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Kuwait Eyes Huge 2019-20 Budget Deficit
....7% of GDP. The expiry of the government’s authority to issue debt means it has had to tap into the General Reserve Fund (GRF) to finance deficits since 2014, and Finance Minister Nayif al-Hajraf has warned that the fund is suffering from a shortage of liquidity and requires a replenishment of fi...
Volume: 62Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2019 -
Egypt Misses Receivables Deadline Again
...uld fully eliminate receivables by end-June 2019 (MEES, 12 April). It is not the first time Egypt has missed a self-imposed deadline, with former oil minister Sharif Ismail stating in 2014 that Cairo would completely pay off IOCs by the end of 2016. Nonetheless, Egypt has made good progress in pa...
Volume: 62Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2019 -
Baghdad-Erbil Oil Sharing Dispute Heats Up
...$13.4bn to the KRG. Kurdish crude tends to sell at an $8/B discount to Iraq crude export price, so at a $54.50/B selling price (the year-to-date average) 250,000 b/d works out to $5bn over 2019. The initial agreement to hand over Kurdish crude in return for revenues was struck in late 2014 wh...
Volume: 62Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2019 -
‘Working 25/7’: Libya’s Oil Chief Sanalla Sits Down With MEES
...ofessed neutrality. A: The position of NOC is very clear. Since the division of the country in 2014 our focus has been solely on sustaining production. This is our vision, our strategy. We are not assigning any blame to any party in this conflict. The NOC is neutral and non-partisan. Our goal and mi...
Volume: 62Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2019 -
UEG Shuffles Kec Yemen Assets
...ergy said it completed the transaction “to sell entire shares of Kuwait Energy Yemen Limited for a cash considering of US$1.” Blocks 5 and 43 in Yemen produced a combined 4,720 b/d in 2013 and 4,460 b/d in 2014 but have been under force majeure since 2015. Kuwait Energy produced 28,000 b/d net in 20...
Volume: 62Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2019 -
Chevron Phillips Wins Stake At Major Qatar Petchems Project
...a key pillar of Qatar’s efforts to diversify its revenue base away from oil and gas – although clearly the level of diversification is limited. The planned petrochemicals complex marks a considerable turnaround from 2014-15 when QP axed its two petrochemicals projects amid lower prices and a st...
Volume: 62Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2019 -
Aramco Crude Oil To Chemicals Vision Takes Shape
...chemicals plant it will not be the first. In 2014 ExxonMobil started up a 1mn t/y crude-to-olefins unit at its 592,000 b/d Singapore refinery which “can crack anything from light gases to heavy liquids, including crude oil” (MEES, 1 December 2017). ...
Volume: 62Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2019 -
Algeria Calls Time On Quantitative Easing
...vernment said it was an “urgent response” to the hole in Algeria’s finances left by the collapse in oil prices from the second half of 2014. Algeria notched up a record $24.3bn deficit in 2015. Though the country slashed spending in 2016, a further fall in oil prices (to an average of $44/B for Saharan Bl...
Volume: 62Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2019 -
Qatar: Long-Delayed Barzan Gas Approaches Start-Up
...shed startup well beyond the initially planned 2014 (MEES, 12 October 2012). Mr Kaabi told MEES in late 2017 that the latest delays were “because we have had issues with the pipeline. That is not a secret. The contractor did not perform as well as we wanted them to…we are proceeding to rectify the is...
Volume: 62Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2019 -
Egypt-Israel Settlement Paves Way For Groundbreaking Gas Shipments
...om the already-producing 11tcf Tamar field (MEES, 23 February 2018). Dolphinus was founded in 2014 by Egyptian businessmen including Khaled Abu Bakr, former CEO of Egyptian power firm Taqa Arabia and current Executive Chairman of the Egyptian Gas Association (MEES, 5 April 2019). POLITICAL BA...
Volume: 62Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2019 -
Egypt Gas: Nour Disappoints
...erated West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) field, where output collapsed from 1.3bn cfd in late 2013 to just 250mn cfd currently, due to Cairo’s demand for more gas (MEES, 7 February 2014). ...
Volume: 62Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2019 -
Thailand’s PTTEP Expands In Gulf With Partex Purchase
...abi’s key onshore concession until January 2014 (MEES, 10 January 2014) – and brings it partnerships with international majors (see table). The key upstream asset is 2% of Oman’s state-led PDO which operates the Sultanate’s largest portfolio of fields, the 610,000 b/d Block 6 (12,200 b/d net). This is...
Volume: 62Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2019 -
Rising Gulf Tensions Cast Spotlight Back On Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities
...wever, are uranium upgrading plants at Natanz and Fordow (see table). Bushehr-1 was started up in 2011 after a much-delayed gestation and suffered teething problems before commercial operation was declared in September 2013 (MEES, 10 October 2014). Russia’s Atomstroyexport provides uranium enriched to...
Volume: 62Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2019 -
Libya Fights To Keep The Lights On
...BYA: KEY POWER STATS... *1ST UNIT OF 350MW CAME ONLINE IN 2014. ^NO LONGER LISTS PROJECT ON ITS WEBSITE. SOURCE: WORLD BANK, MEES....
Volume: 62Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2019 -
Adnoc Targets Big Gains From Transformational Foreign Partnerships
...reamlining of subsidiaries in 2017 (MEES, 20 October 2017). Equally notable is the revolution underway in reshaping Adnoc’s partnerships with foreign oil firms. The number of such firms partnered with Adnoc in its upstream operations has soared from 12 in 2014 to 17 currently (see chart 1). Moreover, th...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
UAE Gas Production, Consumption Rise To Record Levels
...2bcm, to 76.6bcm. Despite the improvement, this still resulted in a shortfall of 11.9bcm over the course of 2018. This was at least the lowest since 2014 and almost 1bcm down on the 2015 peak of 12.5bcm. The UAE has had a gas shortage since 2008, and as this deficit has grown it has increasingly tu...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Tunisia Cuts It Fine With Just-In-Time Power Start-Ups
...ill below 2014’s 260mn cfd when FID was taken on Nawara. Tunis aims to curb its 96% reliance on gas for power generation and consequent import bill via a renewables revolution first outlined in 2016. It currently only has 302MW (240MW wind, a nominal 62MW of mostly-ancient hydro capacity, and pr...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Dubai’s Dragon Roars In To Egypt With BP Purchase
...r 2018, up on 2017’s 84,000 b/d: the firm aims to “maintain” output at “around 100,000 b/d” in the coming years. Enoc has released few figures since taking Dragon private in 2015, but an entitlement share in line with 2014’s 56% would net it 52,000 b/d from Cheleken for 2018. The firm’s only ot...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Opec Output Rises In May Ahead Of Latest Crunch Meeting
...2014’s $914bn (see chart). The Opec Basket aggregate of prices rose by 33% for 2018 to $69.78/B, while the group’s crude oil exports edged up from 24.66mn b/d to 24.67mn b/d. Products exports also rose, from 3.92mn b/d in 2017 to 4.71mn b/d last year. It is therefore something of a mystery ho...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Venezuela’s Extraordinary Drilling Exploits
...st 32 rigs, down from 49 the previous year. That number was 74 as recently as 2014. Yet Opec’s ASB shows that Venezuela led Opec in the number of wells completed last year. The South American country completed a massive 710 over the course of 2018, up from 478 the previous year, and well clear of No...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019