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Tunisia: 200mw Solar Plan
...lls for proposals in the past have met with threadbare success. The first such ‘call for projects’ in 2017 saw four projects totaling 22MW built, including the country’s only 2023 start-up – 10MW at Meknassy – whilst the three subsequent rounds (2018, 2019, 2020) have resulted in a princely 6MW of ca...
Volume: 67Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 -
Hayan Abdulghani Appointed Iraq’s Oil Minister
...tired in 2020. He was previously the chairman of Basrah Gas Company (BGC) and director general of South Gas Company (SGC). Mr Abdulghani was appointed director general of SGC in 2017, switching from his previous role as director general of Basrah Oil Company (BOC), which oversees Iraq’s largest oil fi...
Volume: 65Issue: 43Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2022 -
BP/Equinor Algeria Gas Output Crash
...s in 2Q20. Partners BP, Equinor and Sonatrach have struggled to halt production declines over the years, despite the completion of field tie-in and compression projects at the fields in 2017 and 2018 (MEES, 7 February 2020). Though Algerian gas output has seen a major turnaround this year (ME...
Volume: 64Issue: 43Published at Fri, 29 Oct 2021 -
Masdar Wins Big Rooftop Solar
...rget figure for rooftop solar capacity, but introduced energy netting regulations in January 2017 to encourage development of systems up to 5MW (MEES, 15 February 2019). Masdar is involved with France’s EdF in two of the largest regional solar projects: 2GW Al Dhafra in Abu Dhabi for start-up in 20...
Volume: 63Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2020 -
Apicorp Funding Dubai Solar
...abi’s Masdar and France’s EdF, are Abu Dhabi’s Union National Bank, Saudi-based Islamic Development Bank, Apicorp, France’s Natixis, Germany’s Siemens Financial Services, Korea Development Bank and Canada’s EDC (MEES, 16 June 2017). ...
Volume: 63Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2020 -
Qatar Axes HSFO Sales
...e of the first countries to limit the availability of marine fuels to only grades that are compliant with the International Maritime Organization’s 2020 regulation.” QP and state fuel retailer Woqod began providing bunker fuels in June 2017 to meet the fuelling needs of the Qatargas LNG fleet an...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
ACWA, Aramco Eye Bangla LNG
...ich is expanding its activities and in April traded its first LNG cargo (MEES, 7 June). State firm Petrobangla has two 3.75mn t/y floating storage and regasification units (FSRU), which are overwhelmingly supplied by Qatar. A 2.5mn t/y supply deal was signed with Qatargas in July 2017 and supplies be...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
Eni: Gulf Of Suez Boost
...y to increasing the country’s oil output which fell to 613,000 b/d for August, the lowest since March 2017 (MEES, 16 August). ...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
Rosneft Advances KRG Oil
...Russia’s Rosneft is making swift progress on developing its assets in Iraqi Kurdistan, VP Eric Liron told state news agency TASS in an interview this week. The state giant bagged five “production blocks” in mid-2017 (MEES, 16 June 2017), and has focused particularly on Block 11’s Bijeel field wh...
Volume: 62Issue: 42Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2019 -
Iran Testing Star Project
...litter plants, the PGS units deliver naphtha into a reformer for processing further into reformate, a key blending component for gasoline. NIORDC is already operating two phases of PGS, the first being brought online in April 2017 and the second in February this year. The PGS project is central to Iran’s bi...
Volume: 61Issue: 43Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2018 -
Kuwaiti MPs Prepare Grillings As ‘Summer’ Ends
...bah and Oil Minister Bakhit al-Rashidi. The return of parliament frequently marks the exit of government ministers, and indeed the previous government resigned en-masse in November 2017, leading to Mr Rashidi’s appointment that December (MEES, 15 December). EGYPT’S FOREIGN RESERVES* HIT RECORD $44...
Volume: 61Issue: 43Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2018 -
Aramco Chinese Refinery MOU
...val state giant PetroChina’s 260,000 b/d Anning plant in southwestern Yunnan province. Meanwhile, in May 2017 Aramco signed a joint development agreement with China’s Norinco and Panjin Xinchang for a refinery and petchems project in Liaoning in China’s northeast. Qatar’s QP previously pursued a 40...
Volume: 61Issue: 42Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2018 -
Korea Takes Libyan Condi
...ports from Iran fell from 361,000 b/d for 2017 to just 55,000 b/d for August and zero for September, volumes from alternate suppliers of condensate have soared (Korean stats don’t split crude and condensate). Korea took 230,000 b/d from Qatar in September, a two year high; the 509,000 b/d from Ku...
Volume: 61Issue: 42Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2018 -
Mubadala Shelves Cepsa IPO
...0,000 b/d for 2017. Historically Cepsa core business has been two Spanish refineries which contributed 43% of Cepsa’s net profits in 2016 and 2017. However these plants are not a clear fit with Mubadala’s overseas strategy. Petchems is a better fit. Cepsa has plants totaling 2.58mn t/y capacity in Sp...
Volume: 61Issue: 42Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2018 -
Drilling Tie-Ups Focus On Mideast
...ntracts in the kingdom (MEES, 13 January 2017). The deal will create “a leading offshore driller by fleet size, geographic presence and customer base, with 82 rigs spanning six continents and collectively serving more than 35 customers, including the largest national oil companies, international ma...
Volume: 61Issue: 41Published at Fri, 12 Oct 2018 -
Saudi-Bahrain Pipeline Completed
...arded the $4.2bn EPCC contract for the long-planned Bapco Modernization Program in late 2017, with contractors anticipating completion in 2022 (MEES, 8 December 2017). ...
Volume: 61Issue: 41Published at Fri, 12 Oct 2018 -
Shamaran Plans EPFs at KRG
...rathon’s 15% stake to boost its share to 35.1%. The KRG holds the remaining 25%. Production began in July 2017 and while capacity is 30,000 b/d the closest it has come was 27,000 b/d in January. Since then output has been hampered by technical problems and fell to around 12,000 b/d in April before bo...
Volume: 61Issue: 40Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2018 -
Noble Completes Tamar Farm-Down
...rel for $450mn in July 2017 before setting up Tamar Petroleum as a vehicle to sell off additional stakes (MEES, 30 June 2017). The largest single shareholder is now privately-owned Israeli firm Isramco with 28.75% though Noble, with 25%, remains operator (see chart). NOBLE COMPLIES WITH RE...
Volume: 61Issue: 40Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2018