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LNG: Asian Buying Rises, But Output Up By More
...cargoes over a four-year period from April 2017. ASIAN 2016 LNG IMPORTS SET TO EDGE ABOVE 2015 VOLUMES ON UPTICK IN LATE-YEAR BUYING (MN TONS) F= 2016 FORECAST BASED ON JAN-SEP VOLUMES AND 2015 SEASONALITY. *ESTIMATES FOR TAIWAN, INDIA. BASED ON JAN-AUG VOLUMES. SOURCE: IM...
Volume: 59Issue: 44Published at Fri, 04 Nov 2016 -
Falling Gas Prices Give Iran Dose of Realism
....93mn cfd) for 2014-15. Managing Director of Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) Ali Akbar Shabanpour said in June that output had risen to 431mn m³/d (15.2bn cfd, 157 bcm/year) and that it is planned to hit 526mn m³/d (191 bcm/y) by the end of the current Iranian year (March 2017). Averaging June ou...
Volume: 59Issue: 37Published at Fri, 16 Sep 2016 -
KRG Struggling To Make IOC Payments As Prepayments Dry Up
...s committed to. Production is expected to average around 5,000 b/d in the second half of the year. The Sarqala-2 well will provide an output boost, but won’t be spudded until H1 2017. There has been no update on Western Zagros’ other Kurdistan asset, the Repsol-operated Kurdamir block. A field de...
Volume: 59Issue: 32Published at Fri, 12 Aug 2016 -
Aussie LNG Boom Squeezes Qatar In Core Asian Markets Amid Lackluster Demand
...stomers is also set to be completed by the end of 2017. Similarly, Qatar has strengthened ties with Pakistan through a 15-year deal for the supply of 3.75mn t/y of LNG. This was recently topped up with a 1.3mn t/y deal with GEIL for a 20-year period from 2018 (MEES, 15 July). The deals are un...
Volume: 59Issue: 31Published at Fri, 05 Aug 2016 -
Panama Expansion Puts East Asia In Reach Of Nascent US LNG Exports
...G cargo in February with the start-up of shipments from the first two 4.5mn tons/year trains at the Sabine Pass facility in Louisiana. And volumes from the US Gulf will soon become a flood, with over 14mn t/y more capacity (equivalent to 19bcm/year or 1.8bn cfd of gas) set to start up in 2017 to be fo...
Volume: 59Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2016 -
LNG Supply Glut To Depress Prices For Years To Come
...kely price recovery. The IEA forecasts the US gas production will “remain relatively flat across 2015 and 2017,” with the fact “that it did not decline meaningfully in 2015 despite low oil and gas prices evidence of the remarkable technology and financial resilience of the US gas industry.” Po...
Volume: 59Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2016 -
Mid-East LNG Demand‘A Driving Force’ In 2015
...lution. Whether this is realistic remains to be seen. Egypt hopes to call time on gas imports by 2020 following last year’s discovery of the 23 tcf Zohr offshore field – operator Eni plans first gas from late 2017, ramping up to 2.7bn cfd by 2019 (MEES, 25 March). But while this is substantially more th...
Volume: 59Issue: 14Published at Fri, 08 Apr 2016 -
India Presses Buyers’ Advantage In Oversupplied LNG Market
...though there is probably more potential upside than downside to the forecasts given the expectation that these low prices will persist. We forecast another 2.4mn tons (15%) increase year-on-year of gas imports in 2017,” they say. The successful renegotiation with RasGas has now set a precedent and gi...
Volume: 59Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2016 -
Algeria Boosts Its Share In Spain’s Gas Imports In 2015
...taling 2.67mn t/y, with Iberdrola, Endesa and Cepsa. The 0.75mn t/y contract with Iberdrola is expected to expire in 2017, with the other two set to end in 2022. SKIKDA STILL OUT Algeria’s 4.5mn t/y Skikda LNG complex remains out of action for maintenance, according to reports. The mega train was ru...
