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Iraq Crude Exports: Slow January Highlights Systemic Vulnerabilities
...ptember 2017. Exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region also fell – to just 350,000 b/d according to data intelligence firm Kpler – pointing to total Iraqi exports of just 3.66mn b/d. Federal exports can often be volatile in the winter months when bad weather can impede loadings from Basra, an...
Volume: 63Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2020 -
Egypt Petchems Sector Boosted By Gas Revival, Eyes Expansion
...gasoil, 210,000 t/y of benzene and 485,000 t/y of petcoke as well as 600,000 t/y of polyethylene and 380,000 t/y of polypropylene (MEES, 22 September 2017). E-Styrenics has awarded contracts to local firms for a 300,000 t/y styrene plant at Alexandria. This will process ethylene and benzene to pr...
Volume: 63Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2020 -
Abu Dhabi Moves To Consolidate State Utilities
...also streamlining other areas of its energy sector, having implemented a considerable shakeup in recent years. State energy investor IPIC was folded into Mubadala in 2017, while Adnoc has been undergoing a major organizational transformation under CEO Sultan al-Jaber. SHAREHOLDERS’ IN...
Volume: 63Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2020 -
Algeria’s Sonatrach: New CEO, Same Old Challenges
...e jury is still out on whether a reduced tax take of around 20 percentage points will be enough to catch the attention of IOC cash (MEES, 10 January). 1: IN AMENAS OUTPUT HAS GRADUALLY FALLEN SINCE A LATE 2016 COMPRESSION PROJECT HELPED BOOST 2017 PRODUCTION TO AN 8.4BCM RECORD SOURCE: EQ...
Volume: 63Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2020 -
Bahrain Studies ‘Mega’ Fertilizers
...uity in GPIC: Bahrain’s Nogaholding investment vehicle; Saudi Arabia’s Sabic Agri-Nutrients; and Kuwait’s state petchems firm PIC. The planned gas study suggests GPIC is considering developing a new fertilizers complex to utilize gas from a huge tight oil and deep gas discovery made at the end of 2017...
Volume: 63Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2020 -
BP Key Egypt Project Sees 12-Month Delay
...ree or four years of projects coming in below cost, on budget and, in some cases, ahead of schedule.” IT ALL STARTED SO WELL BP, which holds an 82.75% operator’s stake at WND, announced the start-up of the Phase-1 Libra and Taurus fields in late March 2017 “eight months ahead of start-up sc...
Volume: 63Issue: 06Published at Thu, 06 Feb 2020 -
Iraq Breaks From The Past In Fifth Bid Round
...ES, 22 September 2017). The addition of revenue sharing is new to this round, although cost recovery terms still differ from the production sharing agreement model prevalent elsewhere in the region. Still, the majors’boycotting of the licensing round – with the exception of Eni’s optimistic bi...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Energean’s Edison Purchase Thrown Off-Track By Algeria Bureaucracy
...f Alexandria, are in decline. Substantial investment in new ‘North Abu Qir’ wells in recent years saw a temporary boost. But underlying decline has again taken over. Production of 45,500 boe/d (225mn cfd gas and 5,500 b/d condensate) for 2019 is down from 270mn cfd in 2017 when the new wells ca...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Algeria & Morocco: Uneasy Neighbors
...fore GME crosses into Morocco) to the Medgaz jump-off point at Beni Saf (MEES, 22 November 2019). Morocco and Algeria also exchange electricity through three interconnection points. In 2018, Morocco exported 3.9GWh to its neighbor after importing 149.1GWh in 2017. But these numbers pale in co...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Dow Impairs $1.73bn At Sadara, Eyes Debt Rejig
...odwill impairment and asset-related charges” of $1.733bn in 4Q19 associated with Sadara. The 3.22mn t/y Sadara petchems project was developed at a cost of $20bn. Sadara started up its central cracker in August 2016 and the last of its finished chemicals units a year later (MEES, 18 August 2017)....
