1. Opec Market Share Policy To Bear Fruit Next Decade - But Not For All

    ...intain expensive plans to hike output. This assertion was backed up by Mr Mazru’i at Adipec in Abu Dhabi on 9 November, who stated that the fall in oil prices had not changed the country’s vision. He reaffirmed his commitment to increasing crude production to 3.5mn b/d by 2017, a target the IEA ap...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 47
    Published at Fri, 20 Nov 2015
  2. More Pain To Come As Iea Sees $80/B ‘Rebalance’ But Not Till 2020

    ...2015-2020 CHANGE IN US TIGHT OIL OUTPUT AT VARIOUS OIL PRICES* (MN B/D)        MARKET TO REBALANCE IN 2016? 2017? Mr Falih, the UAE’s Mr Mazru’i and Opec’s Mr Badri all are forecasting that balance will be restored to the global oil market in 2016. Mr Badri says that he ex...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015
  3. Global Supply Overhang May Last Till 2017; OPEC Output Largely To Blame

    ...OPEC Global Supply Overhang May Last Till 2017; OPEC Output Largely To Blame A weakening global economy and the prospect of additional Iranian barrels mean that global oil demand may not catch up with supply until the year after next. Low oil prices too are unlikely to go away anytime so...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2015
  4. OPEC Holds Ground After Russia Talks

    ...forts were being made to reduce capex further and should decrease to less than $20bn a year starting in 2017.  ...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015
  5. OPEC’s Market Strategy Shrinks Spare Capacity

    ...immediate rise in production capacity. If anything, a dispute between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia over the Neutral Zone has taken more than 500,000 b/d of capacity off markets and volumes are not expected to be restored from the 300,000 b/d offshore Khafji oil field until 2017 at the earliest, MEES un...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 23
    Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015
  6. Iraq, KRG Oil Export Deal Holds Despite Discrepancies

    ...eld to 2017 or beyond. (MEES, 1 May).  ...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 08 May 2015
  7. Saudi Top Oil Brass On China Charm Offensive

    ...“the second frontier for unconventional after the US,” says Mr Falih. Saudi Arabia has identified three areas with high shale gas potential, one of which in the north near the Jordanian border where production is expected to start in 2016 or 2017. ...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 01 May 2015
  8. US OUTPUT RISE TO CONTINUE TO 2020-EIA

    ...aph 1). BUT OIL IMPORTS TO REMAIN However, the situation is markedly different for different fuels. While the US will become a net exporter of gas from 2017 (with the ramp up of LNG exports and pipeline exports to Mexico), for oil, net imports will bottom out around 2020 at 5.5mn b/d according to the EI...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 16
    Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015
  9. Saudi Arabia Takes Lesson From History

    ...ojects in its business plans to 2017, below current price levels for Brent crude, though above US marker WTI, which has recently traded at a discount of up to $10/B to Brent. ...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2015
  10. BP Predicts OPEC’s Second Coming

    ...0,000 b/d to 750,000 b/d. The $10bn ExxonMobil-led project is now scheduled for completion by 2017, having already been pushed back from 2015. “While the oil price crash has made the low-cost reserves in the UAE look even more attractive, it has also led to corporate belt tightening that may make it di...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 08
    Published at Fri, 20 Feb 2015
  11. IEA Slashes Non-OPEC Supply Growth projections

    ....54mn b/d in 2017 and 32.12mn b/d in 2020. Overall, the IEA expects the ‘Call on OPEC’ to increase 2.68mn b/d between 2014 and 2020. And with total capacity in the group’s 12 members rising 1.22mn b/d over this period, “barring any disruption, the group’s spare production capacity is expected to remain am...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015
  12. OPEC Puts Russia On The Spot, Again

    ...rol, said during the same panel discussion in Davos that oil and gas upstream investment in 2015 is expected to decline by around $100bn, or by 15%, with a big chunk coming from the high cost areas. This, he says, will have implications, maybe not immediately, but in 2016 and 2017 should demand pick up an...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  13. OPEC’S Choice: Low Prices Now, Or Low Prices & Low Output Later-Naimi

    ...mmodities Research said on 15 December that a move below $60/B is not sustainable in the long run “as it would place considerable strain on the cost curve of the unconventional supply system required to meet demand requirements in 2016 and 2017.” Its analysts expect Brent to average $67/B in the first half of...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 51/52
    Published at Fri, 19 Dec 2014
  14. Abu Dhabi Advances Upstream Projects Despite Mounting Cost Pressure

    ...8mn b/d target. Meanwhile, the Zakum Development Company (Zadco) is moving forward with plans to boost production at the offshore Upper Zakum field by some 200,000 b/d to 750,000 b/d by 2017. Adnoc holds a 68% stake in Zadco, while ExxonMobil and Japan Oil Development Company (Jodco) hold 28% and 12%, re...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 51/52
    Published at Fri, 19 Dec 2014
  15. Is $90/B The New $100/B For Saudi Arabia?

    ...ll produce 200,000 b/d.  The 250,000 b/d Shaybah expansion is due to be completed in 2015 and Khurais in 2017, according to Aramco’s work schedule, ensuring that Saudi Arabia can maintain its current production capacity beyond the end of the decade. OPEC Demand Forecasts OPEC’s WOO expects gl...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2014
  16. Saudi Arabia Taps Service Companies for Oil Capacity Upgrades

    ...cline further by 2017. Iraq, which had been expected to be the single largest contributor of additional supply during the current decade, has recently lost large tracts of territory in the north and northwest to Islamist jihadists. And although output in the south has so far been unaffected by th...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 34
    Published at Fri, 22 Aug 2014
  17. Algeria Heading For Oil Output Drop

    ...velopment plan for the Ahnet tight gas project projected a 2015 start up, but first gas is now more feasible in 2017. The Timimoun project was originally intended to come online in 2010, it is now slated for completion in 2017. Together, the projects that are currently in the pipeline will add 20 bcm/ye...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 26
    Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014
  18. Saudi Arabia Sees No Need For OPEC Output Hike

    ...ghly ambitious 5.7mn b/d by 2017, up from 3.7-3.8mn b/d today (MEES, 18 April). OPEC’s production, according to MEES surveys of monthly output, rose above the OPEC-12 ceiling of 30mn b/d in February, but has since been below target, largely because of Iran and Libya. Yet Mr Naimi says the focus sh...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 20
    Published at Fri, 16 May 2014
  19. Asian Buyers Influence Key Oil Benchmarks

    ...teoric growth in US oil output makes exports of US light sweet crude inevitable by 2017, Platts quoted him as saying on 26 February. The debate over potential exports has already begun in Washington but the proposal to open up new markets still faces still opposition from some quarters concerned about en...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 09
    Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2014
  20. Saudi Arabia Increases Asian Focus With Japan Oil Storage Deal

    ...ntractors to secure the contract to build the UAE’s first nuclear power plant, the first unit of which will be operational by 2017 with completion of all three units by 2020. Down Under Investment Creation of an energy distribution hub in the Asia-Pacific rim might explain Abu Dhabi’s decision to en...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 08
    Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2014