1. Qatar Starts Work On Second Ras Laffan Condensate Refinery

    ...0   2011 Total current products output capacity 457 End-2016 Capacity     603 At Ras Laffan Except *Mesaieed. ^2001 For Cond Splitter. Ras Laffan 2 Products Ou...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014
  2. OPEC Output Slides In March On Iraqi, African Outages

    ...bruary (see table). This is the largest monthly fall since March 2011, when the civil war knocked 1.1mn b/d off Libyan output. The March fall tallies with the latest data from London-based tanker tracker Oil Movements, which put OPEC sailings at around 23.8mn b/d for the four weeks ending 22 March, a ma...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014
  3. Total Reorganizes E&P Operations, Merges Mideast And North Africa

    ...0,000 b/d. The company has submitted bids for either a 5% or 10% stake in a new concession, but no decision is expected from current operator ADNOC before early 2015. Total, which has targeted production growth of 3% between 2011 and 2015, assuming an average oil price of $100/B for benchmark grade Br...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014
  4. Iran Braces For 20-30% Utility Price Hikes

    ...ify the system eventually failed.  IMF: Challenges Ahead The IMF, in its first overview of the Iranian economy since late 2011, says Iran’s near term economic outlook remains subject to downside risks. Progress of recent decades in raising income and living standards stalled as both domestic po...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014
  5. Turkey: A Hub In The EU’s Future Gas Supply Architecture?

    ...ason, Azerbaijan sped up the process and rapidly conceptualized the TANAP project to carry future Shah Deniz Phase II gas to Turkey. In December 2011 Azerbaijan and Turkey signed an MOU to establish a consortium to build and operate the pipeline. This initial step was followed by a binding in...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014
  6. Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)

    ...13 2012 2011 WTI 103.40 100.47 100.40 100.48 100.68 98.56 97.54 98...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014
  7. Libyan Federalists Offer Fresh Hope Over Eastern Oil Exports

    ...st, putting the government under additional pressure. Production, which by last July had recovered to around 1.4mn b/d after a near complete outage during the 2011 revolution, now languishes at just 150,000 b/d. Federalist militia control the Es Sider, Ras Lanuf and Zueitina terminals, which ha...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  8. International Gas Union Sees Changing LNG Market After 2014

    ...T/Y, %) Qatar King, But Not For Long Supply will grow only marginally in 2014, though the two or three projects that IGU expects online this year represent the first significant boost in liquefaction capacity since 2011. Major boosts to global liquefaction capacity will come online in 2015, when new Au...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  9. KBR Wins Jebel Ali Splitters Upgrade FEED

    ...ntract, capacities of the new units or the project schedule. It recently said its refinery throughput was 28% higher in 2013 than in 2011, while revenues increased by 50% and profits by 39%. Yet losses on fuel sales within Dubai, because of subsidies, are forcing the company to seek better returns el...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  10. Alstom Bags Eni Zubair Power Contract

    ...ant as well as supplying the four gas turbines. The company says the project is similar to one received in 2011 for a 728MW gas-fired plant in Mansuriya oil field, under development by private firm Kuwait Energy. Alstom has also rehabilitated an existing power plant at Zubair, raising capacity by 60MW to...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  11. Saudi Arabia Keeping Politics Out Of The Mix

    ...pense of falling imports of Mexican crude, which slumped in 2013 to 919,000 b/d from 1.2mn b/d in 2011, and from Venezuela, whose exports to the US fell to 797,000 b/d last year from 960,000 b/d in 2012. Canada remains the single largest exporter of crude oil south of its border and its share of the US...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  12. Qatar Announces Record Budget But Curbs Expenditure Growth

    ...up by more than 20%, in preparation for the hosting of the 2022 World Cup.   The new budget, which began on 1 April, is expected to carry on with the implementation of programs and strategic development projects envisaged in Qatar’s national strategy for 2011-16, and the realization of the ob...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  13. Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)

    ...13 2012 2011 WTI 100.29 100.40 99.30 100.48 100.68 98.56 97.54 98...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  14. Egypt Scrambles For Gas Supplies In Run-Up To Presidential Vote

    ...yptians, but unless they are curbed, the future president will struggle to grow the economy and keep energy supply in line with demand. Any leader that fails to deliver on economic growth and the supply of basic services will struggle to avert the popular discontent that swept Mr Mubarak from power in 2011....

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014
  15. Saudi King Springs Surprise On Eve Of Obama Visit

    ...fluence and is able to sway decisions on output ceilings. However, it has acted unilaterally on several occasions to balance markets, in 2011 to make up for the loss of 1.5mn b/d of Libyan crude oil and then again in 2012, to replace the 1mn b/d decline in Iranian export volumes due to sanctions.  Sa...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014
  16. Algeria Returns To Expansionary Budget In 2014

    ...ALGERIA   Algeria Returns To Expansionary Budget In 2014    Algeria has adopted an expansionary budget for 2014 after cutting 2013 budgeted spending. But the projected 2014 spend is still well down on the bumper 2011 spend, when Algiers attempted to stave off calls for po...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014
  17. Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)

    ...13 2012 2011 WTI 101.28 99.30 99.25 100.68 94.81 97.54 105.73 98...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014
  18. Libya Taps ‘Emergency’ Power Units

    ...stalled and commissioned, six weeks after sites were confirmed in December. Two further units are expected to be operational by the end of March. All are dual fuel turbines, able to run on natural gas or diesel. Before Libya’s 2011 overthrow of former dictator Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi, the country had in...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014
  19. Abu Dhabi Restructures Energy Sector

    ...erations (ADCO), now administered by ADNOC, following the expiry of the concessions held by foreign partners. His predecessor, Yousuf bin ‘Umair, was chairman and CEO of ADNOC and was known to be close to Shaikh Khalifa. He retired in June 2011 and Mr Suwaidi was appointed Director General and took over Mr ‘Um...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014
  20. Suez Canal Traffic Data, 2013

    ...Suez Canal Traffic Data, 2013   2013 Change vs 2012   2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 20...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014