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IHC’S Lukoil Interest Showcases Global Energy Ambitions
...cently, Abu Dhabi’s overseas oil and gas interests have been in a process of consolidation that now appears to have ended. In 2017, Mubadala merged with fellow state investor IPIC, taking on a broad suite of investments that sit alongside its wholly owned subsidiary Mubadala Energy. This left it as Abu Dh...
Volume: 68Issue: 48Published at Fri, 28 Nov 2025 -
Lower Prices Hit OQEP Profits In Q3
...rrently under testing.” If a commercial discovery is made, it will be the block’s first after previous operator Maersk drilled a series of dry wells (MEES, 17 February 2017). Alongside these two fields it also operates Block 54 (60%), which borders Block 53, where Genel Energy secured a 40% stake in Ma...
Volume: 68Issue: 47Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2025 -
Mauritania’s Banda Integrated Gas Project Progresses
...n provide momentum to this (MEES, 15 August). Banda is located roughly 61km southwest of Nouakchott, to the east of the Chinguetti field (see map). Chinguetti is Mauritania’s only ever commercial oil field, but having started up in 2006 production stopped in 2017. UK major Shell held the su...
Volume: 68Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2025 -
BP’s Eyes Raven Rebound As Egypt Output Slump Continues
...ypt, but its biggest project, West Nile Delta (WND) which started-up in 2017, has witnessed startling decline rates. In a bid to arrest that decline BP earlier this year launched a two-well infill drilling campaign at the Raven field, where output having hit 800mn cfd following 2021 start-up has since ha...
Volume: 67Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 -
Kuwait Pushes Back Upstream Capacity Target To Next Year
...elds, with KOC closing on its target of bringing overall conventional North Kuwait capacity to 700,000 b/d, just below the 2017-18 capacity peak of 760,000 b/d (MEES, 12 May 2023). KOC is increasingly deploying water injection and expensive chemical EOR techniques, while upping its drilling and workover op...
Volume: 67Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 -
Saudi Crude Exports Slump For Q3 On Record Oil Burn, Bumper Throughputs
...ghest on record behind 3Q 2017. Adding in direct crude burn, the figure of 2.78mn b/d was a nine-year high. 1: SAUDI CRUDE SUPPLY*: EXPORTS WERE SQUEEZED TO A NEAR 10-YEAR LOW 5.7MN B/D FOR Q3 (MN B/D).... 2: ...A RECORD LOW 63% CRUDE SUPPLY SHARE. IN CONTRAST, THE SHARE REFINED AN...
Volume: 67Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 -
Will Iraq Be Caught In The Crossfire Of Trump’s Iran Policy?
...restart Kurdish exports to Turkey’s port of Ceyhan. This is especially the case given rumors from Washington that pro-Kurdistan names are being touted for senior positions at the Departments of State and Energy. But the KRG has also painfully learned, from its failed independence referendum in 2017...
Volume: 67Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 -
Tunisia Oil & Gas Output Falls To New Record Lows
...8,000 b/d was hit in 1980. *Previous lows of 30,000 b/d plumbed in 2017 and 28,000 b/d in 2020 were linked to country-wide strikes (MEES, 2 June 2017) and Covid, respectively. This year’s new lows are the culmination of a chronic lack of investment: no development wells were drilled in Tunisia du...
Volume: 67Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 -
QatarEnergy Expands In Egypt Amid US LNG, Namibia Exploration Setbacks
...oust Doha-backed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. Further straining relations, Egypt also participated in the Saudi-led 2017-2021 embargo of Qatar, but that all appears to be water under the bridge, especially if Qatar’s deep pockets can help Cairo fix its finances. MAJOR PA...
Volume: 67Issue: 46Published at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 -
Oman Sweetens Terms In A Bid To Entice IOCs To ‘Complex Assets’
...troleum Development Oman (PDO), to pioneer unique development techniques including enhanced oil recovery (MEES, 5 July). The sultanate also possesses sizeable unconventional gas assets including the massive 1.5bn cfd Khazzan & Ghazeer tight gas development which, when it started up in 2017 helped sp...
