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Algeria To Spend $5.5Bn Expanding Its Oil And Gas Pipeline Network
...17* 137* 323 Expected Capacity By 2011 Number Of Pipelines 13 3 5 18 39 Length (Km) 5,368 1,718 3,...
Volume: 51Issue: 27Published at Mon, 07 Jul 2008 -
Saudi Aramco Details Upstream Progress, Riyadh Updates On Security
...09; 1.2mn b/d of Arab Light from Khurais due by June 2009; and the 900,000 b/d offshore Manifa project due in September 2011. Khursaniyah “will come on-stream in August [2008],” Mr Nasser said. “We are hoping for the end of July, but even with this slight delay, for Khursaniyah we had put in a ve...
Volume: 51Issue: 26Published at Mon, 30 Jun 2008 -
Tunisia Increasingly Gas-Focused As Oil Production Dips
...th compression stations, this pipeline will have a capacity of 3.6 bcm/y and should be ready in 2011. Battling Reservoir Depletion Tunisia has had some success at shoring up its oil output in the last 18 months, with production expected to average 93,000 b/d in 2008, just 2% down on last year. Th...
Volume: 51Issue: 25Published at Mon, 23 Jun 2008 -
Saudi Arabia’s Diversification Plans Take Shape As Ma'aden Receives Financing
...her operations can domestically access all three components, Mr Fallaj added. More than 70% of the project costs are fixed by a lump-sum turnkey (LSTK) contract, with key contractors provided by Germany, China, France, Spain and Finland. The phosphate project is set for completion in 2011. Target ex...
Volume: 51Issue: 24Published at Mon, 16 Jun 2008 -
Kayan Signs Loan Agreement, Breaks Islamic Project Finance Records
...tane from Saudi Aramco, with ethane provided at $0.75/mn BTU and the butane price based on an international benchmark, less a discount which has been fixed at 30% until 2011. “The Saudi Arabian government’s policy is to promote development of a primary and secondary domestic petrochemicals in...
Volume: 51Issue: 23Published at Mon, 09 Jun 2008 -
BG Eyes Egypt’s Deeper Horizons, Still Plans A Third LNG Train At Idku
...e $3bn that it has earmarked for Egypt, up to 2011. Together with its partners in Egypt, BG produces more than 2.3bn cfd of natural gas, out of total Egyptian gas output of 5.7bn cfd (MEES, 17 March). As a gauge of BG’s rapid growth there, it should be noted that the UK firm only started pr...
Volume: 51Issue: 22Published at Mon, 02 Jun 2008 -
MENA Petrochemicals Producers See Ambitious Expansion Plans Held Back By Rising Costs
...ES, 5 March 2007). EMethanex, Damietta EMethanex 60%; Egyptian government 33%; Apicorp 7% 1mn t/y methanol capacity due 2010, additional 260,000 t/y due 2011. Financing closed (MEES, 11 June 2007). Sidi Kerir PE, Bu...
Volume: 51Issue: 21Published at Mon, 26 May 2008 -
Aramco, KPC Take $30Bn Downstream Investment Plunge
...0,000 t/y of benzene and 200,000 t/y of polymer grade propylene, the partners said. Jubail start-up was initially planned for 2011. But costs soared from initial estimates of around $6.3bn, prompting a rework to the front-end design and subsequent delays. By late last year, costs indications had pushed the pr...
Volume: 51Issue: 20Published at Mon, 19 May 2008 -
Algeria To Almost Double Refining Capacity by 2013, Says Sonatrach V-P
...habilitation of our refineries by more than 20%. It means that by 2011 we will have a capacity of 24-25mn tons/year, only by the extension. And we are also moving forward with the world scale refinery in Tiaret.” Algerian domestic oil consumption has risen sharply this decade, from just below 200,000 b/d in...
Volume: 51Issue: 18Published at Mon, 05 May 2008 -
Chinese And Gulf Companies Expand In Sudan, Amid Faltering Political Progress
...dan, a census is taking place that should pave the way for general elections next year, and for the planned referendum in 2011, which would allow the people of southern Sudan to vote on independence. The potential for the CPA to unravel remains dangerously high. Dozens were killed in skirmishes near th...
