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Algeria’s Gas Exports Reach Decade High
...gnificantly boosted sales gas output (MEES, 21 May). So much so that Algerian production of 29bcm (11.4bn cfd) in the first quarter of 2021 was the highest on record. Although volumes dropped somewhat in April to 9.6bn cfd, this is still the highest April number since Algeria began reporting data to Jodi in 2014...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 Jul 2021 -
Libya’s NOC Plans Massive Upstream Opening
...timism. An October 2020 ceasefire between previously warring eastern and western forces has held, the country has a unified government for the first time since 2014 and preparations for nationwide elections in December are underway. But the peace process is extremely fragile (MEES, 4 June). “We are ve...
Volume: 64Issue: 23Published at Fri, 11 Jun 2021 -
Eni In Algeria: Looking For Growth
...Eni’s net Algeria output has steadily fallen since a peak in 2014, but recent moves by the Italian major look set to reverse this trend. The potential acquisition of sizeable BP assets would nearly double Eni’s net Algeria gas output. As many international oil companies have shunned Al...
Volume: 64Issue: 22Published at Fri, 04 Jun 2021 -
Libya’s Oil Revenues Surge
...nthly numbers of Libya’s crude oil production have been pretty much non-existent for the past six years. But with the arrival of a new unity government in March, which includes an oil minister for the first time since 2014, Libya has begun to submit monthly production stats to Opec. Official figures pu...
Volume: 64Issue: 22Published at Fri, 04 Jun 2021 -
Shell Egypt Slump Opens The Door For Chevron
...ft Shell-predecessor BG unable to meet its export commitments from the 7.2mn t/y ELNG export terminal which adjoins the WDDM processing facilities at Idku (MEES, 7 February 2014). Even the addition of UK major BP’s West Nile Delta (WND) project from 2017 wasn’t enough to reboot LNG exports. This pr...
Volume: 64Issue: 21Published at Fri, 28 May 2021 -
Adnoc-CNPC JV Awards EPC Contract For Offshore Block Development
...rku Island.” Adnoc Upstream Executive Director Yaser Saeed Almazrouei says “we are very pleased to commence the full field development of the Belbazem Offshore Block, together with our strategic partner CNPC.” AL YASAT’S GROWTH Al Yasat was established in 2014 and has two co...
Volume: 64Issue: 21Published at Fri, 28 May 2021 -
Eni’s Zohr Boosts Egypt Gas Output To New Highs
...PLORATION Russian state firm Rosneft, 30% partner at Zohr (Eni 50%op, BP 10%, Mubadala 10%), revealed in its 2020 annual report, released last week that “the drilling of a prospecting well” on the Shorouk block which houses Zohr is planned by July next year. Part of the original block awarded to Eni in 2014...
Volume: 64Issue: 19Published at Fri, 14 May 2021 -
Iraq Awards Mansuriya Gas Field To Sinopec
...%). Development was derailed by security concerns in 2014 as IS expanded in northern Iraq (MEES, 10 October 2014). Then, following IS’ ouster, disagreement on commercial terms with erstwhile operator TPAO pushed Baghdad to take over the field in 2018 (MEES, 3 August 2018). In October 2020, the ca...
Volume: 64Issue: 16Published at Fri, 23 Apr 2021 -
Jordan Plans Nine Block Upstream Offering
...sha is operated by Jordan’s tiny National Petroleum Company (NPC), after BP pulled out of the tight gas development in 2014 as the reservoir failed to live up to initial expectations (MEES, 26 September 2014). NPC also has a production sharing agreement (PSA) for East Safawi and is assessing the Hamza fi...
Volume: 64Issue: 15Published at Fri, 16 Apr 2021 -
Petrofac Shut Out Of Key Abu Dhabi Market
...eas in January by a former Petrofac employee [former sales chief David Lufkin] under the Bribery Act 2010 in relation to historic contract awards in the UAE in 2013 and 2014.” The SFO says that the specific contracts were for the 2013 engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for th...
