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Tethys Eyes Modest 2022 Rebound As EOG Walks From Block 49
...pex to $91mn for 2022, up from $35.2mn for 2021. Not just is this significantly above last year’s pandemic-hit capex figure, but it is significantly higher than in 2014 before the initial oil price downturn (see chart 2). The capex will be front-loaded. This investment surge is being funded by la...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
Libya’s Noc Eyes Algeria Border Fields Potential
...natrach on 10 February signed an MoU in Tripoli that “aims to resume Sonatrach’s activities in Libya in order to fulfill its contractual obligations and begin to develop the discovered fields.” Sonatrach was forced to abandon its exploration activities on the Libyan side of the Algeria-Libya border in 2014...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
Libya Back To Square One With Two Prime Ministers
...the political division between 2014 and 2021 when two rival parallel administrations, one based in the east and another (internationally recognized) one based in the west, vied for control of the country. The failure by eastern-based General Khalifa Haftar to take Tripoli by forced during a 20...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
Aramco Royalty Rate Set To Soar If Brent Tops $100
...That Saudi Arabia’s finances are benefiting from higher oil prices is a given. But Aramco’s floating royalty rate means that the government stands to profit immeasurably should Brent top $100/B for the first time since September 2014. As oil prices rise well beyond $90/B and near-term pr...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
Saudi & Egypt Drilling Activity Picks Up
...udi, Iraq and the UAE had seen drilling at near-record levels prior to the early-2020 ‘Covid’ slump, the Egypt market has been depressed since oil prices headed south in 2014-15. But key oil producer Apache as well as smaller players have signaled an investment rebound on higher prices and improved te...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
Iraq’s Crude Export Revenues Surge To 10-Year High
...aqi crude was selling at $105/B, while in January the figure was $83.25/B. This was the first month since October 2014 that Iraqi crude has retailed at more than $80/B. February has gotten off to a strong start with oil prices high, and Iraq will be looking to push export volumes up amid the easing Op...
Volume: 65Issue: 05Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022 -
Calvalley Shuts Yemen’s Block 9 Over Security Concerns
...p). Calvalley last year said output from Block 9 was averaging 6,700 b/d, a slight increase from 2013 pre-conflict output of 6,000 b/d (MEES, 7 February 2014). Having declaring force majeure in 2015 (MEES, 23 January 2015) the firm resumed operations in July 2019 and spent $35-45mn on rehabilitating ke...
Volume: 65Issue: 05Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022 -
Algeria’s 1mn B/D Challenge
...present a substantial decrease on previous programs. But if spent right, this need not be a bad thing (MEES, 15 January 2021). Surging oil prices will provide some comfort – Brent hit $90/B for the first time since 2014 last week – but it is important this doesn’t spark a return to wasteful spending pr...
Volume: 65Issue: 05Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022 -
Qatar Export Revenues Surge To Seven Year High
...venues jumped to a seven-year high in 2021. The $87.2bn that Qatar’s exports brought in last year was the highest figure since the $100+/B days of 2014 (see chart 1), and the ongoing global gas crunch ensures that 2022 will get off to a strong start. Indeed, with Qatar exporting a near record 7.35mn to...
Volume: 65Issue: 05Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022 -
Saudi Arabia’s Sabic Hails Exceptional 2021
...Sabic recorded earnings of $6.14bn for 2021, the highest since 2014. While Sabic may boost revenues in 2022, the firm expects profits to dip from last year’s “exceptional” highs due to rising feedstock prices. Saudi petchems giant Sabic raked in its highest profits in seven years for 2021 as...
Volume: 65Issue: 05Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022 -
Gazprom & Sonatrach Greenlight Algeria Gas Project
...The international upstream arm of Russia’s Gazprom and Algerian state oil firm Sonatrach this week greenlighted a project to develop two gas fields in Algeria’s Berkine Basin. The project centres around the 2010 Rhourde Sayah and 2014 Rhourde Sayah North discoveries located on the El As...
Volume: 65Issue: 05Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022 -
Slimmed Down Services Firms Eye Bumper 2022 Profits
...l three are now comfortably in the black. *With increased demand for their services they are confident of further growth in margins, and profits, for 2022 and beyond; this is despite predictions that the overall market will remain “structurally smaller” than in their halcyon days to 2014...
Volume: 65Issue: 04Published at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 -
Opec 2021 Revenues Rise At Highest Rate Since 1973-74 Oil Crisis
...llowing the 1973 Arab oil embargo. Despite last year’s extraordinary growth, revenues effectively just recovered to pre-Covid levels. And those are barely 50% of pre-2014 revenues of more than $1tn. But with Brent breaking above $90/B during intraday trading for the first time since 2014 on 26 Ja...
Volume: 65Issue: 04Published at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 -
Libya Oil Revenues Skyrocket To $30bn In 2021
...l products, MEES estimates that Libya’s total 2021 oil exports were worth $29.8bn, the highest figure since 2014. Of course, most oil exporting countries had a good year in 2021. Opec – of which Libya is a member – has seen its revenues recover to pre-covid levels on the back of a sharp recovery in...
Volume: 65Issue: 04Published at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 -
Libya Central Banks Agree Reunification Plan
...anches on 20 January agreed a four-point roadmap for reunification of the bank which has been divided on western and eastern lines since Libya split into two parallel governments in 2014. London-based auditing firm Deloitte has been hired to assist the process. The division of the bank has co...
Volume: 65Issue: 04Published at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 -
Kuwait Set For 2022-23 Budget Surplus?
...the highest Kuwait has budgeted for since the 2014-15 budget’s $75/B. It is a huge increase on the $45/B assumption that Kuwait used for its 2021-22 budget. That $45/B assumption has proven to be a hugely conservative one, with Kuwait Export Blend (KEB) averaging $73.65/B over April-December 20...
Volume: 65Issue: 04Published at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 -
Neutral Zone Exports Jump To Highest Level Since 2020 Output Restart
...erated by Khafji Joint Operations (KJO) which is a 50:50 venture between Kuwait’s state owned KGOC and Saudi Arabia’s state owned AGOC. KJO halted operations in late 2014 (MEES, 24 October 2014) before restarting in February 2020. Meanwhile the onshore operations are conducted by the 50:50 Wafra Joint Op...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
‘The Opportunities Are Massive’: The Risks & Rewards Of Operating In Libya
...talEnergies-operated Mabruk field has been offline since being badly damaged by Islamist militants in 2014 (MEES, 10 December 2021); North Gialo is a potential 100,000 b/d expansion project for the Waha consortium which groups Total, ConocoPhillips and Hess with NOC. Wazen’s Mr Mejerissi says “There could be...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
Oman Approves Cautious 2022 Budget
...s first surplus since 2008 this year. Oman has seen cumulative deficits of $69.3bn for the 13 years since its last surplus. Oman’s annual deficits were at least modest until oil prices crashed in 2014. In 2013, the last full year of high oil prices, Oman’s debt stood at 4.9% of GDP, but it has si...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
Libya’s 2021 Finances Boosted By Oil Revenues, Skewed By Dinar Devaluation
...r the first time since 2014, one unified Libyan government was responsible for spending and revenues. Rival parallel administrations in the east and west of the country were replaced by a Government of National Unity (GNU) in March as part of Libya’s peace process (MEES, 12 March 2021). But a bu...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022