1. Second Gas Well At Shah Deniz Ready For Operation

    ...date of 2011-12 was missed the pipeline would reach a maximum capacity of 30 bcm/y by 2018-19 as planned. The Nabucco consortium is also looking for an additional European partner to help finance the $5.5bn project.   German Chancellor Angela Merkel on 14 February visited Ba...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 09
    Published at Mon, 26 Feb 2007
  2. KazMunaiGaz Signs Accord For KCTS Export Route With Key Kazakh Producers

    ...ude between Burgas on the Black Sea and Alexandroupolis on the Aegean (MEES, 25 December). Construction is to begin in 2008 and completion of the 285km pipeline is set for 2011.   Work on the proposed Samsun-Ceyhan crude oil pipeline is due to get under way this spring fo...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 08
    Published at Mon, 19 Feb 2007
  3. Daelim, IRGC Awarded Contract To Construct LNG, LPG Storage Facilities

    ...rst LNG until 2011 at the earliest....

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 07
    Published at Mon, 12 Feb 2007
  4. Kahramaa Boosts Budget For 2007 By 71% To Meet Surging Power, Water Demand

    ...e previous year with water purchasing up 16%. The company recorded that peak demand had risen by 18% in the year. Kahramaa reiterated scheduled completion dates for major power and water projects already under way: Ras Laffan C to produce 2,600mw by June 2011;   Ras Abu Fo...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 07
    Published at Mon, 12 Feb 2007
  5. Belgium’s Jan De Nul Wins Manifa Dredging Contract

    ...oduction by 2011. The dredging work is due to be complete in 2009. As well as the shallow water drilling, the project will comprise onshore oil and gas facilities as well as deeper-water offshore drilling facilities. In addition to oil, the project will produce 120mn cfd of associated gas, which will be...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 07
    Published at Mon, 12 Feb 2007
  6. Yemen Should Adopt Floating Exchange Rate To Counter Declining Oil Production, Says IMF

    ...kely to become a net fuel importer by 2011, and to fully exhaust its reserves of crude oil by 2018, stated the IMF working paper. ...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 07
    Published at Mon, 12 Feb 2007
  7. NIOC Signs Agreement With Shell And Repsol For South Pars 13-14 Feasibility Study

    ...ticipated in 2011-12. Another planned Iranian LNG project, the 10mn t/y Pars LNG scheme where Total is operator, has signed sales agreements for 3mn t/y each with PTT and PetroChina, with first deliveries due in 2011 (MEES, 11 December 2006). US Threatens Review Of South Pars 13-14 Deal With Regards To...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 06
    Published at Mon, 05 Feb 2007
  8. Kuwait On Track To Start Northern Gas Development By End-Year

    ...scovery at the Umm Niga and Sabriya fields in the north of the country has been confirmed to contain 35 tcf of gas in place. As such, the phased development plan envisages initial production of 175mn cfd, rising to 600mn cfd by the end of 2011 and 1bn cfd by 2015. KOC is expected to carry out the de...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 04
    Published at Mon, 22 Jan 2007
  9. NIORDC Lines Up Essar And Star Petrogas For New Refinery JVs

    ...ant on-line in 2011. It will process heavy crudes including Soroush and Nowruz, freeing up lighter grades for export. Meanwhile, NIORDC is also holding talks with Indonesia’s Star Petrogas regarding a 50% equity interest in a 360,000 b/d condensate refinery joint venture, also to be built at Bandar Ab...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 03
    Published at Mon, 15 Jan 2007
  10. Ras Laffan Port Expansion Plans Sees Up To 10 Berths For LNG, Other Liquids

    ...rt would be handling up to 3,000 ships per year for the export of LNG and other liquids. “With six new LNG trains being built to boost exports to 77mn tons/year by 2011, the port is now undergoing an extensive reconstruction program to handle the increased volume of LNG and associated liquid pr...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 03
    Published at Mon, 15 Jan 2007
  11. UAE Unveils $7.7Bn Balanced Budget For 2007 

