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Neom’s Sustainable Power & Water Plans: Enowa CEO Speaks With MEES
...wn with MEES to discuss the project. The region of Neom is one of the most prominent symbols of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. First announced by Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman in 2017 as “the land of the future, where great minds and talents can create ground-breaking ideas and think outside the bo...
Volume: 67Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2024 -
Kuwait Boosts Capacity At Key Fields
...abia. Kuwait’s oil sector is rebounding from a series of setbacks at the turn of the decade which saw KOC capacity slump from 3.15mn b/d at the end of the 2017-18 financial year in March 2018 to just 2.629mn b/d three years later. KOC capacity is supplemented by around 200,000 b/d from the PNZ – Ku...
Volume: 67Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2024 -
Korea Crude Imports: New UAE Record
...ril’s 570,000 b/d was a 21-year high on a monthly basis (MEES, 17 May). *Korea’s overall crude imports were up 1.5% at 2.82mn b/d for 1H 2024, putting 2024 on track for the highest annual figure since 2019, albeit some 210,000 b/d below the record annual figure of 3.03mn b/d set in 2017. South Ko...
Volume: 67Issue: 29Published at Sat, 20 Jul 2024 -
Algeria Adds Power Capacity
...rea had previously indicated 2025 completion for the project (MEES, 7 January 2021). When awarded in 2014 the target for completion was 2017....
Volume: 67Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 -
Iran’s New President Pezeshkian: Economy Top Of The Agenda
...at of neighboring countries. 2015’s JCPOA re-kindled foreign interest in Iran’s upstream (MEES, 6 January 2017). But reaching a new deal rests on the outcome of US presidential elections in November. The outlook is more favorable if President Joe Biden, or his replacement on the De...
Volume: 67Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 -
Egypt Gas Woes Continue As Output Slumps At BP’s Raven
...Egypt gas output is below 5bn cfd for the first time since early 2017. It’s not only top producer Zohr which is in decline, output at BP’s Raven, the country’s number two, has halved over the past 18 months. Egypt’s gas output figures go from bad to worse. Latest oil ministry data has pr...
Volume: 67Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 -
Algeria-Spain Spat Leaves 1.26GW Power Plant In Limbo
...lguera,” adding that it is now seeking “a definitive solution for all parties.” The project was originally awarded back in 2014 at a price tag of $719mn (MEES, 7 March 2014), with civil works completed by end-2016 (MEES, 15 September 2017). Satellite imagery indicates that substantial work has taken pl...
Volume: 67Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2024 -
Chevron Inches Towards Shale-Focused Algeria Entry
...pped to use their expertise to help Sonatrach develop Algeria’s supposedly huge shale gas reserves, which the US Geological Survey estimates at over 700tcf and Algerian officials have pegged higher still (MEES, 20 October 2017). Chevron says that “Algeria holds a world class petroleum system with th...
Volume: 67Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 -
Powering The UAE’s Northern Emirates
...ound 14TWh over 2017-2020, it began climbing sharply in 2021 and last year’s 7% increase pushed it to a record 17.99TWh. At the same time, peak demand has also been on a sharp upwards trend, hitting 3.5GW in 2023 (see chart 2). As with elsewhere in the Gulf, demand is highly seasonal: the record of 3....
Volume: 67Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 -
Egypt Tenders For Bumper LNG Imports As Gas Demand Soars
...erwhelmingly gas-fed, for 95% of national power supply for 2023 (MEES, 3 May). *Egypt’s gas output fell again to just 5.115bn cfd for April, down a whopping 1.3bn cfd (20%) on end-2022 and the lowest figure since the start-up of the key Zohr field in late 2017 (MEES, 14 June), whilst the country’s di...
Volume: 67Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 -
Egypt Drilling At 2-Year Low As Oil & Gas Output Continue Downward Spiral
...vestment (MEES, 10 May) – Egypt’s overall April output of 5.115bn cfd was the lowest since November 2017, that is to say just before Zohr start-up. *The output slump has left Egypt in acute gas deficit and the country reliant on imports from Israel (see column). As such a 10-day shutdown to 1.1bn cf...
Volume: 67Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2024 -
Chevron Looks To Smash Egypt’s Gas Price Ceiling
...i managed to break the price ceiling when in 2017 it secured a Brent crude-linked pricing formula for Zohr with prices rising to a ceiling price of $6.20/mn BTU when the crude benchmark is at or above $70/B. It drops to $4.30/mn BTU when Brent is at or below $40/B. The first project to secure th...
Volume: 67Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2024 -
Iraq’s Hoped-For Opec Quota Boost Slips Away
...ES, 10 March 2017). Even if Iraq were to succeed with this, it could backfire given that its current quota is based on state-wide production inclusive of Kurdistan, and so would be revised down in such a scenario. Last month, Oil Minister Hayan Abdulghani said that his country “was not allocated it...
Volume: 67Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2024 -
IEA Backs Mena Renewable Surge After Late Start
...nstruction 600MW Al Shuaibah plant holding the record of just US¢1.04/kWh since 2021 (MEES, 16 April 2021). After previous false starts, the launch of Saudi Arabia’s National Renewable Energy Program (NREP) with its first tender in 2017 laid the foundations for the kingdom’s ambitious solar and wind po...
Volume: 67Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2024 -
Iran Revives 4mn B/D Production Target
...As key Opec members meet this weekend to decide whether to extend their ‘voluntary cuts’ into the second half of the year (see p9), Iran will as always cast its support from the sidelines. The country has essentially been exempt from cuts ever since Opec+ cuts began in January 2017, while ev...
Volume: 67Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2024 -
First Oil Export From UAE’s Belbazem
...velopment of Bu Haseer’s modest reserves economical, and Al Yasat has pursued a similar approach with Belbazem (MEES, 28 May). Outside of Al Yasat, CNPC is also present at Abu Dhabi’s largest concession, the 2mn+ b/d Adnoc Onshore concession. CNPC was awarded an 8% stake at Adnoc Onshore in 2017, ce...
Volume: 67Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2024 -
Sudan’s Army Turns To Russia For Weapons In Exchange For Naval ‘Supply Point’
...stored diplomatic relations with Sudan (under the SAF), having severed ties under President Bashir in 2016, when Khartoum sided with Riyadh following an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran, and later deployed troops to join the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen (MEES, 20 January 2017...
Volume: 67Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2024 -
Iraq Bidding: Shell & Adnoc Locked Out By Inflexible Criteria
...ar, the firm declared commerciality on its 2017 Eridu discovery on Block 10 in nearby Dhi Qar province (MEES, 10 March 2023) with plans for 30,000 b/d pilot production in 2027. Reaching that milestone took two years after submitting a development proposal, leaving Lukoil and its Japanese partner Inpex di...
Volume: 67Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2024 -
Iraq Bidding: Chinese Firms Dominate
...gion’s rebounding oil output (see p5). In the upstream, it operates the Kurdish-controlled Khurmala dome portion of the giant Kirkuk oilfield and between 2014 and 2017 it controversially operated the field’s Avana Dome, and the nearby Bai Hasan field after Kurdish forces moved in claiming to secure th...
Volume: 67Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2024 -
Rising Kurdistan Oil Production Gives Iraq Opec Headache
...mmitments (MEES, 10 March 2017). The collapse of Kurdistan production in mid-2023 had been a boon for Baghdad, which swiftly increased its directly-controlled crude exports from the south to boost revenues but has been slow to cut again as northern output has returned. An agreement was struck with Erbil in Ap...
Volume: 67Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2024