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Iraq & TotalEnergies Sign ‘$27bn’ Energy Sector Megadeal
...xon entered the KRG in 2011. The subsequent decade saw it packaged under a $53bn Southern Integrated Infrastructure Project (SIIP) that was almost finalized with ExxonMobil and PetroChina, but which also fell apart (MEES, 10 May 2019). Both companies were expected to finance SIIP components by in...
Volume: 64Issue: 36Published at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 -
India Steps Up Crude Buying Diversification
...test export data suggest higher volumes to come (see p2). Number two Saudi Arabia is down 23% at 596,000 b/d, the lowest half-year figure since 1H 2011. Saudi Arabia’s market share of just 14.7% for 1H 2021 is the lowest in well over a decade (see chart and table for full data). IN...
Volume: 64Issue: 35Published at Fri, 03 Sep 2021 -
Libya Oil Revenues Soar But Still Short Of Central Bank Target
...VENUES* AT $11.6BN IN THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 2021 ARE ALREADY DOUBLE THE FULL YEAR 2020 FIGURE OF $5.9BN *CBL 'OIL REVENUE' NUMBERS USED BETWEEN 2011 AND 2017 DUE TO ABSENCE OF NOC DATA. ^INCLUDES GAS EXPORT REVENUE, PRODUCTS SALES. ^^INCLUDES SMALL VOLUMES OF CONDENSATE. SOURCE: OPEC ASB, CB...
Volume: 64Issue: 34Published at Fri, 27 Aug 2021 -
Libya’s Forex Reserves Fall 21% In 2020
...e inaccessible to Libya due to strict UN sanctions that have been in place since 2011.The idea is that sanctions will be removed once Libya has an accountable government. But the country is still deeply divided. Libyan actors are still squabbling over the legal basis for elections that are sc...
Volume: 64Issue: 34Published at Fri, 27 Aug 2021 -
Libya Eyes Mabruk Field Redevelopment
...ys it is also aiming to bring back Hakim, Sabah and Fedah. Zueitina had a production capacity of nearly 60,000 b/d before the 2011 revolution but this has dwindled to well under 20,000 b/d. Waha Oil Company is still working to restore production from its once-120,000 b/d Dahra field which was si...
Volume: 64Issue: 34Published at Fri, 27 Aug 2021 -
Eni In Libya: Bumper Oil Output As Exports Head Far & Wide, But Gas At 10-Year Lows
...PORTS TO ITALY HAVE BEEN RUNNING AT THEIR LOWEST CONSISTENT LEVELS SINCE THE REVOLUTIONARY YEAR OF 2011 (MN CFD) *TO 19 AUGUST. SOURCE: SNAM, ENI, MEES. GAS HIT BY POWER OUTAGE Mellitah’s offshore Bahr Essalam gas fields have produced almost continuously through the last 10...
Volume: 64Issue: 33Published at Fri, 20 Aug 2021 -
Spain Crude Imports: Saudi & Mideast Share At Record Low As Libya Volumes Soar
...*Spain’s crude imports remain depressed by Covid. Average 1H 2021 imports of 1.074mn b/d were level with 2H 2020 as the lowest half year figure since 2011. Imports have edged up in recent months with the Q2 2021 average of 1.083mn b/d the highest ‘post-Covid’ quarterly figure. But this is st...
Volume: 64Issue: 33Published at Fri, 20 Aug 2021 -
New Iran Cabinet Brings Back Shades Of Ahmadinejad
...ree branches of government: the presidency, parliament and judiciary. OWJI FOR OIL For the high-profile petroleum ministry, Mr Raisi nominated Javad Owji, who served under the former ultra-conservative petroleum minister Rostam Ghasemi as deputy minister from 2011 to 2013. His former boss had be...
Volume: 64Issue: 32Published at Fri, 13 Aug 2021 -
Saudi Aramco’s Master Gas System: A Work In Progress
...twork last year (MEES, 26 May 2020). SAUDI ARABIA: KEY POWER INFRASTRUCTURE SAUDI ARABIA SALES GAS* OUTPUT HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY CLIMBING YEAR-ON-YEAR (BN CFD)*CONVERTED FROM BTU TO CFD UNTIL 2011. SOURCE: SAUDI ARAMCO, MEES....
Volume: 64Issue: 32Published at Fri, 13 Aug 2021 -
Tunisia: President’s Power Grab Shakes Democracy To The Core
...elfth since Tunisia’s January 2011 revolution – after the ouster of predecessor Elyes Fakhfakh (MEES, 24 July 2020) Mr Saied, who has a legal background but previously worked as a TV commentator and as such is an outsider to Tunisia’s fractious party politics, was elected president in October 2019. He...