Volume: 51Issue: 18Published at Mon, 05 May 2008 -
QP’s Shaibi Sees Project Finance As Key To Qatar’s Continued Growth
...ke into consideration significant syndication risk and thus high costs would increase the tariff. This would only work if associated with price flex, which QP is very much against, he said. The $3.5bn Ras Laffan C project, which is expected to supply Qatar with a third of its needs by 2011, re...
Volume: 51Issue: 17Published at Mon, 28 Apr 2008 -
Oman Becomes First Frontier In Gulf Battle For Difficult Oil And Gas
...ift. Last year PDO’s primary oil production was slightly higher than secondary, but by 2011, EOR will start to contribute. In 2016, this will account for one third, with primary and secondary also representing a third apiece (MEES, 18 February). “We have many EOR projects in th...
Volume: 51Issue: 16Published at Mon, 21 Apr 2008 -
Act To Avert Water Crisis, World Bank Urges Arab States, As Food Prices Soar
...hemes are under way across the region. In Algeria, the government is aggressively expanding the country’s desalination infrastructure, with the Ministry of Water Resources hoping to add 2.3mn cu ms/day to existing capacity by 2011. Like the Gulf countries, Algeria suffers from a lack of fresh water, bu...
Volume: 51Issue: 16Published at Mon, 21 Apr 2008 -
Oman Plans To Seek JV Partner For $10-13Bn Al-Duqm Refinery Project
...ach, given that from 2011 onwards the company will be using enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques, with this reaching almost a third of production in 2016 (with primary and secondary also roughly a third apiece). Original targets were for 2011 crude output of 600,000 b/d (MEES, 28 January), but PDO sa...
Volume: 51Issue: 15Published at Mon, 14 Apr 2008 -
Kazakhstan Prepares To Boost Trans-Caspian Crude Shipments
...om Kazakhstan put the cost at $3bn with start-up targeted by 2011 to coincide with the Kashagan oilfield coming on-stream. (See Caspian Sea Region Pipelines, MEES, 17 March, page 23). Subsea Pipeline Option? KazMunaiGaz announced in November 2006 that it would pursue developing the export route at...
Volume: 51Issue: 15Published at Mon, 14 Apr 2008 -
GCC Downstream Drive Ploughs On
...s for power generation and petrochemicals for its Yanbu΄ project, has yet to receive a gas allocation, MEES understands. And the need for gas could delay the project further. With 48-month construction contracts, the projects will likely start up 2012-13, compared to original 2011 target. The Saudi Oi...
Volume: 51Issue: 14Published at Mon, 07 Apr 2008 -
Caspian And Central Asian Export Pipelines Assume Aura Of Most Serious Game
...13 Azerbaijan, Middle East 2 AMBO Bulgaria-Macedonia-Albania 900 750,000-900,000 B/D $1.2-1.5bn 2011 Caspian, Russia 3 BAPline Burgas, Bulgaria-Alexandroupolis, Greece 279 70...
Volume: 51Issue: 11Published at Mon, 17 Mar 2008 -
Algeria Pursues Gas Export Plans Ahead Of Production Hike
...dustrial gas supplier Air Products and Chemicals Inc (APCI) on 22 January. The equipment is due to be delivered in late 2009, with the plant scheduled for completion in 2011. The 4mn tons/year integrated Gassi Touil LNG plant is currently under consideration, with no contracts having been awarded si...
Volume: 51Issue: 10Published at Mon, 10 Mar 2008 -
North Africa Struggles To Meet Soaring Power Demand
...pected to be ready in November 2011 and to cost around $1.6bn (MEES, 21 January), and phase two of the North Cairo power station, which was completed in October 2007 and doubled the plant’s capacity to 1,500mw. High Hopes For Renewables At the inauguration of the North Cairo plant’s expansion last ye...
Volume: 51Issue: 09Published at Mon, 03 Mar 2008 -
UAE Faces Gas Crisis
...ms to boost crude production capacity from 2.8mn b/d to 3.5mn b/d by 2012-15. But serious gas increments will only start to arrive in 2012. And observers of the UAE energy scene view 2011 as a potential crisis year. The first increment is the 1bn cfd Shah ultra-sour gas development, which will pr...
Volume: 51Issue: 08Published at Mon, 25 Feb 2008