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Iraq Aims To Restart Kirkuk-Turkey Pipeline
...lamic State in 2014 (MEES, 5 December 2014), Mr Khudaier says he expects “flows by the end of this month.” Any flows are likely to be small at first, but prior to the shut-in of the Kurdistan Region’s alternative pipeline last year, Federal Iraq was exporting around 100,000 b/d to Turkey....
Volume: 67Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 -
Libya’s Mabruk: 2025 Restart?
...France’s TotalEnergies reveals in its 2023 annual report on 29 March that output at Libya’s Mabruk field will restart next year at best. The field in Libya’s Sirte Basin oil heartland has not produced since being overrun and badly damaged by IS-affiliated militants in December 2014 (MEES, 6 Ma...
Volume: 67Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2024 -
Yemen’s Houthis Revive Threats to Saudi Arabia on Conflict’s Nine-Year Anniversary
...lks and captured the capital Sanaa (MEES, 19 December 2014). But now, nine years later, the battle-hardened Houthis are stronger than ever, having consolidated their positions in Yemen and secured more Iranian backing. As Saudi Arabia has sought to extricate itself from Yemen’s conflict and thaw re...
Volume: 67Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 -
Opec Revenues Fall By $160bn In 2023
...op, revenues were still the second highest on an annual basis since 2014. Last year saw the market stabilize following the disruption caused by Russia’s early-2022 invasion of Ukraine. Russian supply proved robust, US output boomed, and demand growth was historically strong at more than 2mn b/d. But su...
Volume: 67Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 -
China Crude Imports: Russia Well Ahead
...E was down 4% at 808,000 b/d for Jan-Feb for number five, whilst Oman was up 6% at 791,000 b/d for sixth spot. Further down the list of suppliers, volumes from Kuwait were down 34% at 307,000 b/d for the first two months of 2024, with February’s 165,000 b/d the lowest monthly figure since 2014. Th...
Volume: 67Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 -
Poland’s PGNiG To Resume Libya Exploration
...-well campaign were ultimately drilled, with the company announcing gas discoveries in both wells. But the company pulled out its staff and wrote off its entire to-date Libya exploration spend of $137mn as security deteriorated in early 2014 (MEES, 31 January 2014). PGNiG previously pledged to re...
Volume: 67Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 -
Libya Gas Exports At 13-Year Low
...BYA’S ANNUAL GAS EXPORTS TO ITALY: 2023’s VOLUMES WERE ALREADY A POST-REVOLUTION LOW (MN CFD) *ENI LOWERED ITS OFFICIAL CAPACITY FIGURE FROM 11BCM/T TO 8BCM/Y IN 2014. SOURCE: SNAM, ENI, MEES. 3: ENI'S MELLITAH* GAS OUTPUT IS SET TO FALL BUT WILL GET MID-DECADE BOOST FROM BOURI THEN ST...
Volume: 67Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2024 -
Saudi Oil Revenues Stabilize As USA Extends Lead As World’s Top Exporter
...cade. US shale has proven extremely resilient, with a breakeven price comfortably below $50/B, leaving Opec+ producers with the invidious choice of either cutting production or risking a renewed price war such as in 2014-16 when Brent prices dropped below $40/B. If US production growth does indeed sl...
Volume: 67Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2024 -
Qatar Sees Buoyant LNG Demand Outlook As It Sanctions Further Expansion
...oductive layers of the giant field extend towards the west.” The discovery follows a drilling campaign of more than 20 appraisal wells since 2014. “Most recently, QatarEnergy has focused its efforts and attention on determining how far west the North Field extends in order to evaluate the production po...
Volume: 67Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2024 -
Wintershall Libya Assets In Limbo
...renaica Plateau. Though under force majeure since 2014, these are potentially valuable assets, with what was then RWE-Dea making a string of discoveries over the years to Libya’s 2011 revolution (MEES, 22 September 2008). Back in 2012, amid a lull to Libya’s post-revolutionary instability, RWE-Dea sa...
Volume: 67Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2024 -
Kuwait’s Kufpec: 140,000 Boe/D 2026 Target
...pe of gains this year, output is unlikely to top 90,000 boe/d, never mind the official 107,000 boe/d target. Kufpec has a history of massively missing output targets (MEES, 25 April 2014). And, notwithstanding promising Asian discoveries off Indonesia and Malaysia (MEES, 22 September 2023), the on...
Volume: 67Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2024 -
Egypt Upstream Output Set To Fall Further In 2024 As Zohr Slump Continues
...ames the underperformance on an inability to secure sufficient workover rigs. This saw activity fall behind the firm’s plans, with output further hit by “early-life ESP failures in new high-rate wells.” Apache’s rig count averaged 17 last year, the highest since 2014. Apache is guiding for 13-15 rigs th...
Volume: 67Issue: 08Published at Fri, 23 Feb 2024 -
MEES Interview: Iraq’s Deputy Oil Minister For Refining Affairs Hamid Younes
...eir secondary units – with a total nameplate crude processing capacity of 290,000 b/d. The Shamal (North) refinery was the largest at 150,000 b/d, but like the 70,000 b/d capacity Baiji-1 and similarly sized Baiji-2 was destroyed by the Islamic State terrorist group in 2014 (MEES, 26 September 2014...
Volume: 67Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 -
US Output Leaps 1.5mn B/D For 2023, Topping 20mn B/D For The First Time In Q4. Is Peak Output Near?
....93mn b/d and NGLs up 530,000 b/d at 6.43mn b/d, also a record (see chart 1 & p19 for full data). Last year’s gains were the fourth highest ever behind 2.2mn b/d for 2018, 1.8mn b/d for 2019 and 2014’s 1.7mn b/d. Of course, ‘boom’ in those previous cycles rapidly turned to bust as oil prices collapsed: ou...
Volume: 67Issue: 06Published at Fri, 09 Feb 2024 -
Qatar Trade Revenues Fall From 2022 High
...Qatar’s exceptional 2022 revenues from record oil and gas prices subsided in 2023 but its $66bn trade surplus was still the second highest since 2014. With a clear path to further hike earnings, Doha has snagged a credit rating upgrade. Like most hydrocarbon producers Qatar made ex...
Volume: 67Issue: 05Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2024 -
Libya’s ‘Road To 2mn b/d’ Faces Infrastructure Logjam
...Total’s 30,000 b/d Mabruk field which has been offline since being overrun by Islamic State-affiliated militants in 2014 (MEES, 6 March 2015). Though the previous 2023 restart target has been missed (MEES, 31 March 2023), Total’s Pouget listed restart here as a near-term aim. NOC LEADS NEW DE...
Volume: 67Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2024 -
Kufpec Eyes Portfolio Optimization After Exiting Norway & China
...ina, after picking up assets there a decade ago as part of its ambitious plans to become a mid-sized “international National Oil Company” (MEES, 25 April 2014). While some assets acquired at the time have succeeded, many have flopped, and Kufpec now appears intent on debloating its portfolio starting wi...
Volume: 67Issue: 02Published at Fri, 12 Jan 2024 -
US Consolidates Position As World’s Top Oil Exporter
...December 2015 (MEES, 18 December 2015). Over the past decade, liquids exports (crude, NGLs, refined products and biofuels) have more than doubled from just 4.14mn b/d in 2014 to last year’s 10.20mn b/d (see chart 1). With production remaining on its upwards trajectory, exports could rise above 10...
Volume: 67Issue: 01Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2024