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India Crude Imports: Saudi Slumps To No.5 With Volumes At 10-Year Low
...Latest official Indian crude import statistics show volumes from Saudi Arabia falling to just 467,000 b/d for February, the lowest figure since January 2011. This comes as New Delhi and Riyadh continue a war of words, with India slamming Opec in general and Saudi Arabia in particular for ke...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
Aramco's 2020 Capex Cuts Push Back Key Upstream Project Timelines
...ojects, which had been planned to come online last year, are slated to provide 175,000 b/d production capacity. SAUDI ARABIA SALES GAS* OUTPUT HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY CLIMBING YEAR-ON-YEAR (BN CFD) *CONVERTED FROM BTU TO CFD UNTIL 2011. SOURCE: SAUDI ARAMCO, MEES. GAS: TANAJIB SE...
Volume: 64Issue: 12Published at Fri, 26 Mar 2021 -
Key Russian Investor Takes Over Syria Producer Gulfsands
...,000 b/d Block 26 on the border with Iraq. *The fields are currently operated by Syrian state firm GPC after Gulfsands was required by EU sanctions to withdraw in 2011. *Kroupeev has close ties to the Kremlin. Since gaining a majority stake, Gulfsands has reversed previous attempts to di...
Volume: 64Issue: 12Published at Fri, 26 Mar 2021 -
First Oil For Libya’s Zallaf
...e 2011 revolution, with the first 10,000 b/d phase of the 50,000 b/d Sinawin project led by NOC subsidiary Agoco starting up late last year (MEES, 6 November 2020). Yet after years of inaction, Zallaf appears to be intent on taking full advantage of Libya’s brightening prospects for peace and po...
Volume: 64Issue: 12Published at Fri, 26 Mar 2021 -
Egypt Power: Plentiful Gas, Falling Demand Make Shortfalls A Distant Memory
...mediate aftermath of Egypt’s 2011 revolution when the country was chronically short of gas, and thus fuel flexibility – the plant can also run on liquid fuels – was paramount (MEES, 5 July 2013). The next plant set for start up is also a conventional steam turbine plant commissioned when Egypt was st...
Volume: 64Issue: 12Published at Fri, 26 Mar 2021 -
Adnoc Ready To Roll Out Murban Futures Contract
...mand in Fujairah. It can go from Fujairah to Asia, it can go to Africa, it can go to Europe.” With Fujairah emerging as the largest bunkering hub in the Middle East, storage capacity has expanded rapidly “from 3.2mn m³ [20.2mn barrels] in 2011 to more than 10mn m³ in 2018," according to Salem al-Ha...
Volume: 64Issue: 12Published at Fri, 26 Mar 2021 -
Egypt LNG Exports At 9-Year High Amid Seasonal Buying Bonanza
...tween November and February. This is the highest for any comparable four-month winter peak since 37 cargoes were exported between November 2011 and February 2012 (see chart 1). While both of Egypt’s LNG export plants are now back up and running following the February restart of the Eni-operated 5m...
Volume: 64Issue: 10Published at Fri, 12 Mar 2021 -
East Med Geopolitical Waters Remain Far From Smooth
...e division of reserves from the 4.1tcf Aphrodite field, which though around 90% lies in Cypriot waters, straddles the countries’ maritime border. Nicosia hopes that this deal will increase the chances of the 2011 discovery by Noble Energy (now Chevron) being developed along the lines of a de...
Volume: 64Issue: 10Published at Fri, 12 Mar 2021 -
Libya’s Crippled Refining Sector Struggles To Meet Demand
...meplate capacity (see table 1). The bulk of current output, which meets only about half of the country’s domestic consumption, comes from the 120,000 b/d Zawiya refinery west of Tripoli. Even before the 2011 revolution Libya’s refining fleet was in desperate need of upgrades due to Gaddafi-era sa...
Volume: 64Issue: 09Published at Fri, 05 Mar 2021 -
Israel & Egypt’s Blossoming Energy Relationship
...ntacts have been threadbare (save Israeli tourists in Sharm el Sheik). The first two attempts at energy tie-ups, the 2001 Midor refinery, and the 2008 East Mediterranean Gas (EMG) pipeline built to deliver Egyptian gas to Israel collapsed in acrimony (MEES, 1 August 2011). Even the latest pr...