    ...Khurbash pointed out that this year’s budget was more coordinated than in previous years and defined implementation methods for projects from 2007 to 2011 under new procedures which come into effect this year. Allocations for current expenditure include Dh7.110bn ($1.94bn – 33% of the total) fo...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 03
    Published at Mon, 15 Jan 2007
  12. CITIC Completes Purchase Of Nations Energy Kazakh Assets

    ...shore blocks in Uzbekistan, China’s Ministry of Commerce said on 29 December. The license was awarded to CNPC’s China National Oil & Gas Exploration and Development Corporation on 22 December. The company will invest some $200mn to drill 27 wells in an exploration area covering 3.4 sq km by 2011...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 01/02
    Published at Mon, 08 Jan 2007
  13. Chinese Firm, Egyptian Companies Form Joint Venture For Rig Construction 

    ...e partners are to each hold 25%. A construction schedule for the company calls for three rigs to be built in 2007, eight in 2008, 10 in 2009, 15 in 2010 and 20 in 2011. The rigs are to be used in Egypt and throughout the Middle East and Africa. Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy first di...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 01/02
    Published at Mon, 08 Jan 2007
  14. Pars LNG And China Sign 3Mn T/Y Preliminary LNG Supply Agreement

    ...rst deliveries in 2011 (MEES, 10 July). Iran’s efforts to secure combined upstream/LNG sales agreements with China and India have so far not succeeded because of LNG pricing differences (MEES, 4 December)....

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 50
    Published at Mon, 11 Dec 2006
  15. SABIC, ExxonMobil Chemical To Study Petrochemicals Expansion

    ...dustries Corporation (SABIC) and ExxonMobil Chemical on 5 November announced that they had started working on a feasibility study on a project that would expand their two joint petrochemical ventures at Yanbu΄ and Jubail. The project, with start-up in 2011, would target a domestic supply of carbon black an...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 46
    Published at Mon, 13 Nov 2006
  16. Foster Wheeler Awarded FEED/PMS Contracts For Manifa Project

    ...0,000 End-2008 17 April Nuayyim 100,000 2008 25 April 2005 Khurais 1,200,000 2009 6 March Manifa 900,000 2011 6 No...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 45
    Published at Mon, 06 Nov 2006
  17. Nama Selects Petronas As Partner For Private Jubail Export Refinery

    ...ovisionally scheduled for start-up in 2011 (MEES, 15 May). In August, Saudi Aramco announced initial contracts for a separate 400,000 b/d refinery in Jubail that it is developing in partnership with Total, while a similar plant is under development in partnership with ConocoPhillips in Yanbuʹ (MEES, 28 August)....

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 37
    Published at Mon, 11 Sep 2006
  18. ENPPI, Saudi Aramco Sign Contract On Safaniya Water Disposal Upgrade

    ...ntract to execute the Safaniyah Water Disposal System Upgrade Project. The project will expand the Safaniyah Arabian Heavy Crude and Utilities Plants to maintain the plant’s crude oil demand until 2011, said Saudi Aramco. It will add a low-pressure producing trap capable of the three-phase separation of oi...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 37
    Published at Mon, 11 Sep 2006
  19. Saudi Aramco And Partners Sign Yanbu' And Jubail Export Refinery Contracts

    ...pointed Halliburton subsidiary KBR to carry out front-end engineering for the planned $6bn export refinery in Yanbu' (MEES, 29 May). The Yanbu' Export Refinery, scheduled for completion in 2011, will be designed to process 400,000 b/d of Arabian Heavy crude oil, producing motor fuels and other re...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 28 Aug 2006
  20. First Kazakh Crude Arrives At PetroChina’s Dushanzi Petrochemical Plant

    ...mn t/y (400,000 b/d) by 2011 and deliveries may eventually include crude oil from Russia. Plans call for the pipeline to be extended in Kazakhstan to the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, making its entire length around 3,000km (MEES, 29 May) A crude oil refinery at the Dushazi complex, with a ca...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 32
    Published at Mon, 07 Aug 2006