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Shell Plans To Double Egypt Output By 2030
...om 50-70ms and was drilled a total of three times by BP between 1999 and 2014. The field could hold up to 1.4tcf, but BP still walked away in 2019 (MEES, 5 April 2019). Its proximity to Shell’s now depleted Rosetta field should provide a relatively cost-effective tie-back option for development. Th...
Volume: 69Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2026 -
Chevron’s Neutral Zone Operations Return To Growth
...uck around in the PNZ despite a rocky recent history there. Kuwait was unhappy that it wasn’t consulted when Saudi Arabia renewed the operating agreement with SAC for 30 years in 2009. Grievances over management of the PNZ came to a head in 2014/15 when the offshore and onshore portions were shut-in, on...
Volume: 69Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2026 -
MENA Attractions: Libya Kicks Off Big Year For The Region’s Upstream
...censing round since 2014, with TotalEnergies and Eni both taking assets (MEES, 20 June 2025). The first licensing round under the new oil law was a success, and Algeria plans to launch a new bid round each year over the next five years. “With our geographic position, we are confident that Algeria will be...
Volume: 69Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2026 -
Syria Accelerates Its Upstream Ambitions
...banon unilaterally claimed its EEZ in a letter to the United Nations in 2011, but Syria – not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) – rejected this in 2014. Last month, Lebanon’s cabinet finally approved its maritime border with Cyprus, 18 years after Beirut and Ni...
Volume: 68Issue: 47Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2025 -
Libya Exploration Picks up as Sonatrach Resumes Drilling After 10 Years
...p). The firm this month resumed exploration activity at well 1A-96/2 in Areas 95-96, where Sonatrach had made several gas discoveries in 2013 (MEES, 13 September 2013). Sonatrach began drilling at well 1A-96/2 in April 2014, reaching a depth of 8,090 feet (2,465 meters), only to halt operations an...
Volume: 68Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2025 -
PDO Oil Output Rises To 70% Of Oman’s Total
...chniques (EOR) across its portfolio. Back in 2014, 66% of its oil production came from primary production techniques, but that balance has now flipped, with PDO expecting that 64% of its production this year will rely on water injection and EOR. OTHER OUTPUT SLUMPS PDO has managed to in...
Volume: 68Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2025 -
Apache Egypt Gas Gains Gather Pace, Oil Recovery Proves Elusive
...ached in the first quarter of 2014. “In Egypt, we again exceeded our quarterly gas production guidance, driven by the strong performance of our recent discoveries,” CEO John Christmann told his firm’s 7 August, Q2 earnings call. Significantly for Apache and Egypt, which is desperate for gas, ou...
Volume: 68Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2025 -
BP Sets Sights On Expanded Libya Operations With New MoU
...riodically expressed a desire to exploit over the past decade (MEES, 30 May 2014). In 2014, NOC’s then-chairman Mustafa Sanalla spoke optimistically about Libya’s unconventional oil and gas potential. He said that “a lot of homework will be done to evaluate these resources,” but since then NOC has lacked the re...
Volume: 68Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2025 -
Key Gulf Futures Exchange Eyes China
...mains based in Dubai’s DIFC, the MoU was signed at STG’s headquarters in Riyadh and in the presence of STG CEO Khalid Abdullah al-Hussan. The two exchanges have a long history of partnership, with the GME having been tapped in 2014 by SHFE’s subsidiary, Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE), to...
Volume: 68Issue: 17Published at Fri, 25 Apr 2025 -
BP Seeks To Build On Historic Middle East Foundations In ‘Return To Upstream’ Strategy
...ream. BP returned to the remodeled concession in December 2016, after the original concession agreement expired in 2014, and the current agreement runs until end-2054. Return to Adco lifted BP’s net Abu Dhabi output to a record 257,000 b/d in 2017, but after the offshore Adma concession expired at the en...
