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Iran Exports: Korea Restart Amid French Euro-Hope
...17 *TURKEY DEC FIGURE is ESTIMATE BASED ON SHIPPING DATA AND REUTERS REPORTS. ^^FRANCE, AUSTRIA INCLUDED IN 'OTHER EU' FOR 2011, 2012. SOURCE: NATIONAL IMPORT STATISTICS, REUTERS, BLOOMBERG, MEES....
Volume: 62Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2019 -
IOCs ‘Exclude’ Libya From 2019 Plans
...6mn b/d by end-2019 – a level last reached before the 2011 revolution (see chart 1) – and ultimately 2.1mn b/d by 2021. But the outlook remains bleak. The central bank and internationally-recognized government based in Tripoli have yet to agree a 2019 budget, whilst the key 315,000 b/d-capacity El Sh...
Volume: 62Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2019 -
Spain: Record Opec Crude…
...lumes hit a quarterly record of 823,000 b/d in Q4. Despite zero buying for the last two months of 2018, Iranian volumes, at 97,000 b/d, were their highest since 2011. Those from Iraq were also up at 94,000 b/d, boosting overall Gulf volumes to a 7-year high of 342,000 b/d (see p24 for chart and full da...
Volume: 62Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2019 -
New Egypt Gas Projects To Boost Output
...y IOCs for their gas. But this price was increasingly seen as unattractive by IOCs, contributing to a 2011-15 investment hiatus: output had slumped to a 12-year low of 3.891bn cfd by early 2016. Cairo evidently needed to revise terms if it was to re-attract the big firms. It changed the pricing fo...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
Oxy Advances Mena Strategy 2.0
...ploration blocks in November (MEES, 9 November 2018). Prior to that, it hadn’t added to its Mena portfolio in 11 years, since signing up to develop the Shah field in 2011 (MEES, 24 January 2011). The reason for the hiatus was a 2013 decision to move forward with a strategic restructuring aimed at st...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
Algeria Oil Output On The Slide
...ng-term decline, collective output is the lowest since El Merk’s first full year of output in 2014 (see chart). At just 174,000 b/d for 2018, combined HBNS and Ourhoud output is half 2011 levels and a mere 31% of the 470,000 b/d 2007 figure. Anadarko says the completion of a water treatment pr...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
Sudan, South Sudan Claim Oil Production Boon, But How Much?
...OC), a consortium of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Malaysia’s Petronas and ONGC Videsh (all state-owned) and local firm Nilepet. Since South Sudan’s independence in July 2011, GPOC has been responsible for operating those parts of Blocks 1, 2 and 4 that lie south of the border with Su...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
IMF: Praise, $2bn For Egypt
...rong remittances, while unemployment has declined to its lowest level since 2011.” A combination of “the authorities’ fiscal consolidation efforts and high nominal GDP growth” means Egypt’s public-debt-to-GDP ratio “declined markedly” from 103.2% for 2016-17 to 92.6% for 2017-18 and a forecast 86...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
Qatar 2018 Revenue Surge Finances Renewed Checkbook Diplomacy
...rch 2018 (MEES, 30 March 2018). Bilateral relations have been strong following since Qatar’s mediation in the Darfur conflict, which resulted in the 2011 Doha Document for Peace in Darfur. Qatar has of course spent lavishly over the years on sports in an attempt to garner international prestige. Th...
Volume: 62Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019 -
Jordan Plans Tax Hike To Cover Planned 2019 Deficit
...factors outside its control (see chart). The 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ was the turning point as it scared tourists away from the region and saw Syria collapse into civil war, pushing millions of refugees into Jordan and eliminating much of the country’s land-based trade. The rise of the Islamic State in Ir...
Volume: 62Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019 -
Libya’s NOC Cuts Gas To Fertilizer Plant
...ra (50%), NOC (25%) and Libyan Investment Authority (25% - MEES, 16 February 2009), hasn’t made a profit since the 2011 Libyan revolution and has racked up a combined $234mn in loses up to 2016 according to Yara annual reports - no figure was given for 2017. Yara wrote down $112mn of its investment in 20...
