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QatarEnergy Crowns LNG Conference With Two Major Supply Deals
...silient energy future for the nation.” The deal was notable given that Japanese imports of Qatari LNG have been on a steep downwards trajectory over the past decade, dropping from a record 16.14mn tons in 2014 to just 3.42mn tons last year (itself an improvement on 2024 levels) as long term sales co...
Volume: 69Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2026 -
Trade In The Med: More Hubs, New Ship-to-Ship Zones
...prus’ rise as a regional gasoline blending hub via its 545,000 m3 (3.4mn barrel) VTTV storage facility at Vasiliko. Vitol, which owns 45% of VTTI alongside IFM Investors (45%) and Adnoc (10%), heavily touted VTTV’s potential when it first began operating in 2014 (MEES, 31 October 2014). But it’s taken th...
Volume: 68Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2025 -
Aramco Steps Up Multi-Billion Dollar Refinery Upgrade Strategy
...erica and Asia, and in late 2014 a clean fuels upgrade program was completed which reduced the sulfur levels in gasoline and diesel by more than 98% to 10 parts per million (MEES, 2 January 2015). Aramco is looking to upgrade its domestic refining fleet as part of broader plans to boost its liquids-to...
Volume: 68Issue: 18Published at Fri, 16 May 2025 -
Saudi Slashes Jan-Feb Oil Burn; Can It Maintain The Progress?
...LUMES OF DIESEL. SOURCE: JODI, MEES. 2:....BUT THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF 2025 HAVE SEEN SUBSTANTIAL GAINS WITH FEBRUARY OIL BURN* DOWN OVER 200,000 B/D YEAR-ON-YEAR FOR THE LOWEST MONTHLY FIGURE SINCE 2014 (‘000 B/D)... *CRUDE PLUS FUEL OIL CONSUMPTION. PRESUMES ALL FUEL OIL BURNED IN PO...
Volume: 68Issue: 17Published at Fri, 25 Apr 2025 -
Iraq Targets 1.54mn B/D Refining Capacity With Relaunch Of 150,000mn b/d Missan Plans
...pacity since 2017, when the country was struggling to cope with the aftermath of the 2014 destruction of its largest refinery, the 290,000 b/d Baiji complex, by Islamic State (MEES, 26 September 2014). Mr Sudani says the new refining additions are part of his government’s efforts to maximize the value de...
Volume: 68Issue: 14Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2025 -
Iraq’s Cabinet Approves Basra-Haditha Crude Oil Pipeline
...l to global markets, but plans to develop an alternative route via Aqaba were derailed by the rise of the Islamic State in 2014, with security still a major concern in Anbar. IRAQ’S OIL & GAS PIPELINE SYSTEM ...
Volume: 68Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2025 -
Iraqi Fuel Oil Export Surge Raises Smuggling Concerns
...bsidized prices, especially those producing asphalt. Michael Knights, Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, has looked closely at the trade, and says “these plants existed since at least 2014 and have bloomed in recent years with licenses issued by the Ministry of Trade and fu...
Volume: 67Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2024 -
Algeria-Spain Spat Leaves 1.26GW Power Plant In Limbo
...lguera,” adding that it is now seeking “a definitive solution for all parties.” The project was originally awarded back in 2014 at a price tag of $719mn (MEES, 7 March 2014), with civil works completed by end-2016 (MEES, 15 September 2017). Satellite imagery indicates that substantial work has taken pl...
Volume: 67Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2024 -
MEES Interview: Iraq’s Deputy Oil Minister For Refining Affairs Hamid Younes
...eir secondary units – with a total nameplate crude processing capacity of 290,000 b/d. The Shamal (North) refinery was the largest at 150,000 b/d, but like the 70,000 b/d capacity Baiji-1 and similarly sized Baiji-2 was destroyed by the Islamic State terrorist group in 2014 (MEES, 26 September 2014...
Volume: 67Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 -
Jordan Looks To Climb On The Green Hydrogen Bandwagon
...ovided 27% of Jordan’s 2022 power, up from just 1% in 2014. But the ambitious plans face many challenges, including a severe water shortage. A 2019 Jordanian-German Energy Partnership said that despite Jordan’s “promising” potential for green hydrogen, including a “mature chemical industry” and ex...