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
IMF Highlights Kuwait’s Economic Troubles
...ve turned to borrowing in order to fill the budget blackholes, Kuwait’s fractious politics have made this impossible. Unable to get a new debt law through parliament, Kuwait has instead resorted to drawing from its General Reserves Fund since 2017 – a clearly unsustainable strategy. The IMF says th...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Qatar Trade: Surplus Dips In 2019 As LNG Pricing Pressure Augurs Worse To Come
...Lower energy prices caused Qatar’s trade surplus to dip in 2019. An increasingly well-supplied LNG market points towards a further slide in 2020. Qatar’s economy has proven resilient ever since the onset of the regional blockade in June 2017 (MEES, 9 June 2017) as its hydrocarbon-driven ex...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Saudi City Of The Future Signs Up For Solar Desal
...Arguably the most ambitious, and certainly the most headline grabbing, element of Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s plans to shakeup Saudi Arabia’s economy is Neom. The futuristic “robot city” on the kingdom’s Red Sea coast comes with a $500bn price tag and was first announced in 2017 (MEES, 27 Oc...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
SEC: Sales Down, Profits Down
...2016 (MEES, 8 January 2016). The utility’s net profits peaked at SR6.91bn ($1.84bn) in 2017, but have since fallen due to changing consumer behavior (see chart). SEC NET PROFITS ($BN) ...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Saudi PIF Eyes Premier League
...gnate Mike Ashley. The UAE’s Sheikh Khaled bin Zayed al Nahyan failed last year in a bid to purchase the club from Mr Ashley, who put the club up for sale in 2017 (MEES, 31 May 2019). Riyadh has been accused of trying to ‘sportswash’ its human rights record. In December Riyadh hosted the heavyweight bo...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
KRG: Key Fields Set For 2020 Gains
...ate firm Taqa 47.4%op, Canada’s Shamaran 27.6%, KRG 25%) and the Sarsang license (HKN 62%, Total 18%, KRG 20%). Atrush is the newest producing field in Kurdistan, with production only beginning in 2017. It has swiftly become a key producer, and output rose to a record 32,000 b/d last year. This wa...
Volume: 63Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2020 -
Oman: Blocks 3 & 4 Finish 2019 In Style
...ocks’ partners, it has to be noted that this comes while Omani output was capped at 970,000 b/d under the Opec+ agreement. Under the initial round of cuts in 2017-18, the blocks’ output was capped at 41,000 b/d (MEES, 20 January 2017), and while the cap was increased minimally in 2019, it is hard to see ho...
Volume: 63Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2020 -
Lebanon’s Gas Hopes Kicked Further Down The Road
...other extended political vacuum, the likes of which have had devastating consequences in recent years. Dysfunctional politics was a key reason why the country’s inaugural bid round-launched to considerable IOC fanfare in 2013 (MEES, 17 May 2013) – didn’t see contracts awarded until late 2017 (see ti...
Volume: 63Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2020 -
Oilfield Services Firms Boosted By Rising Middle East Revenues
...llion dollar awards for work in expanding capacity offshore Saudi Arabia (MEES, 12 July 2019). SERVICES FIRMS REVENUE ($BN): BIG THREE SEE COMBINED REVENUES EDGE UP TO 5-YEAR HIGH $80BN IN 2019 *GE SUBSIDIARY SINCE JULY 2017. SOURCE: COMPANY FILINGS, MEES. MENA BRIGHTSPOT Si...
Volume: 63Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2020 -
Suez Canal Rides Us Shale Boom With 2019 Traffic & Revenue Records
...rminal of Ain Sukhna in 2019 (see p6). Southbound oil products shipments of 1.33mn b/d were up on 2018’s 1.28mn b/d and second only to 2017’s all-time high of 1.38mn b/d. Southbound products volume includes a record 94,000 b/d of LPG, with Q4 seeing a quarterly record of 126,000 b/d. But the st...
Volume: 63Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2020