1. Barzan Project Financing Kicks Off With Approach To ECAs

    ...ndensate Barzan, which is now planned for startup in 2014, after the original 2012 date slipped, will be supplied from a designated block (Barzan) in the North Field. Given the feed is rich gas, it will produce LPG and condensate (to be sold separately from the 1.5bn cfd of gas). Barzan is the last ma...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 47
    Published at Tue, 23 Nov 2010
  2. DEWA Gears Up For First IWPP

    ...ter. Start-up is scheduled for 2014, which is a tight deadline but achievable, commented an industry source. The IWPP will be constructed at Hassyan, a site near the border with Abu Dhabi, and has room for a total of six projects. The first IWPP will be gas-fired, but DEWA has commissioned a study on...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 47
    Published at Tue, 23 Nov 2010
  3. VTTI Awards Oil Terminal Construction Contract To J&P

    ...siliko that should come into operation in 2014 with a capacity to process 1 bcm/year (MEES, 30 August, 16 November 2009, 4 May 2009)....

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 46
    Published at Mon, 15 Nov 2010
  4. Groundstar Transfer Of Kom Ombo Interest Approved

    ...eir agreement in June, with Aegean agreeing to drill at least four exploration wells by 2014 at a cost of $30mn (MEES, 14 June). The first is set to commence drilling by the end of November. Sino Tharwa Drilling Company has been awarded the drilling contract for four wells, two of which are optional.  ...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 46
    Published at Mon, 15 Nov 2010
  5. SEC Invites Bids For Qurayah Power Project

    ...erations on 1 June 2014. Qurayah IPP1 is expected to cost $1.8bn, 'Amir al-Swaha, SEC’s Head of Independent Power Producer (IPP) projects, was quoted as saying by Reuters, which added that the plant would use 300mn cfd of gas to generate electricity. The plant had previously been expected to use heavy fu...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 46
    Published at Mon, 15 Nov 2010
  6. SWCC Awards $4.2Bn Contracts For Ras Al-Zour Project

    ...uminum complex when completed in 2014 (MEES, 19 July). The Ras al-Zour complex was originally planned to be built and run by a private sector consortium led by Sumitomo Corporation. However, the scheme was re-launched under the auspices of SWCC (MEES, 29 June 2009)....

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 46
    Published at Mon, 15 Nov 2010
  7. North Africa’s Investment Star Wanes

    ...heduled to come on stream in the second quarter of 2014 at a targetted capital investment of $920mn. Total is struggling to keep costs to below $1bn, MEES understands. Low gas prices have pushed Algeria into stopping spot gas sales (MEES, 11 October). A number of foreign operators had output slashed ea...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 45
    Published at Mon, 08 Nov 2010
  8. Abu Dhabi Plans Artificial Islands To Boost Oil Output By 470,000 B/D

    ...kum expires in 2026, and ZADCO’s operating concession for offshore fields Umm al-Dalkh and Satah expires in 2018. While ExxonMobil is happy with its ZADCO partners, it is not however content with its position in ADNOC’s onshore oil company ADCO, whose agreement expires in 2014. ExxonMobil has a 9....

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 45
    Published at Mon, 08 Nov 2010
  9. OPEC Sees Future Riven With Uncertainty Despite Tentative Economic Recovery

    ...dium term demand projections from last year’s WOO, but higher projections for non-OPEC supply means the call on OPEC crude remains constrained until 2014, the report highlights. The WOO’s reference case now predicts demand growth of 1mn b/d this year, more than double that expected in last ye...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 45
    Published at Mon, 08 Nov 2010
  10. Egypt Poised To Hit GDP Growth Target, But Long Term Challenges Linger

    ...onomy,” he said, noting expectations of improved capital inflows from Europe and the US in 2011, once the liquidity issue is resolved. Furthermore, the Ministry of Finance plans to reduce the overall fiscal deficit to 7.7% in 2010-11, gradually cutting it to 3.5% of GDP by 2014-15. This is optimistic, gi...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 45
    Published at Mon, 08 Nov 2010
  11. Ukraine To Relaunch LNG Project

