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Ras Laffan Port Expansion Plans Sees Up To 10 Berths For LNG, Other Liquids
...rt would be handling up to 3,000 ships per year for the export of LNG and other liquids. “With six new LNG trains being built to boost exports to 77mn tons/year by 2011, the port is now undergoing an extensive reconstruction program to handle the increased volume of LNG and associated liquid pr...
Volume: 50Issue: 03Published at Mon, 15 Jan 2007 -
UAE Unveils $7.7Bn Balanced Budget For 2007
...Khurbash pointed out that this year’s budget was more coordinated than in previous years and defined implementation methods for projects from 2007 to 2011 under new procedures which come into effect this year. Allocations for current expenditure include Dh7.110bn ($1.94bn – 33% of the total) fo...
Volume: 50Issue: 03Published at Mon, 15 Jan 2007 -
CITIC Completes Purchase Of Nations Energy Kazakh Assets
...shore blocks in Uzbekistan, China’s Ministry of Commerce said on 29 December. The license was awarded to CNPC’s China National Oil & Gas Exploration and Development Corporation on 22 December. The company will invest some $200mn to drill 27 wells in an exploration area covering 3.4 sq km by 2011...
Volume: 50Issue: 01/02Published at Mon, 08 Jan 2007 -
Chinese Firm, Egyptian Companies Form Joint Venture For Rig Construction
...e partners are to each hold 25%. A construction schedule for the company calls for three rigs to be built in 2007, eight in 2008, 10 in 2009, 15 in 2010 and 20 in 2011. The rigs are to be used in Egypt and throughout the Middle East and Africa. Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy first di...
Volume: 50Issue: 01/02Published at Mon, 08 Jan 2007 -
Caspian/Iraq Export Pipelines
...05). Work on the mid-section (Kenkiyak-Kumkol) set for 2011 start. Expansion to 400,000 b/d capacity likely, to meet Kazakh oil output rise. 14. Atyrau-Kuryk Crude Oil Pipeline. Kazakhstan’s KazTransOil operates domestic pipeline between Aktau – from where some crude oil exported – and Atyrau, ru...
Volume: 49Issue: 52Published at Mon, 25 Dec 2006 -
Energy Security Ties Between East Asia And Central Asia: Power Games Or Partnership
...ina pipeline plan fell off the table around 2003 due, perhaps, to the intervention by Japan. The Kazakh-China oil pipeline construction started in September 2004. The first phase was completed in December 2005 (960km), and the total pipeline will be completed by 2011, stretching over 3,000km. Cu...
Volume: 49Issue: 51Published at Mon, 18 Dec 2006 -
Pars LNG And China Sign 3Mn T/Y Preliminary LNG Supply Agreement
...rst deliveries in 2011 (MEES, 10 July). Iran’s efforts to secure combined upstream/LNG sales agreements with China and India have so far not succeeded because of LNG pricing differences (MEES, 4 December)....
Volume: 49Issue: 50Published at Mon, 11 Dec 2006 -
Audit Bureau Highlights Strategic Failures In Kuwait’s Oil And Gas Sector
...mmissioning of the fourth refinery and the closure of the ageing Shu'aiba plant will be to lift national refining capacity from 930,000 b/d now to 1.5mn b/d by 2011, implying that the expansions will lift the two existing plants’ capacity by 150,000 b/d collectively. The fourth refinery is expected to come on-st...
Volume: 49Issue: 49Published at Mon, 04 Dec 2006 -
Saudi Aramco Making Good Headway On Gas Exploration
...celeration with which gas exploration and development are being pursued – a program that will see the company drilling more than 40 wells a year by 2010, he said. Under current Saudi Aramco plans, gas well completions will rise from 35 in 2006 to 70 in 2011, with exploration wells up from nine in 2006 to 15...
Volume: 49Issue: 48Published at Mon, 27 Nov 2006 -
Jazan Export Refinery Opens Way For Selective Saudi Private Participation
...investments leading to over-capacity. “The fate of projects beyond 2011 will be determined to a great extent by the performance of the industry in the coming few years,” he said. With the Middle East showing the highest ratio of new-build refineries to existing plants the dangers of ov...
