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Egypt Launches Red Sea Bidding
...udi minister says Riyadh will intensify Red Sea gas exploration over the next two years (MEES, 8 March). In a bid to attract companies to the acreage Cairo signed a $750mn deal in December 2017 with Norway’s TGS and Houston-based oilfield services firm Schlumberger which included 2D seismic data ov...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Egypt: ‘Steep Decline’ At BP’s Key WND Gas Project
...ticipated decline,” 17.25% partner Dea acknowledges in its Q4 results, released 7 March. Output from the two Phase-1 fields, Taurus and Libra, began in late March 2017, with operator BP (82.75%) saying just over a month later that production had hit 700mn cfd (MEES, 12 May 2017). BP added at the time th...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Shell Boosts Egypt Gas Output, Retains LNG Force Majeure
...Anglo-Dutch major Shell’s Egyptian net gas output hit a four-year high 407.5mn cfd in 2018, up 21% from 2017’s 335.4mn cfd. But output remains less than half of 2012 levels with offshore fields formerly operated by BG (taken over by Shell at the start of 2016) responsible for the bulk of the co...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Algeria: Key Ain Tsila Gas Project Advances With Petrofac Awarded $1bn EPC Contract
...). Algeria’s gas output fell to around 92bcm for 2018 from 94.5bcm for 2017 and 2016’s record 94.8bcm despite the start up of the key Reggane (December 2017, 2.9bcm/y) and Timimoun (February 2018. 1.8bcm/y) fields. Ain Tsila is located around 1,100km southeast of Algiers, 70km south of Total’s 3b...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
QP Expands Eni Partnership With Morocco, Mozambique Deals
...pansion continued apace this week with two big agreements with Eni for assets offshore Mozambique and Morocco. QP CEO Saad al-Kaabi pledged in December 2017 to transform the firm beyond recognition through a major international expansion (MEES, 8 December 2017) and the firm has since snapped up a series of...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
KRG-Focused Firms Continue Production Push
...rathon’s 15% stake) planning to spend $137mn this year, Atrush could exit the year at more than double its 2017 average. The firms are also planning to test a couple of already-drilled wells in addition to drilling three new ones over the course of the year targeting a heavier column of 14-22°API oil – al...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
US Shale: Major Growth Planned, Indies Crimp Spending
...netheless opted in early 2017 for a second bite at Permian expansion with a $6bn purchase of more oil-focused acreage (MEES, 17 February 2017). The Permian is now central to Exxon’s global strategy. And key to Exxon’s Permian strategy is downstream integration: investment in petchems including with Sa...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
OPEC Faces Prospect Of Declining Global Clout
...e market to cut prices following the November 2014 meeting (MEES, 5 December 2014), Opec changed tack in November 2016 and agreed to cut output (MEES, 2 December 2016). The move initially paid dividends for Opec, which saw demand for its crude rise from 31.9mn b/d in 2016 to 32.6mn b/d in 2017 ac...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Crackers In The Gulf: GCC Refiners Advance Mixed-Feed Projects
...August 2017). Petro Rabigh’s delayed Rabigh-2 expansion, currently being commissioned, will expand petchems output capacity from 2.6mn t/y to almost 5mn t/y. Its key aromatics unit will consume 3mn t/y (67,000 b/d) of naphtha from the refinery to produce 1.34mn t/y paraxylene and 424,000 t/y of...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Saudi Arabia’s Oil-Fired Power Conundrum
...2020, situated further up the Red Sea coast. It is currently undergoing testing, despite state-owned power and desalination plant operator SWCC in January 2017 canceling the $1.5bn EPC contract that was awarded to Korea’s Samsung and partners China’s Sepco3 and Saudi firm Al Toukhi in late 2012 (ME...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Oman Looks To Privatization To Modernize Power Grid
...nai says. OPTIMISTIC VALUATION It is unclear how he arrived at this valuation. OETC, by far the larger of the two firms, owned assets with a net book value of $437mn as of end-2017 whilst its gross revenue was $38mn. MEDC’s earnings were just $3.7mn for 2017. Nama says 11 companies su...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Lebanon Power Overhaul Gathers Pace
...ill needs to approve the law. FSRUs would then be needed to supply gas to the grid. The energy ministry in 2017 called for expressions of interest to supply LNG via three planned FSRUs (one at Deir Ammar, one at Selaata and one at Zahrani). Eight prequalified firms reportedly submitted proposals la...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Sabic Merging Petrokemya & Sadaf Units
...clude ethylene as well as styrene and ethylene dichloride, which are respectively used to make ABS and PVC. Sabic aims to complete the merger during the second half of 2019. Sabic bought 50% partner Shell out of Sadaf for $820mn in 2017, terminating a joint venture deal due to end in 2020 (MEES, 27 Ja...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Gulf Crude Exports To Korea On The Rise
...ghest since October 2017 and 452,400 b/d from Kuwait. Although volumes from Kuwait are down on month-ago levels they are above the 2018 average of 447,000 b/d. Volumes from Qatar though fell to 65,800 b/d, the lowest MEES has on record dating back to January 2008, while Korea imported a record 43...
Volume: 62Issue: 10Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Tunisia’s Nawara Gas Project: Too Little Too Late?
...18 that crippled gas output the previous year (MEES, 2 June 2017), but worryingly still managed to oversee a 9% drop in production to an 11-year low of 193mn cfd. 2018 crude output fell to its lowest level since the country started producing in 1966 - a mere 38,400 b/d (MEES, 22 February). Lower ou...
Volume: 62Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2019 -
Iran’s South Pars Gas Development Edges Forward
...maining six, but Iran has suffered major setbacks on Phase 11. Having tied up a $4.8bn contract with France’s Total (50.1%) and China’s CNPC (30%) to develop Phase 11 to produce 1.9bn cfd and 80,000 b/d condensate alongside local firm Petropars (19.9%) in July 2017 (MEES, 7 July 2017), the project has fa...
Volume: 62Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2019 -
Egypt Oil Output To Fall As Key Producer Apache Slashes Investment
...llen in line with changes in drilling activity but with a lag of between 12 and 24 months. Most notably, the firm’s gross Egypt output slumped by 20,000 b/d between late 2015 and early 2017 as the firm slashed capex by 35% in 2015 and a further 45% in 2016 (see chart 3). This suggests that Apache’s gr...
Volume: 62Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2019 -
KRG-Pearl Reach 20yr Gas Sales Deal
...pipeline connection from the Kurdistan Region to its neighbors. Russia’s Rosneft agreed in 2017 to construct a 30 bcm/y pipeline to Turkey by 2020 but the absence of concrete progress means that deadline now looks unlikely (MEES, 22 September 2017). Elsewhere, partners at Pearl have told MEES th...
Volume: 62Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2019 -
Can Iraqi Kurdistan’s Bickering Factions Grasp Key Opportunities?
...ferendum in September 2017 which saw longstanding KRG president Masoud Barzani (KDP) resign – he still plays a major role behind the scenes – and Federal Iraqi forces retake large swaths of territory including key oil fields in Kirkuk (MEES, 10 November 2017). The crisis further eroded relations with Ba...
Volume: 62Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2019 -
Kuwait Eyes Revenue Boost From Clean Fuels Upgrade
...dullah, are expected to be fully online by the end of 2019. In the meantime, work at the refineries has contributed to reducing Kuwait’s throughput to its lowest level in more than 20 years. The CFP was originally intended for start-up in late 2017. The first unit testing was eventually carried out la...
Volume: 62Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2019