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Leviathan: The Giant Stirs
...hr’s 3.2bn cfd plateau (see box). Leviathan’s problem was never lack of gas but rather a lack of an outlet large enough to justify full commercial development. Development options considered, then sidelined, included a tie-back to an LNG plant in Israel or Cyprus (MEES, 17 January 2011), a pipeline to...
Volume: 62Issue: 50Published at Fri, 13 Dec 2019 -
Libya’s New Output Goals: Has NOC Any Chance Of Scoring?
...rmal in Libya since the 2011 revolution. The post-Gaddafi chaos has seen output frequently nosedive through forced shut-in of fields. IOCs have left, contractors are wary and the threat of forced shutdowns by armed groups is ever present. As a consequence, Libya’s creaking infrastructure has suffered. Da...
Volume: 62Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2019 -
Algeria-Morocco-Spain Pipeline Politics
...E volumes far exceeds the 19% fall to 4.15bcm in Medgaz shipments. The 11.5bcm/y-capacity GME pipeline has long been the key conduit for Algeria-to-Spain shipments: though Medgaz shipments have increased since the second route started up in 2011 they have never surpassed GME on an annual basis. Bu...
Volume: 62Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2019 -
Cyprus Advances Aphrodite Development
...Cyprus issued its first ever “exploitation license” this week to the partners in the 4.2tcf Aphrodite gas field. Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis says the event is “especially important” whilst cautioning that this is just the first step in a long road before Aphrodite, discovered in 2011, ca...
Volume: 62Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2019 -
Libya Set For Big Gas Boost
...With the impending start-up of the 180mn cfd Faregh Phase-2 project, Libya will have added a healthy 580mn cfd capacity by the end of 2019. Not bad for a country that has rarely seen peace since 2011. The long-delayed 180mn cfd Faregh Phase-2 gas project is finally on the verge of start-up...
Volume: 62Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2019 -
Libya: Waha Expansion Inches Forward
...Projects to boost Libya’s long-term output have mostly been on hold since before the 2011 revolution. But plans by the Waha Oil Company (WOC) – grouping NOC (59.18%) with US firms ConocoPhillips (16.33%), Marathon (16.33%) and Hess (8.16%) – to boost capacity from its key Sirte Basin acreage be...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
NOC Eyes Russian Firms’ Return
...NOC sees its longer term output gains coming from new developments. But for this, it needs to persuade firms that have not been active in Libya since the 2011 war to return. On 5 October NOC all but announced Russia’s Tatneft had returned to Libya, welcoming “progress of seismic surveys be...
Volume: 62Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2019 -
Eni, Shell & OMV In Tunisia: Will They Stay Or Will They Go?
...llowing the 2011 revolution and brought online production from scratch. MAZARINE: SMALL FIRM, BIG PLANS Mazarine started its Tunisian operations (at the time its sole focus) in 2013, acquiring a 45% stake in the Zaafrane exploration permit in the southwest of the country. It struck oil there in 20...
Volume: 62Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019 -
Tunisia’s Upstream: Can It Emerge From A Lost Decade?
...Tunisia’s oil and gas output has been on a downward trajectory for almost a decade. Political instability unleashed following the 2011 revolution paralyzed the country’s upstream. But Industry Minister Slim Feriani has been battling to turn things around and is determined to see “the glass ha...
Volume: 62Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019 -
Libya’s NOC Looks To Take Development Inhouse With New Zallaf Subsidiary
...rk, which at a minimum would involve securing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and enlisting the help of international services firms. A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE Though there was a short period following the bloody 2011 revolution when Libya was again starting to look like an at...
Volume: 62Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2019 -
Iraq Crude Exports Edge Up In July
...ightly. Baghdad has so far brought in $47bn this year, down just $800mn (see chart). If oil prices and exports hold steady, Iraq is looking at around $80bn in export revenues – just a hair behind last year’s $83.7bn and not far behind the 2011-14 days of $100/B oil when Iraq netted $85-95bn despite only ex...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Eni & Total Strengthen Cyprus Ties
...months. Appraisal wells are slated for Calypso on Block 6, Glaucus on Block 10 and also at the 4.2tcf Aphrodite field, Cyprus’ first gas discovery in December 2011. This would be the second appraisal well drilled at Aphrodite: the previous one was drilled six years ago. In June the pa...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Libya’s NOC Hopes For The Best, Plans For The Worst
...nching well below its weight. In the five years leading up to the 2011 ‘revolution’ the country’s output averaged 1.65mn b/d (see chart). Mr Sanalla, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman, in a wide-ranging exclusive MEES interview in Vienna on 30 June (see transcript, p9) said “we have more th...
Volume: 62Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2019 -
Libya: Set For A Gas Boost In 2019?
...able than that of oil since the 2011 revolution, in some ways the picture has reversed over the past 18 months or so. Crude output steadily rose to reach 990,000 b/d in 2018 – and a six-year high of 1.26mn b/d in March – whilst gas production fell to 1.34bn cfd, down 25% from 2013’s record 1.79bn cfd ac...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Libya’s North Hamada: Development At Last?
...t the 2011 ‘revolution’ marked the beginning of years of instability. Though Tripoli in late-2011 approved Medco’s declaration of commerciality on structures A+L, D and F, by then the firm like most other foreign companies had pulled its staff out of the country. It returned in 2013 and drilled th...
Volume: 62Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2019 -
Egypt’s Offshore Delta Output: Nooros Boost, Rapid Decline
...ing finalized by BP and Eni.” The plan is for the field to be developed as a tie-in to the existing Ha’py infrastructure and to “build on BP’s success in the Atoll project” where the firm produces 300mn cfd. The 2011 Salmon discovery, also on the North el Burg offshore license, is “currently under ev...
Volume: 62Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2019 -
Tunisia Struggles To Halt Oil And Gas Decline
...ocessing facilities that serve its Cercina, El Hajeb/Guebibba, Rhemoura and Gremda/El Ain concessions, bought from OMV in 2018. Output was 3,900 b/d for Q1, down from 2018’s 4,100 b/d. Mr Feriani hailed the fact that the number of exploration permits granted has reached 30 for the first time since 2011...
Volume: 62Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2019 -
Egypt: Record Gas Output, Exports At Seven-Year High
...pped 1bn cfd for the first time since December 2011. They have likely risen further since, with Egypt’s gas consumption typically bottoming out in March. Though rising domestic demand as summer approaches would normally crimp volumes available for export, continued production gains are of course a co...
Volume: 62Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2019 -
Iraq Edges Closer To Crucial Seawater Megaproject Deal
...eded for firms to hit their production plateau targets (PPT). In 2010 the oil ministry tapped ExxonMobil’s expertise for a multi-billion dollar Common Seawater Supply Project (CSSP), but the project subsequently fell prey to changing terms, failed negotiations, scandal as Exxon entered the KRG in 2011 (ME...
Volume: 62Issue: 19Published at Fri, 10 May 2019 -
Total To Become Top Algeria Producer In $9bn Oxy Side Deal
...lling. The company’s only stake was 35% of the aging Tin Fouye Tabankort (TFT) wet gas field where output has fallen from a peak of 680mn cfd in 2011 to just 400mn cfd for 2017 – netting Total a measly 15,000 boe/d, three-quarters gas (MEES, 23 March 2018). But from that trough, the company’s Algeria ou...
Volume: 62Issue: 19Published at Fri, 10 May 2019