Volume: 67Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2024 -
Qatar Crude Output Tops 600,000 b/d For First Time Since 2018
...d TotalEnergies (30%) since July 2017 (MEES, 28 July 2017). It is an extension of Iran’s 25,000 b/d South Pars Oil Layer (SPOL). Prices are set by QatarEnergy each month following a monthly-tender which serves as an important indicator for regional spot market sentiment. The field’s output gains we...
Volume: 67Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2024 -
Tehran Takes Wary View Of US Presidential Elections
...timate say rests with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who sets Iran’s overall policies. LESSER OF TWO EVILS? That said, a look at both candidates’ track records – Mr Trump’s presidency from 2017 to 2021 and Ms Harris’ tenure under President Joe Biden – shows that they were inclined to...
Volume: 67Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2024 -
Saudi Halts Bab al-Mandeb Fuel Oil Transfers
...livered in October is the smallest monthly figure in Kpler’s records dating back to January 2017. In reality, it will have been the smallest in at least a decade, if not this century, given how embedded the Gulf-Red Sea route is in Saudi Arabia’s supply chain. Key facilities such as the 6GW Rabigh and 5....
Volume: 67Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2024 -
Saudi Energy Minister: We Will Make Money From The Energy Transition
...edstock through ten projects. The improved generation efficiency this will yield is a key part of plans to boost overall efficiency from 40% last year to 44% by 2030 – up from 37% in 2017. The conversion projects aren’t named, but with an average capacity of 2.3GW per project they clearly entail the up...
Volume: 67Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2024 -
Zubair To Add 200,000 B/D Surface Capacity By End-2024
...commissioning, and it is now unclear if it will replace or supplement the existing facility. The previous addition to Zubair’s degassing capacity came in 2017 when Samsung Engineering delivered the 200,000 b/d Hammar-Mishrif station. ...
Volume: 66Issue: 47Published at Fri, 24 Nov 2023 -
Inpex To Sell Eridu Stake To Lukoil
...eviously offered to Chevron in 2021 under the now-defunct “Nasiriya District” project (MEES, 15 October 2021). Lukoil’s move might be well calculated given that Block 10’s appraisal program saw 797km2 of 3D seismic and 5,561 km of 2D seismic conducted in the area. When discovered in 2017, Eridu was es...
Volume: 66Issue: 47Published at Fri, 24 Nov 2023 -
Adnoc Agrees Egypt Entry As UAE East Med Footprint Grows
...addition to the stalled NewMed deal. QATAR: CYPRUS & LEBANON FOCUS Abu Dhabi is not the only Gulf state to take a firm interest in the East Mediterranean. Qatar, through its state giant QatarEnergy has been in the East Med since entering Cyprus in 2017 alongside US major Ex...
Volume: 66Issue: 47Published at Fri, 24 Nov 2023 -
Divided Kurdistan Struggles To Be Heard In Baghdad
...rum were cautiously optimistic that momentum is building behind the scenes to close the dangerous political divide between the two parties. The KDP had sought to take advantage of PUK divisions following the 2017 death of the party’s founder Jalal Talabani, but his son Bafel Talabani has now co...
Volume: 66Issue: 47Published at Fri, 24 Nov 2023 -
Oxy’s Oman Strategy Struggles To Hit Its Stride
...ock 9 for gas lift and sale.” However, any gains from this work have evidently been more than offset by declines elsewhere. Oxy still holds three blocks it is exploring which could make the difference. The company picked up Block 51 under Oman’s 2017 bid round (MEES, 21 December 2018). Oxy last year fl...
Volume: 66Issue: 46Published at Fri, 17 Nov 2023 -
Algeria-Italy Gas Slump
...,300 b/d for an implied 60,000 b/d gross Ourhoud figure, less than half 2017 levels. Cepsa cites “scheduled maintenance turnarounds in Algeria” as a key reason for a fall in 9M 2023 upstream output versus a year earlier, as well as the sell-off of its UAE assets (MEES, 3 March). *Algerian state gi...
Volume: 66Issue: 46Published at Fri, 17 Nov 2023