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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 -
Saudi Aramco Completes Key Gas Expansion Project
...wiyah and Haradh gas compression projects, but both have suffered delays since contracts were awarded in 2017 (MEES, 15 December 2017). Aramco noted in its Q3 results on 7 November that “the Hawiyah Gas Plant expansion, part of the Haradh gas increment program, was successfully commissioned and br...
Volume: 66Issue: 45Published at Fri, 10 Nov 2023 -
Asian LNG Demand Remains Weak As Winter Approaches
...maining weak ahead of the key winter demand season. Collective buying by the top five Asian importers – China, Japan, South Korea, India and Taiwan – of 51.9mn tons for Q3 marked the lowest figure for the quarter since 2017, with imports remaining weak for October according to the latest Kpler data. Of...
Volume: 66Issue: 45Published at Fri, 10 Nov 2023 -
Cairo Eases Power Cuts Amid Returning Volumes of Israel Gas
...ypt initially brought in two FSRUs to import LNG in 2015 as gas demand outstripped domestic gas output. But with the 2017 start-up of the 21.5tcf Zohr field domestic gas output soared (see chart, p2) and the need to import LNG lessened: Egypt most recently imported LNG in September 2018. For security of...
Volume: 66Issue: 45Published at Fri, 10 Nov 2023 -
Oman’s Blocks 3&4: Output Rebound Hopes Recede
...her operators the space to hike output. Oman’s upstream optimism received a boost in 2017 with the discovery of the Khazzan tight gas field in Block 61 (BP 40%op, OOC 30%, PTTEP 20%, Petronas 10%). Sparking a gas renaissance in the Sultanate, the completion of the Ghazeer development lifted ca...
Volume: 66Issue: 44Published at Fri, 03 Nov 2023