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Exxon’s Star Shines Brightest Among Egypt’s Slew Of Mediterranean Awards
...ild-up immediately lying below the Messinian Salt.” BETTER TERMS One reason Shell’s earlier modest discoveries were deemed uneconomic was that at the time Cairo was only willing to pay a fixed $2.65/mn BTU for domestic output. By 2014, and with investment from IOCs drying up, Eg...
Volume: 64Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2021 -
Sudan Looks To Reverse Upstream Decline With 2021 Bidding
...Sudan’s crude output is running at 64,000 b/d, down 44% on 2014 levels and some 86% below the 457,000 b/d produced before South Sudan seceded in July 2011, taking with it 75% of Sudan’s production. Acting Energy Minister Kheiri Abdelrahman says Sudan hopes to add 20,000 b/d next year. But he...
Volume: 63Issue: 51Published at Fri, 18 Dec 2020 -
Iraq Plans Oil Prepayments To Alleviate Financial Meltdown
...epayment contract with Vitol and local firm Matrix Energy in July. But governments walk a fine line when leveraging long-term revenues for an immediate cash injection. And Baghdad needn’t look far for examples. When oil prices collapsed in 2014-2015, Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) turned to pr...
Volume: 63Issue: 48Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2020 -
The Curious Case Of Algeria’s Hassi R’Mel
...S IS LESS THAN HALF GROSS OUTPUT (BCM) *JODI FIGURES USED FROM 2014. SOURCE: ALGERIA’S ENERGY MINISTRY, OPEC ASB, JODI, GCEF, IMF, MEES. ALGERIA’S BEATING HEART: HASSI R’MEL SACRIFICING GAS FOR OIL The massive use of reinjection means that Algeria’s sales gas output de...
Volume: 63Issue: 47Published at Fri, 20 Nov 2020 -
Kuwait Oil Company Looks To Heavy Oil To Offset Capacity Declines
...nventional fields in North Kuwait. There, capacity has dropped by 130,000 b/d since 2017-18 to just 640,000 b/d. As with Burgan, capacity at North Kuwait has been hindered by project delays. Kuwait awarded contracts for three gathering centers (GC-29, 30 and 31) in 2014: at the time start-up was slated fo...
Volume: 63Issue: 47Published at Fri, 20 Nov 2020 -
Eni’s Zohr Under Threat From Water Infiltration
...2.7bn cfd was raised to 3.2bn cfd at the behest of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as Egypt suffered gas shortages between 2014-2017, causing countrywide power cuts. In June last year at a conference in Cairo delegates warned that over-drilling could result in the reservoir’s collapse but th...
Volume: 63Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2020 -
Sunny Hill Quits Egypt
...bstantially worse with the 2H 2014 oil price crash. The firm effectively went bust and was taken over by its key bondholder Worldview Capital in early 2016 (MEES, 8 April 2016). Worldview subsequently adopted one of the toughest stances on EGPC receivables of all IOCs in the country. It halted all but es...
Volume: 63Issue: 38Published at Fri, 18 Sep 2020 -
Egypt Takes Oil Target In-House As Production Plumbs 40-Year Low
...gust). Indeed, for many, investment has never recovered from the oil price slump in the second half of 2014. For other key global oil provinces, not least the Middle East, the late-2014 oil price slump came on the back of years of plenty. But firms in Egypt had by early 2014 already endured three years of...
Volume: 63Issue: 38Published at Fri, 18 Sep 2020 -
Egypt’s Key Oil Producers See Output Slump
...ill.” In particular the firm is eying “stratigraphic targets” similar to the 2014 Ptah and Berenice discoveries (see map) which have been central to how Apache has since viewed the region’s geology. “We’ve got some wells we’re pretty excited to drill. The nice thing about those is they’re vertical, on...
Volume: 63Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020 -
China’s CNOOC Enters Key Abu Dhabi Concessions
...ES. CHINA’S GROWING PRESENCE IN UAE UPSTREAM CHINESE EXPANSION China is a key buyer of Emirati crude, ranking as the UAE’s fifth largest client last year. But Chinese firms were absent from the country’s upstream until CNPC dipped its toe into the waters in 2014 with the es...
