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Global LNG Trade Hits New Records. More To Come?
...ated to enter service. This reflects the lagged impact of a collapse in investment in liquefaction capacity from a peak of $30bn in 2014 to a mere $3bn for 2017. Shell sees a “potential… supply shortage developing in mid-2020s, unless new LNG production project commitments are made soon…Without new in...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Noble East Med Plans Gather Pace
...d on target for late-2019 start-up, the company says. The sanctioning of the deal in February last year was a “major milestone” for the company after Israel’s upstream remained in stasis for over two years from late 2014 awaiting the result of an antitrust case (MEES, 2 January 2015). The fi...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Middle East Adjusts To Trump’s Foreign Aid Game
...e 1978 Camp David accords, the US has given Egypt an average of $1.6bn/year in foreign aid, with the lion’s share, an average of $1.3bn going to the Egyptian military. The US slashed aid to Egypt by $1.4bn in 2014 following the coup d’état carried out against Muhammad Mursi’s democratically elected go...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Growing Saudi’s Non-Oil Economy: A Mirage In The Desert?
...onomy contracted 0.7% in 2017. Riyadh heeded this advice. Its 2018 budget projected a $52bn deficit, the largest since 2014, with plans to balance the budget pushed back to 2023. The idea now is that the resultant economic stimulus, alongside continued reforms, will facilitate non-oil sector gr...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Iraq Looks To Turkey For Support Up North
...rkuk after abandoning its commitment to conduct a technical study of the fields when the Islamic State threatened operations in 2014 (MEES, 19 January). Mr Luaibi characterized BP’s return as part of an “ambitious plan” to raise output to 750,000 b/d but at present a dearth of export options will st...
Volume: 61Issue: 08Published at Fri, 23 Feb 2018 -
India Makes Splash Offshore Abu Dhabi With First Post-Adma Contract
...ate firms – which typically group up in their overseas forays – previously submitted an ultimately unsuccessful bid in 2016 for a stake in Abu Dhabi’s giant onshore concession (formerly known as Adco), which expired in 2014. The latest consortium is headed by state giant ONGC Videsh, alongside fellow st...
Volume: 61Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2018 -
Iraq Reboots Downstream Development Drive
...imacy of rehabilitating the Baiji refinery, formerly Iraq’s largest at 310,000 b/d but now offline after being gutted by the Islamic State in 2014. Achieving “some level of operations” at the Baiji refinery is “the most urgent requirement within the petroleum sector,” the document says, adding that “it...
Volume: 61Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2018 -
Dewa Awards Gas-Fired Power Project
...tensive LNG export commitments – around 90% goes to Japan, which took 4.68mn tons in 2017 down from 4.99mn t in 2016 and a record 5.70mn t in 2014 (see chart, MEES, 16 February). This means that the UAE only achieves gas balance by importing 1.7bn cfd via the Dolphin pipeline from Qatar to Abu Dhabi as...
Volume: 61Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2018 -
Russia, Saudi Arabia Commit To Enforcing Production Discipline
...cember’s inventory levels stand in terms of forward cover? Using their respective 2018 average OECD demand figures, the IEA data shows 60.1 days coverage and Opec 60.5 days, and December’s stocks represented 62-63 days cover at 2014 demand levels. HOW CAN I RESIST YOU? Abu Dhabi newspaper The Na...
Volume: 61Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2018 -
Will 2018 Be A Boon Year For Middle Eastern IPOs?
...The Middle East IPO market dried up after oil prices fell in H2 2014. But the urgent need to generate new revenue means the sustained oil price slump is now the key driver of energy sector privatization plans across the region. After several torrid years, the Middle East IPO market st...
Volume: 61Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2018 -
Iraq Seeks To Reboot Northern Oil Sector
...chnically challenging development required (MEES, 8 February 2010). Sonangol declared force majeure in 2014 when Islamic State stormed the northern Nineveh Governorate and seized the two fields. It was already eying the exit, citing escalating sectarian violence in 2013 (MEES, 25 October 2013). Mr Lu...