Volume: 49Issue: 48Published at Mon, 27 Nov 2006 -
MENA Refiners’ Capacity Expansion Program Gathers Momentum In 2006
...ports. The program includes the construction of three new refineries: a three-train 360,000 b/d condensate splitter plant at Bandar Abbas expected on-stream in 2009; a second crude oil refinery at Bandar Abbas, with throughput capacity of 300,000 b/d, scheduled for completion in 2011 and intended to ha...
Volume: 49Issue: 48Published at Mon, 27 Nov 2006 -
Saudi Aramco To Double Khursaniyah Gas Plant Capacity To Handle Offshore Karan Field Gas
...e end of this decade will tap some of the kingdom’s heavier crude reserves,” he said, referring to the Manifa increment due on-stream in 2011. He said the slate of crude increment projects would enable Saudi Aramco to maintain spare capacity of at least 1.5-2mn b/d above and beyond forecast pr...
Volume: 49Issue: 46Published at Mon, 13 Nov 2006 -
SABIC, ExxonMobil Chemical To Study Petrochemicals Expansion
...dustries Corporation (SABIC) and ExxonMobil Chemical on 5 November announced that they had started working on a feasibility study on a project that would expand their two joint petrochemical ventures at Yanbu΄ and Jubail. The project, with start-up in 2011, would target a domestic supply of carbon black an...
Volume: 49Issue: 46Published at Mon, 13 Nov 2006 -
Foster Wheeler Awarded FEED/PMS Contracts For Manifa Project
...0,000 End-2008 17 April Nuayyim 100,000 2008 25 April 2005 Khurais 1,200,000 2009 6 March Manifa 900,000 2011 6 No...
Volume: 49Issue: 45Published at Mon, 06 Nov 2006 -
Market Risks In A Changing LNG World: Exploring Alternative Mitigation Strategies For MENA Projects
...G The strong demand outlook has encouraged LNG expansion in Qatar, Oman and Egypt. New projects are expected in Yemen, Algeria, and possibly Libya.3 The resulting additional capacity due to come on stream between 2007 and 2011 in the Arab world will be 74mn tons/year, 69% of which is in Qatar (Ta...
Volume: 49Issue: 44Published at Mon, 30 Oct 2006 -
Saudi Arabia Targets 12.5Mn B/D Oil Capacity By 2009, Says Naimi
...pacity added in 2011. Manifa, which was discovered in 1958 and plugged in 1980, is problematic because of the high sulfur content in its Arab Heavy crude oil (28° API) reserves (MEES, 4 September). Saudi Arabia says its oil production capacity now stands at 11.3mn b/d following the inauguration of th...
Volume: 49Issue: 38Published at Mon, 18 Sep 2006 -
QP Urges LNG Lenders To Accept More Risk As Pricing, Spot Sales Evolve
...ock of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) costs. While QP has not given clear indications on the length of the moratorium, Mr Kharbotli emphasized that LNG “has been and still is the bulk of QP’s investment.” Qatargas and RasGas (which will have a combined capacity of 77.2mn t/y by 2011...
Volume: 49Issue: 38Published at Mon, 18 Sep 2006 -
Iran Launches Strategy To Reduce Gasoline Imports As Sanctions Threat Looms
...0 B/D) Abadan Upgrade 2008 360 - 360 Replacement of 180,000 b/d crude units. New 45,000 b/d FCC Abadan New Refinery 2011...
Volume: 49Issue: 37Published at Mon, 11 Sep 2006 -
Nama Selects Petronas As Partner For Private Jubail Export Refinery
...ovisionally scheduled for start-up in 2011 (MEES, 15 May). In August, Saudi Aramco announced initial contracts for a separate 400,000 b/d refinery in Jubail that it is developing in partnership with Total, while a similar plant is under development in partnership with ConocoPhillips in Yanbuʹ (MEES, 28 August)....
Volume: 49Issue: 37Published at Mon, 11 Sep 2006 -
ENPPI, Saudi Aramco Sign Contract On Safaniya Water Disposal Upgrade
...ntract to execute the Safaniyah Water Disposal System Upgrade Project. The project will expand the Safaniyah Arabian Heavy Crude and Utilities Plants to maintain the plant’s crude oil demand until 2011, said Saudi Aramco. It will add a low-pressure producing trap capable of the three-phase separation of oi...
Volume: 49Issue: 37Published at Mon, 11 Sep 2006