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Qatar Changes PSAs to JVs, Invests In Al-Shaheen
...incorporated JVs where they invest in the venture directly.) Maersk expects to sign a JV heads of agreement with QP next year, in preparation for Maersk’s PSA expiry in 2017. US independent Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) is studying offshore Idd al-Shargi’s North Dome (97,000 b/d) and South Dome (8,...
Volume: 56Issue: 03Published at Fri, 18 Jan 2013 -
French President Promotes Total On UAE Visit
...vitation to prequalify to bid for the concession of Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) consortium – ADNOC 60%, BP 9.5%, ExxonMobil 9.5%, Total 9.5%, Shell 9.5% and Partex 2%. Its target is 1.8mn b/d of crude production capacity by 2017. ADCO’s concession expires on 11 January 2014. After th...
Volume: 56Issue: 03Published at Fri, 18 Jan 2013 -
Oman Moves Forward With 200Mn Barrel Storage Hub
...e hub began last year and are now nearing completion, OTTCO project director Martijn Notten said, adding that work on the front end engineering and design (FEED) would begin only once contracts are agreed with the ministry. The terminal is set to be operational by 2017....
Volume: 56Issue: 03Published at Fri, 18 Jan 2013 -
SEC Lines Up ACWA-Led Consortium For Rabigh-2 IPP
...day to 120gw by 2020 through a range of initiatives (MEES, 4 January). SEC will now begin negotiations with the ACWA-led group for a build-own-operate (BOO) development, with a view to reaching financial close by the end of March 2013. Project completion is slated for 2017. The consortium will own 50% of...
Volume: 56Issue: 03Published at Fri, 18 Jan 2013 -
UAE Misses 3Mn B/D Crude Target, Set To Become Net Gas Importer
...6mn b/d in December he told a forum in Abu Dhabi. He also revealed that the Hormuz bypass oil pipeline is delayed and admitted that the country is set to become a net gas importer – a sure sign that its gas crisis is deepening. Abu Dhabi is also unlikely to hit its 2017 target of 3.5mn b/d crude pr...
Volume: 56Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2013 -
Challenges for Libya’s upstream sector
...ock C-17, Mabruk) 20 RWE 2017 NC-193 & NC-195, Sirte 30 Waha 2017+ North Gialo, Si...
Volume: 56Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2013 -
Record Saudi Earnings Boost 2013 Budget Expenditure
...just accordingly, said Mr Reeve. “Current spending will remain reasonably strong, but capital spending will continue to be reined in,” he commented. Saudi economist Turki al-Huqail warned in a report published last month in Sharq al-Awsat that Saudi Arabia would need an oil price of $106/B by 2017 if th...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
Gulf Refiners Set For Major Crude Distillation Capacity Boost
...sociated petrochemicals project is at an early stage, although a completion target of fourth quarter 2017 has been set for the refinery. The project is a joint venture of Oman Oil Company (OOC) and Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC). It will be designed to process heavy crude, wi...
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 -
Abu Dhabi’s 3.5Mn B/D Target Slips To 2019
... UAE Abu Dhabi’s 3.5Mn B/D Target Slips To 2019 By Nick Wilson Abu Dhabi is unlikely to hit its 2017 target of 3.5mn b/d crude production capacity until 2019 at the earliest, MEES learns. The delay is caused by: project slippage; a shortage of...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
UAE Signs Nuclear Deal With Russia
...pco) a $20bn contract in 2009 to build four 1.4gw nuclear plants at Barakah during 2017-20. Recently Kepco discovered that fake safety certificates had been issued for equipment installed throughout South Korea’s 23 existing nuclear plants, but has reassured the UAE that this will not affect its own pr...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
Dana Gas Agrees $1Bn Sukuk Restructuring
...restricted to the company’s Egyptian and some UAE assets. Dana has the option to pay down the outstanding debt prior to the new maturity date of 31 October 2017. To proceed with the restructuring, Dana needs the consent of its shareholders, current Sukuk holders and regulatory au...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
Eni Rocked By Algeria Corruption Probe
...June 2011). The Iraqi part of the investigations relates to Eni’s contract to spend $18bn raising production at the giant Zubair field from the current 270,000 b/d to 1.2mn b/d by 2017 (though there is likely to be some slippage on both volumes and date). Eni has maintained a code of si...
Volume: 55Issue: 50Published at Fri, 07 Dec 2012 -
Algeria Awards Ain Arnat Contract To Korean Firms
...mand growth of 12.3% a year between now and 2017. Sonelgaz noted that demand on the grid outstripped supply in August, with record demand of 10.06gw exceeding the 2011 peak by more than 14% (MEES, 27 August). Sonelgaz was forced to undertake load-shedding over the summer, particularly in the southeast, be...
Volume: 55Issue: 49Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012 -
Implications Of The IEA’s Iraq Energy Outlook
...e Booz study the ‘High’ scenario of around 13.5mn b/d by 2017 is based on concluded contracts; while a ‘Medium’ scenario gives 9mn b/d 2020-21; and a ‘Low’ scenario suggests 6mn b/d by 2025. In a keynote speech delivered early October, Thamir Ghadhban, the Head of the Iraqi Prime Mi...
Volume: 55Issue: 49Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012 -
Qatari Condensate Production On The Rise
...2 into what it says is the world’s longest horizontal well, at about 12km, in a reservoir which in places is only one meter thick. Maersk won the contract after majors said they could only get its production to 20,000 b/d. Its PSA expires in 2017. US independent Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) is st...
Volume: 55Issue: 48Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2012 -
POGC And Sonatrach Step Up Libyan Exploration; Others Wait On Sidelines
...presentatives were in discussions with NOC chief Nouri Berruien in Vienna earlier this month with the aim of finalizing the German company’s $500mn plans to produce 30,000 b/d from the acreage by the end of 2017. France’s Total also has near-term development plans – including for Murzuq basin Block NC...
Volume: 55Issue: 48Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2012 -
Iran Nuclear Plant Shut Down, UAE Gauges Impact Of Korea Safety Scam
...rean nuclear plants. Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) won a $20bn contract in 2009 to build four 1.4gw nuclear plants at Barakah during 2017-20. However, Kepco discovered that fake safety certificates had been issued for equipment installed throughout South Korea’s 23 existing nuclear pl...
Volume: 55Issue: 48Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2012 -
Kuwait 2012-13 Budget Maintains Record Spending
...ternational Monetary Fund (IMF) in May this year said that Kuwait’s spending is unsustainable and warned that “government expenditure will exhaust all oil revenues by 2017” and that fiscal consolidation is needed in the medium term if current trends continue. But this was dismissed by economists who ma...
Volume: 55Issue: 48Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2012 -
Abu Dhabi Looks To Offshore Future
...16 2018 Nasr 0 65 2018 2018 Sarb (Satah Ras al-Boot)* 0 100 2017...
Volume: 55Issue: 47Published at Fri, 16 Nov 2012