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Russia’s Tatneft Returns To Libya
...nister (see p18). Though exploration successes in Libya from the four international bid rounds held after 2004 were few and far between, Tatneft was among those to report modest finds (MEES, 28 July 2017). Tatneft holds eight exploration blocks in Libya spread across the Ghadames and Si...
Volume: 64Issue: 42Published at Fri, 22 Oct 2021 -
Kuwait Oil Company Capacity Slumps To 12-Year Low
...rget to 2040, KOC confirmed to MEES earlier this year. Production capacity has now dropped by 522,000 b/d since peaking at 3.15mn b/d in 2017-18; back then KOC still appeared to be in with an outside chance of reaching its 3.65mn b/d target (MEES, 20 April 2018). Despite bringing online he...
Volume: 64Issue: 42Published at Fri, 22 Oct 2021 -
Sonatrach Breaks Ground On Turkey Petchems
...,500 b/d) of propane for use as feedstock until 2040. This is equivalent to around 10% of Algeria’s current LPG exports of 197,000 b/d according to data intelligence firm Kpler (see chart 1). The deal will also solidify Turkey as Algeria’s no. 1 LPG customer, a position it has held since 2017. Algerian ex...
Volume: 64Issue: 41Published at Fri, 15 Oct 2021 -
Egypt: Record Power Generation As Gas Output Rebounds
...79TWh (see chart 4). *Industrial use remains just below 2017-2018 levels at 3.67TWh for July (see chart 5). Business power consumption was the hardest hit by Covid but has witnessed a rebound since May with recent months in line with 2016-18 norms including 0.72TWh for July (see ch...
Volume: 64Issue: 41Published at Fri, 15 Oct 2021 -
Riyadh, Cairo Sign $1.8bn Power Connection Deals
...nafir to Saudi Arabia in 2017 (MEES, 4 August 2017). Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman heralded the deal as highlighting “the sound directives and proper guidance paid by the two brotherly countries.” Egypt and Saudi Arabia also emphasized the pan-Arab nature of the link, and th...
Volume: 64Issue: 40Published at Fri, 08 Oct 2021 -
Petrofac Hopes To Turn Page After UK Bribery Conviction
...UK-based services firm Petrofac is hoping to put a scandal-riven few years behind it after a UK court on 4 October found it guilty on seven counts of bribery involving payments of $44mn to secure $3.5bn of contracts in Gulf countries between 2011 and 2017. In a case brought by the UK’s Se...
Volume: 64Issue: 40Published at Fri, 08 Oct 2021 -
Iraq Looks To Tap Unbanked Savings With Domestic Bond Issue
...rket. In August 2017, it issued $1bn in its first independent bond offering at an annual rate of 6.752% which is due in 2023. In January of the same year, Baghdad – with the full guarantee of the United States government – issued another $1bn at 2.149% which is due in January next year. Previously, a $2....
Volume: 64Issue: 40Published at Fri, 08 Oct 2021 -
Kuwait Commissions Final CFP Refinery Upgrade Units
...ns can now be expected to rise to their highest level since 2016-17’s 821,000 b/d, before the April 2017 closure of the aged 200,000 b/d Shuaiba refinery (MEES, 31 March 2017). FOCUS ON QUALITY KNPC CEO Waleed al-Bader says the project is a “historic milestone” that will allow the “op...
Volume: 64Issue: 39Published at Fri, 01 Oct 2021 -
Iran Hopes To Develop Iraq Border Fields, Finances & Technology Stand In The Way
...er to the new administration was development of the Azar field. Production began at 30,000 b/d in 2017 and had hit 65,000 b/d and 71.5mn cfd by the end of the 2020-21 Iranian year. On the Iraqi side of the border, the field is operated by Russia’s Gazprom Neft and is known as Badra. The ne...
Volume: 64Issue: 39Published at Fri, 01 Oct 2021 -
Can Opec+ Really Unwind Its Cuts Fully In 2022?
...January 2022 will mark the five-year anniversary of the implementation of Opec+ output cuts. This deal, which came into force back in January 2017, saw the newly-formed alliance agree to cut for a six-month period that could be extended for another six-months (MEES, 2 December 2016). Nearly fi...
Volume: 64Issue: 39Published at Fri, 01 Oct 2021 -
Chevron Eyes Leviathan Tie-Back To Egypt LNG; Can Cyprus’ Aphrodite Piggy Back?
