1. RWE Expects Delay In Gas Supply Agreement With Turkmenistan

    ...niz Stage 2, BP has informed MEES that a final decision to sanction the project is expected to be made during the second quarter and that first gas is not scheduled to manifest until 2016. Nabucco is due to come into operation in 2014 (MEES, 3 May). BP heads the Shah Deniz consortium as well as the SC...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 10 May 2010
  2. Lukoil Renews Cooperation Agreement With Astrakhan Region

    ...d Surgutneftegas also use the 1,510km pipeline, the capacity of which is due to be expanded to 67mn tons/year (1.34mn b/d) in 2014 (MEES, 12 April). BP Azerbaijan on 6 May said crude oil production in the offshore Azer-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) oilfields totaled 9.7mn tons during the first qu...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 10 May 2010
  3. Ma'aden Awards Contracts For Ras Al-Zour Aluminum Project

    ...gineering and infrastructure supervision services at the site. The smelter and rolling mill will be built during a first phase of development, with first production anticipated by 2013, while the mine and refinery are set to be completed by December 2014. Ma'aden and Alcoa and announced their joint venture ag...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 10 May 2010
  4. Nabucco Launches Prequalification Process For Long Lead Items

    ...nsortium plans to make a final investment decision on the €7.9bn project during the fourth quarter of this year. Construction is scheduled to begin at the end of 2011 and first flow is due in 2014 with an initial throughput of 8-10 bcm/year. Full capacity of 31 bcm/y is expected to be reached in 2018. A st...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 18
    Published at Mon, 03 May 2010
  5. Turkey And Azerbaijan Reach Agreement On Gas Purchase And Transit

    ...ansport 31 bcm/year of Caspian/Middle East gas to Europe, beginning in 2014. Also competing for Shah Deniz Stage 2 gas are the interconnector pipeline systems – Interconnector-Turkey-Greece-Italy (ITGI) and Interconnector-Greece-Bulgaria (IGB) and the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which is also looking to...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 18
    Published at Mon, 03 May 2010
  6. ERC Seeks Remaining Funding For Musturud Refinery

    ...grading is being implemented as a lump sum turnkey (LSTK) contract. Completion is planned for 2014. It had originally been scheduled for 2011, and costs were pegged at $2.25bn (MEES, 30 June 2008). But the project financing for the refinery was slowed down by the financial crisis, and underwent al...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 18
    Published at Mon, 03 May 2010
  7. Al Bou Kamal Producing 1,000 B/D From South Kishma

    ...000 b/d of crude from the South Kishma oil field in Block 27, the Syrian official news agency SANA reported on 25 April. The company plans to raise production capacity to 5,000 b/d by 2014. Both the South Kishma-101 and South Kishma-2 wells are nearing completion, and a total of eight wells are scheduled fo...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 18
    Published at Mon, 03 May 2010
  8. IMF Calls For More Broad-Based Reforms In Egypt

    ...prevent the build-up of inflationary momentum should it fail to abate as rapidly as the authorities expect. Planned broad-based reforms, particularly those aimed at fiscal consolidation, are seen as key to the authorities’ objective of reducing the fiscal deficit to about 3% by 2014-15. “In...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 17
    Published at Mon, 26 Apr 2010
  9. RWE Opens Office In Ashgabat, Moves Ahead With Offshore Block 23

    ...st $32.2bn. The giant field is to come on stream in 2014 at a rate of 370,000 b/d. It will reach peak output of 1.5mn b/d around the end of the decade.  Kazakhstan’s KazMunaiGaz (KMG) is considering borrowing $2bn this year, Bloomberg reported on 9 April. The company plans to invest $4.3bn during 20...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 16
    Published at Mon, 19 Apr 2010
  10. Tatneft Begins Oil Production In Syria’s South Kishma Field

