1. Khafji Remains Offline As Neutral Zone Squabble Escalates

    ...at Chevron will move forward with its planned $5bn, 80,000 b/d first phase of its steam injection program at Wafra. As it stands, the project has already faced several years of delay and a final investment decision isn’t expected until 2017. Costs have also ballooned, which may force the project to be...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014
  2. Iraq To Split Basra Crude Streams

    ...oducing around 320,000 b/d of medium and heavy oil, up from 220,000 b/d a month earlier. Output from the field is due to rise to 400,000 b/d early next year, and eventually to a revised plateau of 1.2mn b/d by 2017. Production from Halfaya, now at just over 250,000 b/d of medium crude, is set to rise to 40...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014
  3. Capacity Build Takes Saudi Refinery Runs To Record 2.17Mn B/D

    ...heduled for 2017 start-up. Further ahead, Oman is looking to build a 230,000 b/d refinery at Duqm for 2018 start-up, Kuwait is planning a 615,000 b/d plant at Al-Zour, which is due online in 2019, and Bahrain plans to raise Sitra refinery capacity by 93,000 b/d, also for 2019. Meanwhile, Qatar and Ir...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014
  4. Bahrain Refinery Revamp To Boost Heavy Oil Upgrading

    ...y, Bapco’s CEO told MEES that the firm was still in discussions with Saudi Aramco – even though Bapco plans to fund the pipeline itself. The new pipeline will likely be completed in 2017 or 2018, with at least a year to spare before the refinery expansion is commissioned.  The expansion is part of...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014
  5. IFIs Back Renewables In Southeast Mediterranean

    ...nk 26 100 Tafilalt solar PV 2017 Morocco World Bank 519 350 Noor 2 & 3 solar CSP 20...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014
  6. Dana: Egypt, KRG Payment

    ...na’s Egypt production by 160mn cfd and 5,600 b/d of condensate by 2017. $18Mn From The KRG            In Iraqi Kurdistan, Dana Gas says it received a cash advance amounting to $18mn, again a small part of the hundreds of millions of dollars the company says it is owed in back payments for gas an...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014
  7. Lebanese Economy Resilient Despite External Shocks

    ...rther $4.4bn in Eurobonds in several tranches to meet its fiscal needs in 2015, 2016 and 2017. A draft law has been sent to parliament to seek approval for the larger Eurobond issue by November, the minister said. The ratification of such a law is essential for debt refinancing. Mr Khalil expects th...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014
  8. US Shale A Threat To Mideast Condensate, Despite Oil Price Slide

    ...pansion of the Panama Canal is finished. While plans call for completion of the expansion next year, Mr Troner says that, more realistically, it will be finished in 2016 or 2017, allowing liquid tankers of up to 160,000 DWT to pass. Qatar’s condensate exports, meanwhile, are set to dwindle the same ye...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014
  9. Saudi Speciality Petchems Transformation Focuses On Aromatics

    ...14               Jazan* 830 2017 Produced by catalytic reforming of naphtha Benzene Satorp, Jubail 150 20...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014
  10. Oman Turns To Wind To Cut Rural Generating Costs

    ...ights ranging from 120ms to 145ms and capacities of 2.0-3.2MW. The wind farm is expected to be developed by Masdar over 24 months, incorporating turbines from a leading global turbine maker and with local contractors having a “good share” of the project. Mr Magdheri anticipates start-up in early 2017...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014
  11. Iraq’s New PM Acts To Root Out Corruption

    ...e third phase of production to take capacity to a plateau of 400,000 b/d by 2017 as per the amended TSC. The work will include a third production unit including four oil/gas separation plants, four storage tanks and water treatment facilities. PetroChina’s partners in the Halfaya development are Pe...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014
  12. Abu Dhabi Boosts Offshore Output As Umm Lulu Comes Online

    ...m Lulu, 100,000 b/d is set to come from expansion of ADMA-OPCO’s Lower Zakum field and 170,000 b/d from the SARB and Nasr fields. ADMA-OPCO’s plans are part of ADNOC’s strategy to raise production capacity from around 3mn b/d to 3.5mn b/d, initially expected in 2017. Yet ADNOC’s target pr...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014
  13. Iran Reveals Impact Of Bushehr Outages, UAE And Jordan Pass Nuclear Milestones

    ...anian contractors. The UAE’s nuclear program, meanwhile, appears to be on schedule to deliver one 1.4GW plant each year during 2017-20. Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) says Korean contractor Kepco has poured first concrete for the reactor building of the Barakah-3 plant. Construction is ex...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014
  14. MOL Confident Of Future In Kurdistan

    ...tends to raise production from the block to an expected minimum 50,000 boe/d by 2017-18. Early production from Akri Bijeel began in March this year at a rate of 3,500 boe/d and Mr Dodds says it is expected to ramp up to 10,000 boe/d by the end of the year. The temporary facilities are to test zones wh...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014
  15. KUFPEC Plants First Gulf Flag In North American Shale

    ...rth American upstream chief says. KUFPEC says that the results of wells drilled by Chevron and other firms with acreage in Kaybob are “comparable to the best in the US Eagle Ford shale play.” Chevron and KUFPEC will conduct a full appraisal drilling program between this year and 2017, to be followed by...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014
  16. Egypt Enjoys Unexpected Bid Round Success

    ...nority partner RWE by 2017, and is active drilling in other offshore acreage. In addition to Eni, compatriot Edison also now holds three contiguous East Mediterranean deepwater exploration blocks. The Italian firm signed up for the North Port Fouad block with Irish independent Petroceltic in the la...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 40
    Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014
  17. Payment Problems, And Solutions

    ...ll raise production by 160mn cfd and 5,600 b/d of condensate by 2017. Dana plans to drill 37 new wells and do work over at an equivalent number of existing wells. The investment drive will result in 8-9mn barrels of additional condensate, says the firm. Italy’s Edison has come to a similar ag...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 40
    Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014
  18. Algeria Bid Round Flatters To Deceive

    ...erator at Timissit with a 30% stake, with Shell holding 19% and Algerian national oil company Sonatrach taking up its mandatory 51% stake. The consortium plans to drill two exploration wells and conduct seismic surveys until 2017. While the block is not thought to contain any shale deposits, it lies cl...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 40
    Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014
  19. Gulf Refinery Expansions Mean 1mn B/D Products Exports From 2015

    ...an’s benchmark crude deteriorates (MEES, 6 June). Aramco’s 400,000 b/d Jazan refinery is scheduled for start-up in 2017, having been slowed by consideration of a plan to expand a proposed 2.4GW power plant that will be linked to the refinery. Eventually Aramco returned to the original 2.4GW ca...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 40
    Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014