Volume: 61Issue: 06Published at Fri, 09 Feb 2018 -
Iraq Drilling Hits 3-Year High, Abu Dhabi Sets New Record
...rrying about any commitments to Opec to limit output (see p9). However, Iraq’s rig count remains at little more than half of the record 96 seen in the first half of 2014 before Islamic State overran large swathes of the country. The UAE is another country where Total, in its 2017 results and 2018 ou...
Volume: 61Issue: 06Published at Fri, 09 Feb 2018 -
Iranian Oil Exports Hit Pre-Sanctions Levels As European Share Grows
...indled from 185,000 b/d in 2011 to a low-point of 104,000 b/d in 2014 and then stayed relatively flat at 111,000 b/d in 2015. 2016 saw a noticeable 24% gain to 138,000 b/d, but latest data to November implies volumes soared 75% to around 240,000 b/d in 2017. This would put Turkey as the fourth largest bu...
Volume: 61Issue: 06Published at Fri, 09 Feb 2018 -
Egypt: Increased Gas Availability Boosts Petchems Producers
...stallations were not directly affected, instability deterred investment, as did the cash-strapped Islamist government of Muhammad Mursi’s inability to pay IOCs for their oil and gas production. Gas output collapsed from 6bn cfd in 2011 to 4.7bn cfd in 2014 and a 12-year low of 3.9bn cfd in H1 2016. At le...
Volume: 61Issue: 06Published at Fri, 09 Feb 2018 -
Opec Steadies Production In January
...cember 2017), especially when pointing to the instability that has plagued output in recent years. Should either be accused of producing too much, they could argue that this would be to offset the risk of near-term drop-offs. January’s combined output of 2.82mn b/d was the highest since September 2014...
Volume: 61Issue: 06Published at Fri, 09 Feb 2018 -
Major Threat For Opec With Offshore Exploration Boom
...hlumberger CEO Paal Kibsgaard told his 19 January earnings call. LONG TERM: DEEPWATER FOCUS Mexico’s latest bid round last week was by far the most successful since the country opened up its upstream to international investment in 2014. Total investment commitments were $93bn with 19 of 29 de...
Volume: 61Issue: 06Published at Fri, 09 Feb 2018 -
KRG To Struggle For Minor 2018 Production Gains
...ree new wells planned and re-entry at a 2014 well. Two wells are also planned at Zey Gawra. Russian state-backed firm Rosneft finalized a deal for five blocks in October 2017. While the blocks were not specified, registered company names suggest they are Blocks 8,9,10,11 and 13 (see map & table). Ro...
Volume: 61Issue: 05Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2018 -
Qatar Sidesteps Trade Embargo With 20% Export Revenue Gain In 2017
...ar’s gains, with hydrocarbon exports amounting to 84% of total sales – the highest figure since 2014’s 87% when oil prices averaged almost $100/B. Hydrocarbon revenues rose 21% year-on-year thanks to a combination of rising oil prices and the start of commercial operations at the 146,000 b/d Ras La...
Volume: 61Issue: 05Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2018 -
Japan Big Winner As Saudi Arabia Cuts Crude Exports
...uth Korea’s thirst for crude increased last year to 2.984mn b/d from 2.880mn b/d in 2016, while it too has diversified its suppliers. The Saudi share of total Korean imports fell to 28.9% last year, almost five percentage points less than 2014 (MEES, 12 January). Japan is the only market where Sa...
Volume: 61Issue: 05Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2018 -
Iraq Hypes Over-Ambitious Refining, Export Capacity Targets
...ve more luck with the Fao plant given that products output is slated for the export market. The only one of Iraq’s new refineries to progress is a 140,000 b/d plant at Karbala for which a $6bn EPC contract was awarded in 2014 to a Korean consortium led by Hyundai E&C. But work here has been sporadic, wi...
Volume: 61Issue: 05Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2018