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AES Jordan Awards Tri-Fuel Plant Contract To Wärtsilä
...avy fuel oil (HFO), distillates or natural gas as fuel. It is scheduled to be operational by July 2014. Jordan’s gas supply from Egypt has been erratic since the overthrow of the Mubarak regime in early 2011, forcing it to keep its options open as it pushes to expand generating capacity. Wä...
Volume: 56Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2013 -
Iran Oil Ministry Refutes Export Plunge
...l, oil products and condensate. According to Mr Kateb, for the next Iranian year (21 March 2013-20 March 2014) the Oil Ministry has reportedly forecast exports of approximately 1.5mn b/d, significantly lower than 2011’s 2.2mn b/d. The International Energy Agency (IEA) in its latest monthly oi...
Volume: 56Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2013 -
Jordan 2013 Budget Targets Projects, But Also Austerity
...e government’s policy of curbing operational costs, especially for energy consumption, water, telecoms and travel expenses. He expects the fiscal deficit to fall to 4.8% of GDP in 2014 and to 3.2% in 2015. Loss Of Egyptian Gas Increases Fiscal Deficit Jordan is currently facing hard ti...
Volume: 56Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2013 -
Challenges for Libya’s upstream sector
...verse impact on the country’s production profile. Upcoming Projects In Libya Company Date Field, Location ‘000 B/D Eni 2014...
Volume: 56Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2013 -
Gulf Refiners Set For Major Crude Distillation Capacity Boost
...abia 400 2013 Yasref (Saudi Aramco/Sinopec) Yanbu', Saudi Arabia 400 2014 Takreer Ruwais, UAE 41...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
MENA Power Generators Pushed Diversity In 2012
...E’s sourcing of fuel and technology from a number of countries with uranium resources and nuclear technology (MEES, 21 December 2012). Delivery of fuel will begin in 2014-15 for the first of four 1.4gw to be built at Barakah by Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) and due on-line during 2017-20. La...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
US Independent Buys Morocco Offshore Stake
...fshore farm-outs concomitant drilling commitments dwarf the initial payment. Plains will fund 100% of future exploration up to $215mn, including two commitment wells with potential sidetracks. The first well – slated for 2014 – will target the Toubkal prospect which has a “mean resource potential” of 1....
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
Lebanon Unveils Bid Round Schedule
...censes to explore blocks within Lebanon’s EEZ. Additional reports indicate that the PSA expects final agreements for exploration rights to be signed in March 2014. Favorable results of 3D seismic surveys conducted by UK-based Spectrum and Norway-based Petroleum Geo-Services have attracted gr...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
Qatargas Seals First Long-Term South-East Asian LNG Supply Deal
...12 to around 2.4mn tons this year, and around 4.6mn tons in 2014. Asian demand for LNG has continued to grow in recent years as countries seek more fuel for power generation. As a result, Qatar has looked to maximize its value by diverting supply originally planned for European and US ma...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
Saudi Arabia Tackles Water Demand Jump
...ants. King ‘Abd al-Aziz Center for Science and Technology has helped developed a 30,000 cmd plant at al-Khafji, which will start up in 2014. Saudi Arabia is developing a plan where renewables will receive subsidies to make them competitive in power generation – many of the desalination plants’ power ge...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
Anti-Maliki Protests Roil Investment Climate
...nstitutionally it is the President who can initiate a vote of no-confidence in the government. Iraq will not hold parliamentary elections until 2014, but a heavy defeat for Mr Maliki in provincial elections next year could potentially provide a platform for opponents to make another attempt to un...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
Baghdad Offers Guarantees For Export Pipeline Mega-Project
...ncedes it “is a very challenging schedule,” but he argues “if we get [financial completion] sometime in the first half of 2014, it will be still effective.” Given a 36-month construction project, this should see start-up in mid-2017. He declined to comment on any investment costs or fee arrangements with Jo...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
Abu Dhabi’s 3.5Mn B/D Target Slips To 2019
...l Operations (ADCO) consortium – ADNOC 60%, BP 9.5%, ExxonMobil 9.5%, Total 9.5%, Shell 9.5% and Partex 2% – whose concession to run the emirate’s major onshore oil fields expires on 11 January 2014, will continue after this date. ADNOC senior management has made contradictory public statements and ha...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
KRG Investors Plough On Despite Rising Tensions
...[the Chevron-operated giant] Tengiz.” The KRG is pinning its hopes on opening up an independent export route, which will need support from Turkey. There are two potential pipeline projects that could impact developments by early 2014. Firstly Anglo-Turkish Genel Energy is planning an in...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
Northern Morocco Joins Farm-Out Fever
...rmit from early 2013 to be followed by the anticipated drilling of “at least three” exploration wells from early 2014. Seismic is also planned for the neighboring Taounate permits in 2013. Gulfsands notes that the acreage immediately to the west of the Fes permit, now operated by Triangle Energy (see be...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
UAE Signs Nuclear Deal With Russia
...ntract between Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and Russia’s Tenex for the UAE’s first nuclear power plant at Barakah. In August ENEC awarded nuclear fuel contracts worth a combined $3bn to six international firms. Beginning in 2014-15, Canada’s Uranium One and UK’s Rio Tinto will provide na...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
Petchem Firms Face Saudi Ethane Supply Restrictions
...oject is a dual‐feed cracker which will produce 1.5mn t/y of ethylene and 400,000 t/y of propylene. Sadara, however, scheduled for a 2014 startup, is unlikely to be on stream before 2016 – it has not yet started building the cracker, which will take three years. Saudi Aramco CEO Khalid al-Fa...
Volume: 55Issue: 51Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2012 -
SABIC Strategy Tracks Demographic Trends
...heduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2014. It will produce a variety of ABS grades for the automotive and electrical appliance industries (MEES, 18 June). Outside the kingdom, SABIC is focusing on joint projects in China. A joint venture between SABIC and Chinese state firm Si...
Volume: 55Issue: 51Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2012 -
PTT Extends Algerian Finds
...dding, comprises Blocs 443a, 424a, 414xt and 415ex around 100km south east of the Bir Seba field, PTT’s other Algerian upstream interest. Production from Bir Seba and the nearby Mouiat Oulad Messaoud field on Blocks 433a and 416b is slated for start-up at 20,000 b/d in the first half of 2014...
Volume: 55Issue: 51Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2012 -
SWCC Awards Yanbu’ 3 Power Plant As Capacity Expansion Takes Shape
...at 55% of work had been done on the Ras al-Zour power and desalination project, for which contracts worth a combined SR15.7bn ($4.2bn) were awarded in November 2010. He said that electricity generation at Ras al-Zour was scheduled to start in April 2013, while desalination would begin in 2014. The Ra...
Volume: 55Issue: 51Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2012