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Oman’s OQEP Eyes New Gas Discovery In Upstream Reshuffle
...scovered in 2017 OQEP has expanded crude processing capacity with three processing plants commissioned in August 2019, September 2021, and November 2022. EXITING UNDERPERFORMING BLOCKS OQ and its partner Shell exited Block 42 after the exploration and production sharing agreement expired in...
Volume: 67Issue: 39Published at Fri, 27 Sep 2024 -
Eni & BP Set To Kick Off Libya Exploration Drilling Campaign
...tput in Libya has been falling. Mellitah sales gas output of 860mn cfd for 2023 is little more than half 2017’s peak figure of 1.59bn cfd, whilst Eni’s net figures are down even more (see chart). At the same time exports to Italy via the Eni-operated Greenstream pipeline (Libya’s sole gas export ou...
Volume: 67Issue: 39Published at Fri, 27 Sep 2024 -
Oman Awards Northern Tight Gas Play In Bid Round
...2017 with cumulative output of 44,000 barrels on extended test, but which quietly abandoned the asset before last year’s bid round. The ministry says that in total four exploration wells and one appraisal well were drilled on the block between 1993 and 2017. Two formations indicated the pr...
Volume: 67Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2024 -
Eni Spuds Key Morocco Wildcat
...ast (see map). MOROCCO GAS EXPLORATION & INFRASTRUCTURE Though the well, spudded by the Topaz Driller jackup in 100ms water depth, is the first since the block was awarded to Eni in 2017, both Portugal’s Galp and UK independent Cairn drilled nearby wells la...
Volume: 66Issue: 37Published at Fri, 15 Sep 2023 -
Sonatrach Cuts Flaring As New Processing Plant Starts Up
...ripheral fields is perhaps 300,000 b/d. Plans to bolster output have taken two forms: the tie-in of peripheral fields, and increased use of advanced recovery. HGA ticks both boxes. The plant, delivered by India’s Dodsal under a $1.08bn 2017 EPC contract, processes output from several satellite fi...
Volume: 66Issue: 37Published at Fri, 15 Sep 2023 -
RAK Strikes Gas At Block 5
...ocessed volumes from Saleh. Khor Khwair has also previously processed gas from Oman’s nearby Bukha and West Bukha fields, until the sultanate commissioned its Musandam gas processing plant in 2017. Khor Khwair has also processed volumes from the nearby Umm al-Quwain gas field, where Norwell Engineering la...
Volume: 66Issue: 36Published at Fri, 08 Sep 2023 -
Kuwait Steps Up Offshore Exploration With Arrival Of Second Drilling Rig
...ploration work was a 3D seismic survey of the Kuwait Bay area which was completed in 2017. RETURN OF THE RIGS It is notable that the Oriental Phoenix’s first well was drilled on the eastern flank of Kuwaiti waters close to the undemarkated border with Iran. For one thing, this location is di...
Volume: 66Issue: 35Published at Fri, 01 Sep 2023 -
Oman LNG Close To Sold Out With New OQ & Shell Sales Deals
...tlook for Oman’s LNG exports was in doubt amid rising domestic gas demand and an uncertain production outlook. The 2017 startup of the Khazzan tight gas development changed all this, with capacity from Khazzan and the second-phase Ghazeer now standing at 2bn cfd. The successful project encouraged IOCs to...
Volume: 66Issue: 35Published at Fri, 01 Sep 2023 -
Oman Oil: Production Up, Exports Down
...NSTRAINED It is the sultanate’s success in developing gas plays in recent years that has resulted in soaring condensate output. The start-up of BP’s 1bn cfd Khazzan tight gas project in 2017 was a game-changing development and the second phase 500mn cfd Ghazeer play came online in October 2020 providing an...
Volume: 65Issue: 38Published at Fri, 23 Sep 2022 -
Shamaran Secures Sarsang Stake As Total Exits Kurdistan
...rdistan for the second time – the Sarsang stake was acquired via its 2017 purchase of Denmark’s Maersk – was originally announced in July 2021 (MEES, 16 July 2021). Shamaran said at the time that “the Acquisition is highly accretive and transformative to Shamaran as it grows from a single asset company to...
