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Peace Deal Under Threat As SPLM Withdraws From Sudan’s Coalition Government
...jected the ABC’s report as “final and binding” because of its demographic implications. Local elections are due to take place in 2009. These will directly influence the outcome of the referendum on unity, scheduled for 2011, and by extension, how much of the disputed Abyei region’s oil wealth may be...
Volume: 50Issue: 43Published at Mon, 22 Oct 2007 -
Iran Establishes High Council To Draw Up Development Plan
...d has asked First Vice-President Parviz Davudi to oversee its establishment. The president has said that the plan, which is to start in March 2011, should be ready in 2010 after it is approved by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and ratified by the cabinet and parliament. Mr Ahmadinejad sa...
Volume: 50Issue: 42Published at Mon, 15 Oct 2007 -
Foster Wheeler Awarded FEED, Management For Mesaieed Petrochemical Complex
...its, is scheduled for completion in 2011. ABB Lummus will supply process technology, with Basel supplying polypropylene technology....
Volume: 50Issue: 42Published at Mon, 15 Oct 2007 -
StatoilHydro’s Debut Marred By Hydro’s Libyan Probe
...d Block 146-1, both in the Murzuk Basin. In a statement, StatoilHydro said further exploration and development were under way in each area, and that as new fields were readied for production, a substantial increase in output was expected towards 2011. In addition to Hydro’s Libyan upstream as...
Volume: 50Issue: 41Published at Mon, 08 Oct 2007 -
MOU Signed For Qatar-Bahrain Causeway
...r the construction of the proposed causeway to link the two Gulf states. Work on the $2-3bn project will begin within seven months, with completion scheduled for 2011. The 40km causeway will provide road and rail links between Ras Ashiraj in northwest Qatar and Askar in southeast Bahrain. The tw...
Volume: 50Issue: 41Published at Mon, 08 Oct 2007 -
North Africa Targets 1.3Mn B/D New Refining Capacity By 2012 Despite Cost Threats
...mpletion in 2011. Separately, a $1.5bn contract for the construction of a fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCC) and 100,000 b/d fuel oil processor at 'Ain al-Sukhna in the Gulf of Suez is due to be awarded next month. Libyan Refinery Plans Languish Two decades of economic sanctions took their toll on...
Volume: 50Issue: 40Published at Mon, 01 Oct 2007 -
Norway’s NPD Forecasting 6% Annual Decline In Liquids Production To 2011
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. L No 40 01-October-2007 Norway’s NPD Forecasting 6% Annual Decline In Liquids Production To 2011 Norway’s National Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has forecast a steady decline in liquids output over the period 2007-11, although rising gas production wi...
Volume: 50Issue: 40Published at Mon, 01 Oct 2007 -
Citadel-Backed Refining Project To Seek Funding Late 07/Early 08
...C. It will start up in 2011 producing 2.2mn tons/year of diesel (in line with the latest Euro V specifications coming into force in 2009) and 700,000 t/y of high octane gasoline. Egypt produces a surfeit of fuel oil (now that most power operations are switching to gas) and the refinery will use th...
Volume: 50Issue: 39Published at Mon, 24 Sep 2007 -
PDO Extends Land Rig Contracts With KCA Deutag
...O). The total contract value is around $100mn. PDO’s contracts for rigs T 44 and T 77 have been extended by four years each, to December 2011 and July 2011 respectively. The contracts for rigs 55, 66 and 63 have all been extended by two years, to September, March and June 2010 respectively. The or...
Volume: 50Issue: 39Published at Mon, 24 Sep 2007 -
Egypt To Raise Crude/Condensate Output 100,000 B/D By Mid-2008
...oject in the governorate of Kafr al-Shaikh with an investment of around $10.5bn. The complex would be located at Matobas and would use 300,000 b/d of crude oil to be imported. Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy said in 2006 that the Kafr al-Shaikh project was planned for completion in 2011. Under th...
