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South Korean LNG Imports: Qatar Cements Top Position In 2014
...South Korean LNG Imports: Qatar Cements Top Position In 2014 2014 2014 vs 2013 2013 2012 2011 ‘00...
Volume: 58Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2015 -
Suez Canal Record Revenue And Volumes For 2014 (‘000 Tons)
...Suez Canal Record Revenue And Volumes For 2014 (‘000 Tons) 2014 vs 2013 vs2010 2013 2012 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2015 -
Sadara Nears Completion, Recruiting Processors For PlasChem Park
...lowing the production of specialty chemicals not previously available within the region. Among these will be 600,000 t/y of isocyanates, which can be combined with polyols (Sadara will produce 390,000 t/y of polyether polyols) to produce polyurethanes (MEES, 21 March 2014). Polyurethanes are one of th...
Volume: 58Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2015 -
UAE Targets Improved Efficiency ‘Throughout Electricity Value Chain’
...r capita energy consumption among the highest in the world, the emirates’ Ministry of Energy has set a target of improving energy efficiency by 30% by 2030 (MEES, 26 September 2014). Abu Dhabi-based Masdar Institute of Science and Technology and US electrical engineering giant GE have produced a wh...
Volume: 58Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2015 -
Iran Starts Work On Qeshm Power/Desal Plant
...01-04, before the onset of sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear program. Mapna recently started work on a 1GW gas-fired plant at Zanjan (MEES, 17 October 2014). Iran’s power generation capacity reached 70.03GW at the end of 2014, of which 70% is gas-fired. This requires an estimated 10.5bn cfd of gas fu...
Volume: 58Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2015 -
OPEC Output Slides In January Despite Gulf Increments
...west level since June 2014. In Libya, oil output fell for the third month running to average 350,000 b/d in January, as armed factions allied to two rival governments continue their fight for control of the country, four years after the ouster of former leader Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi. Despite co...
Volume: 58Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2015 -
Canada’s Pipeline Battle With US Has Implications For Saudis
...r Canadian producers, which have responded by cutting investment after a period of rapid growth. Canadian oil sands production grew fivefold between 1993 and 2014, as investment doubled to 30bn Canadian dollars between 2006 and 2013, allowing Canadian exports to the US – its sole export market to...
Volume: 58Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2015 -
Total Still Leads The Pack On UAE’s Adco Concession
...ell, like BP and ExxonMobil, have reported lower production in 2014, due to the loss of their 9.5% stake in the lapsed Adco concession. ADCO HIT Shell’s overall production averaged 3.1mn barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) in 2014, down 100,000 boe/d on the year, partly due to the expiry of...
Volume: 58Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2015 -
Iraq’s 2015 Budget: A Catalyst For Better Relations With Erbil
...der the budget law all revenue derived from these exports will be considered as revenue for the Iraqi federal treasury. Based on these projections oil revenue in the budget is put at ID78,649bn ($67.5bn), or 83.6% of total revenue. Kuwait’s agreement at the end of 2014 to give Iraq a one-year su...
Volume: 58Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2015 -
Japanese Crude And Condensate Imports: Saudi Retains Top Spot As Russia Surges Up Rankings (‘000 B/D)
...Japanese Crude And Condensate Imports: Saudi Retains Top Spot As Russia Surges Up Rankings (‘000 B/D) 2014 rank 14vs13 14vs12 2013 ra...
Volume: 58Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2015 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B) 5-Feb 26-30 Jan 19-23 Jan Jan-15 Dec-14 Q4 2014 Q3 2014 2014...
Volume: 58Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2015 -
Accusations Fly Over South Sudan Oil Field Attack
...rrent oil output was left unaffected, as the fields in Pariang – along with the remaining fields in Unity state – have been offline since coming under sustained attack by rebel forces in December 2013 (MEES, 3 January 2014). Operating consortia Greater Pioneer Operating Company (GPOC - Blocks 1 and 4) an...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Oman Bid Round Results By End-February
...ltanate. Both Blocks 18 and 59 were offered as part of an earlier round in November 2012 without attracting any serious interest. But following some recent discoveries in nearby acreage, the MOG decided to rebid them once again in July 2014, but to no avail. “Offshore there isn’t much promise. We di...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Is Morocco’s Offshore Boom Over Before It Began?
...penditure plans. Pricey frontier exploration is typically the first thing to go, given that at current oil prices even a big deepwater discovery could prove uneconomic to develop. 2014 DRILLING 2014 was billed as a key year for the country’s hopes of becoming a major oil and gas player, however of th...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Shell LNG To Jordan Expected In July
...lumes of as high as 590mn cfd (MEES, 19 December 2014). The FSRU receiving terminal is being built by the Bermuda-registered Golar LNG, which had previously said that the Golar Eskimo FSRU would be completed by the end of 2014 and enter into service in early 2015. Golar was awarded the $445mn co...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Oman Awards Ras Markaz Crude Terminal FEED
...ES, 12 July 2013). The Ministry of Oil and Gas (MOG) expects crude and condensate production to average 965,000 b/d this year, an increase of 22,000 b/d over 2013 output, which was itself a 13-year high (MEES, 23 January). Oman’s crude oil exports averaged 800,000 b/d in 2014, according to latest MO...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
EGPC Outlay On Refinery Upgrades To Top $17Bn
...raight-run Cairo Oil Refining Company (CORC) refinery, will process 107,200 b/d of residue from CORC to give lighter products including 46,300 b/d of diesel, 12,800 b/d of jet fuel, 7,600 b/d of naphtha and 2,500 b/d of LPG (MEES, 25 April 2014). Deliveries of equipment are due to begin in August. Tw...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Dubai Picks ACWA For Solar Expansion, Plans 200MW
...October 2013). The ACWA-led consortium was one of 10 selected by DEWA to bid for the project (MEES, 28 November 2014). Mr Tayir says the selection of ACWA and TSK was based on their “lowest recorded bid received for a solar PV IPP project” – 200MW capacity with a levelized cost of energy of $0....
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
No Shift In Saudi Oil Policy, But A Slight Change In Tone
...mp up to full capacity of the Satorp and Yasref refineries, which together have a combined capacity of 800,000 b/d. At the same time, non-OPEC supply, which grew by 1.5mn b/d on an annualized basis in the fourth quarter of 2014, will continue to rise, Jadwa says, with an expected year-on-year in...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Aramco Doubles S-Oil Equity As Part of Asian Push
...trochemicals capacity – 1.7mn ton/year of paraxylene and 450,000 t/y of benzene produced from naphtha feedstock – matches Aramco’s increasing overlapping of refining and petrochemicals business (MEES, 4 July 2014). The Saudi state energy giant is developing 6mn t/y of specialty petrochemicals capacity at tw...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015