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Sonatrach Hails LNG Production Landmark
...e at Skikda, with one more being built at each terminal. The 4.5mn tons/year train being built at Skikda by US firm KBR is due for completion in November 2011, while the new 4.7mn t/y facility at Arzew, that Italy’s Snamprogetti and Japan’s Chiyoda recently won the EPC contract for, is to begin op...
Volume: 51Issue: 39Published at Mon, 29 Sep 2008 -
Europe Strengthens Energy Links With Africa, Despite Security Challenges
...rm is developing, and which are now expected to come on-stream in 2011, lie just next to Eni’s existing assets. FCP said earlier this year that the block’s gas processing plant would have an initial planned capacity of 260mn cfd of gas and 20,000 b/d of liquids (MEES, 31 March). Over the last ye...
Volume: 51Issue: 38Published at Mon, 22 Sep 2008 -
A Lesson Learned?
...an current demand. If their demand estimate for 2011 were adjusted downward by the 10% suggested by the 1980s experience, with a resumption of a 1% growth thereafter, the requirements for OPEC crude would be reduced to the point that the OPEC members would again be squabbling and cheating on qu...
Volume: 51Issue: 38Published at Mon, 22 Sep 2008 -
Eni To Purchase First Calgary Petroleums
...tural gas. The Italian major estimates that the acquisition of FCP will increase its reserves by approximately 190mn boe of proven and probable (2P) reserves within its own Algerian portfolio. Production in the block is scheduled to come on-stream in 2011 with a plateau of Eni’s share production re...
Volume: 51Issue: 37Published at Mon, 15 Sep 2008 -
Lukoil To Bring GdF Into Yamala Block Exploration
...ploration phase of the license by 2011. GdF will cover 15% of costs already incurred. The PSA work obligations include the drilling of two wells and the acquisition of 2D and 3D seismic data....
Volume: 51Issue: 37Published at Mon, 15 Sep 2008 -
NIOC To Bring In Chinese Heavy Oil Expertise
...heavy crude oil: “The refinery is at the basic engineering designing phase, with 5% of physical progress completed.” The unit is scheduled to become operational in 2011 (MEES, 14 April 2008)....
Volume: 51Issue: 36Published at Mon, 08 Sep 2008 -
NPC Earmarks 20 Subsidiary Companies For Privatization
...onomic Commission Allocates Extra €370Mn For Completion Of Petrochemical Plants Iran’s Economic Commission has increased funding for the Kavian, Mahabad and Lorestan petrochemical projects in order to ensure their completion by the existing 2011 deadline, Mehr News Agency reported on 3 September. Th...
Volume: 51Issue: 36Published at Mon, 08 Sep 2008 -
Iran’s Oil And Gas Export Earnings Up 32% To $81.8Bn In March 2008
...670 1390 (2011-12) 2.210 1391 (2012-13) onwards 6.844...
Volume: 51Issue: 36Published at Mon, 08 Sep 2008 -
Parsons Brinckerhoff Appointed Owner’s Engineer For Qatar’s Ras Laffan C IWWP
...tar, the company announced on 19 August. Ras Laffan C is being developed on a fast-track basis to help meet the demand for electricity in Qatar, which is rising at the rate of about 17% annually. Located in Ras Laffan Industrial City, the project will produce some 2.73gw of power beginning in 2011 an...
Volume: 51Issue: 36Published at Mon, 08 Sep 2008 -
The Georgia-Russia Standoff And The Future Of Caspian And Central Asian Energy Supplies
...rst successful new oil export project. The 3,000km Atyrau-Alashankou oil pipeline is scheduled to be completed in several stages by 2011 and is projected to bring around 200,000 b/d of Caspian oil to China (20mn tons/year annually, with the potential to reach 50mn t/y). 5. For a thorough as...
