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Iraqi Kurdistan Producers Seek Positives In Challenging Environment
...sue now, rather than making the coupon payments and not addressing the 2017 maturing of the debt that hangs over the company, GKP’s board appears to have confidence that a deal can be made with the bondholders. Resolving the issue would certainly be a positive development for the share price and would fr...
Volume: 59Issue: 18Published at Fri, 06 May 2016 -
Flaring Advances Ignite Iraq’s Gas Sector
...oject, but Iranian officials claim it will be completed within weeks. How optimistic an assessment this is remains unclear. The second deal was signed in 2013 and is also for 10 bcm/year, beginning in 2017. It is to supply the 1.46GW Rumaila, 1.25GW Shat al-Basra and 500MW Najibiya power plants in Ba...
Volume: 59Issue: 16Published at Fri, 22 Apr 2016 -
Kuwait Bullish On Contract Award, But Quietly Shelves Production Target
...e p10 and MEES, 1 April). While production capacity is planned to rise to 3.165mn b/d by March 2017 according to Mr Jafaar, officials maintain that production will remain flat. This implies that Kuwait does not foresee full production from the currently shut in Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ) wi...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
Egypt: Receivables Worries Risk Choking Off Exploration Boom
...dependent Petroceltic’s 50% stake in both (MEES, 19 February). The commitment for North Thekah is $170mn with two wells (MEES, 3 January 2014). No wells have yet been drilled on either block, though Edison recently said it “plans drilling North Thekah towards the beginning of 2017. We would consider dr...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
New Adnoc Supremo Commits To 3.5mn b/d Output Target Amid Leadership Shakeup
...pect to see a slow but upward improvement in the medium term. Overall we think that 2016 and 2017 will be the years during which markets will start to rebalance.” But this optimism is not universally shared, with a number of variables in play that could dampen or reverse price gains (see p11). NEW FA...
Volume: 59Issue: 14Published at Fri, 08 Apr 2016 -
Saudi: Key Gas Start-Ups Increase Oil Field Flexibility
...wec) Oil 0.16 2016 Shuqaiq (SEC) Oil 2.64 2017 PP13 (SEC) Gas 1.65 2017...
Volume: 59Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2016 -
Eni Greenlights Egypt’s Zohr
...cision] only 6 months after discovery, a remarkable result, and we are well on track to start production by the end of 2017,” Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi said during the firm’s 18 March presentation of its “2016-19 Strategy.” The field, only discovered in August 2015, has rapidly become a key element of th...
Volume: 59Issue: 12Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016 -
Keystone Cops It From KRG Revenue Collapse
...ntinue as a going concern,” it says. The company faces a struggle to rustle up the cash for two $26mn payments to bond holders due in April and October. Along with bond maturities in 2017, the firm has “almost $600mn to settle in about a year from now.” Current cash reserves are $50.6mn. The need to...
Volume: 59Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2016 -
Egypt Looks To New Gas Finds To Ease Record Energy Deficit
...ping deficit that will likely get worse this year, Cairo is sticking with ambitious 2017 target start-up dates for its two key gas output expansion projects. Needless to say, gas output of 4.31bn cfd for 2015 was at a 10-year low; it has already fallen further, to 4.07bn cfd, and will almost certainly av...
Volume: 59Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016 -
East Mediterranean Gas Faces Crucial 2016
...ant. The tender sought gas volumes rising from 19.5-30.4 trillion BTU in the first year to 25-43 trillion BTU by 2025. According to the terms of the tender, first gas was to be delivered between 1 January 2016 and 30 June 2017 although, with Cyprus currently lacking gas infrastructure of any sort these da...
Volume: 59Issue: 07Published at Fri, 19 Feb 2016 -
Skint, Petroceltic Sells Egypt Blocks
...illing North Thekah towards the beginning of 2017. We would consider drilling Port Fouad in 2017 – potentially back to back” (MEES, 27 November, 2015). The attraction of Edison to the two blocks is boosted by it having the Israeli Neta and Royee licenses immediately to the east. Petroceltic was op...
