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Israel-Egypt Gas ‘By End-Q2’: Is This Realistic?
...URCE: NOBLE ENERGY, DELEK GROUP, MEES. ARBITRATION HURDLE The start of Israel-Egypt gas shipments also requires the resolution of a long-running legal dispute over Cairo halting of gas flows via the EMG to Israel in 2011 (MEES, 11 December 2015). In 2015, the Geneva-based International Ch...
Volume: 62Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2019 -
Libya: Key BP/Eni And Total Deals Yet To Materialize
...,000 km2 acreage – ‘Area A’ and ‘Area B’ in the Ghadames Basin bordering Tunisia and Algeria and a huge offshore block in the Sirte Basin – in 2007 committing to spend at least $900mn and drill 17 wells (MEES, 4 June 2007). But just as BP was to commence offshore and onshore drilling in February 2011...
Volume: 62Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2019 -
Libya’s 2019 Budget: Fact or Fiction?
...Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and the ensuing violence. As if Mr Sanalla didn’t have enough on his plate, the budget only allocates around LD1.3bn ($935mn) for NOC employee wages (see table). Oil workers argue that the government was supposed to grant them a 67% increase in wages in line with a 2013 go...
Volume: 62Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2019 -
Saudi Liquids Burn Edges Up, More Rises To Come?
...eir lowest level since March 2014. Products imports were down across the board, with the kingdom importing no diesel for the first time since January 2011. The upshot was that net-products exports were just shy of December’s record at 1.34mn b/d. And net diesel exports were at an all time high of...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Algeria Oil Project Delayed
...y investment efforts in recent years have focused on EOR at the country’s ageing workhorse Hassi Messaoud field. PTT (24.5%op), China’s CNOOC (24.5%) and Sonatrach (51%) were awarded the Hassi Bir Rekaiz block in 2010, firming-up previously-made discoveries (MEES, 28 July 1997) with a 2011-13 dr...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Spain 2018 Gas Imports: Record 19.5bcm From Algeria But Volumes Slide In Q4
...LF OF 2018: Q4 VOLUMES WERE THE LOWEST SINCE 2011...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Egypt Close To Tapping Aphrodite
...Egypt’s parliament this week passed a law approving the construction of a pipeline from Cyprus’ economic waters, clearing the path for the development of the Mediterranean island’s 4.2tcf December 2011 Aphrodite discovery. MEES understands operator Noble Energy is close to concluding a de...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Egypt Launches Red Sea Bidding
...l in 1908 and source of 239,000 b/d of 2018 output. Most recently US firm Hess drilled a dry well in April 2011 on the Cherry prospect in 700ms water depth on its North Red Sea block which includes acreage in new Blocks 1, 2 and 3. At the time Hess said it was targeting “a potential extension of Gu...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Shell Boosts Egypt Gas Output, Retains LNG Force Majeure
...gas (2.45bcm) for 2018, a five-year high. This is little more than a quarter of 2011 volumes, Shell Egypt country manager Gasser Hanter told MEES in Cairo in February that the firm expects to export 30 LNG cargoes in 2019 after exporting 22 in 2018. SHELL NET EGYPT GAS OUTPUT ROSE LAST YEAR FO...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Lebanon Power Overhaul Gathers Pace
...e table 1) are crucial to boosting growth from the average 1.6% annual GDP growth since 2011. With the world’s third-highest debt-to-GDP ratio (150%), the government is otherwise broke and unable to break the low-investment low-growth cycle that has long plagued it, especially since the 2011 ou...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Algeria’s Regime Under Threat
...volvement in day-to-day government is negligible. Protests against the regime are nothing new. Algerian citizens took to the streets in early 2011 against a backdrop of regime change in neighboring states. They did so again ahead of presidential elections in April 2014, when protestors chanted ‘Ba...
