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Iraq Ten Years Later: A Country On The Brink Of Disintegration
...nister following the January 2014 elections, Sunni and Kurdish parties will be left with little choice but to refuse to participate in any future government. On the other hand, if Mr Maliki is not allowed to run for a third term, or if his coalition fails to win a majority, the 2003 political process wi...
Volume: 56Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2013 -
IOCs Scramble To Meet New UAE Oil Minister
...pact its energy industry for decades. Options include: breaking it up into individual fields; reducing consortium members’ equity; and adding new shareholders. ADCO’s concession expires in January 2014. It is owned by ADNOC (60%), BP (9.5%), Total (9.5%), Shell (9.5%), ExxonMobil (9.5%) and Po...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
Saudi Aramco Eyes 550,000 B/D Expansion
...end 2014, we have a project that we already have started developing. We are expanding Khurais which came on stream in 2009 to 1.5mn b/d and we will be doing Shaybah, 250,000 b/d,” Mr Falih said. The additions will, like Manifa, not be a net addition to existing production capacity of around 12...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
Kuwait Moves 4Mn B/D 2020 Crude Target Back To 2030
...ptember 2014. Phase 2 will start a few years later, taking total water injection to 1mn b/d. The project will maintain Wara production capacity at 180,000-200,000 b/d. Actual production is typically somewhat lower at around 130,000 b/d. At 1,400ms Wara is the shallowest of Burgan’s four main reservoirs. Th...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
Bahrain LNG Terminal Decision Approaches
...rminal at a cost of more than $500mn by June. But the delayed award has pushed the expected completion date from 2014 to 2016. NOGA is negotiating a Build-Operate-Own (BOO) LNG import terminal and the group has decided to pursue a Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU), MEES learns. Further delays ar...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
Iran Marks Progress On Condensate Refinery
...e first of which is officially scheduled to be brought on-line in 2014. When completed, the plant will have capacity to produce 36mn liters/day (225,000 b/d) of gasoline. IRNA quoted National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) Managing Director Alireza Zeighami as sa...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
ADWEA Studying Bids For Al-Mirfa IWPP
...ia Power Investment BV, a joint venture of ADWEA (60% equity), Sumitomo (20.4%) and Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco – 19.6%). Shuweihat S3 is scheduled for completion by January 2014 and will have 1.6gw generation capacity. A consortium of South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering and Construction an...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
EMAL Awards Generator Contracts To GE
...e end of 2014. The expansion is expected to cost $4.5bn, and will make EMAL one of the largest single-site producers of primary aluminium in the world (MEES, 1 August 2011). EMAL is a 50:50 joint venture between the Abu Dhabi government investment and development company, Mubadala, and Dubai Al...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
North African Energy Producers Face Growing Challenges
...d is focusing on the 2014 presidential elections, and particularly on the question of which candidates will run against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Nonetheless, however hard the Algerian energy authorities try to put the In Amenas attack behind them, the incident has tarnished the co...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
IMF: Libyan Economy Growing But Challenges Remain
...owth in the non-hydrocarbon sector in 2014. Inflation fell to 6% in 2012 and a further decline is expected in 2013. As for the financial sector the situation began to normalize after most of the UN sanctions that had frozen Libya’s foreign assets were lifted on 16 December 2011. This allowed th...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
Independents To Drive Oman’s 2013 Output Boost
...ys. “This will have the objective of framing all Block 5 reserves and resources, allowing Daleel to develop a drilling plan supported by a fifth and six rig as from 2014 to produce the bulk of the reserves within the concession period, namely end-2028.” Petrogas also operates the Rima cluster of small fi...
Volume: 56Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2013 -
Anadarko Turns North Africa Focus To Shale
...nth, back from late 2012. Output is set to ramp up to 130,000 b/d crude and 600mn cfd (6.2bcm/y) of wet gas - adding around 30,000 b/d of condensate production - by the end of first quarter 2014. Volumes will approach three-quarters of these levels by the end of 2013, according to Anadarko’s fi...
Volume: 56Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2013 -
Libyan Instability - The New Normal
...e process of being built will also be used by others. There are overall restrictions in the infrastructure at this point in time, which we do not see going away in the year 2013. And the question is do they go away in 2014?” “With the 85,000 b/d we are currently producing, we are fully ut...
Volume: 56Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2013 -
Apache Hit By Egyptian Permit Delays
...eper plays a particular focus. Apache President Rodney Eichler told a conference call to mark the company’s 2012 results last week that the company expects this extensive drilling program to translate into “slightly higher” Egyptian gross output for 2013. For 2014 two new Egyptian projects ar...
Volume: 56Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013 -
KRG Operators Drill On Despite Lack Of Oil Deal
...12). By contrast a genuine export breakthrough early in the year would galvanize a whole group of operators that have made commercial discoveries to fast-track development. The major production surges would only be seen in 2014 and 2015, but nevertheless, significant gains could still be made by en...
Volume: 56Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013 -
UAE NGL Projects To Boost Exports, Borouge Capacity
...om Ruwais 4 will feed the Borouge 3 petrochemical plant where a planned 1.5mn t/y ethylene cracker will lift the partially state-owned firm’s total ethylene capacity to 3.6mn t/y. It is expected to be completed in 2014, in line with the Shah ultra sour gas field – which will be a source of fe...
Volume: 56Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013 -
Gulf Petrochem Inaugurates Fujairah Product Storage
...pass pipeline – which is currently operating at minimal capacity – will strengthen Fujairah’s role as a global energy hub. Liquid hydrocarbons storage at Fujairah is expected to double to over 10mn cu ms by the end of 2014, from nearly 5mn cu ms at the end of 2012....
Volume: 56Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013 -
Aramco Lines Up Samsung For Riyadh Clean Fuels Projects
...amco/Sinopec) Yanbu' New 400,000 b/d plant due on-stream 2014 Saudi Aramco Jazan New 400,000 b/d plant due on-stream 2016 Saudi Aramco Ras Ta...
Volume: 56Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013 -
Iran Shuts Down Bushehr Nuclear Plant, Progressing Arak
...at fuel rods are ready to be transferred to the site. He said Iran will begin operating the facility in the next Iranian year (20 March 2013 – 20 March 2014). However, Washington’s Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) maintains this schedule is not realistic (MEES, 23 November 20...
Volume: 56Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013 -
GCC Aid Flows To Bahrain And Morocco
...0bn) in 2014. And Bahrain needs an oil price of $122/B for 2013 and $126/B for 2014, higher than the budget’s $90/B oil price assumption, the Undersecretary of the Bahrain Ministry of Finance, ‘Arif Khamis, said in November when the budget was first announced (MEES, 23 November 2012). Ba...
Volume: 56Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013