    ...cond quarter, with the development budget for the year at $15mn (MEES, 15 February). Another eight wells are projected for completion by 2014, when production from the field is expected to reach 4,500-5,000 b/d. South Kishma lies in the southeastern Deir Ez-Zor province on the border with Iraq and ha...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 16
    Published at Mon, 19 Apr 2010
  11. Russia’s Transneft Claims Bulgaria Delaying Burgas-Alexandroupolis Pipeline Project

    ...34mn b/d) with completion due in 2014 (MEES, 11 January).   KazMunaiGaz Trade House, a subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s state-owned oil and gas company, KazMunaiGaz, will seek to sell crude oil to North American and China by 2015, General Director Daniyar Belibyaev said on 1 April, according to In...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 15
    Published at Mon, 12 Apr 2010
  12. Laffan Condensate Refinery Inaugurated, Expansion Work Expected In 2011

    ...e contract in May 2005 (MEES, 27 June 2005). The plant foundation stone was laid in April 2006 (MEES, 24 April 2006). The refinery was originally scheduled for start‐up in the fourth quarter of 2008, but before it was finished Qatar said it planned to double its capacity by 2014 (MEES, 10 September 20...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 15
    Published at Mon, 12 Apr 2010
  13. Turkey’s Gas Imports Bill Totals $9.9Bn In 2009, Crude Imports $6.4Bn

    ...nstruction in 2014....

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 14
    Published at Mon, 05 Apr 2010
  14. Shah Sour Gas Project Set For Late 2014 Start-Up

    ...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIII No 14   05-April-2010 UAE Shah Sour Gas Project Set For Late 2014 Start-Up Abu Dhabi is eyeing the second half of 2104 for the start-up of its Shah sour gas development project, according to statements made by the head of Abu Dhabi Gas De...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 14
    Published at Mon, 05 Apr 2010
  15. Nabucco Confirms 2014 Target For Pipeline Start-Up

    ...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIII No 13   29-March-2010 CASPIAN Nabucco Confirms 2014 Target For Pipeline Start-Up Nabucco Managing Director Reinhard Mitschek confirmed on 25 March that co...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 13
    Published at Mon, 29 Mar 2010
  16. Iran And Pakistan Sign Gas Pipeline Agreement

    ...peline is scheduled for late 2014 or early 2015. Despite pressure from the US government on Islamabad not to sign the deal, Pakistan’s Minister of Petroleum Naveed Qamar told reporters on 17 March that the pipeline would constitute an “historic achievement” and a “milestone towards meeting” his country’s en...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 13
    Published at Mon, 29 Mar 2010
  17. TAP Consortium Applies For Inclusion In Italy’s Rete Nazionale Gas Grid

    ...untries and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program, TAP is now looking to secure gas supplies from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz Stage 2 project, which could come into operation in 2014 or later....

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 13
    Published at Mon, 29 Mar 2010
  18. Turkey’s Energy Minister Says Politics Holding Up Gas Talks With Azerbaijan

    ...age 2 gas, which should begin around 2014 and theoretically feed both Nabucco and the ITGI. MEES understands that the Turkish government has made Azerbaijan an offer on gas prices and transit, but has yet to receive a reply from Baku. Other recent developments in Turkey include: Turkey has rejected ca...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 13
    Published at Mon, 29 Mar 2010
  19. Scaroni Proposes Partial Combination Of South Stream And Nabucco Pipelines

    ...ring 2009, 34.5mn tons of crude was lifted from the terminal. CPC shareholders agreed earlier this year to more than double the pipeline’s transport capacity to 67mn tons/year (1.34mn b/d). The expansion project is to be complete by 2014. Poland’s Petrolinvest on 9 March announced that the European Ba...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 11
    Published at Mon, 15 Mar 2010
  20. Export Options Considered For Barzan In Addition To Domestic Supply

    ...presenting the last of the Qatari projects conceived before the North Field moratorium was implemented, was originally planned for 2012 start-up, but that date has now slipped to 2014 (MEES, 14 December 2009). While some figures for capital costs have been floated, putting it in the $6-7bn range, the in...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 11
    Published at Mon, 15 Mar 2010