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Libya’s Limited Infrastructure Hampers Gas Expansion Plans
...10 bcm/y, is due to be expanded to 11bcm by 2011 at a cost of €84mn. It appears that there is no shortage of Libyan gas to fill the country’s only gas export pipeline, and certainly no shortage of buying interest in Italy, where Eni has brought forward plans to increase pipeline supplies of na...
Volume: 50Issue: 28Published at Mon, 09 Jul 2007 -
Iran Invites Pakistan And India To Sign Pipeline Agreement Despite Outstanding Issues
...rvice on 30 June, Mr Ghanimifard said the signing could take place by end-July or in August, with construction costs estimated at $7.4bn and deliveries to start as early as 2011. However, Pakistan and India have still to agree on the transportation tariff for India’s gas across Pakistan (MEES, 7 Ma...
Volume: 50Issue: 28Published at Mon, 09 Jul 2007 -
Qatar To Issue Tender For New Refinery For Increased Shaheen Field Oil Output
...tput is being ramped up by operator Maersk. According to Oil Minister 'Abd Allah al-'Attiyah, technical and feasibility studies for the plant have been completed. The refinery is planned to come on-stream in 2011, he said on 24 June. In 2005, Maersk launched a $3bn plan to raise production from th...
Volume: 50Issue: 27Published at Mon, 02 Jul 2007 -
Marib Refinery Capacity To Be Increased To 25,000 B/D
...dhramawt and at al-Mukalla, to be wholly-owned by foreign companies that will have the freedom to sell products in local market as well as export them. Discussions with prospective investors are expected to be concluded by 2008 and construction completed by 2011 (MEES, 22 January)....
Volume: 50Issue: 27Published at Mon, 02 Jul 2007 -
KNPC Launches Revised Tender For Fourth Refinery
...5,000 b/d refinery at al-Zour in the south of the country. Bidders have until 3 July to submit an expression of interest, with KNPC expecting to make an award in the fourth quarter with the intention of achieving completion and start-up in 2011. The move follows the failure of a first tender launched in 20...
Volume: 50Issue: 26Published at Mon, 25 Jun 2007 -
CIOC Announces Kazakh Approval For Work Program In North-West Zhetybai Field
...nstruction is set to begin in 2008 and the pipeline is due to be in operation by 2011. Capacity could reach 25-31 bcm/year by 2020. Lukoil intends to invest $3bn by 2012 to build a gas processing facility and 10 retail filling stations in the Russian republic of Kalmykia on the Caspian Sea, ac...
Volume: 50Issue: 25Published at Mon, 18 Jun 2007 -
General Electric Wins Compressors Order For Pearl GTL
...veloped by Qatar Shell GTL, is designed to produce a total of 140,000 b/d of synthetic fuels and chemicals. Phase 1 of the project is scheduled to start in 1Q 2010 and Phase 2 in 2011, with each phase producing 70,000 b/d of liquids....
Volume: 50Issue: 25Published at Mon, 18 Jun 2007 -
BG Focused On Selling Gaza Gas To Israel After Cabinet Approval
...art-up is now envisaged in 2011. The project is expected to generate around $1bn in much needed revenue for the Palestinian Authority. The expected overall costs of implementing the project are still put at around $750mn, a figure that BG came up with more than a year ago. But competition from th...
Volume: 50Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2007 -
GdF Looks At Gas Projects In Azerbaijan
...ude oil pipeline could rise to 1.6mn b/d by 2011, with the construction of additional pumping stations. BP is to decide during the third quarter of 2007 whether to introduce a drag reduction agent to boost capacity to 1.2mn b/d. Pipeline operator BP is negotiating with producers in Kazakhtan ab...
Volume: 50Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2007 -
Suez Rig Plant Inaugurated
...06). Three drilling rigs are to be manufactured by the end of 2007, and production capacity will expand gradually, according to the work program, for up to seven rigs in 2008, 10 in 2009, 15 in 2010, and 20 in 2011....
