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Iraq’s Ageing Basra Infrastructure: Can It Take The Strain?
...e onshore bottlenecks. Yet it is far from clear whether or not BOC can sustain high exports through these facilities, and whether more SPM replacements are needed. All the four operational SPMs were installed between 2012 and 2014, although UK contractor Petrofac, which has a maintenance co...
Volume: 66Issue: 35Published at Fri, 01 Sep 2023 -
China Crude Imports: Mideast & Russia Both ‘Winners’ For Now
...are of 53.3% for 8M 2022 puts this year on track to top the previous record high of 52.2% set back in 2014 (see chart 1), especially as a 55.5% share for August shows there is no sign of the region losing ground. So if the Middle East is up, and Russia is up, whilst overall volumes are falling, th...
Volume: 65Issue: 38Published at Fri, 23 Sep 2022 -
Aramco CEO: Flawed Assumptions Promise A Hard Winter For Europe
...spite oil prices spending months well above $100/B. “Oil and gas investments crashed by more than 50% between 2014 and last year, from $700bn to a little over $300bn. The increases this year are too little, too late, too short-term,” bemoaned Mr Nasser at the Schlumberger Digital Forum 2022. Co...
Volume: 65Issue: 38Published at Fri, 23 Sep 2022 -
Asian LNG Demand Up This Year Despite Covid
...ers (MEES, 11 September). The slump in prices is now being felt in Qatar, and Taiwan paid an average of just $4.78/mn BTU for Qatar volumes in August (the latest data): as with its overall import price this is the lowest figure since 2014. *Other bargain-basement recent buying by Taiwan saw su...
Volume: 63Issue: 39Published at Fri, 25 Sep 2020 -
Opec Secretary General Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo Speaks With MEES On The Occasion Of The Organization’s 60th Anniversary
...ving the way for a future supply crunch? A: To put the investment conundrum in some perspective, our projections show capital expenditure in non-OPEC countries plummeting by 23% in 2020, to about half the $741 billion record set in 2014. And as we all know from the oil market’s sharp downturn in 2014...
Volume: 63Issue: 38Published at Fri, 18 Sep 2020 -
LNG Prices At Four-Year High Amid Soaring Demand
...port record of 88.45mn tons set in 2014 will ever be surpassed. Japan’s record years for LNG imports came in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. The continued, albeit extremely gradual, restart of the country’s nuclear fleet combined with overall stagnant-to-falling Japanese energy de...
Volume: 61Issue: 39Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2018 -
Saudi Oil Exports On Track For Record Year
...l revenues will hit a three-year high in 2018 and it is conceivable that they could rise above $250bn, although 2014’s $285bn looks out of reach. ...
Volume: 61Issue: 38Published at Fri, 21 Sep 2018 -
Russia Extends Lead Over Saudi In China As Overall Imports Fall
...their lowest level since early 2014. Indeed for five of the last six months, including August (977,000 b/d), rival Opec producer Angola has bested Saudi for second place. But not only are Chinese imports from Saudi Arabia down in August, those from Russia and overall import volumes are also do...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
Saudi Crude Exports At 3-Year Low: Oil Burn Peaks Amid Opec Curbs
...Saudi Arabia’s crude exports are at their lowest level since August 2014 as the kingdom deals with the double-whammy of increased summer demand and reduced output in accordance with last November’s Opec agreement. Saudi Arabia’s oil burn hit 1.39mn b/d in July, the highest figure on re...
Volume: 60Issue: 38Published at Fri, 22 Sep 2017 -
Oil Market Surplus To 2019 Despite Strong Growth Projections
...0,000 b/d to 1.6mn b/d, while Opec raised its figures by 50,000 b/d to 1.42mn b/d. The IEA’s 1.6mn b/d annual gain would be the highest since 2014. While they see a slight slowdown in 2018 (see table), both have strong growth projections in excess of 1.3mn b/d. Opec’s MOMR attributes the 50,000 b/d up...
Volume: 60Issue: 37Published at Fri, 15 Sep 2017 -
China Crude Imports Grow At Record Rate: Can It Last?
...tensity,’ measured in megajoules per dollar (see chart). World Bank data to 2014 show this falling steeply, whilst data from China’s National Energy Administration (NEA), published 24 August, show a further 14.6% fall between 2013 and 2016, Reuters reports. In other words, China’s GDP growth figures of 6....
Volume: 60Issue: 35Published at Fri, 01 Sep 2017 -
OPEC Agrees To Cut, Now The Hard Work Starts
...EC^ 2016 OIL EXPORT REVENUES ON COURSE FOR $750BN FALL FROM 2012 PEAK ($BN) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014...
Volume: 59Issue: 39Published at Fri, 30 Sep 2016 -
Saudi ‘Low Cost’ Market Share Policy Remains Unfinished Business
...ile its foreign reserves were down 16% year-on-year in July, the rate at which it’s drawing on them is falling (MEES, 2 September). The kingdom knew it was likely to face such a period of economic pain when it embarked on its market share over price strategy in 2014 and shows no sign of changing tack no...
Volume: 59Issue: 38Published at Fri, 23 Sep 2016 -
Libya Output Jump On Export Restart
...oducing. But Hamada is in the west of the country. Output is normally blended with much larger volumes of crude from the Repsol-operated Murzuq fields for export as Sharara crude from the port of Zawiya west of Tripoli. No crude has been exported from Zawiya since late 2014. However the port is open in th...
Volume: 59Issue: 38Published at Fri, 23 Sep 2016 -
Aramco Output Policy Under Scrutiny Ahead Of Algiers
...ne 2014, when the Opec basket crude price was still comfortably above $100/B: it averaged just $38/B in the first eight months of the year. Saudi refiners have been pushing their plants slightly harder than the industry norm this year – averaging 86.4% capacity utilization, compared with the gl...
Volume: 59Issue: 38Published at Fri, 23 Sep 2016 -
Surplus To 2018 Leaves Opec No Good Options
...have largely worked its way through the system. Refiners are “losing their appetite” for crude amid an “anemic outlook,” the IEA says, with Q4 runs set to be just 80,000 b/d up on the same period last year and overall 2016 gains the lowest in a decade. “In both 2014 and 2015, refining output gr...
Volume: 59Issue: 37Published at Fri, 16 Sep 2016 -
Mixed Opec Messages Add To Price Volatility As Output Hits New Record
...Jan-Aug‘16 v Jan-Aug‘15 Jan-Aug‘15 2015 2014 Saudi Arabia*^ 10...
Volume: 59Issue: 36Published at Fri, 09 Sep 2016 -
Asian Importers Increase Gulf Crude Addiction
...recent years has gone into reverse since the start of 2016. For Japan and South Korea, imports from the Gulf rose above 85% of their total in the second quarter this year; for India the total hit 65% in Q2 having fallen below 60% in 2014 (see chart, and p16 for full Indian import data). IE...
Volume: 59Issue: 35Published at Fri, 02 Sep 2016 -
Saudis Ease Off Export Pedal, Boosting Stocks To New High
...D15 vsYTD14 YTD14 2Q15 vs1Q15 vs2Q14 1Q15 2014 2013 2012 Crude Production 10...
Volume: 58Issue: 39Published at Fri, 25 Sep 2015 -
Saudi Official Crude & Oil Products Output, Trade & Balance (‘000 B/D)
...15 vs1Q15 vs2Q14 1Q15 2014 2013 2012 Crude Production 10,361 10,564 10,333 10...
Volume: 58Issue: 39Published at Fri, 25 Sep 2015