...ypt lessened the relative attractiveness of developing the much more modest Aphrodite which is 160km offshore in 1,750 meters of water depth with (at the time) no existing nearby infrastructure. The startup of Zohr in late 2017 (MEES, 15 December 2017), followed by Leviathan at the end of 20...
Volume: 64Issue: 39Published at Fri, 01 Oct 2021 -
Kuwait Starts Up Key Northern Oil Facility
...thering center in the north of the emirate. GC-31 is one of three gathering centers for which contracts worth $2.3bn were awarded in 2014 (MEES, 11 July 2014). All were initially slated to come online in late 2017, but were delayed. The first two, GC-29 and GC-30 were brought online in 2018, but GC-31’s co...
Volume: 64Issue: 38Published at Fri, 24 Sep 2021 -
Baker Hughes Finalizes Iraq Gas Contract
...sociated gas in Dhi Qar, with an initial contract signed in 2017 (MEES, 21 July 2017). In January, Baker Hughes announced that the contract had been awarded to its Turbomachinery & Process Solutions (TPS) division (MEES, 29 January). The scope of work included design, manufacturing, delivery, construction an...
Volume: 64Issue: 38Published at Fri, 24 Sep 2021 -
Algeria’s Gas Burn Surges Amid Record Power Demand
...ly 2017. Gas accounts for about 99% of Algeria’s power generation capacity, so any power demand increase directly translates into a rise in gas consumption. But a surge in sales gas output this year on the back of a slew of new project start-ups (MEES, 21 May) means any additional domestic demand ca...
Volume: 64Issue: 38Published at Fri, 24 Sep 2021 -
Libya’s Oil Exports: What’s At Stake?
...LER, MEES ESTIMATES. EUROPE STILL DOMINANT To be clear Libya’s key market remains Europe which at 844,000 b/d accounted for three quarters of the country’s exports in the first eight months of the year – its highest share since 2017 according to data intelligence firm Kpler (see chart 1). Mo...
Volume: 64Issue: 37Published at Fri, 17 Sep 2021 -
Adnoc Adopts Targeted Approach In Search For Unconventional Partner
...ake in the Upper Zakum offshore oil field, where the partners target 1mn b/d by 2024 (MEES, 17 November 2017). In 2019 the respective CEOs announced that they had discussed “substantial new conventional and unconventional exploration opportunities in Abu Dhabi.” DRILLING EXPANSION Un...
Volume: 64Issue: 37Published at Fri, 17 Sep 2021 -
US Shale Output Tops 8mn b/d, Are The Gains Sustainable?
...d of this month. The last time the Permian DUC count was at 2,000 was in December 2017 when Permian output was just 2.88mn b/d, almost 2mn b/d below current levels. Clearly there is a limit to how long this DUC drawdown can continue. Well drilling and completion (fracking) are carried out by se...
Volume: 64Issue: 37Published at Fri, 17 Sep 2021 -
India LNG Imports: Q2 Sees Record Volumes For UAE, Egypt & USA As Qatar Keeps Top Spot
...16 when the emirate regularly had an 80% market share is long gone. Qatar’ Q2 market share of 33.8% was the lowest on record (see chart 2). India was Qatar’s top LNG market for 2020, with 10mn tons versus 9.1mn tons for number two South Korea (MEES, 5 March). But Korea, which was number one for 2017...
Volume: 64Issue: 36Published at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 -
Adnoc Drilling Hopes October IPO Will Lay Groundwork For Regional Expansion
...main unchanged. This will be the second IPO of an Adnoc subsidiary, following the 2017 partial listing of retail subsidiary Adnoc Distribution (MEES, 1 December 2017). With Adnoc advancing ambitious expansion plans on both the upstream and downstream front, the energy giant has sought new, of...
Volume: 64Issue: 36Published at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 -
Egypt Gas Grows Ever More Dependent On Zohr
...t whilst output has risen every year since its December 2017 start-up, recent problems saw Zohr output slump from the record 2.96bn cfd hit in Q1 2021 to just 2.60bn cfd for Q2 (MEES, 13 August). And even for the 2020-21 financial year, whilst Egypt’s overall gas output grew 6% to 6.55bn cf...
Volume: 64Issue: 36Published at Fri, 10 Sep 2021