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Oryx Aims For 200KBD
...anned appraisal wells, scheduled for late 2013-early 2014, could add to this and the firm has identified three further prospects. Drilling has begun on two of these: the AAS-1 well on the Ain al-Safra prospect spudded on 10 June and the Zeg-1 well spudded in late April. Oryx, which recently listed in To...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
Baghdad And Kurds Choose Different Power Paths
...rbine 292 1x292MW Q1 2014 Delayed from Sep 2013 Salah Al-Din 2,274 Salah Al-Di...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
IDA: New Desalination Technologies Need Time
...e pilot program in early 2014. “The emphasis in the pilot program is not on the energy source but on new desalination technologies,” says Dr Sommariva. “The breakthrough technologies will be coupled to an energy source later. We will work with the new desalination technologies to give the lo...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
Lebanon Struggles To Plug Power Shortage
...rmeister & Wain is currently undertaking a €270mn contract to add 194mw of generating capacity at the Zouk power plant and 78mw at Jiyyeh, both near Beirut. They are scheduled to be handed over to EDL in 2014, running initially on diesel and converting later to gas-fired operation when planned gas in...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
Qatar GDP Growth Projected At 6.5% In 2013
... QATAR Qatar GDP Growth Projected At 6.5% In 2013 Qatar’s GDP growth is expected to accelerate during the remainder of 2013 to reach 6.5% for the full year and 6.8% in 2014, supported by large infrastructure investments and associated population growth, according to th...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
China Crisis Would Threaten Saudi Economy
...udi GDP undershooting by 0.3-0.4% one year hence, according to the IMF’s findings. The IMF itself was predicting 8.1% 2013 GDP growth for China – and 8.3% for 2014 – as recently as its April World Economic outlook; by the time of the 9 July update these figures had been slashed to 7.8% and 7.7% re...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
Oman Oil Marketing Plans Duqm Bunkering.
...ncluded sometime in 2014. Duqm, a special economic zone receiving heavy oil and gas sector investment, is located roughly halfway between Salalah and Musqat on the Arabian Sea coast. OOMCO has been serving bunker fuel needs at Oman’s Sohar Industrial Port since 2010 in partnership with Germany’s Ma...
Volume: 56Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2013 -
Saudi Firms Award Butanol And Polyacetal Plant Contracts
...,000 t/y of iso-butanol. Project Schedules Saudi Kayan said construction of the butanol plant – which will be the world’s largest and first in the Middle East (MEES, 4 January) – would begin in January 2014, with project completion anticipated in May 2015: “It is scheduled to start its trial ru...
Volume: 56Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2013 -
OPEC Sees Fall In 2014 Call on Its Crude
... OPEC OPEC Sees Fall In 2014 Call on Its Crude Strong non-OPEC supply growth means demand for OPEC crude will actually contract by around 250,000 b/d next year despite world oil demand growth rebounding to its highest growth rate in four years, the producer group says in...
Volume: 56Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2013 -
Law Change Hands Power, Oil Revenues To Iraq’s Provinces
...,000 b/d by end 2014. Babil province’s West Kifl field, and Karbala’s Kifl and Merjan fields have been a particular area of interest. In January 2010, UK independent San Leon announced it had signed a deal with Karbala governorate for the blocks, offered in Iraq’s December 2009 second upstream bi...
Volume: 56Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2013 -
Gulf States Finalize Rescue Package For Egypt
...Cairo. Ankara was not only supportive of Mr Mursi but (more so than Qatar), Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan has been highly critical of his ouster. More Cash Needed Egypt badly needs between $14-19bn in external financing in the fiscal year to June 2014, analysts of the Egyptian sc...
Volume: 56Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2013 -
Juba Looks To Develop Oil Sector As Khartoum Revokes Oil Threat
...finery in August, and a second one in early 2014. The first of these refineries – a 5,000 b/d ‘mini-refinery’ in Bentiu in Unity state – is being built by Russian firm Safinat Caspian Oil Refining Company, which signed a memorandum of understanding with Juba in December last year. The se...
Volume: 56Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2013 -
Libyan Oil Sector Buckles Under Protester Pressure
...illing, slated to begin in October 2014. NOC is hoping BP’s three-year, five well-offshore drilling campaign will establish a new gas producing province. Current Libyan Crude Output (MEES estimates)- Total 1.06 mn b/d Company Foreign pa...
Volume: 56Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2013 -
Iran-Pak Pipeline Inches Forward But Completion Unlikely Before 2017
...s demand at over 12bn cfd. “It is not an issue of whether they need it or not – they do need the gas, but 2014 is not realistic,” Praveen Kumar, head of Facts Global Energy’s South Asia Oil and Gas team says tells MEES, highlighting funding – or a lack thereof – as the key factor delaying th...
Volume: 56Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2013 -
Iran Takes Steps Towards Planned Tripling Of Gasoline Output
...pplant regular gasoline, although prices would not be raised. Tabriz and Isfahan would be the next cities to receive cleaner gasoline, with deliveries being extended to other major cities by the end of March 2014. On 28 June NIOPDC reported that Iran’s average daily gasoline co...
Volume: 56Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2013 -
Indonesia Spikes Aramco Refinery, Knocks Back KPC
...rticipate in a 200,000 b/d refinery CNPC is building in Kunming in southwest Yunnan province. This will probably be completed end-2013/early 2014. This will be supplied by an oil pipeline from the port of Kyaukphyu in Myanmar, bypassing the Strait of Malacca. The refinery is scheduled for end-year testing bu...
Volume: 56Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2013 -
Jordan Hit By Syrian Overspill, Moody’s Downgrades Two Notches
...12, compared to an average deficit of 4.6% of GDP over the period 2005 to 2008. But the ratings agency expects an improvement in the deficit in 2013 and 2014, which is to remain high at over 5% of GDP and is “highly dependent on a successful fiscal-consolidation strategy.” *An acceleration in...
Volume: 56Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2013 -
South Tunisia Gas Development Close To Go-Ahead Despite ENI Departure
...e intending to have the contracts signed before the end of the year, in order to allow construction to begin in early 2014 [and] finished by 1Q16,” Mr Mestiri says. “Inshallah [we will stick to this timeframe] as long as we don’t encounter too much social unrest,” he conceded. OMV – the ke...
Volume: 56Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2013 -
OMV Set For Eastern Abu Dhabi Oil Exploration
...ve a joint venture petrochemical firm, Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge), which will expand its ethylene capacity to 3.6mn tons/year in 2014 (MEES, 1 March). OMV’s announcement comes at a time of greater opportunity in Abu Dhabi for foreign firms. Eleven foreign firms prequalified to bid fo...
Volume: 56Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2013 -
IEA Sees ‘Significant Potential’ For Solar Power In Middle East
...lar capacity (PV and CSP) in 2013. The country has adopted long-term renewable generation targets and is seeking to install 1.8gw of large-scale solar capacity by 2014. However, “the 2014 goal may be overly ambitious, given lack of deployment history, but medium-term growth is likely to be ro...
Volume: 56Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2013