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MENA Generators Pushing Non-Conventional Power Projects
...-75MW Ma’an Wind 12 companies prequalified 500MW Attarat umm Ghudrun Oil Shale Due online 2017 90...
Volume: 56Issue: 39Published at Fri, 27 Sep 2013 -
GE Expands MENA Presence With Algeria And Saudi Deals
...ant in Algeria, at an estimated cost of $200mn, Algeria’s state news agency APS announced on 23 September. Sonelgaz will hold a 51% stake and GE 49%. Sonelgaz CEO Noureddine Boutarfa told state radio that the plant would become operational in 2017 and would have a capacity to manufacture six to eight tu...
Volume: 56Issue: 39Published at Fri, 27 Sep 2013 -
Gulf Refiners Ramp Up Capacity
...an 230 2017 KNPC Al-Zour, Kuwait 615 2018-21 Source: MEES. Schedule Uncertainty Kuwait’s 446,000 b/d Mina Al-Ahmadi and 270,000 b/d Mina Abdullah refineries also un...
Volume: 56Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2013 -
Company Profile: Petroceltic Plots Big League Transformation
...14. Development work is scheduled to commence in 2014 and first gas is planned for the second half of 2017, initially from an estimated 18 vertical wells produced through a new gas processing plant. Plateau wet gas production of 355mn cfd (10mn cmd) is planned for 14 years. An additional 106 de...
Volume: 56Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2013 -
Saudi To Keep Crude Output High Amid Soaring Domestic Demand
...uthwest, will add a further 800,000 b/d by 2017. Currently running on light crude, the Satorp refinery will process heavy oil from the offshore Manifa oil field, currently producing 500,000 b/d, when fully operational. Manifa production is due to reach full capacity of 900,000 b/d next year. The st...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
Abu Dhabi Puts Tacaamol Back On Track With Aromatics FEED
...12, with the aim of plant start-up in late 2017. The award of the first FEED only now suggests that start-up of the aromatics plant cannot be expected before 2018. Besides the reformer and aromatics units, Tacaamol Phase 1 will include a pipeline from the Ruwais refinery, an export tank farm, a jetty an...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
Bahrain Opts For 360,000 B/D Expansion
...rks a scaling back – amid financing concerns – from earlier more ambitious plans for expansion to 450,000 b/d and beyond (MEES, 19 December 2011). The $5-6bn project will be completed in steps with the first phase to come online in 2017 and the final phase in 2020. Originally Bapco hoped to se...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
Iran Plans New Nuclear Plants, But Bushehr Still Offline
...6GW 4 Two 1.4GW plants u/c at Barakah. One plant due on-line each year during 2017-20. Source: MEES...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
BG Takes Further Egypt Hit; BP Upbeat On Drilling Success
...ated for late 2017 (MEES, 2 August). Egypt ‘Gifted’ Products Imports Meanwhile, EGPC’s newly-appointed chairman Tarek El Molla says half of Egypt’s oil imports are “gifts” from Arab countries. Mr Molla, who recently replaced Tariq al-Barkatawi, told Egyptian daily Almasry Alyoum on 2 Se...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
Omani IWPP Sembcorp Salalah Launches $137Mn IPO
...the Salalah region, with a view to 2017 start-up. The company intends to invite proposals for the 400MW Salalah 2 IPP this year (MEES, 26 July)....
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
Iraq: New Field Start-Ups Offer Some Respite From Recent Woes
...veloped by a consortium led by Malaysia’s Petronas in partnership with Japan’s Japex and the state-owned South Oil Company. It had been due to start up in mid-2013 at a rate of 50,000 b/d and ramp up to its plateau of 230,000 b/d by 2017. However, despite delays attributed mainly to difficulties ob...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
Abu Dhabi Drives Offshore Oil Development
...pacity to 3.5mn b/d. Delays to offshore production mean Abu Dhabi’s long-standing overall 3.5mn b/d production target has been pushed back from 2017 (MEES, 21 June). Abu Dhabi’s other offshore consortium Zakum Development Company (ZADCO – state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company – ADNOC 60%, Ex...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
LNG: Omani State Producers Join Forces; Yemen Looks To Price Hike
...s. It runs its 10.4mn t/y LNG trains at just 84% of their production capacity – just enough to meet term contracts. Oman hopes BP’s tight gas project coming onstream in 2017 will temporarily ease the crisis. Additionally, Iranian gas import volumes of around 600-700 cfd are expected by mid-2015 (ME...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
Iraq Shake-Up: CNPC Enters West Qurna-1; Shell Slammed Over Majnoon
...tronas were awarded the 20-year service contract for further development of the Majnoon oil field in January 2010, when they submitted a winning bid to raise output from a baseline of 46,000 b/d to a plateau of 1.8mn b/d by 2017 for a remuneration fee of $1.39/B. The contract came into effect in March 20...
Volume: 56Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2013 -
Qatar Faces Challenging, Rapidly Changing, LNG Market
...mn t/y by 2020 – allowing for slippage on the 61.8mn t/y under construction due onstream by 2017. The next plant to start up comes onstream in 2015. North American shale gas production poses a long-term threat to Qatari dominance. Three US LNG projects totaling 5.6bn cfd of gas production ca...
Volume: 56Issue: 34Published at Fri, 23 Aug 2013 -
Orpic Tenders Liwa FEED As Oman Joins Middle East Plastics Boom
...,000 t/y iso-butanol SABIC/Celanese Jubail, Saudi Arabia 2016 50,000 t/y polyacetal QP/Shell Ras Laffan, Qatar (Al-Karaana) 2017 1....
Volume: 56Issue: 34Published at Fri, 23 Aug 2013 -
Qatar Nears Full GTL Output, Eyes Competitors’ Projects
...,000 2014 $9.5bn Chevron (75%) NNPC (25%) Uzbekistan GTL Uzbekistan 33,000 2017-18 $4bn Sasol (44.5%), Malaysia’s Petronas (11...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013 -
SEC Awards Shuqaiq Power Plant To Hyundai
...atement to the Saudi Stock Exchange, SEC said work on the project would begin immediately, with commissioning scheduled to begin in November 2016 and commercial operation to start in January 2017. Hyundai said the Shuqaiq plant will incorporate the supercritical pressure technology being used in th...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013 -
Kuwait’s New Oil Minister To Push Through ‘Mega’ Projects
...ogress Lower Fars heavy crude, Ratga fields 270 2017 2030 Delayed Neutral Zone Wafra field, heavy crude $10-15bn 500 (Kuwait 25...
Volume: 56Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2013 -
Kuwait Fast Tracks Refinery Projects
...madi – a fifth NGL fractionation train – is expected to tender for construction contracts in 3-6 months. “Muhammad al-Mutairi is really pushing the fifth train,” the contractor says. Capacity will be 105,000 b/d of LPG and condensate and 800mn cfd of ethane and natural gas. For 2017, when the fifth train is...
Volume: 56Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2013