Volume: 62Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2019 -
Exxon Makes ‘World Class’ Cyprus Discovery
...US major ExxonMobil has discovered 5-8tcf of gas on Cyprus offshore Block 10, the third significant gas discovery made off the Mediterranean island since 2011. But there is still no clear route for any of those fields to be developed. The announcement this week by US major ExxonMobil (60...
Volume: 62Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2019 -
Abu Dhabi’s Shah Field Central To Adnoc’s Gas Expansion Strategy
...our stakeholders” says Mr Nasri. This is a far cry from the project’s early days when estimated production costs were a much higher $4-6/mn BTU (MEES, 6 June 2011). SHAH SOUR GAS FIELD SALES GAS OUTPUT* HITS NEW HIGHS IN SECOND HALF OF 2018 (MN CFD) *IMPLIED FROM OXY’S REPORTED NET VO...
Volume: 62Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2019 -
Taiwan Crude Imports Hit 8-Year High, Opec Share At Record Low
...*Taiwan imported 892,500 b/d of crude in 2018, the highest figure since 2010. Imports peaked at 1.046mn b/d in 2006. *Gulf suppliers have not been the beneficiaries of this rise in volumes; the Mideast share of the Taiwan market fell to 77.6%, the lowest level since 2011 (see chart). Vo...
Volume: 62Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2019 -
Australia Challenges Qatar For Taiwan LNG Top Spot: Just The Prelude?
...ll ahead for 2018 as a whole, a seemingly-comfortable 2.1mn tons ahead of number two Malaysia with Australia a further 230,000mn tons behind in third place (see data, p22). That said Qatar’s 4.89mn tons for 2018 was down almost 8% on 2017 and the lowest annual figure since 2011. Qatar’s 29% market sh...
Volume: 62Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2019 -
Gulf Loses Patience With Sudan
...an 450,000 b/d prior to the secession of South Sudan to 115,000 b/d in late 2011 and has fallen further since. The government puts current production at between 70,000-75,000 b/d; even this is probably an overestimate, says Mr Elhaj. On 13 February the Sudanese pound fell to a record low of SP 83 to...
Volume: 62Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2019 -
Upstream Investment: Is ‘More For Less’ The New Normal?
...E HIGHEST SINCE 2016 3: SAUDI ARABIA RIG COUNT: JANUARY’S OFFSHORE TOTAL OF 25 IS UP 7 YEAR-ON-YEAR AND JUST ONE OFF THE ALL-TIME HIGH SET IN APRIL 2015 4: MIDDLE EAST RIG COUNT SOARED IN 2011-14 WITH $100/B-PLUS CRUDE AND HAS CONTINUED TO EDGE HIGHER SINCE SO...
Volume: 62Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2019 -
Iran Exports: Korea Restart Amid French Euro-Hope
...17 *TURKEY DEC FIGURE is ESTIMATE BASED ON SHIPPING DATA AND REUTERS REPORTS. ^^FRANCE, AUSTRIA INCLUDED IN 'OTHER EU' FOR 2011, 2012. SOURCE: NATIONAL IMPORT STATISTICS, REUTERS, BLOOMBERG, MEES....
Volume: 62Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2019 -
IOCs ‘Exclude’ Libya From 2019 Plans
...6mn b/d by end-2019 – a level last reached before the 2011 revolution (see chart 1) – and ultimately 2.1mn b/d by 2021. But the outlook remains bleak. The central bank and internationally-recognized government based in Tripoli have yet to agree a 2019 budget, whilst the key 315,000 b/d-capacity El Sh...
Volume: 62Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2019 -
Spain: Record Opec Crude…
...lumes hit a quarterly record of 823,000 b/d in Q4. Despite zero buying for the last two months of 2018, Iranian volumes, at 97,000 b/d, were their highest since 2011. Those from Iraq were also up at 94,000 b/d, boosting overall Gulf volumes to a 7-year high of 342,000 b/d (see p24 for chart and full da...
Volume: 62Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2019