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Bahrain GDP To Hit 5.6%
...l production from Abu Sa’fa due to maintenance. The non-hydrocarbon sector is expected to rise by 4.4% in 2013. For 2014 real GDP is projected to grow by 4.0%. Due to its modest hydrocarbons endowments, Bahrain had managed to diversify its economy between 2000 and 2012, according to the Ye...
Volume: 56Issue: 34Published at Fri, 23 Aug 2013 -
Former Algerian Minister Latest Casualty In Widening Oil Corruption Scandal
...ans and repairs to the Skikda LNG plant damaged by an explosion in 2004 have been delayed while a new plant being built at Gassi Touil is behind schedule. Other projects on the backburner, include the Galsi pipeline project to Italy, which was due to be operational in 2014 but is now on hold du...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013 -
Qatar Nears Full GTL Output, Eyes Competitors’ Projects
...tput: “Most of the problems of reliability have been resolved to some extent,” an industry source tells MEES. But the debottlenecking – from tuning various parts, such as pumps – to boost capacity 10% by 2014 may slip back to early 2015, he said. The expansion will give a production capacity of 24...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013 -
Morocco Awards 2 Power Projects, Lines Up Solar Bidders
...cond in April 2014. TAQA recently secured $1.4bn in finance for the project (MEES, 8 February). Solar Prequalification The Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen) meanwhile announced it had prequalified a number of consortia to build the Noor-2 and Noor-3 concentrated solar power (CSP) pl...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013 -
OPEC sees Tight Markets As Libyan Volumes Slump, Iraq Disappoints
...r world oil demand growth of 1.04mn b/d in 2014 were unchanged though MOMR adjusted the numbers in absolute terms to account for minor revisions in 2012 and 2013. Global oil demand for 2014 was estimated at 90.75mn b/d, up from the 90.68mn b/d projected in the previous MOMR. The MO...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013 -
KRG Drilling Surges As Turkey Partners With ExxonMobil
...mestic sales. On the oil front, Genel was on course to boost Taq Taq capacity from around 140,000 b/d to 200,000 b/d by end 2014. Extended well tests at Miran and Bina Bawi of 3,000 b/d and 1,000 b/d respectively should lead to larger oil developments of 50,000 b/d each by end-2015. KRG oil ex...
Volume: 56Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2013 -
Golar LNG To Supply FSRU Units To Jordan, Kuwait
...th Excelerate Energy, set to expire this year. Golar will send its 170,000 cubic meter Golar Igloo to Mina al-Ahmadi port and hydrocarbons hub in 4Q13 with operations to begin in March 2014. Kuwaiti state firm KNPC will use the FSRU to import LNG nine months per year but will allow Golar a three mo...
Volume: 56Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2013 -
Algeria: Key Oilfields Hit By ‘Temporary’ Production Restrictions
...rk will likely last at least into 2014, according to Talisman’s regional Executive VP Paul Blakeley. Both were speaking on a 31 July conference call to mark the firm’s second quarter results. Restrictions also currently affect the 24,000 b/d Menzel Ledjmet North (MLN) field which lies wholly on Block 40...
Volume: 56Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013 -
Saudi Petchem Firms Target Specialized Markets
...bail 2014 50,000 t/y nylon 66 SABIC Jubail 2014 140,000 t/y ABS SABIC/Mitsubishi Rayon Jubail 2014 25...
Volume: 56Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013 -
Occidental: Uncertainty Continues Over Middle East Assets
...s really just been exposed to this in detail at one meeting, and so it will take a little while and we want to consult fully with them and weigh all the alternatives for them. But clearly some things are going ahead quickly.” He added he hopes to achieve this before he steps down as CEO in 2014...
Volume: 56Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013 -
Germany’s RWE Faces Challenging Sale Of North African Assets
...oject – slated for 2014 start-up when sanctioned in 2010 – the key focus for 2012 was taken up with trying to find a new location for the onshore gas treatment plant. It now looks likely that the plant will be located 30km to the east from the originally-planned site at Idku [next to the BG-operated Eg...
Volume: 56Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013 -
Egypt’s New Budget Targets 14.5% Deficit Cut
...r a return to democracy by early 2014; and the recent containment of the government’s debt-financing costs, below post-revolution peaks. Moody’s added that the maintenance of the negative outlook on Egypt’s Caa1 rating is driven by Moody’s view of the country’s considerable economic and political ch...
Volume: 56Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013 -
Twilight Looms For OPEC’s Golden Age
...ploration – would appear to support OPEC’s argument as far as non-conventional oil development outside North America is concerned. But in the US supply is surging on the back of shale oil and gas development. The OECD’s IEA energy watchdog projects non-OPEC supply rising 1.2mn b/d this year and 1.3mn b/d in 2014...
Volume: 56Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013 -
Will OPEC Or The US Be The World’s Marginal Crude Supplier?
...oduction over the next several years is substantial, rising by an average of 1.2mn b/d over the period 2014-18. The spoiler is demand growth. With the OECD showing signs of long term decline, and non-OECD demand relying heavily on uncertain Chinese growth, even if demand gets a lift from lower oi...
Volume: 56Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013 -
Wintershall Set To Explore Shuweihat As IOCs Help Abu Dhabi Boost Gas Production
...til 2015 (MEES, 1 March). ADNOC insists that the project is on track for start-up in 2014....
Volume: 56Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2013 -
US Mulls Further Tightening Of Iran Sanctions Screw
...e calling for restraint until the new administration signals its intentions on Iran’s disputed nuclear program. This latest legislation passing through the US House of Representatives and Senate would effectively blacklist the country’s mining and construction sectors – effective January 2014...
Volume: 56Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2013 -
Abu Dhabi: Onshore Pumps 1.5Mn B/D, Investing $40Bn
...y through a five-year, $40bn plan to lift hydrocarbons output, including oil, gas, petrochemical and refining plants, said Muhammad al-Suwaidi, head of the ADNOC gas directorate. ADNOC hopes to complete a 417,000 b/d, $9.6bn new refinery at Ruwais in 2014, and gas developments account fo...
Volume: 56Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2013 -
Aramco Rigs To Hit 200 By End-14, But Drilling Delayed
...rther. Aramco will use 170 rigs by end of this year or early 2014, Paal Kibsgaard, CEO of services giant Schlumberger told a 19 July investors’ conference call to mark the firm’s 2Q13 results. Schlumberger and Saudi independent consultant Husseini Energy have upgraded Aramco’s need from respective es...
Volume: 56Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2013 -
Bahrain LNG Import Plans
...commendations, by the end of 2013 and to award the contract in early 2014. This comes after reports earlier this year that Nogaholding, NOGA’s investment arm, was set to award a license to build a $500mn-plus 500mn cfd LNG import terminal. NOGA was negotiating a Build-Own-Operate LNG import terminal an...
Volume: 56Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2013 -
Sipchem-Hanwha EVA/Molds JV
...ternational Diol Company (IDC) affiliate’s 75,000 t/y butanediol plant in Jubail. Work is expected to improve the plant’s efficiency and reliability and is scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter of 2014. On 17 July Sipchem announced its 2Q13 financial results, with increased profits being at...
Volume: 56Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2013