Volume: 50Issue: 38Published at Mon, 17 Sep 2007 -
PTT Sees Rising Prices As Barrier To Iranian LNG Supply Deal
...livery of 3mn t/y beginning in 2011 (MEES, 10 July 2006). On 13 September Mr Kwangsukstith said PTT was in talks to secure alternative supplies in the face of delays to Pars LNG....
Volume: 50Issue: 38Published at Mon, 17 Sep 2007 -
Current KPC Strategy Has Achieved Only Half Its Goals, Says Buqrais
...isis affecting the country’s power generation sector amid rising electricity demand. He added that the current budgeted price for the new refinery, $15bn (the previously published figure was $14bn) would apply only if the refinery stuck to its current schedule of completion in 2011. Any further de...
Volume: 50Issue: 38Published at Mon, 17 Sep 2007 -
Iraq’s Power Master Plan Seeks To End Electricity Blackouts By 2011
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. L No 36 10-September-2007 Iraq’s Power Master Plan Seeks To End Electricity Blackouts By 2011 Iraq’s master plan for the electricity sector aims to end load-shedding by 2011 while at the same time increasing per capita electrical consumption fr...
Volume: 50Issue: 37Published at Mon, 10 Sep 2007 -
Egypt’s Citadel Capital Awards EPC Contract For New Refinery
...rporation (EGPC) of around $200mn, primarily through savings on the import of oil products to Egypt, and to prevent the release of 75,000 tons of sulfur into the atmosphere in greater Cairo. The estimated cost of the entire project, due to be completed and commissioned by September 2011, is around $2....
Volume: 50Issue: 37Published at Mon, 10 Sep 2007 -
Mitsui, GS Engineering To Build Hydrocracker At Mostorod Refinery
...e 135,000 b/d Mostorod oil refinery north of Cairo. The units, which will boost diesel and other middle distillate output, are expected to come on-stream by 2011. According to GS, the units include an 80,000 b/d vacuum distillation unit and a 40,000 b/d hydrocracker....
Volume: 50Issue: 36Published at Mon, 10 Sep 2007 -
Technip Wins FEED For Al-Shaheen Refinery
...d of 2011....
Volume: 50Issue: 36Published at Mon, 10 Sep 2007 -
Saudi Aramco Oil Output Down 1.7% in 2006 At Average 8.9Mn B/D
...lls by 2011. In the next 10 years, we hope to add 50 tcf to our current 248.5 tcf of gas reserves,” it said. Major Gas Discoveries In 2006 (Mn CFD) Well Gas Flow Condensate Location Depth Field Karan-6 80...
Volume: 50Issue: 36Published at Mon, 10 Sep 2007 -
UN Attempts To Rescue Sudan’s Faltering Comprehensive Peace Agreement
...d the south in order to hold a census, which will in turn enable elections in 2009 and a referendum on unity in 2011. Like the ICG, the Small Arms Survey, a Swiss-based independent research group, warns in a report published in July that the border demarcation and census are far behind schedule, wh...
Volume: 50Issue: 34Published at Mon, 20 Aug 2007 -
Spain Relents On Medgaz But Algeria Seeks Mediation On Gassi Touil
...o-year freeze on the construction of the Arzew plant, instead transporting the gas by pipeline between 2009 and 2011. Cinco Dias says Sonatrach asked the Paris Chamber of Arbitration in July to mediate in the dispute, hoping that it will find a solution acceptable to the various parties wi...
Volume: 50Issue: 33Published at Mon, 13 Aug 2007 -
Supply/Demand Fundamentals Will Trigger OPEC Output Hike, Says ESAI
...til 2011-12, when falling spare capacity once again supports the crude markets. Refining: The massive investment in new refining capacity coming on-stream in the next few years should bring refining margins down sharply from their current highs. The market is poised for a major correction. Ga...
Volume: 50Issue: 33Published at Mon, 13 Aug 2007