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OMV Sees Huge Libya Potential As It Steps Up Drilling
...fted force majeure on Libyan exploration activity (MEES, 10 November 2023), resuming drilling campaigns in Libya last year for the first time since the 2011 revolution (MEES, 1 November 2024). Despite the increased activity, concerns over the security situation and political instability remain ac...
Volume: 68Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2025 -
Russia’s Tatneft Returns To Libya
...Tatneft is drilling an appraisal well it was forced to abandon in 2011. The firm also has development plans for existing discoveries, but will the country’s current calm last? Russian oil firm Tatneft has finally restarted drilling operations in Libya, more than a decade after fleeing the co...
Volume: 64Issue: 42Published at Fri, 22 Oct 2021 -
Qatar Petroleum To Replace Oxy At Key Offshore Field
...da as energy minister and QP chairman in 2011 (MEES, 21 February 2011) and has accelerated since Mr Kaabi’s appointment in September 2014 (MEES, 19 September 2014). When Total’s PSA for the 25,000 b/d Al-Khalij expired in 2014 the structure was replaced with a joint venture agreement (QP 60%, To...
Volume: 61Issue: 42Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2018 -
Qatar Drilling Tender Imminent
...rm expects to take final investment decision (FID) on its US Golden Pass LNG export terminal (QP 70%, ExxonMobil 17.6%, ConocoPhillips 12.4%) in the next few months. Initially opened as an import terminal in 2011, the US Shale Revolution forced a rethink and the partners plan to re-purpose Golden Pa...
Volume: 61Issue: 41Published at Fri, 12 Oct 2018 -
Abu Dhabi Boosts Offshore Output As Umm Lulu Comes Online
...f in 2011 was reinjected into oil fields for enhanced oil recovery purposes, the official UAE Yearbook covering 2013 says. One of the largest increments will come from Upper Zakum, which is being further developed the Zakum Development Company (ZADCO) at an estimated cost of over $10bn. ADNOC ho...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
MOL Confident Of Future In Kurdistan
...erations in Syria by Croatian INA, 49% owned by MOL, remain halted. INA pulled out of Syria along with other foreign operators after the European Union imposed sanctions against Damascus in the early days of the rebellion against the Bashar al-Asad regime in 2011. Mr Dodds says he is not sure what co...
Volume: 57Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014 -
Uncertainty Reigns As Oxy Inches Closer To Asset Sell-Off
...GA). But the level of political risk in Bahrain is fairly low, despite repeated protests since 2011. Saudi Arabia and other regional countries have strongly supported the Bahraini monarchy, and the risk of chaotic political transition is negligible at this point. If Oxy were to sell its stake in...
Volume: 56Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2013 -
PDO To Invest $11bn Through 2022 To Maintain Crude Plateau
...s Mukhaizna heavy oil field in Block 53, a target it intended to achieve in 2011 (MEES, 15 November 2010). Oxy has since seen its costs soar from $2bn to about $9bn, as it has doubled the expected number of wells needed to inject steam into the reservoir. Oxy, which has a reputation for ru...
Volume: 56Issue: 42Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2013 -
OMV Production Up On Yemen, Libya Recovery
...ding a nine-month closure of the line on account of a spate of attacks in October 2011. “In Yemen, production recommenced at a low level in July, following the repair of an export pipeline,” the company said in August, without giving any further details. OMV’s net output at the block amounted to...
Volume: 55Issue: 44Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2012