Volume: 64Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2021 -
Egypt Downstream: ERC Boosts Output & Exports To 2020 Records Despite Covid Slump
...– at 649,000 b/d the latter was up 21% year-on-year including record output of gasoline (97,000 b/d) and jet-kero (68,000 b/d) with diesel output of 171,000 b/d just fractionally below the all-time high set in 2011. *But for Q2, output of all products slumped versus Q1, with the overall ou...
Volume: 64Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2021 -
Shell & Petronas At Odds Over Egypt Expansion
...indled from 1.2bn cfd in 2012 to around 500mn cfd now. The WDDM slump is the result of a combination of high underlying decline rates, underperforming wells and slashed investment amid soaring receivables in the years following Egypt’s 2011 revolution (MEES, 7 February, 2014). Shell in early 2018 dr...
Volume: 64Issue: 07Published at Fri, 19 Feb 2021 -
Iraq Struggles To Find Developers For Mansuriya Gas Field
...nistry of oil, it really shouldn’t have. The field was originally to be developed under a 2011 contract by a consortium of Turkey’s TPAO (22.5%op), Korea’s Kogas (15%), and the Kuwait Energy subsidiary of Hong Kong based United Energy Group (UEG 22.5%) alongside state-owned Oil Exploration Company (OEC 25...
Volume: 64Issue: 07Published at Fri, 19 Feb 2021 -
Saudi Arabia’s Oil Sector In 2020: Assessing A Tumultuous Year
...mand of 455,000 b/d was the lowest since 2011 and down 17% year-on-year. Demand bottomed out at 231,000 b/d in April amid tight Covid-19 mobility restrictions and while it rebounded to 530,000 b/d in October, it exited the year at 488,000 b/d. The impact on diesel demand was more muted due to the fu...
Volume: 64Issue: 07Published at Fri, 19 Feb 2021 -
Spain 2020 Crude Imports: Record Low Mena Share Amid Libya Collapse
...lumes of 181,000 b/d were the lowest on record, whilst the North Africa total of 63,100 b/d was the second lowest after Libya’s revolutionary year of 2011. *Spain’s top two suppliers, Nigeria with 220,000 b/d, and Mexico on 160,000 b/d, were the same as 2019, whilst Libya’s collapse saw Saudi cl...
Volume: 64Issue: 07Published at Fri, 19 Feb 2021 -
Egypt Oil Output Plumbs New 40-Year Low For 2020
...nai). *The Western Desert, which overtook the Gulf of Suez region as Egypt’s key production area in 2011 and has provided over half of production since 2014, saw output fall 7% to a 9-year low of 321,000 b/d for 2020. December’s 290,000 b/d was the lowest monthly figure since May 2010. This comes as the re...
Volume: 64Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2021 -
KRG: DNO Buys Out Exxon At Baeshiqa, Eyes Development
...ce its exit from the block is finalized, it will be left with just the Pirmam block where it confirms that it still retains its 80% operating stake. The US supermajor initially signed up to six blocks, including Baeshiqa, in a controversial 2011 deal. Not only did Baghdad oppose the signing of ag...
Volume: 64Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2021 -
Libya’s Power Sector In A Race Against Time
...vember 2020) though more is needed. Power supply shortages have been a huge problem since the 2011 revolution and the chaos that followed (MEES, 21 January 2019). But capacity was flagging even before the uprising: one unit of the 480MW Khoms steam turbine plant hasn’t been overhauled since 1996. Ma...
Volume: 64Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2021 -
Qatar Export Revenues Fall 30% In 2020
...s current level of 77mn t/y in 2011. The figure is considerably lower than at the height of the collapse precipitated by the oil price slump from late 2014. Then annual revenues bottomed out at $57.3bn in 2016 (see chart 1). However, Qatar has had considerable success in reducing its import tab in...
Volume: 64Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2021 -
Exxon Looks To Partner Up In Egypt
...rt of Shell’s giant North East Mediterranean (Nemed) block where the Anglo-Dutch major drilled 10 wells between 1999 and 2011 including 2001’s Leil-1 on the Star acreage which hit sub-commercial quantities of gas. One key change since then is that Cairo has since hiked the amount paid for gas ou...
Volume: 64Issue: 04Published at Fri, 29 Jan 2021