Volume: 64Issue: 30Published at Fri, 30 Jul 2021 -
Morocco’s Disputes With Algeria & Spain Heat Up As Pipeline Deadline Looms
...Algeria’s gas exports, for 2013-18. Though volumes dipped for 2019 and 2020 they are back at around this level for 2021. GME is not the only Algeria-Spain pipeline connection. A direct Algeria-Spain route, the 8bcm/y capacity Medgaz, started operations in 2011 (see map). Currently, the 54...
Volume: 64Issue: 29Published at Fri, 23 Jul 2021 -
Israeli Utility IEC Bags Price Cut For Tamar Gas
...ke or pay volume of 3bcm/y under a 15-year deal signed back in 2012, although this was due to carry forward volumes. This contract set a fixed base price of $5.042/mn BTU as of 2011 with subsequent annual adjustment according to US inflation (CPI) plus 1%, switching to minus 1% from 2020. By 2020 th...
Volume: 64Issue: 29Published at Fri, 23 Jul 2021 -
Qatar Looks To Bolster Share Of Taiwan LNG Market
...Australia edged out longtime number one Qatar as top LNG supplier to global number five importer Taiwan for the first half of 2021. Qatar has been top in Taiwan for every year since 2011. But its lead over Australia narrowed from 2.3mn tons for 2018 to just 0.4mn tons for 2020. For 1H 20...
Volume: 64Issue: 27Published at Fri, 09 Jul 2021 -
Egypt Raises Power Prices, Waiting on Fuel Prices
...vels (see chart 1). For March, household electricity use was 4.62TWh, the lowest March use since 2013 while the previous month’s 4.33TWh was the lowest February figure since 2011. Egypt power demand typically peaks in the sweltering summer months. 1: EGYPT HOUSEHOLD POWER USE FELL TO A MULTI-YEAR LO...
Volume: 64Issue: 27Published at Fri, 09 Jul 2021 -
Sparks Fly As Saudi-Emirati Economic Competition Intensifies
...latively recent development. Bilateral relations between the neighbors have traditionally been more fraught, and it was arguably the start of the ‘Arab Spring’ in 2011 which caused their geopolitical priorities to converge. The relationship then deepened with the rise to power of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Pr...
Volume: 64Issue: 27Published at Fri, 09 Jul 2021 -
GCC Rig Count Stuck At 10-Year Low Levels For 1H 2021
...e higher than the 9-year quarterly low seen in Q4 last year (see chart 1 and MEES, 18 December 2020). As such the average figure of 184 for 1H 2021 was the lowest half-year figure since 1H 2011. 1: THE GCC RIG COUNT AVERAGED JUST 184 FOR 1H 2021, THE LOWEST HALF-YEAR FIGURE IN 10 YEARS AND LI...
Volume: 64Issue: 27Published at Fri, 09 Jul 2021 -
Libya’s Gas Exports To Italy Collapse To Zero On Plant Outage
...en their output curtailed. *The outages, coupled with already lower supplies so far this year, mean Libya’s first half 321mn cfd exports to Italy were lowest since the 2011 revolution (see chart 2). Natural decline at Wafa and Bahr Essalam, as well as soaring domestic consumption continue to we...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 Jul 2021 -
BP Drilling Offshore Egypt
...REAGE Output at BP and Eni’s offshore Nile Delta fields peaked in 2011 and continues to slump: Ras El Bar output fell 20% to 107mn cfd for 2020 whilst El Temsah was down 23% at 136mn cfd (see chart and MEES, May 21). GAS OUTPUT FROM ENI & BP’s OFFSHORE NILE DELTA CONCESSIONS PEAKED IN 2011 AND FELL 29...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 Jul 2021 -
Egypt: Condensate Output Record As Gas Slumps
...erall output here, and that of key producer Apache in particular, has been on the slide. 2020 output was the lowest since 2011 with production falling further to an 11-year low of just 282,000 b/d for February. However production has risen in each of the past two months – it was 290,000 b/d for April – wh...
Volume: 64Issue: 23Published at Fri, 11 Jun 2021 -
Libya’s NOC Plans Massive Upstream Opening
...drocarbons. With the dust barely settled from Libya’s third civil war since 2011 and last year’s devastating oil blockades (MEES, 25 September 2020), NOC is looking to kickstart a fresh wave of foreign investment to reach its ambitious goal of boosting output to 2.1mn b/d by 2025. There is room for op...
Volume: 64Issue: 23Published at Fri, 11 Jun 2021