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Mena Top 3 For 2017-22 ‘New Renewables’ Growth*
...CAPACITY GROWTH (GW): UAE & MOROCCO PLAN IMPRESSIVE-SEEMING SOLAR AND WIND ADDITIONS... ...BUT MOROCCO IS THE ONLY COUNTRY WHERE RENEWABLES WILL BE A KEY PART OF THE 2022 POWER MIX (GENERATION BY SOURCE, TWh) *IRAN IS TOP INCLUDING HYDROPOWER. SOURCE: IEA ‘RENEWABLES 2017...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
East Med Gas Development: Hang Together Or Hang Separately
...ock in the second half of next year. By then – given that Eni plans two late 2017/early 2018 wells across its blocks, and that (barring discoveries) there is no drilling planned after this – by late 2018 either a new chapter will be opening in East Med gas, or the Cypriot one will be close to closing (se...
Volume: 60Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2017 -
Cyprus Drilling Plans: Make Or Break?
...the existence of a ‘Zohr-like’ carbonate reservoir offshore Cyprus is “very promising.” In plain English it was a flop. Previous drilling had focused on sandstone plays resulting in Aphrodite, Cyprus’ only discovery to date, and the nearby Israeli Tamar and Leviathan. Of the five planned 2017...
Volume: 60Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2017 -
Renewables: Mena Retarded By Low Power Prices Amid Global Progress-IEA
...ergy Agency (IEA). The agency’s Renewables 2017 forecast, published this week, says solar capacity worldwide rose by 50% last year, to 74GW, of which almost a half was in China. “China has been the leader in manufacturing solar PV equipment for some time,” says IEA renewables head Paolo Frankl, “bu...
Volume: 60Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2017 -
Saudi Solar Tender: Masdar Offers Lowest Ever Power Price
...built 120km east of Abu Dhabi city at Sweihan (MEES, 7 July). There will be great interest across the renewables sector in how such low bids were achieved for Sakaka. Certainly solar panel costs have fallen sharply. The IEA’s Renewables 2017 forecast, issued this week says that in 2016 solar PV...
Volume: 60Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2017 -
Opec Focuses On Exports As Compliance Slips Further
...dress its compliance with existing commitments. OPEC COMPLIANCE WANES After a strong start to 2017, output has been on a steady upwards trend since April. Opec production has grown for each of the last two quarters, and all three quarters so far in 2017 have posted year-on-year gains (see ch...
Volume: 60Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2017 -
Non-Opec’s Mixed Bag
...The non-Opec signatories to the late-2016 output deal pledged to cut just under 600,000 b/d, of which 300,000 b/d from Russia. Russia hit this for the first time in August and repeated the trick in September, although it remains around 80,000 b/d above target on average over 2017 so far. Th...
Volume: 60Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2017 -
Saudi King Salman’s Historic Russian Visit: Will It See Trade Leap?
...OM A LOW BASE Russia’s Industry Minister, Denis Manturov, said on 4 October that bilateral trade in the first half of 2017 had increased 30% year-on-year. However, certainly before this year, bilateral trade had been falling: 2016’s $7.4bn was well down on the previous year’s $12.4bn. The key ex...
Volume: 60Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2017 -
Abu Dhabi In $10bn Bond, Prices Tighter Than Saudi
...bt to help bridge budget deficits brought about by low oil prices since mid-2014. At the same time investor demand for GCC bond issues remains strong. According to reports quoting the Abu Dhabi bond prospectus, the emirate expects its fiscal deficit to narrow to $3.74bn in 2017 from $7.05bn in 20...
Volume: 60Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2017 -
BP Start-Up Of 1Bn Cfd Khazzan Field Gives 20% Boost To Oman Gas
...oduction deal (see p7). Oman produced 7.08bcm of associated gas in 2016, which MEES calculates accounted for 18% of total output after subtracting imports from Qatar. But after eight months this is on track to slip to 6.86bcm in 2017, dragging down total gas output. Meanwhile, non-associated gas is up sl...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
BP Gets Gulf Gas Boost
...lf of 2017, implying 260mn cfd net for BP. Output from the three firms’ other key project, In Amenas is also running at multi-year high levels having finally recovered from a 2013 terrorist attack. However, here Sonatrach keeps all of the gas production (830mn cfd for H1 2017), leaving BP and Statoil to...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
Algeria: Prices Up, Volumes Down, Projects Delayed
...ole. Whilst this is only $1.6/B higher than the $51.4/B MEES factored in to its previous analysis (MEES, 25 August), the change is enough to slash the country’s expected 2017 trade deficit from $11bn to $8.6bn – and this despite MEES trimming 1bcm from its 2017 gas export forecast (see table). Of co...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
Qatar Boosts Revenue
...gust’s $51.9/B, September ought to prove profitable for Qatar. MEES estimates that Qatar hydrocarbon revenues are on track to come in at around $54bn in 2017. This would be a 15% increase on last year, although still less than half of 2013’s $120bn. If the recent oil price gains are sustained over the re...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
Iraq Plots Post-War Refining Rebound
...crude oil has this year exceeded the combined 544,000 b/d nameplate capacity of operational federal refineries, reaching a peak of 591,000 b/d in April and averaging 553,000 b/d for January to July 2017, compared with 446,000 b/d for 2016 (see chart). This was achieved through a deal with the Ku...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
Russia Extends Lead Over Saudi In China As Overall Imports Fall
...wn (see chart, p16). Total Chinese crude imports were 8.014mn b/d, the lowest figure this year, though still 5% up on the 2016 average of 7.61mn b/d. This magnitude of gains, as opposed to the 14% year-on-year growth implied by China’s 8.53mn b/d January-July 2017 imports, is much more in line wi...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
Qatar Plans First Significant Solar Capacity
...y plank of this had been a January 2017 deal with Abu Dhabi state firm Masdar, a firm with much more renewables experience, to jointly develop “commercially viable renewable energy projects in the UAE, Qatar, and international markets.” QEWC’s overseas investment affiliate Nebras Power and state in...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
Saudi: Opec Should Stick To Its Guns
...ojected at around 1.3mn b/d [for 2017: Mr Muhanna’s figures broadly tally with an average of the most recent forecasts from Opec and the IEA – MEES, 15 September]. When the demand is ahead of supply the market is on a strong footing.” Progress towards Opec’s stated goal of bringing OECD stocks down to fi...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
KRG’s Troubled Waters
...0 B/D) 2017* vs 2016* 2014 2015 Tawke 111.0 3....
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
Assad Looks To Rebuild As Syria War Enters Final Act
...maged by IS rockets launched during the Palmyra offensive in early 2017. Small-scale production of 35mn cfd at Ebla resumed this month: Mr Ghanem optimistically claims this will ramp up to 75% of pre-war production, 66mn cfd, by 2018. Gas production is crucial to meeting Syria’s domestic power de...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
Tamar Downtime Is Wake-Up Call for Israel
...neration fuel mix for 2017, with coal 37-38% and renewables the remaining 2-3%. In the absence of Tamar gas, Israel had to switch in diesel and fuel oil (see chart). In case of a longer outage it also has the option of importing LNG via a receiving buoy offshore the northern port city of Hadera. It is st...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017