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Force Majeure A Reminder Of Risks For Energy Producers In Egypt
...ving initially hoped to bring the fields online this year. Neither of the blocks are part of TransGlobe’s 2014 production forecast of 20,500 b/d. However, PGNiG’s parting shot stands out for giving political risk as a reason for the company’s departure from Egypt. IOCs have been careful to play do...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Repsol Defies Libya Storms
...LIBYA Repsol Defies Libya Storms Spain’s Repsol has made Libya a focal point of its 2014 exploration drive, in spite of the ongoing disruptions to oil exports that are keeping the bulk of the country’s production offline. Repsol aims to sink six exploration wells into Li...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Oil Service Companies Eye Middle East For 2014 Growth
...REGIONAL Oil Service Companies Eye Middle East For 2014 Growth Service firms plan to carry through 2013 Middle East growth into 2014. Three of the largest international oil services companies recently reported 2013 results. Despite two of them being hit by disruptions in...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
UN Sees Polarized Performance In Arab Region
...ited Nation’s ESCWA Economic Development and Globalization Division. Speaking at a press conference on 24 January to launch the UN’s The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014, Mr Dardari, who is also the program’s Chief Economist, said major energy exporters, mainly of the Gulf Cooperation Co...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Bid Round Puts Algeria’s New Hydrocarbon Law To The Test
...lumes by end-2013. Maersk says output was 84,000 b/d at end-2013, implying the third of the plant’s three trains had yet to start. Current production is from 53 wells, with a further 27 to be brought onstream with the third train, Sonatrach says. Algeria: Blocks On Offer In 2014 Bid Ro...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
Gas The Priority For Iran’s New Oil Team
...mber of phases,” he explains, opting instead to focus on just one phase at a time, so as to get an incremental 1.8bn cfd boost in as short a time as possible. “This should begin to close the [gas] supply gap,” he says. In this Iranian year (March 2013-March 2014) the state has had to limit gas su...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
Saudi Petchems Firms Report Mixed 2013 Fortunes Amid Tough Market Conditions
...rnings in 2014, while SIIG will benefit from improved operating efficiencies at existing plants. Petrochem’s decreased losses resulted from improved operations at the Saudi Polymers plant, although it “has yet to reach the design capacity in all its operating units.” Output at full capacity would in...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
OPEC Cautiously Optimistic On 2014 Demand And Price Prospects
...OPEC OPEC Cautiously Optimistic On 2014 Demand And Price Prospects OPEC’s key medium term challenge is to keep its head above water for the next decade. Over these 10 years it will have to manage production increases from within its own ranks and continued growth in non-OP...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
DNO Grows In Tunisia
...cently as 2010, and gas output of around 280mn cfd also well down, Tunis is keen to maintain the momentum of an exploration drive. Muhammad Akrout, chief executive of state oil company Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activites Petrolieres (ETAP), told MEES last October that 15 wells would be drilled in 2014. An eq...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
Kufpec Scales Up Ambitions With Shell LNG Buyout, RWE-Dea Bid
...ntracts totaling 4.2mn t/y – or roughly half of future liquefaction capacity. Still, it is unclear what terms Wheatstone could offer KPC unavailable to the Kuwaiti NOC on the open market. For its part, Shell is set for a $15bn divestment program in 2014 and 2015. Incoming CEO Ben van Beurden says Sh...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
Baghdad Piles Financial Pressure On KRG
...IRAQ Baghdad Piles Financial Pressure On KRG Iraq cannot finance its projected 2014 deficit unless the KRG settles its arrears to the federal treasury, warns Haidar al-‘Abadi, head of the Iraqi parliament’s Finance Committee. Mr ‘Abadi says that unless the Kurdistan Re...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
UAE Funds Renewables In Africa, Pacific
...valu and Vanuatu under ADFD grants, with project completion expected in late 2014. Masdar also signed framework agreements with the European Investment Bank for clean energy projects in the MENA region and with Portuguese utility EDP for large-scale renewables projects in Latin America, Africa, the Mi...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
Yemen: 2014 Budget Looks To Patch Holes In Violence-Fueled Revenue Slump
...YEMEN Yemen: 2014 Budget Looks To Patch Holes In Violence-Fueled Revenue Slump Simmering violence through much of the country and growing secessionist movement in the south, coupled with frequent attacks on oil and gas pipelines, power lines and other infrastructure, have ta...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
ILO Report Offers Stark MENA Outlook
...ILO Report Offers Stark MENA Outlook The International Labor Organization’s 2014 ‘Global Employment Trends’ report, released this week, is bleak reading for MENA. North Africa is the worst preforming region globally on a whole range of metrics; the Middle East isn’t far behind. MEES cr...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
Aramco Awards Bring Forward Shaybah 1Mn B/D Target To 2016
...crement Project is part of the ongoing Shaybah NGL Recovery Program mega-development – intended to process 4bn cfd of gas to produce 240,000 b/d of ethane (MEES, 4 June 2012). This includes nine other major contracts that are under way, to be completed by the end of 2014, Aramco says. While the Sh...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014 -
Kurdish Oil Heads North But Not Yet To Sea
...G capital Erbil. Repsol has conducted a significant 2D seismic acquisition program which identified a number of drilling targets. Drilling operations began on the Zewe-1 exploration well in November 2013 and drilling in Qala Dze is expected in the early part of 2014, Maersk says. The Danish co...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014 -
Refiners Plan ‘Too Much CDU Capacity, Not Enough Conversion
...be delayed until [the planned giant 615,000 b/d] Al-Zour is completed,” says Mr Fathi. Al-Zour contracts may be awarded in 2014, he adds. Iraq’s capacity utilization is “not more than 70%” with light product imports over 100,000 b/d, but the long-planned expansion has made little progress: “Ev...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014 -
Jordan Pushes Shale And Wind In Quest For Diversity
...ES, 18 October 2013); a 146mw gas-fired plant at Zarqa for start-up soon and a 143MW expansion of Samra III gas-fired plant for 2015 (MEES, 9 November 2012); and a 573MW tri-fuel plant at al-Manakher for early 2014 (MEES, 19 October 2012). ...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014 -
OPEC Raises Up World Oil Demand Forecasts
...OPEC OPEC, in its latest oil market commentary, has edged up its world oil demand forecasts for both 2013 and 2014, citing positive developments in the OECD economies of both Europe and North America. Still, the producer group does not expect this to translate into increased demand for it...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014 -
Donors Pledge $2.4Bn Syrian Aid
...raise some $6.5bn for 2014 in order to provide medical care, food water and shelter for both refugees having fled Syria and civilians within Syria. The Secretary General noted that when the donors met a year ago 4mn Syrians needed aid, and that a year later the world is facing a regional and a hu...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014