Volume: 59Issue: 07Published at Fri, 19 Feb 2016 -
Oman And BP To Expand $16bn Khazzan Gas Project
...velopment of the Sultanate’s oil and gas sector appears unlikely (MEES, 12 February). Indeed, while the overall rig count fell, the number of gas drilling rigs remained at a record 15. Phase One of the Khazzan tight gas project is planned to deliver first gas in late 2017. The10.5 tcf field lies in...
Volume: 59Issue: 07Published at Fri, 19 Feb 2016 -
Adnoc Head Replaced As Abu Dhabi Eyes Output Rise
...osting oil production capacity. Adnoc has majority stakes in all of Abu Dhabi’s oil fields, with production around 2.9mn b/d. As such, Adnoc is essential for the UAE’s plans to increase overall production capacity from 3.2mn b/d to 3.5mn b/d in 2017 and Mr Jaber will be expected to bring the dr...
Volume: 59Issue: 07Published at Fri, 19 Feb 2016 -
Shell Heading Towards UAE Door Over Bab Exit?
...nounced that it was pushing back a final investment decision (FID) on the project from early 2016 to 2017 (MEES, 14 August 2015). The continued slide of oil prices has caused Shell to pull the trigger early rather than wait until 2017, with benchmarks Brent and WTI hitting new 12 year lows this week (se...
Volume: 59Issue: 03Published at Fri, 22 Jan 2016 -
BP Major Contributor To Egypt Five Year Strategy
...alians began appraisal/development drilling on 21 December. A total of 20 wells is planned over the next 26 months. Prior to this only the one discovery well had been drilled. By linking it to shore via already existing infrastructure, Eni and Cairo are aiming for an ambitious late 2017 start-up, wi...
Volume: 59Issue: 03Published at Fri, 22 Jan 2016 -
Iran Inaugurates New South Pars Phases, But Ambitious Targets Look Unrealistic
...oduction at the two phases has begun and they are to become operational by April 2016. Fars News reports that output at the two phases is currently around 23mn cmd (800mn cfd). Production at phases 20 and 21 is planned to begin around June 2016. “This year [to mid-March 2017] will be the year of ec...
Volume: 59Issue: 02Published at Fri, 15 Jan 2016 -
Work To Begin On Zohr As Egypt Looks To Bring Giant Field Online Next Year
...Egypt will continue to require aid from its Gulf neighbors in 2016 but this year should see the foundations laid for a brighter 2017 following last August’s discovery of the 23 tcf Zohr field by Italian firm Eni. Eni says that it plans to imminently begin drilling at Zohr after last week re...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
Algeria: Sonatrach Re-Engages With IOCs In Race Against Upstream Decline
...geria as part of its wider company strategy, provided that it finds a willing bidder in the current environment. Repsol, which secured the Boughezoul block in partnership with Sonatrach last year, is not expected to start drilling before 2017. The block is located in the Atlas mountains in the north of...
Volume: 58Issue: 52Published at Wed, 23 Dec 2015 -
BP Finalizes WND Purchase
...the second key element, alongside Eni’s 23 tcf Zohr development, in Egyptian plans to boost gas output towards the end of the decade. WND is slated for H1 2017 start up, ramping up to 600mn cfd by the end of the year and 1.2bn cfd – the equivalent of more than a quarter of Egypt’s current 4.3bn cf...
Volume: 58Issue: 50Published at Fri, 11 Dec 2015 -
Iran Launches New Contracts Ahead Of Opec Meet
...kely low oil prices) persisting into 2017 (see p10 and MEES, 16 October). While Opec Secretary General ‘Abd Allah al-Badri told reporters on the sidelines of Adipec that he welcomed Iran’s impending return, the prospect of Opec members cutting production to make way for Iran is extremely unlikely. Th...
Volume: 58Issue: 49Published at Fri, 04 Dec 2015