1. IEA’s Medium-Term Outlook: More Comfortable Spare Oil Production Capacity By 2011

    ...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. XLIX No 30 24-Jul-2006 SUPPLY/DEMAND IEA’s Medium-Term Outlook: More Comfortable Spare Oil Production Capacity By 2011 The International Energy Agency (IEA) pu...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 30
    Published at Mon, 24 Jul 2006
  2. Oryx GTL Plant Inaugurated But Clouds Gather Over Industry’s Expansion Plans

    ...y continue) would raise serious questions over the viability of ExxonMobil’s planned 154,000 b/d GTL project, which is provisionally due for start-up in 2011. Statements of intent between QP and Marathon for a 120,000 b/d plant and with ConocoPhillips for a 160,000 b/d project have already been fr...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 12 Jun 2006
  3. Adco, ADMA-Opco Concessions To Be Renewed On Similar Terms

    ...arns. Shareholders want to at least start discussions on renewing concessions before committing to ADNOC’s capital intensive upstream expansion plans, which envisage production capacity rising from 2.7mn b/d at the end of this year to 3.5mn b/d in 2011 (MEES, 8 May). Moreover, recent comments by Abu Dh...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 05 Jun 2006
  4. Qatar To Focus On Optimizing Existing Projects After 2010

    ...ich is provisionally due for start-up in 2011. While cost is one of the more obvious hurdles for Qatar’s decision-makers, QP’s internal debate about the longer-term strategy for gas use is also beginning to make itself felt....

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 18
    Published at Mon, 01 May 2006
  5. MENA, China And India Dominate Proposals For Global Refining Capacity Expansion

    ...pacity On-stream Comments Algeria Tiaret 300 2011 New plant, bidding under way (MEES, 10 April). Egypt Port Said/Da...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 16
    Published at Mon, 17 Apr 2006
  6. Egypt Aiming To Double Gas Exports, Add 30 TCF Gas Reserves By 2011, Says Fahmy

    ...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. XLIX No 11 13-March-2006 EGYPT Egypt Aiming To Double Gas Exports, Add 30 TCF Gas Reserves By 2011, Says Fahmy Egypt aims to double gas exports – through expansion of its two LNG plants and increasing sales through the Arab Gas Pipeline (AG...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 11
    Published at Mon, 13 Mar 2006
  7. Qatar Reiterates Hold On New Gas Commitments As Price Pressures Increase

    ...ports hit 77mn tons/year in 2011. He also emphasized Qatar’s commitment to diversification – which has led to pipeline gas supplies to neighboring GCC countries through the Dolphin project and three major GTL projects which will produce 300,000 b/d by 2010, as well as gas use in downstream industry, po...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 09
    Published at Mon, 27 Feb 2006
  8. Impact Of Caspian Shelf Crude Production On World A Decade Away

    ...heduled to begin in late 2006 and Phase 1 development is to reach a level of 8.4bcm/y by 2011. Subsequent development will increase production to 16bcm/y. Gas will be exported and delivered to Turkey and Georgia via the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) beginning late 2006. Later gas deliveries will ex...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 04
    Published at Mon, 23 Jan 2006
  9. Yemen Expedites Exploration Activity As Decline In Oil Production Continues

    ...d plans to drill 20-40 wells annually. During 2005 Nexen plans to invest $70mn to drill at least 20 wells and test deeper horizons where there has been recent success. It has the right to produce oil in Masila until 2011 and to negotiate a five-year extension. Nexen also has a controlling (87.5%) st...

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 41
    Published at Mon, 10 Oct 2005
  10. Future Of Sudan’s Oil Sector Remains Uncertain Despite Political Progress

    ...ar al-Bashir, ending the pre-interim period agreed in January’s peace deal, and beginning the six-year interim period which is intended to end in 2011 with a referendum in the south on self-determination. On 19 July, Dr Garang dissolved the administrative structures in the south ahead of the fo...

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 31
    Published at Mon, 01 Aug 2005
  11. Gulf States Invest In Green Petroleum Products

    ...erations in Qatar. Shell’s Pearl project aims to produce 70,000 b/d of clean GTL distillates by 2009, doubling in size later, while ExxonMobil has signed a preliminary accord for a plant to produce 154,000 b/d starting in 2011. GTL “is a technology for the future,” Alex Forbes, the editor of a sp...

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 31
    Published at Mon, 01 Aug 2005
  12. Qatar Cautious On GTL Development Timings As EPC Costs Soar 40-50%

    ...d. An EPC is scheduled to be awarded in 2Q 2007 with commercial start-up set for 1Q 2011....

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 21
    Published at Mon, 23 May 2005