1. Oman To Offer New Blocks

    ...offer. The ministry did not respond to MEES questions for further details. Block 18 was last operated by India’s Reliance Industries which abandoned it in 2011 after a failed drilling campaign (MEES, 9 November 2012).  ...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 40
    Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2024
  2. Libya Gas Exports Slump To 12-Year Low As Domestic Use* Rises

    ...LIBYA'S 2023 GAS EXPORTS^ ARE RIVALLING 2022 FOR THE LOWEST FIGURE SINCE THE 2011 REVOLUTION...   ...WITH VOLUMES FOR Q3 2023 FALLING WELL BELOW EVEN 2022 LEVELS (MN CFD) *NOC DATA IMPLY THAT CONSUMPTION HAS AVERAGED JUST OVER 1BN CFD SO FAR THIS YEAR, UP FROM 902MN CFD FO...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 40
    Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2023
  3. Egypt LNG: Exporting, For Now

    ...ace for cargoes to be produced in Q4 2021 and onwards.” Since Damietta restarted in February the facility has shipped 1.84mn tons of LNG (MEES, 26 February). This is the highest figure since 2011, the year before the plant was mothballed. Meanwhile, Idku has six remaining ‘commitment’ cargoes se...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 40
    Published at Fri, 08 Oct 2021
  4. Wintershall Libya Now SOO

    ...oduction has been shut in since January. Output from the ‘Wintershall’ acreage was around 100,000 b/d prior to Libya’s 2011 revolution but has rarely topped 50,000 b/d since. Overall Libyan production has rebounded strongly since key export terminals were reopened last month. Output had risen to 68...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2020
  5. Chevron Completes Noble Deal

    ...mar which started up in 2013. It also assumes operatorship of Cyprus’ 4tcf 2011 Aphrodite discovery (see map, p8). Development of the two giant Israeli fields has been constrained by a lack of sales outlets. But Chevron is looking to get the ball rolling on Phase-2 Leviathan expansion which would li...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2020
  6. Tunisia Elects New President

    ...Saied appears to have ridden a wave of disillusionment with established political figures who have been unable to deliver the expected economic fruits of the 2011 Jasmine Revolution. He wants to bring about a form of direct democracy whereby elected local officials would choose regional assemblies wh...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2019
  7. Libya’s NOC Demands Funds

    ...derinvestment has taken its toll on the country’s lifeline oil sector. With foreign investors wary, NOC desperately needs cash to maintain its aging and dilapidated energy infrastructure. It also wants to kick-start work on several projects abandoned following the 2011 revolution (MEES, 31 May and MEES, 20 Se...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 40
    Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019
  8. Taqa Issues $500mn In Bonds

    ...ginning in 2013 forced a strategic rethink. The company’s assets are mainly in upstream oil and gas and power. In 2018 Taqa’s power and desalination plants contributed 53% of its income and upstream operations 31%. This marked a major turnaround from 2011, when Taqa’s upstream provided 45% of its income an...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 40
    Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019
  9. Schlumberger Iraq Award

    ...lls the following year along with Halliburton who also won a 15 well contract in 2011. Both firms work on multiple fields in the oil rich Basra region....

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2018
  10. Aramco Chinese Refinery MOU

    ...0,000 b/d refinery and associated petchems project in Zhejiang province together with Shell and PetroChina (MEES, 17 October 2011). But this project, at Taizhou, around 200km south of Zhoushan was canned in 2013....

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2018