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Iraq & TotalEnergies Sign ‘$27bn’ Energy Sector Megadeal
...xon entered the KRG in 2011. The subsequent decade saw it packaged under a $53bn Southern Integrated Infrastructure Project (SIIP) that was almost finalized with ExxonMobil and PetroChina, but which also fell apart (MEES, 10 May 2019). Both companies were expected to finance SIIP components by in...
Volume: 64Issue: 36Published at Fri, 10 Sep 2021 -
BP Drilling Offshore Egypt
...REAGE Output at BP and Eni’s offshore Nile Delta fields peaked in 2011 and continues to slump: Ras El Bar output fell 20% to 107mn cfd for 2020 whilst El Temsah was down 23% at 136mn cfd (see chart and MEES, May 21). GAS OUTPUT FROM ENI & BP’s OFFSHORE NILE DELTA CONCESSIONS PEAKED IN 2011 AND FELL 29...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 Jul 2021 -
Egypt: Condensate Output Record As Gas Slumps
...erall output here, and that of key producer Apache in particular, has been on the slide. 2020 output was the lowest since 2011 with production falling further to an 11-year low of just 282,000 b/d for February. However production has risen in each of the past two months – it was 290,000 b/d for April – wh...
Volume: 64Issue: 23Published at Fri, 11 Jun 2021 -
Libya’s NOC Plans Massive Upstream Opening
...drocarbons. With the dust barely settled from Libya’s third civil war since 2011 and last year’s devastating oil blockades (MEES, 25 September 2020), NOC is looking to kickstart a fresh wave of foreign investment to reach its ambitious goal of boosting output to 2.1mn b/d by 2025. There is room for op...
Volume: 64Issue: 23Published at Fri, 11 Jun 2021 -
Libya’s Oil Revenues Surge
...byan oil exports have similarly stayed at above 1mn b/d since November 2020, according to data intelligence firm Kpler. If such levels are sustained until the end of the 2021, Opec member Libya could be looking at its best performance since the collapse of the Gaddafi regime in 2011. While pr...
Volume: 64Issue: 22Published at Fri, 04 Jun 2021 -
Total Eyes 1mn b/d Of Gross Libya Output
...test to fly in on 21 April. Frequently hit by forced production shutdowns – whether due to civil unrest, budgetary issues or worker grievances – Libya has been a source of major disappointment to IOCs since the fall of long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. But even though Total’s net output ne...
Volume: 64Issue: 17Published at Fri, 30 Apr 2021 -
ExxonMobil Set To Exit Federal Iraq
...ant fields to reach full production capacity targets. Talks ultimately went nowhere. Iraq now aims to award a downsized 2.5mn b/d first phase to France’s Total (MEES, 2 April). The biggest controversy however was Exxon’s decision to sign up for six blocks in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2011, including as...
Volume: 64Issue: 16Published at Fri, 23 Apr 2021 -
Iraq Awards Mansuriya Gas Field To Sinopec
...arded have yet been finalized (MEES, 27 April 2018). Mansuriya development was originally awarded in 2011 to a consortium led by Turkey’s TPAO (22.5%op) alongside Korea’s Kogas (15%), and Kuwait Energy (since taken over by Hong Kong-listed UEG, 22.5%) and state-owned Oil Exploration Company (OEC 25...
Volume: 64Issue: 16Published at Fri, 23 Apr 2021 -
Egypt Gas Output Tops 7bn cfd As Oil Plummets To New Lows
...ch the Mediterranean share of overall output leapt to 73.2% for February, just fractionally below the all time high set in December 2011 (see chart 1). And even in the Mediterranean all is not plain sailing with BP’s West Nile Delta (WND) project having seen output collapse to just 250mn cfd (MEES, 26...
Volume: 64Issue: 14Published at Fri, 09 Apr 2021 -
Iraq & Total Reach Initial Deal On $7bn Of Projects
...entually scandal as Exxon entered the KRG in 2011 (MEES, 21 November 2011). The next nine years saw it packaged under a $53bn Southern Integrated Infrastructure Project (SIIP) that was almost finalized with ExxonMobil and PetroChina but also fell apart (MEES, 10 May 2019). Both companies were expected to fi...
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Libya Gas Exports Lowest Since 2011
...Libya’s gas exports to Italy fell to 430mn cfd in 2020, down 22% on the year. This is the country’s lowest gas export figure since the 2011 revolution when production shutdowns caused exports to plummet to just 215mn cfd. Libya is connected to Italy through the 775mn cfd Greenstream pi...
Volume: 64Issue: 03Published at Fri, 22 Jan 2021 -
Sonatrach’s $40bn Five-Year Plan: Spending Is Not Enough
...S 2016 HIGH SOURCE: JODI, MEES. 3: ALGERIA COMPLETED CLOSE TO 1300 DEVELOPMENT WELLS BETWEEN 2011 AND 2019 SOURCE: SONATRACH, MEES. 4: ALGERIA MADE 271 OIL AND GAS 'DISCOVERIES' BETWEEN 2011 AND 2020 ENDLESS EXPLORATION Algeria’s rig co...
Volume: 64Issue: 02Published at Fri, 15 Jan 2021 -
Exxon’s Star Shines Brightest Among Egypt’s Slew Of Mediterranean Awards
...tch major Shell’s former giant North East Mediterranean Deepwater (Nemed) block. Shell acquired Nemed in 1999 before relinquishing it in 2011, but not before it drilled a total of ten wells across the acreage. Though just one of these wells, 2001’s Leil-1 which discovered “non-commercial” qu...
Volume: 64Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2021 -
Egypt Gas Output Rebounds As Oil Slumps To Record Low
...diterranean gas output to within 200mn cfd of the monthly record 4.57mn cfd at the 2011 height of output from Shell’s West Delta Deep Marine. WDDM is in long-term decline. The latest gains have come predominantly from Eni’s giant 21.5tcf Zohr field where capacity hit 3.2bn cfd in April, but for the bulk of 20...
Volume: 64Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2021 -
Egypt LNG Exports Boosted By Bumper Winter Buying
...nter season, well up from 22 for the year-ago period and the highest comparable figure since 37 for the 2011-12 winter peak. But that peak was achieved when the country’s other LNG export terminal, the 5mn t/y Segas facility at Damietta was still operational. Damietta has remained shut since No...
Volume: 64Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2021 -
Can Cyprus Reboot Offshore Drilling Plans?
...i announced its own 6-8tcf Calypso discovery (MEES, 16 February 2018), raising expectations that the island would finally be able to call itself a gas producer. Initial hopes following the 2011 discovery of Cyprus’ 4.1tcf Aphrodite had subsided in the six years between, with the mid-2014 oil price co...
Volume: 63Issue: 52Published at Thu, 24 Dec 2020