that would have allowed US troops to remain in Iraq after 2011, wh...
Volume: 51Issue: 45Published at Mon, 10 Nov 2008 -
GCC Countries To Meet On Gulf Power Grid Project
...oject and to sign a power trading agreement. The $3.9bn project is designed to link GCC members’ domestic power systems by 2011. Speaking in Abu Dhabi on 26 October, Yusuf Ahmad Janahi, chairman of the GCC Interconnection Authority, said Phase 1 of the project, which began in 2001, was 80% complete an...
Volume: 51Issue: 44Published at Mon, 03 Nov 2008 -
Political Comment (3 November 2008)
...e American presence beyond 2011 and the right to declare the agreement void if the US unilaterally attacks any of Iraq’s neighbors, it is hardly surprising that the move went down badly in Washington, where White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said on 28 October that “we think the door is pretty mu...
Volume: 51Issue: 44Published at Mon, 03 Nov 2008 -
BP Says New Shah Deniz Discovery ‘Potentially Significant’
...e fourth corridor for gas supply to Europe will be made.” Azerbaijan has forecast gas production to reach 32.41 bcm/y in 2011 (MEES, 12 November, 15 October). Shah Deniz Gas Reservoirs Source: BP Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani gas exports to Europe would be made via the South Caucasus Pi...
Volume: 50Issue: 47Published at Mon, 19 Nov 2007 -
Azerbaijan Gas Production Forecast To Reach 32 BCM/Year In 2011
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. L No 46 12-November-2007 CASPIAN Azerbaijan Gas Production Forecast To Reach 32 BCM/Year In 2011 Azerbaijan has forecast gas production to reach 32.41 bcm/year in 2011. Of this, 15.8 bcm/y will come from the offshore Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) oi...
Volume: 50Issue: 46Published at Mon, 12 Nov 2007 -
Power Generation In The Middle East: Can The Boom Continue?
...timated that the Arab countries are expected to build 48gw of new capacity over that period, thus raising the power generation capacity from 138gw in 2006 to 186gw in 2011, ie by 35% in five years, an average of 6.2% annually. This is the same high rate that has persisted on average over the last two de...
Volume: 50Issue: 46Published at Mon, 12 Nov 2007 -
APEC Predicts Growing Role For Middle East Condensate In Asia-Pacific Market
...rough 2010, but growth in condensate production will slow post-2010: “As in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Qatar, the UAE will add condensate splitting capacity by end-decade.” APEC Outlook For Middle East Condensate Production (‘000 B/D) 2006 2009 2011 2015 Sa...
Volume: 50Issue: 45Published at Mon, 05 Nov 2007 -
100% Kuwaiti Employment In KOC Would Leave Oil Sector Isolated From World
...reement on developing heavy crude oil deposits in the emirate, with a production target of 50,000 b/d by 2011, 250,000 b/d by 2015 and 700,000-900,000 b/d by 2020 (MEES, 29 October)....
Volume: 50Issue: 45Published at Mon, 05 Nov 2007 -
North Field Moratorium Could Extend To 2012, Says Suwaidi
...tablish the capacity of the field and decide whether we will want to continue upstream projects. So at this moment we are not sure which way it will go. We need to wait until 2011, 2012 before the study is finished. This is something very positive. We are trying to protect the existing projects and we’re...
Volume: 50Issue: 45Published at Mon, 05 Nov 2007 -
Saudi Aramco Making Good Headway On Gas Exploration
...celeration with which gas exploration and development are being pursued – a program that will see the company drilling more than 40 wells a year by 2010, he said. Under current Saudi Aramco plans, gas well completions will rise from 35 in 2006 to 70 in 2011, with exploration wells up from nine in 2006 to 15...
Volume: 49Issue: 48Published at Mon, 27 Nov 2006 -
Jazan Export Refinery Opens Way For Selective Saudi Private Participation
...investments leading to over-capacity. “The fate of projects beyond 2011 will be determined to a great extent by the performance of the industry in the coming few years,” he said. With the Middle East showing the highest ratio of new-build refineries to existing plants the dangers of ov...
Volume: 49Issue: 48Published at Mon, 27 Nov 2006 -
MENA Refiners’ Capacity Expansion Program Gathers Momentum In 2006
...ports. The program includes the construction of three new refineries: a three-train 360,000 b/d condensate splitter plant at Bandar Abbas expected on-stream in 2009; a second crude oil refinery at Bandar Abbas, with throughput capacity of 300,000 b/d, scheduled for completion in 2011 and intended to ha...
Volume: 49Issue: 48Published at Mon, 27 Nov 2006 -
Saudi Aramco To Double Khursaniyah Gas Plant Capacity To Handle Offshore Karan Field Gas
...e end of this decade will tap some of the kingdom’s heavier crude reserves,” he said, referring to the Manifa increment due on-stream in 2011. He said the slate of crude increment projects would enable Saudi Aramco to maintain spare capacity of at least 1.5-2mn b/d above and beyond forecast pr...
Volume: 49Issue: 46Published at Mon, 13 Nov 2006 -
SABIC, ExxonMobil Chemical To Study Petrochemicals Expansion
...dustries Corporation (SABIC) and ExxonMobil Chemical on 5 November announced that they had started working on a feasibility study on a project that would expand their two joint petrochemical ventures at Yanbu΄ and Jubail. The project, with start-up in 2011, would target a domestic supply of carbon black an...
Volume: 49Issue: 46Published at Mon, 13 Nov 2006 -
Foster Wheeler Awarded FEED/PMS Contracts For Manifa Project
...0,000 End-2008 17 April Nuayyim 100,000 2008 25 April 2005 Khurais 1,200,000 2009 6 March Manifa 900,000 2011 6 No...
Volume: 49Issue: 45Published at Mon, 06 Nov 2006 -
Bahr Al-ʹUlum Sees Iraqi Oil Output At 2Mn B/D By End-2005
...eaking in Qatar, Dr Bahr al-ʹUlum said Iraq aimed to lift production to 3.5mn b/d within the next two years and on to 6mn b/d by 2011. Addressing delegates at the International Petroleum Technology Conference in Doha, the minister warned that development of the oil sector was intractably linked with po...
Volume: 48Issue: 48Published at Mon, 28 Nov 2005 -
Gulf Set To Be World’s Leading Petrochemical Producer/Exporter In 2005, Says Tuwaijri
...4mn t/y, due on-stream by 2009 and 2011. In the UAE, Borealis and ADNOC are planning a 1.2mn t/y cracker to come on-stream in 2009 (MEES, 22/29 December 2003). In Oman, Dow and the Omani government have announced plans to build and operate a world-scale pe...
Volume: 47Issue: 48Published at Mon, 29 Nov 2004 -
NYMEX Opens Brent Trading Floor In Dublin As IPE Restricts Open Outcry Session
...ace until the end of the year. The IPE also made it clear it had no plans to abandon open outcry. “The IPE is interested in developing both open outcry and electronic markets and in this connection has recently taken steps to secure the lease on its premises for open outcry until 2011,” said Mr Reid....
Volume: 47Issue: 45Published at Mon, 08 Nov 2004 -
Monetizing Gas Resources: Iran’s Options
...e gas network to many major cities around the country. This trend is not likely to continue in the coming decades as gas has reached all the major centres of population by now.The future average yearly growth of gas in this study has been put at 8% between 2001-10, 6% between 2011-20 and 4% between 20...
Volume: 44Issue: 48Published at Mon, 26 Nov 2001