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Cyprus Aims For 2025 LNG Imports
...s will have replaced oil as Cyprus’ dominant powergen fuel by mid-2025. The Vasilikos plant is slated to exclusively run gas at its two most modern 220MW combined cycle gas turbine units installed in 2011. Were these units to run flat out they would generate an annual 3.85TWh, just shy of th...
Volume: 67Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 -
Egypt Gulf Of Suez Renaissance: Can It Be Sustained?
...l was first discovered over 100 years ago. The region remained Egypt’s top oil producing province until 2011 when it was overtaken by the Western Desert. The region’s top producer is Dragon Oil, a subsidiary of Dubai’s state oil firm Enoc, with production reaching 66,000 b/d in February. Dr...
Volume: 67Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2024 -
Israel & Cyprus Talk Power Link, Aphrodite-Ishai
...ach an agreement soon for the Aphrodite – Ishai issue,” Mr Papanastasiou confirmed. A dispute with operator Chevron has also held up development of Aphrodite which was discovered in 2011 (see main story). ...
Volume: 67Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 -
Gazprom Nasiriya Entry: Conciliatory Gesture?
...U with NIOC to develop Azar before being kicked out in 2011 (MEES, 17 October 2011). It’s unclear whether the firm’s work at Badra was indeed informed by Iranian data. The source assesses that Gazprom Neft’s Nasiriya pitch may involve moving some of Badra’s surface processing equipment, for wh...
Volume: 67Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2024 -
Libya Gas Exports At 13-Year Low
...Libya’s gas exports, all of which go to Italy via the 8bcm/y (775mn cfd)-capacity Greenstream pipeline, fell to just 137mn m3 (167mn cfd) for February, one of the lowest figures since the massive instability of the revolutionary year of 2011. With the two preceding months also having seen su...
Volume: 67Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2024 -
Wintershall Libya Assets In Limbo
...wn” from the board and “own less than 50% of LetterOne shares,” they retain a substantial holding (MEES, 6 May 2022). THE ASSETS THAT NO-ONE WANTS The problem for Libya, which is desperate to attract more upstream investment in a bid to regain output levels seen prior to the 2011...
Volume: 67Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2024 -
Libya Ups Drilling Efforts
...oduced at 95,000 b/d prior to Libya’s 2011 revolution. Effective capacity has been perhaps half this in recent years but leading US-based services firm SLB has been working with Eni and NOC on a campaign to re-enter long-producing wells with its latest stimulation technology. SLB last month said that th...
Volume: 67Issue: 08Published at Fri, 23 Feb 2024 -
Unlocking the East Med Energy Potential: A Vision for the Future
...scovered in 2011, appear to have hit a roadblock as the US major continues to buy for time with a 31 March deadline looming. Next door in Israel, just 30km away, Chevron is also faced with a conundrum – how to expand output at the 23tcf Leviathan field. The options in front of it appear problematic to sa...
Volume: 67Issue: 08Published at Fri, 23 Feb 2024 -
Eni Eyes ‘Best Fast-Track Development’ For Cyprus Cronos Find
...scovered more than a decade earlier in 2011, as Cyprus’ first gas development. Chevron (35%op) and its partners Shell (35%) and Israel’s NewMed (30%) have been set a deadline of 31 March to submit “optimizations” to Aphrodite’s 2019 approved field development plan (FDP) after previous modifications were re...
Volume: 67Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 -
Adnoc & BP Ink Egypt Gas JV With Israel Entry On Hold
...scovered in 2011 and mentioned by BP as a potential development option back in 2019 (MEES, 24 May 2019). $1BN+ DEAL? The companies do not say how much Adnoc will pay for just under half of BP’s share in the six assets beyond that a “proportionate cash contribution” will be earmarked “for fu...
Volume: 67Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 -
Saudi Economy Contracted In 2023 Amid Oil Price Drop
...7% contraction in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic - largely because in 2020 the sector was coming off a relatively weak previous year. Indeed, it is the sharpest oil-sector contraction in MEES records going back to 2011 (see chart 1). Oil prices softened considerably last year amid strong su...
Volume: 67Issue: 06Published at Fri, 09 Feb 2024 -
Cyprus’ Gas Ambitions: Could Cronos Overtake Aphrodite?
...Cyprus’ 2011 Aphrodite gas discovery risks being overtaken by Eni’s 2022 Cronos find in the development stakes. Nicosia faces key 2024 gas decisions. CYPRUS’ 2024 UPSTREAM MILESTONES *Mid-January: Cronos drilling completes *End-March: Deadline for Chevron to su...
Volume: 67Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2024 -
Kuwait Appoints New Pm
...reign affairs minister in 2011 due to his concerns with government corruption. That corruption scandal prompted the infamous ‘storming’ of parliament by protestors and the resignation of prime minister Nasser Mohammed Al Sabah (MEES, 5 December 2011). The new PM is the first of Al Salem branch of th...
Volume: 67Issue: 01Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2024