Volume: 50Issue: 23Published at Mon, 04 Jun 2007 -
Iranian Cabinet Approves Plan For Kerman Province Petrochemicals Plants
...C) plant at Jiroft; a 300,000 t/y PVC plant at Bardsir; a 600,000 t/y PVC plant at Baft; and a 300,000 t/y polyethylene (PE) plant at Bam. NPC will have a 30% equity stake in the cracker, with the rest to be offered to private investors. The downstream plants are intended to be built during 2011...
Volume: 50Issue: 23Published at Mon, 04 Jun 2007 -
QP Signs MOU To Build Refinery In Tunisia
...e director of refining at the Tunisian Energy Ministry Brahim Lajimi. “Supplying the rest of the oil is QP’s problem,” Mr Lajimi told MEES. The refinery, whose production will be destined for both local and external markets, is due to be completed in 2011. Tunisia’s 34,000 b/d Bizerte refinery is...
Volume: 50Issue: 23Published at Mon, 04 Jun 2007 -
Algeria Aims To Hike LNG Exports To US Despite Project Delays
...vel by 2010 (MEES, 7 November 2005). With both LNG projects originally scheduled for completion in 2009, but now not expected to be complete until 2011 at the earliest, these latest export targets appear unlikely to be met unless LNG commitments to other buyers are displaced in favor of the US ma...
Volume: 50Issue: 22Published at Mon, 28 May 2007 -
Kuwait Doubles Budget For Al-Zour Refinery Project
...rry out a new tender for the project in July, based on a cost plus profit basis. Delays to tendering the venture have pushed back planned start-up from 2010 to 2011. “Kuwait Petroleum Corporation’s (KPC) board of directors has approved the additional funds required and the way forward to implement th...
Volume: 50Issue: 20Published at Mon, 14 May 2007 -
Kazakhstan And Japan Sign 24 Uranium, Nuclear Energy Agreements
...peline is designed to ship up to 900,000 b/d across the Balkans from Bulgaria’s Black Sea port of Burgas to the Albanian port of Vlore on the Adriatic Sea, a distance of 900km. AMBO is to be complete by 2011. In January, officials from Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria signed an accord endorsing th...
Volume: 50Issue: 19Published at Mon, 07 May 2007 -
Ma'aden, Alcan Sign HOA For Proposed $7Bn Integrated Aluminum Joint Venture
...dustrial City at Ras al-Zour. First metal would be expected during the first quarter of 2011, and first alumina a year later. Next steps will include completing the joint venture agreement and pursuing project financing arrangements for capital costs, Alcan said....
Volume: 50Issue: 19Published at Mon, 07 May 2007 -
OMV’s Iran LNG Deal Sees Supply Diversification Supersede Nuclear Diplomacy
...rminal in Croatia, in which it is a shareholder. According to OMV’s current plans, the Croatian terminal should become operational in 2011-12 and Iran, with its substantial gas reserves, could be a source of supply. The Iran agreement comes just months after OMV-led Austrian joint venture EconGas si...
Volume: 50Issue: 18Published at Mon, 30 Apr 2007 -
Demand Growth Has Changed Radically, Says Fesharaki
...avy: Limited scope. Maximum annual contribution of, say, 150,000-200,000 b/d. Nothing is better than market transparency and efficiency (futures market, eg DME, cafe standards, etc). Refining Surplus But Less Crude There is a potential refining surplus looming by 2011-13. The surplus will be cr...
Volume: 50Issue: 18Published at Mon, 30 Apr 2007 -
Stirring The Blends
...2 1,099 2009 634 562 975 2010 528 510 850 2011 451 463 745 2012 364 389 618 Table 2 Cargoes Per Year Forties Flotta To...
Volume: 50Issue: 17Published at Mon, 23 Apr 2007 -
Iranian LNG Project Schedules Expected To Slip Further
...derstands that the first possible start-up date for Persian LNG might have slipped by a year. The Total-led Pars LNG project was until recently scheduled to start up in 2011, while Shell had expected Persian LNG exports would begin in 2011-12. Although Iran has repeatedly announced of late that Total an...
Volume: 50Issue: 16Published at Mon, 16 Apr 2007