Volume: 63Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020 -
Iran’s Petropars Wins $1.3bn South Azadegan Contract
...rst phase of North Azadegan, but was kicked off of the South Azadegan development for slow progress in 2014 (MEES, 9 May 2014). Since then, Pedec has been responsible for its development. After the previous round of sanctions was eased in 2016 and Iran set about courting IOCs, a number of high pr...
Volume: 63Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2020 -
Iraq: Is China’s UEG Finally Ready To Realize Block 9’s Potential?
...ERGY GROUP: IRAQ ASSETS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY When first discovered in 2014 Faihaa – itself an extension of Iran’s 112,000 b/d Yadavaran field (see map) – was touted as the “largest discovery in Iraq in the last ten years” (MEES, 12 September 2014), although it has since been eclipsed by Lu...
Volume: 63Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2020 -
Saudi-Kuwait Neutral Zone Back Online
...Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have brought production at their Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ) back online after a one-month hiatus (MEES, 22 May). There is now production from both onshore and offshore fields for the first time since October 2014 (MEES, 24 October 2014). After production wa...
Volume: 63Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2020 -
IEA Backs Saudi Arabia To Lead Mena Gas Supply Push
...anned start-up date of 2014 (MEES, 12 October 2012) and is currently due online this year. Recent delays have been down to problems with the offshore pipeline. As for Iran, despite being subject to stringent US sanctions, it is still advancing the development of its South Pars gas field. Mohammad Me...
Volume: 63Issue: 25Published at Fri, 19 Jun 2020 -
Iraq Fights For Survival Amid Growing Pressure To Slash Oil Output
...the 6 June meeting, is for Baghdad to reduce crude output month-by-month in order to produce under its quota in August-September to make up for May-July overproduction. This would ultimately bring Iraqi output to 3-3.5mn b/d, its lowest since 2014. Needless-to-say such a scenario is difficult to im...
Volume: 63Issue: 24Published at Fri, 12 Jun 2020 -
Apache ‘Excited’ By Egypt Despite Output Plunge
...8). 1: EGYPT OIL OUTPUT FELL TO A 38-YEAR LOW OF 608,000 B/D FOR MARCH ('000 B/D) 2: APACHE GROSS EGYPT OUTPUT IS AT A 10-YEAR LOW BUT THE US FIRM HOPES A WELL-STOCKED INVENTORY WILL SEE A REBOUND 3: APACHE HIKES EGYPT CAPEX, BUT STILL JUST 40% OF 2014 LEVELS *IN...
Volume: 63Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2020 -
Neutral Zone Restart: 2mn Barrels Exported
...e currently en-route to Asia for the first time since 2014. Production from the PNZ is shared 50:50 by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, but the offshore Khafji field was shut-in in October 2014 (MEES, 24 October 2014) due to grievances over shared management. Output from the onshore portion (Wafra) was th...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Egypt Halts LNG Exports As Eni & Shell Bear The Brunt Of Gas Surplus
.../B.” In normal terms, Egypt’s gas renaissance has been a great success story. From a sizable gas deficit for 2014-17, new output led by Eni’s giant Zohr, which came online in December 2017, has meant that since late 2018 the country has had a gas surplus (MEES, 17 May 2019), with exports hitting an ei...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Algeria: Southwest Pipeline Progress, But Field Development Lags
...th the IOCs. Similarly, Norway’s Equinor (then Statoil) in 2014 walked away from the Hassi Mouina license containing the Hassi Tidjerane and Tinerkouk fields: development was “not… commercial” (MEES, 29 May 2015). The 4bcm/y Ahnet tight gas project, though geographically distant, was also at one st...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Mena Drilling: GCC Records, North Africa Slump
...rth $18bn for the expansion of capacity at the Marjan and Berri offshore fields required merely to stand still (MEES, 12 July 2019). The last six years (2014 to 2019) saw the six highest Saudi annual rig count figures on record (MEES, 17 January), whilst at 114 for February and March the rig count re...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020