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Israeli Court Ruling Pushes Leviathan Back Further
...om the field and seek arbitration. Israel’s upstream sector has been stuck in stasis since the end of 2014 when the former antitrust commissioner ruled that Noble and Delek were operating as a monopoly offshore Israel (MEES, 2 January 2015). The two firms currently operate all of the country’s ke...
Volume: 59Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2016 -
India Presses Buyers’ Advantage In Oversupplied LNG Market
...% for Q4 2015. These figures are way down on 82% for 2014-15 and a whopping 89% for 2013-14 (see graph). Qatari LNG exports to India were at 10.90mn tons for the 2014-15 fiscal year (ending in March 2015), down from 11.58mn tons the year before. Qatar’s share has fallen as other suppliers su...
Volume: 59Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2016 -
Israel’s Leviathan: New Development Plan, Still No Anchor Sales Deal
...led in December 2014, envisaged a 16.5 bcm/year (1.6bn cfd) floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to be tied-back to shore – exactly where was left unclear (MEES, 27 February 2015). Delek now says that “according to a preliminary estimation, the cost of the whole Development Pl...
Volume: 59Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2016 -
Algeria Boosts Its Share In Spain’s Gas Imports In 2015
...uivalent of 151,941GWh in 2015, following an annual increase of 3.5% to 180,093GWh in 2014. Spanish gas consumption was severely hit by the post-2008 recession, causing many Spanish buyers to re-export significant volumes of LNG. The global re-export trade almost doubled to around 6mn tons between 2012 an...
Volume: 59Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016 -
Italy Doubles Gas Imports From Algeria As Time Out Ends Amid Skikda Shut-Down
...re diverted for pipeline exports. Algerian state firm Sonatrach and key Italian importer Eni agreed in 2013 to reduce offtake for a period of time for 2013 and 2014, as the recession-led demand destruction in European gas markets led suppliers to reduce their purchases (MEES, 1 May 20...
Volume: 59Issue: 07Published at Fri, 19 Feb 2016 -
Iran Eyes Growing Gas Shipments To Armenia, Turkey
...ighbor with which Iran gets on best. Iran exported 9.6 bcm of gas in 2014, with Turkey (8.9 bcm) the key market; Iran also imported 6.9 bcm, with over 90% coming from northern neighbor Turkmenistan. Alireza Kameli, head of the National Iranian Gas Exports Company puts current Iran-Armenia sh...
Volume: 59Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2016 -
Qatar Signs Long Awaited LNG Deal With Pakistan But Belt Tightening Continues
...creasing competition. Global capacity rose from 270.9mn t/y in 2010 to 301.2mn t/y in 2014 according to the International Gas Union (IGU). With more new capacity set to come online in Australia, the US and elsewhere, this competition is set to grow increasingly fierce. CHANGING REALITIES FOR QATAR Th...
Volume: 59Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2016 -
East Asian Importers Take Less LNG In 2015; Little Sign Of An Upturn In 2016
...ticeable change, albeit largely anticipated. Japan imported a record amount from Malaysia in 2015, or 15.57mn tons, helping it overtake Qatar as the second largest supplier in 2014 (behind Australia at the time). LNG shipments from Qatar to Japan fell by 9.6% annually to 14.64mn tons (see graph 3). In...
Volume: 59Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2016 -
Suez Canal Oil Transit Hits 2015 Peak But Revenues Fall
...sult of last years’ low oil prices compared with 2014, which improved refining margins and encouraged European refiners to export to Asia. Hence gasoline transit leapt 66.2% to a record 9.86mn tons (230,000 b/d) and naphtha rose 18.7% to a record 18.25mn tons (410,000 b/d). Southbound LNG transit am...
Volume: 59Issue: 04Published at Fri, 29 Jan 2016 -
South Korean LNG Appetite Thins Out, Prices Remain Under Pressure
...ns of LNG to EDF’s trading arm over eight years from 2017. The agreement follows a previous deal formalized in 2014 with France’s Total regarding capacity at the US’ Sabine Pass project that is expected to start up by March. Kogas, which had agreed to take 3.5mn tons/year from the Louisiana pl...
