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IEA Rolls Up Sleeves In Run-Up To Climate Conference
...llion (ppm) by 2030 – a level deemed synonymous with limiting global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels. The IEA claims the transition to a low-carbon world is under way, citing the introduction of policies such as the US Clean Energy Act and China’s plans to start a carbon trading scheme in 2017...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
More Pain To Come As Iea Sees $80/B ‘Rebalance’ But Not Till 2020
...2015-2020 CHANGE IN US TIGHT OIL OUTPUT AT VARIOUS OIL PRICES* (MN B/D) MARKET TO REBALANCE IN 2016? 2017? Mr Falih, the UAE’s Mr Mazru’i and Opec’s Mr Badri all are forecasting that balance will be restored to the global oil market in 2016. Mr Badri says that he ex...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
Apache Hits Egypt Output Record Despite Capex Cuts
...s output of 4.2bn cfd (see graph). Apache’s Egyptian gas output peaked at 918mn cfd in Q4 2013. Eni is Egypt’s top net gas producer with 650mn cfd, almost double Apache’s net 365mn cfd, and is set to surge ahead with the planned 2017 start-up of its giant 30 tcf Zohr discovery (MEES, 6 No...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
McDermott Sees Brownfield Shift In Gulf Contract Awards
...llhead jackets. Installation of two jackets in the Bul-Hanine field offshore east of Doha has been scheduled to be completed by December 2016 with the remaining two scheduled for completion in July 2017.” This month Qatari LNG producer RasGas awarded McDermott EPCI work on a flow assurance and looping pr...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
Jordan Budgets For Ambitious 2016 Spending, Revenue Hike
...14 and JD520mn in 2015, and that Jordan will receive a further JD460mn in 2016 and JD400mn in 2017. But the draft 2016 budget omits a tranche of the $1.25bn originally pledged by Qatar after the latter failed to honor its pledge in the past year. Mr Tuqan blames this shortfall for the near doubling of...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
Egypt’s Waning Gas Output Receives Nile Delta Boost
...EGYPT Rising Nile Delta gas output offers the promise of relief to ongoing shortages. Egypt’s gas output has fallen every quarter since Q3 2012, dropping to just 4.2bn cfd in the third quarter of this year. A significant hike is unlikely before late 2017 when Cairo hopes to have st...
Volume: 58Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2015 -
Chevron Optimistic On Neutral Zone, But Not Till 2017
...KUWAIT Chevron is optimistic that production at the Wafra field in Saudi Arabia and Kuwaitís shared Neutral Zone will resume by 2017. However, cost cutting measures in the face of sustained low oil prices threaten further delays to planned steamflood injection at the field. Chevron CE...
Volume: 58Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2015 -
BG’s Egypt Decline Expected To Continue As Shell Takeover Nears
...rst ever cargo to Egypt during Q3. Egypt has now signed up to import a total of 167 cargoes until 2020 by which time it hopes to gain energy independence, following the discovery of the 30 tcf Zohr gas field by Italian firm Eni in August and UK firm BP’s West Nile Delta project coming online in 2017 (ME...
Volume: 58Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2015 -
S&P Downgrades Saudi, Riyadh Rejects Assessment
...mpromized political and economic stability, the agency says. Absent a strong increase in oil prices, S&P forecasts that Saudi Arabia’s fiscal deficit will only gradually narrow in the coming years: to 10% of GDP in 2016, 8% in 2017 and 5% in 2018, as planned fiscal consolidation measures begin to gain tr...
Volume: 58Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2015 -
Saudi Economy Will Remain Coupled To Oil Prices
...en “based on planned fiscal consolidation measures” the deficit will be 10% of GDP in 2016, 8% in 2017 and 5% in 2018 “absent a rebound in oil prices,” S&P adds (see p18). NO GOOD OPTIONS Unlike previous episodes of oil price decline, Saudi Arabia has maintained oil output despite the 60% fa...
Volume: 58Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2015 -
BP, Eni Race For First Gas From Egypt Acreage
...pects first WND output in early 2017 as opposed to the original mid-2017 estimate. Initial output will be 450mn cfd rising to 600mn cfd at end-2017 and 1.2bn cfd plateau output by end-2019, he says. BP has spent the last 12 months optimizing its development plan, CEO Bob Dudley told investors during th...
Volume: 58Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2015 -
IEA Chief Warns Against Aggressive Capex Cuts
...stream spending would be unprecedented. BP CAPEX CUTS Oil and gas majors have reported further cuts. BP, reporting its Q3 results on 26 October, said it has reduced its full-year capex for the third time this year. BP expects annual capital spending to remain at $17-19bn until 2017, well down on it...
Volume: 58Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2015 -
Qatar Out To Woo LNG Customers In Face Of Increased Competition
...cording to analysts from Energy Aspects. The London-based group expects Japanese LNG imports to fall by 2.7mn tons in 2015, mostly due to milder weather, before falling by another 1.1mn tons in 2016 and by 1.9mn tons in 2017. INDIA… POLAND… Meanwhile, India has been taking less contracted LNG from Qa...
Volume: 58Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2015 -
European Oil Firms Stand Up And Get Counted In Tehran
...ggests the domestic economic activity could “accelerate markedly” following sanctions relief, the IMF says, with the recovery in oil production and exports providing the main boost. The IMF sees real GDP growth hitting 5.5% in 2016-17 and 2017-18, before slowing to 3.5-4% in the years that follow. “We...
Volume: 58Issue: 43Published at Fri, 23 Oct 2015 -
Egypt: Zohr Mega-Find Spurs Regional Gas Hub Ambitions
...ill three appraisal wells by the end of 2016, which, presuming they are successful, will then become production wells enabling first phase output of 700mn cfd from late 2017 or early 2018. Output would then ramp up to 2.7bn cfd by the second phase, with an expected life-span of 20 years. During th...
Volume: 58Issue: 43Published at Fri, 23 Oct 2015 -
Cairo Struggles With Products Shortages
...vember, could be renewed, while negotiations are taking place with Kuwait to supply 500,000 barrels of gasoline and diesel a month to meet public fuel needs during the winter period in 2016 and 2017. Additional volumes will come not a moment too soon. After hitting a record high of 277,000 b/d in Ju...
Volume: 58Issue: 43Published at Fri, 23 Oct 2015 -
Aramco Vows $100Bn Spend To Phase Out Crude-Burn, Targets Self-Sufficiency
...p (Rawec) Oil 0.16 2016 Shuqaiq (SEC) Oil 2.64 2017 PP13 (SEC) Gas 1....
Volume: 58Issue: 43Published at Fri, 23 Oct 2015 -
Sudan Looks To Boost Output
...th the secession of South Sudan in mid-2011. This translated into a massive economic blow that the government in Khartoum is still struggling to come to terms with. Sudan now targets production of 150,000 b/d by 2017, Sudapet announced earlier this year, around 30,000 b/d up on current levels. Ou...
Volume: 58Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2015 -
Kuwait Signs $13bn Refinery Contracts, Pledges Continued Oil Investment
...w 336 Nghi Son, Vietnam (35.1%, 2017) 200 Indonesia (MOU only) 160 China (MOU on...
Volume: 58Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2015 -
Qatar Power Demand Tops 7GW; QEWC Advances 2.5GW Plant
...ay ahead of the demand growth curve in the medium term by building two new power and desalination plants: a 2.52GW, 618,000 m3/day plant is due online at Umm Al Haul in 2017, and a 2GW, 655,000 m3/day plant is proposed at Ras Laffan, for potential start-up in 2018. QEWC has informed the Qatar Ex...
Volume: 58Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2015