Volume: 62Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019 -
Exxon Cyprus Drilling Flop
...illed to a depth of 4,000ms. Cyprus has had mixed success in its offshore drilling. Since US firm Noble Energy discovered the as yet undeveloped 4.2tcf Aphrodite in 2011, Eni has drilled two dry wells in 2015 in Block 9, French major Total drilled a dry well in Block 11 before Eni discovered what is be...
Volume: 62Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019 -
Genel Farm-In Boosts Development Prospects At Chevron KRG Blocks
...20. The first well was drilled in 2011 but then-operator, Canada’s Niko Resources deemed the quantities of light 43-46°API crude non-commercial (MEES, 12 November 2012) and relinquished the asset the following year. Chevron pounced on the block in early 2013 (MEES, 1 February 2013) as it was sn...
Volume: 62Issue: 04Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2019 -
Iran: Exports Edge Up But Outlook Remains Bleak
...UTERS REPORTS. GREECE NOV18 FIGURE IS ALSO AN ESTIMATE. **BONDED STORAGE IN DALIAN, CHINA (ESTIMATES BASED ON DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SHIPPING ARRIVALS IN CHINA AND OFFICIAL CHINA IMPORT STATS). ^^FRANCE, AUSTRIA INCLUDED IN 'OTHER EU' FOR 2011, 2012. SOURCE: NATIONAL IMPORT STATISTICS, REUTERS, BLOOMBERG, ME...
Volume: 62Issue: 04Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2019 -
Libya Halves 2018 Budget Deficit But Remains Hostage To Oil And Conflict
...Libya recorded its highest revenues in five years in 2018 on the back of a leap in oil prices and six-year high oil output. But it is no closer to exiting its now eight-year ‘transition’ to normality: its destiny, as always, remains tied to oil. Libya entered its revolutionary year of 2011...
Volume: 62Issue: 04Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2019 -
Eni Completes Middle East Tour De Force
...sin modeling and seismic sequence studies. An exploratory well will be drilled in 2011.” Clearly there is potential in Block 1, but it was insufficient for Oxy. Will Eni fare any better? BAHRAIN OIL & GAS BLOCKS SHARJAH 2018 BID ROUND OMAN ON THE RISE Oman ar...
Volume: 62Issue: 03Published at Fri, 18 Jan 2019 -
Libya Revenues At 5-Year High But Remain Unstable As Noc Eyes Gas Boost
...volutionary year of 2011. At a press conference in Benghazi on 6 January NOC chief Mustafa Sanalla said the country’s current output is 953,000 b/d, with a 2018 average figure of 1.107mn b/d. The latter figure, presuming that it is accurate, almost certainly includes NGLs. MEES estimates Libya’s 2018 cr...
Volume: 62Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019 -
Egypt Delays Subsidy Reform With Economy On The Mend
...tbacks since the 2011 ouster of former President Husni Mubarak. Revenue has slowly picked up since the October 2015 downing of a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai Peninsula but it appears trouble is never far away. On 29 December a roadside bomb in Giza killed three Vietnamese tourists and their Eg...
Volume: 62Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019 -
Algeria Set For 11th Straight Deficit In 2019
...dget anticipating a $17.4bn deficit. Algeria has run up cumulative budget deficits of over $100bn since 2009, with deficits recorded even in 2011-14 when oil prices were over $100/B. They have ballooned since as oil prices tanked (see charts 1 &2). 2017 was the closest Algeria has got to ba...
Volume: 62Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019 -
East Med Gas Developments Gather Pace In 2019
...arby prospect will be drilled back-to-back. Despite hopes surrounding ongoing drilling, Cyprus’ key existing discovery, 2011’s 4.2tcf Aphrodite, has yet to move to development. 2019 could finally be the year, however, with the field’s partners, US firm Noble Energy, Shell and Israel’s Delek, in on...
Volume: 62Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2019