Volume: 68Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 -
Oman Launches 2025 Bid Round With Three Onshore Blocks
...set in 2012 and 2014 but failed to sign anyone up (MEES, 8 August 2014). One previous exploration well “failed to reach the target” according to the ministry, but “active hydrocarbon seepage found in the block” supports the likelihood of a “working petroleum system.” The ministry also claims it is su...
Volume: 68Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2025 -
Wintershall Libya Assets In Limbo
...renaica Plateau. Though under force majeure since 2014, these are potentially valuable assets, with what was then RWE-Dea making a string of discoveries over the years to Libya’s 2011 revolution (MEES, 22 September 2008). Back in 2012, amid a lull to Libya’s post-revolutionary instability, RWE-Dea sa...
Volume: 67Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2024 -
Kufpec Eyes Portfolio Optimization After Exiting Norway & China
...ina, after picking up assets there a decade ago as part of its ambitious plans to become a mid-sized “international National Oil Company” (MEES, 25 April 2014). While some assets acquired at the time have succeeded, many have flopped, and Kufpec now appears intent on debloating its portfolio starting wi...
Volume: 67Issue: 02Published at Fri, 12 Jan 2024 -
Oman’s Blocks 3&4: Output Rebound Hopes Recede
...%. Output is now at the lowest since Q4 2014 when production was just ramping up (see chart). At the start of 2023, Tethys’ annual output guidance was 30,000-33,000 b/d, a projection that was only just met by actual 1H production of 30,670 b/d (MEES, 21 July) but now looks beyond reach. Indeed, up...
Volume: 66Issue: 44Published at Fri, 03 Nov 2023 -
BP/Adnoc Deal For Israel’s NewMed Under Threat
...inked in 2014 between Woodside and NewMed (Delek Drilling at the time) for a 25% of Leviathan fell apart just hours before it was due to be inked due to reported clashes between the Australian firm’s hierarchy and Mr Tshuva (MEES, 23 May 2014). BP and Adnoc will not be expecting to take full co...
Volume: 66Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2023 -
Israel’s Leviathan: FID For 1.4bn Cfd Expansion, But FLNG Plans Stall
...own) and its then partners at the Tamar field came close to an agreement with a Korean consortium to secure an FLNG for Tamar expansion. A year later a deal to sell 25% of Leviathan to Australia’s Woodside also fell through – the deal had targeted FLNG for the field’s development (MEES, 23 May 2014...
Volume: 66Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2023 -
Egypt Output Gains Threatened By Mounting Receivables
...erating costs with substantial drilling and investment needed just to keep output stable. As such, several firms suffered near death experiences (indeed, some went bust) when oil prices tanked in 2014-15 and again in 2020. Having not fully recovered from the previous slump, spending and drilling were sl...
Volume: 66Issue: 18Published at Fri, 05 May 2023 -
Australia’s Woodside Finally Enters East Med, Teaming Up With Chevron On Egypt Blocks
...mmissioned for a world beating 4.6mn t/y facility (MEES, 24 February). As for whether Woodside may look to expand its Chevron collaboration to other regional assets, intriguingly the Australian firm back in 2014 came close to paying $2.5bn for a 25% stake in Leviathan before the deal was kyboshed due to re...
Volume: 66Issue: 17Published at Fri, 28 Apr 2023 -
QatarEnergy’s Overseas Strategy Enters Pivotal Phase
...d MEES calculates that QatarEnergy’s net output last year was 13,235 boe/d (primarily oil). QatarEnergy also nets around 9,000 boe/d from the Shell-operated Parque das Conchas license in Brazil. It has been present at the development since 2014. There are also modest volumes of approximately 2,...
Volume: 66Issue: 16Published at Fri, 21 Apr 2023 -
Prospects For A Prolonged Ceasefire Rekindle Yemen Oil Sector Hopes
...ghters in their areas of control. Despite seizing vast swathes of territory since 2014, including the key Ras Isa oil export terminal, the Houthis have failed to gain control of Yemen’s oil-producing regions (see map). Instead, oil export revenues are being accrued by the Saudi-backed Yemeni government in...
Volume: 66Issue: 15Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2023