Volume: 51Issue: 36Published at Mon, 08 Sep 2008 -
Egyptian Gas Plans Unfold, Despite Growing Concerns Over Domestic Supplies
...ound 2tcf of gas and 180mn barrels of condensate, according to EGAS, although its appraisal is ongoing. BG, Egypt’s largest foreign gas producer, also has a $3bn investment program up to 2011, mostly targeting the development of its two producing offshore concessions in the Mediterranean deep wa...
Volume: 51Issue: 35Published at Mon, 01 Sep 2008 -
GDF Suez, GIC Awarded $2Bn Al Dur 1 IWPP Contract
...wer and water purchase agreement for Al Dur 1 independent water and power project (IWPP) in Bahrain. Phase 1 of the project, to be developed on a BOO (build, own, operate) basis, will start in the summer of 2010, with full capacity to be achieved in summer 2011. Al Dur 1 is expected to start de...
Volume: 51Issue: 35Published at Mon, 01 Sep 2008 -
Political Comment (1 September 2008)
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LI No 34 25-Aug-2008 Political Comment (1 September 2008) Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has stated that in the negotiations on a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) the US and Iraq have agreed on a 2011 deadline for the withdrawal of US fo...
Volume: 51Issue: 35Published at Mon, 01 Sep 2008 -
Iraq’s TSA Contracts Postponed Awaiting Cabinet Approval, KRG Projects Progressing
...lumes of 3.5 bcm/year are expected to flow from 2011, possibly increasing to more than 10 bcm/y. “The Inci Gaz companies plan to make the necessary infrastructure investments to transport and supply the natural gas to the Turkish market and potential foreign consumers,” a statement said. “Now Eu...
Volume: 51Issue: 34Published at Mon, 25 Aug 2008 -
Samsung Engineering Wins EPC Contract For Bahrain Base Oil Plant
...l shipping port exists, will have a capacity of 400,000 tons/year of very high viscosity index (VHVI) base oil for use in lubricants blending, and is scheduled to be completed by April 2011. Total investment in the project is expected be around $430mn. The contract is Samsung’s first in Ba...
Volume: 51Issue: 34Published at Mon, 25 Aug 2008 -
Sudan Appoints Abyei Administration Amid Tentative Signs Of Political Progress
...ntrol Risks Group Wolfram Lacher. “But it does represent a positive development, and suggests that cooperation between both sides is improving.” Presidential and parliamentary elections, to be held between January and April of next year, leading to the referendum on southern independence in 2011, ar...
Volume: 51Issue: 33Published at Mon, 18 Aug 2008 -
Greece Emerges As Major Gas Player With Participation In South Stream Pipeline
...ropean market. On 16 April Iraq’s Oil Minister Husain al-Shahristani promised to export at least 5 bcm/y of gas to the European market by 2011, according to a statement issued by Mr Piebalgs’ office. Dr Shahristani did not specify the routing through which exports would reach Europe or the pr...
Volume: 51Issue: 33Published at Mon, 18 Aug 2008 -
Agrium, Egyptian Government Reach Agreement On Eagrium Project
...pacity to approximately 2mn t/y of urea. Agrium’s share of production would be 175,000 t/y of urea until the expansion is complete in 2011, after which it would increase to approximately 525,000 t/y. “We anticipate earning contributions to commence in the fourth quarter of this year. The original Ea...
Volume: 51Issue: 33Published at Mon, 18 Aug 2008 -
Nematzadeh Announces Finalization Of Contract For New Condensate Refinery
...ndensate splitters, is expected to start up in 2011 (MEES, 14 April)....
Volume: 51Issue: 33Published at Mon, 18 Aug 2008 -
MENA LNG Production Limited By Rising Local Demand And Ageing Facilities
...mpletion until 2011 and 2012 respectively (MEES, 4 August). LNG Plants Competing For Gas A relative newcomer to the LNG industry, Egypt made a dramatic entrance with the commissioning in 2005 of two 3.6mn t/y trains at Idku and one 5mn t/y train at Damietta. The Egyptian LNG (ELNG) trains at Idku, jo...
Volume: 51Issue: 32Published at Mon, 11 Aug 2008