1. South Sudan Orders Oil Production Restart

    ...vernments to raise output.   The IEA said last week it expected Sudan to produce 70,000 b/d on average this year, which should jump to 90,000 b/d in 2014, before dipping to 60,000 b/d in 2017. “Sudan and South Sudan are expected to rebound to a combined 360,000 b/d by 2015, though still 10...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2012
  2. Qatar Faces LNG Market Challenges

    ...e Sabine Pass project, and the next project that is likely to go ahead probably won’t read final investment decision (FID) until 2Q13, or even 2014; putting them in the 2017-18 time frame,” Mr Flower says.   But if Japan starts importing US LNG at Henry Hub prices, some feel this may re...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2012
  3. Middle East Refinery Capacity To Surge, Says IEA

    ...ddle East refining expansion will include 400,000 b/d capacity projects in Saudi Arabia and the UAE – due on stream in 2013, 2014 and 2015 – and smaller expansions in Qatar, Iraq, Iran and Oman. Ambitious expansion plans in Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, the UAE, Iraq and Iran are excluded from the forecast as fi...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2012
  4. Iraq Wakes Up From Power Shortage Nightmare

    ...ld a dominant position in Iraq’s Kurdish north (MEES, 28 September). In addition to the 500mw Najibiya power plant due on stream in 2014, and a 126mw facility specifically for the Lukoil-led West Qurna-2 oil field development, Turkish firm Enka is converting the 1,000mw Single Cycle Irbil power plant in...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2012
  5. Aramco To Spend $35bn On Stabilizing Oil Capacity

    ...0,000 b/d by 2014. Manifa will help stabilize Saudi capacity by offsetting declines from mature fields.  Saudi Aramco is also eyeing CO2 enhanced oil recovery. It is building a new CO2 capture facility and transport system, which will compress and dry CO2 from the Hawiyah NGL Recovery Plant, send it to...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2012
  6. IEA Predicts Bleaker Days Ahead For OPEC

    ...e world’s largest economy,” the report projected. And in oil demand terms non-OECD should eclipse the OECD by 2014, the MTOMR revealed.   Rising North American production will lessen the need for imports, leading to an actual reduction of inter-regional crude trade by some 1.6mn b/d to 32...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2012
  7. Tamar Partners To Supply Dorad Energy With Gas

    ...fshore infrastructure in order to meet contracted supplies. But as some buyers will not be ready to receive gas until the end of 2014 or later, the Tamar partners are expected to be able to juggle deliveries. However, an offshore LNG regasification facility supplied by Excelerate of the US is due to come in...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2012
  8. Luberef Lines Up Samsung For Expansion Project

    ...it (doubling capacity to 12,500 b/d) and vacuum distillation unit (increasing throughput capacity from 26,000 b/d to 39,000 b/d). He said that engineering work under the EPC contract is scheduled to be completed in March 2014. Procurement is scheduled to take place from December 2012 to July 2014. Co...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2012
  9. Wärtsilä-Led Group To Build Jordan Power Plant

    ...able a switch to natural gas “once the infrastructure for natural gas supply is in place.”   The plant will be built at al-Manakher, 30km outside ‘Amman. It will be developed in three phases, with the first scheduled to come on-line in February 2014 and the entire plant to be operational by Se...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2012
  10. ENPPI Upbeat On Ethydco Ethylene Project

    ...EGYPT ENPPI Upbeat On Ethydco Ethylene Project   The Egyptian Ethylene and Derivatives Company (Ethydco) ethylene project will be completed in 2014 at a cost of $1.2bn, according to Engineering for the Petroleum and Process Industries (ENPPI) Chairman and CEO ‘Abd al-Nasir Sa...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 12 Oct 2012
  11. Marafiq Extends Jacobs’ Project Management Contract

    ...C contract – reportedly worth $1.05bn – was awarded in early 2011 to South Korea’s Hanwha Engineering and Construction. Construction work began in March 2011 and project start-up is expected in 2014. The Yanbu’ 2 power plant will mainly run on heavy fuel oil, although it will also be able to use Ar...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2012