Volume: 64Issue: 11Published at Fri, 19 Mar 2021 -
Shell Sells Egypt Western Desert Assets To Cairn & Local Firm Cheiron
...ploration, with Shell and Apache securing a deal that would have paid them $4.60/mn BTU for shale gas production from the acreage (MEES, 19 December 2014). This compares to the $2.65/mn BTU paid for all current onshore gas output, including that of Shell. The three exploration blocks – South East Horus, We...
Volume: 64Issue: 10Published at Fri, 12 Mar 2021 -
Egypt LNG Exports At 9-Year High Amid Seasonal Buying Bonanza
...rst made these claims at the start of 2014 they were somewhat spurious: MEES number-crunching at the time showed that, whilst Cairo had indeed diverted gas to the domestic market, output decline was the primary reason for BG’s failure to meet export commitments (MEES, 7 February 2014). With WDDM ou...
Volume: 64Issue: 10Published at Fri, 12 Mar 2021 -
Apache Resigned To Further Fall In Egypt Oil Output
...very measured.” With the firm’s Egypt capex and rig count already having fallen to the lowest in over a decade, further cuts are planned for 2021 with an average of just five rigs set to be active in Egypt versus a peak of 27 in 2013 and 2014 (see chart 2). This means output is all but gu...
Volume: 64Issue: 09Published at Fri, 05 Mar 2021 -
Qatar Brokers Israel-Gaza Gas Supply Deal
...ywhere near the 140MW of potential capacity (MEES, 30 May 2014). The PA’s Mr Melhem is evidently aware of this. Increasing Israel-to-Gaza power transmission “would imply the construction of a high-voltage line, replacing the existing medium-voltage lines. It would reduce tariffs. We discussed the pr...
Volume: 64Issue: 07Published at Fri, 19 Feb 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 -
Kuwait Cuts Long Term Targets For Giant Burgan Field
...ture field, having first been discovered in 1938, and production capacity has fallen in recent years (see chart). In 2014, capacity was around 1.7mn b/d and KOC’s goal was to maintain capacity at that level. BP was brought to the field in 2014 under a technical service agreement (TSA) to help maintain Bu...
Volume: 64Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2021 -
Baker Hughes Finally Inks Gas Processing Contract in Southern Iraq
...Oil, amounting to a huge 51.3% of wellhead output (see chart). Yet for Iraq, these poor figures count as something of a success. Total gas flared last year was the lowest since 2014, while the proportion flared is similar to that of 2010. Since then, crude output grew rapidly following contract aw...
Volume: 64Issue: 04Published at Fri, 29 Jan 2021 -
Kurdistan Oil At Center Of Iraq Budget Disputes
...tlines a mechanism for KRG debt repayment by the federal government whereby Erbil is expected to share data on its external debts and loans accumulated in 2014-2019 with the Ministry of Finance 30 days upon approving the budget by parliament. Ninety days later, a joint committee that includes Iraq’s state au...
Volume: 64Issue: 03Published at Fri, 22 Jan 2021 -
Saudi Crude Exports To Take Fresh Hit Amid Voluntary Cuts
...fining runs at the height of lockdown. Jodi data up to October shows Saudi refining runs averaging 2.14mn b/d over the first ten months of the year, putting throughputs on course for their lowest year since 2014. Nevertheless, refining runs had recovered to pre-Covid levels by the end of 2020 and so th...
Volume: 64Issue: 02Published at Fri, 15 Jan 2021 -
The US Oil Rig Count’s 2020 Rollercoaster Ride
...FROM 670 AT THE START OF 2020 THE US RIG COUNT SLUMPED TO 172 BY MID AUGUST BUT HAS SINCE ADDED 103 RIGS, 60% OF THESE IN THE PERMIAN... ...DESPITE THIS, THE US END-YEAR OIL RIG COUNT FOR 2020 WAS THE LOWEST IN 14 YEARS AND LESS THAN A FIFTH OF THE 2014 PEAK SOURCE: BA...
Volume: 64Issue: 02Published at Fri, 15 Jan 2021