Volume: 66Issue: 49Published at Fri, 08 Dec 2023 -
Iraq Eyes 2024 Refining Boost With 150,000 b/d Baiji CDU Re-Build
...rrorist group when it overran the refinery in 2014 (MEES, 26 September 2014). Now, Iraq’s Oil Minister Hayan Abdulghani has set an ambitious target for it “to begin operations” by 1Q 2024. If successful, this would bring back Baiji capacity to its original 290,000 b/d, after the 70,000 b/d Saladin 1 an...
Volume: 66Issue: 44Published at Fri, 03 Nov 2023 -
Iraq’s Karbala Refinery Hits Full Capacity Despite Unresolved Technical Issues
...nancial delays that have afflicted other capital projects in Iraq, not least the Karbala refinery itself which was awarded almost a decade ago (MEES, 10 January 2014). A much-delayed 2015 project to add a new 70,000 b/d CDU at the 350,000 b/d Basrah Refinery is now slated for end-year completion, af...
Volume: 66Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2023 -
Questions Over Australia’s LNG Future Open Opportunity For Qatar
...June). These alone added to current supplies would propel Qatar above Australia’s 2022 volumes. Should Australian supplies fail to return to 2021’s record levels, then Qatar could be challenging for the No.1 position in China in the second half of the decade for the first time since 2014. Qa...
Volume: 66Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2023 -
Iraq’s New Karbala Refinery Set To Lighten Summer Fuel Import Bill
...finery is providing the first significant modern addition to Iraq’s delipidated refining fleet since at least the 1980s. Nine-years after its 2014 award to a consortium led by Korea’s Hyundai Engineering (MEES, 10 January 2014), the plant began commercial operations earlier this month (MEES, 7 Ap...
Volume: 66Issue: 16Published at Fri, 21 Apr 2023 -
Libya’s Mabruk: ‘2023 Restart’
...Operator TotalEnergies says its Mabruk field in Libya’s Sirte Basin oil heartland “is expected to restart its production in 2023.” The field on blocks 70 and 87 has been shut in since December 2014 when it was overrun by Islamic State-affiliated militants with the surface facilities su...
Volume: 66Issue: 13Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2023 -
QatarEnergy To Take Over LNG Marketing Role
...naging Director (subsequently CEO) in 2014 (MEES, 19 September 2014). Mr Kaabi’s tenure has been characterized by three primary tenets – aggressive expansion, streamlining of operations and squeezing IOC partners. This latest initiative arguably facilitates all three and underlines the extent to wh...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Qatar Takes FID On Huge Petrochemicals Complex
...at Qatar had axed its previous planned facilities in late 2014 and 2015 amid a reappraisal of its petrochemical strategy (MEES, 16 January 2015). Back in 2017, Mr Kaabi suggested the facility would have around 1.6mn t/y capacity. But by the time Chevron Phillips was awarded a 30% stake in June 20...
Volume: 66Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2023 -
Saudi Arabia Increases 2023 Budget Expectations
....3bn, and to rise further to $41.9bn in 2023. These capex figures remain well below historic levels. Saudi capex peaked at $85.2bn in 2014 before being cut as oil prices dropped. But it was still running at $45.9bn in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic. The low planned capex figure for this year wa...
Volume: 65Issue: 49Published at Fri, 09 Dec 2022 -
Iraq Shakes Up Fuel Exports
...TSUBISHI BERTH’ The long-awaited addition to Iraq’s product terminals is the 340m long and 12m deep “berth number 2” at KAZ which has been funded through a $380mn JICA loan package approved in 2014 (MEES, 21 February 2014). The plan to turn KAZ to a products hub had involved a subsidiary of BP at on...
Volume: 65Issue: 41Published at Fri, 14 Oct 2022 -
Egypt Refining Runs Rise To Record High
...22 were the lowest since 2014, whilst Egypt’s overall oil products imports of 144,000 b/d were also less than half 2016-17 levels (see chart 2). Egypt’s overall oil products demand has been edging up to its highest levels since around 2018 – even when excluding this year’s sharp uptick in fuel oi...
Volume: 65Issue: 39Published at Fri, 30 Sep 2022