Volume: 59Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016 -
Iran Eyes Growing Gas Shipments To Armenia, Turkey
...end $120mn on a new 400kV Armenia-Iran power transmission line. This would increase capacity from around 300MW to 1GW by 2018. Armenia’s Deputy Energy and Natural Resources Minister Hayk Harutyunyan said in October that he hoped the volume of Iranian gas imports would increase in 2017. Davood Manzoor, Vi...
Volume: 59Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2016 -
East Asian Importers Take Less LNG In 2015; Little Sign Of An Upturn In 2016
...uthwestern Japan (MEES, 30 October 2015). “We forecast Japanese LNG imports will be down by another 2.4mn tons in 2016 and by 2.2mn tons in 2017, driven largely by impacts from nuclear plant availability,” analysts at London-based Energy Aspects say in a recent note. GRAPH 1: ASIA’S THREE LARGEST LNG IM...
Volume: 59Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2016 -
South Korean LNG Appetite Thins Out, Prices Remain Under Pressure
...sult of the nuclear expansion (as well as coal and to a lesser extent renewables), analysts from London-based Energy Aspects expect LNG imports to fall by 2.3mn tons (7%) this year and by a further 1.9mn tons (6%) for 2017. Not only was last winter milder than normal in northeast Asia, increased LN...
Volume: 59Issue: 03Published at Fri, 22 Jan 2016 -
What Does 2016 Hold For The Eastern Mediterranean?
...velopment plan for Zohr while UK-firm BP will be preparing for the 2017 start-up of its $12bn, 5 tcf West Nile Delta (WND) project, which will start paving the way for Egypt to become energy independent by the turn of the decade. Cyprus and Israel hope Zohr and by association, Eni’s exploration model of ta...
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 -
Bahrain LNG Plans
...er 9% up on 2014 and not far short of total capacity of 4GW. All Bahrain’s power plants burn gas. Earlier this year Bahrain announced a plan to add 1.5GW of generating capacity from 2017 at the Al Dur power and desalination plant. This week aluminum producer Alba also announced a plan to build a 1.35GW pl...
Volume: 58Issue: 50Published at Fri, 11 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 -
Qatar Out To Woo LNG Customers In Face Of Increased Competition
...cording to analysts from Energy Aspects. The London-based group expects Japanese LNG imports to fall by 2.7mn tons in 2015, mostly due to milder weather, before falling by another 1.1mn tons in 2016 and by 1.9mn tons in 2017. INDIA… POLAND… Meanwhile, India has been taking less contracted LNG from Qa...
Volume: 58Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2015 -
Egypt: Zohr Mega-Find Spurs Regional Gas Hub Ambitions
...ill three appraisal wells by the end of 2016, which, presuming they are successful, will then become production wells enabling first phase output of 700mn cfd from late 2017 or early 2018. Output would then ramp up to 2.7bn cfd by the second phase, with an expected life-span of 20 years. During th...
Volume: 58Issue: 43Published at Fri, 23 Oct 2015 -
Bapco, Aramco Award Pipeline Contracts
...CC). At the contract signing ceremony, Bahrain’s Minister of Energy ‘Abd al-Husain ‘Ali Mirza said that the pipeline “will be finished by the end of 2017 or early 2018 and then there will be a six-month trial period.” He added that the ageing 230,000 b/d pipeline that it is replacing would be shut down in...
Volume: 58Issue: 39Published at Fri, 25 Sep 2015 -
Cyprus And Israel Gas Going Nowhere… For Now At Least
...pointed PM – see p15) that he expects Egypt to receive Cypriot gas by 2017 (MEES, 11 September). Cairo has also been involved in the discussions between the partners in Israel’s 22tcf offshore Leviathan gas field (Noble 39.66%, Delek 45.34%, Ratio 15%) and BG, regarding the import of gas to the LNG te...
Volume: 58Issue: 38Published at Fri, 18 Sep 2015