Volume: 65Issue: 37Published at Fri, 16 Sep 2022 -
Kuwait Starts Up Key Northern Oil Facility
...thering center in the north of the emirate. GC-31 is one of three gathering centers for which contracts worth $2.3bn were awarded in 2014 (MEES, 11 July 2014). All were initially slated to come online in late 2017, but were delayed. The first two, GC-29 and GC-30 were brought online in 2018, but GC-31’s co...
Volume: 64Issue: 38Published at Fri, 24 Sep 2021 -
Baker Hughes Finalizes Iraq Gas Contract
...sociated gas in Dhi Qar, with an initial contract signed in 2017 (MEES, 21 July 2017). In January, Baker Hughes announced that the contract had been awarded to its Turbomachinery & Process Solutions (TPS) division (MEES, 29 January). The scope of work included design, manufacturing, delivery, construction an...
Volume: 64Issue: 38Published at Fri, 24 Sep 2021 -
Libya’s Oil Exports: What’s At Stake?
...LER, MEES ESTIMATES. EUROPE STILL DOMINANT To be clear Libya’s key market remains Europe which at 844,000 b/d accounted for three quarters of the country’s exports in the first eight months of the year – its highest share since 2017 according to data intelligence firm Kpler (see chart 1). Mo...
Volume: 64Issue: 37Published at Fri, 17 Sep 2021 -
Egypt Gas Grows Ever More Dependent On Zohr
...t whilst output has risen every year since its December 2017 start-up, recent problems saw Zohr output slump from the record 2.96bn cfd hit in Q1 2021 to just 2.60bn cfd for Q2 (MEES, 13 August). And even for the 2020-21 financial year, whilst Egypt’s overall gas output grew 6% to 6.55bn cf...
Volume: 64Issue: 36Published at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 -
Saudi Eyes Development Of Remote Northwest
...’ad al-Shamal industrial complex, which is centered around phosphate mining. To the southwest of Turaif is the 75mn cfd Midyan conventional gas processing plant, which was commissioned in 2017. Midyan gas was developed to supply gas to power generation facilities further down the coast at Du...
Volume: 63Issue: 37Published at Fri, 11 Sep 2020 -
Indian Firms Eye Israel Exit
...A consortium of Indian firms led by state giant ONGC Videsh is in the process of relinquishing the one exploration block it holds offshore Israel. Block 32 was awarded in late 2017, following Israel’s first offshore bid round, launched in 2016 (MEES, 24 November 2017). In its 2019-20 annual re...
Volume: 63Issue: 37Published at Fri, 11 Sep 2020 -
Noble To Keep Tamar Veto Rights
...th 25% of Tamar and 39.66% of Leviathan, has been accused of favoring the latter in gas sales (MEES, 24 April), effectively stymying any attempt by Tamar’s minority partners to compete with Leviathan on price. Tamar gas sales slumped from a steady 1bn cfd for 2017-19 to a seven year low of 543mn cf...
Volume: 63Issue: 37Published at Fri, 11 Sep 2020 -
Egypt: Key Shell Offshore Gas Project Faces Uncertainty
...condensate during the 2019-20 financial year to June, a far cry from the 1.3bn cfd it produced in 2013. Years of under-investment and over-drilling saw output collapse to around 200mn cfd in 2018. Phase 9b was finally sanctioned in 2017 although it was only 12 months ago that the phase’s nine we...
Volume: 63Issue: 36Published at Fri, 04 Sep 2020 -
Egypt Oil Targets Recede Into Distance
...clared force majeure on the plant’s ongoing 60,000 b/d expansion (MEES, 24 July). And the country’s other key ongoing expansion, a new 48,900 b/d hydrocracker and 14,900 b/d naphtha upgrader at the 90,000 b/d Asorc refinery in Assiut, southern Egypt (MEES, 15 September 2017), has the same main co...
Volume: 63Issue: 36Published at Fri, 04 Sep 2020 -
Libya’s NOC Looks To Take Development Inhouse With New Zallaf Subsidiary
...ncession, Occidental is gone (MEES, 10 February 2017), while Marathon announced it sold its Waha stake to Total in 2018 – though this is still disputed by NOC (MEES, 5 April). THE OIL CURSE Oil and gas revenues account for more than 90% of the country’s income. In 2018, these came in at...
Volume: 62Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2019