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Five Years On From Khafji Shut-In, Is The Neutral Zone Poised For Restart?
...wait Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ) burst to the surface with the shut-in of the offshore Khafji field in October 2014 (MEES, 24 October 2014). And in just six months’ time, it will be half a decade since the 500,000 b/d capacity PNZ last produced a drop of oil (MEES, 15 May 2015). There is growing op...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
Shell Shifts Egypt Focus To ‘Integrated Gas’
...e start the firm would – like fellow majors BP and Eni, the other key players off Egypt – have taken more of a long-term view rather than downing tools in response to payment delays. Indeed, whilst BG (and subsequently Shell) blamed EGPC for the collapse in output and the halting from 2014 of LNG ex...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
Yemen: Second State Firm Restarts Production
...ar that production had once again started at its Block 9 which produced 6,000 b/d before the security situation deteriorated in 2014 (MEES, 17 May). But of all these, Safer’s return, reported by Reuters, could prove to be the most consequential yet. For one thing, Block 18 is amongst the most vi...
Volume: 62Issue: 42Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2019 -
Qatar Petroleum Finalizes Idd al-Sharghi Takeover
...nce Saad al-Kaabi took over as CEO in 2014 (MEES, 14 September 2014). Under his leadership, the role of IOCs at Qatar’s oil fields has been greatly reduced, either through tighter terms or with QP taking over entirely. This week saw QP finalize its takeover of two fields, replacing US firm Occidental (Ox...
Volume: 62Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2019 -
Egypt Cuts Road Fuel Prices
...ckage with the IMF which ended in June this year (MEES, 21 June). Though the (modest) price cuts followed some of the most vocal protests since Mr Sisi came to power in 2014 – with up to 3,000 people having been detained – the Oil Ministry insists that the gasoline prices cuts are not linked but ra...
Volume: 62Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2019 -
Libya’s NOC Demands Funds
...s witnessed some wild fluctuations over the years - mainly due to conflict. It plummeted to a low of 200,000 b/d in April 2014, but has recovered in recent months and hit a six-year high 1.26mn b/d in May this year. September output came in at 1.22mn b/d. Years of neglect, war and un...
Volume: 62Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019 -
Tunisia’s Upstream: Can It Emerge From A Lost Decade?
...llowing the revolution, the country’s 2014 constitution made it even more difficult for the government to award exploration blocks. In the name of oversight and transparency (key demands of the uprising, among others) the new constitution’s Article 13 stipulated that any new awards must be approved by pa...
Volume: 62Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019