    ...rm of Azeri LNG via Georgia’s Kulevi port by 2014. Mr Boyko said that the cost of building a regasification terminal in Odessa would not exceed $1bn and that there will be a “quick payback” on the investment. He added that the project would be backed by EU funds, without providing any additional de...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 45
    Published at Mon, 08 Nov 2010
  12. Russia Expresses Interest In North Field Projects

    ...ojects to produce LNG from gas produced in the North Field, according to Russian state media. Government-owned RIA Novosti reported that Gazprom had expressed interest in partnerships in gas projects in Qatar, once a moratorium on expanding gas production on the offshore acreage is lifted in 2014, du...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 45
    Published at Mon, 08 Nov 2010
  13. Gas Fields Bid Round In Iraq: Success With Risk

    ...stainable development on a national/macroeconomics level. It is worth recalling that the current National Development Plan (NDP) 2010-14 aims at increasing gas production from 800mn cfd to 2.75bn cfd in 2014 from 'Akkaz and Mansouriya as well as the associated gas produced in other parts of the co...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 45
    Published at Mon, 08 Nov 2010
  14. Sanctions Slow Iran’s Condensate Export Growth

    ...scounted price to Iran.” Iran Base-Case Condensate Supply Outlook (‘000 B/D) 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Current Pr...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 44
    Published at Mon, 01 Nov 2010
  15. Shell Reduces Kashagan Phase 2 Cost Estimate By $18Bn

    ...start by 2014-15. Mr Kabyldin said that “the group of six Kashagan participants on July 27 informed the [Kazakh] oil and gas minister that the time frame for Phase 2 at the Kashagan field was being put back to 2018‐19,” according to Russia’s Interfax. As a consequence, Mr Kabyldin noted, th...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 44
    Published at Mon, 01 Nov 2010
  16. EIB Grants €560Mn Support Package For Egypt’s Electricity Sector

    ...be commissioned in 2014. In addition to the EIB, it will be financed by the World Bank and the OPEC Fund for International Development....

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 44
    Published at Mon, 01 Nov 2010
  17. Iranian Crude Production Faces Continual Decline

    ...sources and/or changes in technical modifications, including installing offshore platforms. Its start-up target is 2012-13, but 2014 is more likely. It was originally meant to provide 2bn cfd to go to NIOC’s Iran LNG project. Phase 11 was also meant to provide a further 1.9bn cfd for LNG. It may start up...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 43
    Published at Mon, 25 Oct 2010
  18. South Sudan Announces Plans For Transitional Government

    ...l output to 565,000 b/d by the end of the year, according to Business International Monitor’s (BMI) Sudan Oil and Gas report for September, with plans to raise production to 735,000 b/d by 2014. But most of the country’s oil resources are located in the south, and its infrastructure in the no...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 43
    Published at Mon, 25 Oct 2010
  19. Kabyldin Says KMG Will Cover Investment Needs To 2014 Via Loans

    ...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIII No 42   18-Oct-2010 CASPIAN Kabyldin Says KMG Will Cover Investment Needs To 2014 Via Loans KazMunaiGaz (KMG) CEO, Kairgeldy Kabyldin, said on 8 Oc...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 42
    Published at Mon, 18 Oct 2010
  20. Barka-3, Sohar-2 Financing Shows Good Lender Appetite For Oman Power

    ...xt IPP, which is the 1.5gw plant being planned for Sur. This invites bids from developers to provide around 400mw of early power ahead of peak summer demand in 2013, and proceed with full commissioning ahead of 2014 peak summer demand. OPWP had originally planned to set up an IWPP at the al-Gh...

    Volume: 53
    Issue: 40
    Published at Thu, 14 Oct 2010