Volume: 59Issue: 03Published at Fri, 22 Jan 2016 -
Iraq’s 2015 Oil Figures: The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times
...ports through official channels brought in just $49.1bn for 2015, down by 42% on 2014’s $84.1bn, and 48% on 2012’s record $94.0bn. This is despite output having risen by 950,000 b/d over the same period (see table). For 2015, Iraqi production was, at 3.97mn b/d according to MEES estimates, not only an...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
2015 Sees Saudi Arabia Notch Up Record Output, Stocks, Runs, Burn
...Opec put November output at 10.19mn b/d. But not all the records are good. Saudi Arabia is also set to notch up record crude burn in 2016. For the first 10 months of the year – including all of the peak summer demand months – crude burning averaged 598,000 b/d, up 8,000 b/d on 2014’s record. Oc...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
What Does 2016 Hold For The Eastern Mediterranean?
...ich all parties hope will see the Leviathan field receive the go-ahead (MEES, 18 December). Israel’s gas sector was mired in stasis after the country’s antitrust chief in December 2014 labeled Noble and Delek a monopoly, essentially freezing both firms’ plans to develop Leviathan and further develop th...
Volume: 58Issue: 52Published at Wed, 23 Dec 2015 -
Leviathan: Stranded Between Low Prices And Anti-Netanyahu Backlash?
...te 2017,” Mr Davidson said (MEES, 2 May 2014). Mr Fisher now says the “timeframe from sanction to production” will be “anywhere from three to four years” – that is to say early next decade at best. Currently Tamar is Israel’s only producer with first phase capacity of 1.2bn cfd – production hit a re...
Volume: 58Issue: 51Published at Fri, 18 Dec 2015 -
Dolphin Splashes On Debt, Stranded By Gas Impasse
...taled just over 6mn tons in 2014 (8.2bn m3 or 790mn cfd of gas), via a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) in Dubai (MEES, 30 October). Domestic production is expanding, with production at the Shah Gas field ramping up in Q3 2015 towards its 500mn cfd target (MEES, 9 October). However, de...
Volume: 58Issue: 50Published at Fri, 11 Dec 2015 -
Bahrain LNG Plans
...s supply limits (MEES, 23 May 2014). Bahrain produced around 1.63bn cfd of gas in 2014, according to the BP Statistical Review. About one-third is burned in power plants. Bahrain aims to expand its associated gas production. Energy Minister ‘Abd al-Husain ‘Ali Mirza this week said he would soon aw...
Volume: 58Issue: 50Published at Fri, 11 Dec 2015 -
Iraq Chalks Up Record Exports But Revenue Less Than Half Mid-2014 Level
...e KRG, were boosted from a backlog in loading from a storm-hit October schedule (MEES, 6 November). But, despite this, the month’s export revenue of $3.67bn is just 47.5% of the $7.74bn that Iraq’s oil exports brought in in July 2014 before oil prices collapsed. Average November takings were ju...
Volume: 58Issue: 49Published at Fri, 04 Dec 2015 -
A New Vision: Kurdistan, A Major Gas Province?
...itial 4 bcm/year of natural gas to Turkey from 2017, rising to 10 bcm/year by 2020 and with the option of increasing to 20 bcm/year thereafter (MEES, 11 April 2014). However, Mr Hawrami acknowledged that the KRG’s financial strains mean that the timeline would likely “slip by six to twelve months, to 2019 pe...
Volume: 58Issue: 48Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015 -
Taiwan LNG Imports January-September 2015
...15 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Jan-15 Feb-15 Mar-15 Apr-15 May-15 Ju...
Volume: 58Issue: 47Published at Fri, 20 Nov 2015 -
Mideast Buying Offers Support For Weak Global LNG Market
...commissioning a second FSRU with a third to follow next year. Cargoes are now set to arrive at a rate of four a month – a not insubstantial 3.1mn t/year on an annualized basis. This leaves Egypt neck-and-neck with Kuwait as the region’s biggest importer. Kuwait took a record 2.7mn tons in 2014, up fr...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015