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Saudi Arabia Pushes For Enhanced Gas Role In Energy Transition
...x, with state regulator ECRA’s latest statistics showing that in 2017, gas fueled a record 53.7% of all electricity generation (MEES, 19 April). There is a clear geographic disparity in the kingdom, where liquids have been virtually eliminated from power generation from the eastern and central ar...
Volume: 62Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2019 -
Saudi To Push On With ‘Full Cycle’ Nuclear, Probably
...nsions, Saudi Arabia’s desire to control the whole nuclear enrichment process is sure to raise eyebrows. LEADING PLAYER The leading Mena nuclear player is Russian state firm Rosatom, which is set to follow up its plants in Iran with four units totalling 4.8GW in Egypt (MEES, 15 December 2017...
Volume: 62Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2019 -
New Saudi Energy Minister Faces Princely Task
...ngdom’s ministry of energy. For much of that time he has been intimately involved in Saudi Arabia’s work at Opec, forging relationships with counterparts across the globe. Most recently he has been Minister of State for Energy Affairs since 2017. EXPERIENCED HAND From that perspective this is an op...
Volume: 62Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2019 -
Egypt Eyes More Borrowing Despite Falling Deficit
...ar ending 30 June. Some $4bn came from a dollar denominated bond in February 2019, with a euro-denominated bond in April chipping in €2bn ($2.5bn). For 2017-18, Egypt raised $6.5bn: $4bn in February 2018 and €2bn ($2.5bn) in April 2018 (MEES, 20 April 2018). Both 2016-17 bonds were in dollars for a to...
Volume: 62Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2019 -
SOCO Hikes Egypt Output
...co’s first quarter in charge. Soco blames “underinvestment… in previous years” for a sustained slump from 7,900 b/d for 2017. It sees a “clear near-term opportunity to reverse the decline and then steadily improve the production level,” targeting 15,000 b/d by 2023. On 16 July Soco added a second dr...
Volume: 62Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2019 -
Tunisia Field Hit By Strikes
...plement a set of demands agreed on 20 August. El Borma, the country’s oldest and largest producing oil field, has now been shut-in at least three times by strikes this year. And this came on the back of summer 2017’s wide-ranging strikes that crippled output at Tunisia’s southern fields (MEES, 2 June 2017...
Volume: 62Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2019 -
Russia’s Stroytransgaz Bags Iraq E&P Deal
...s Block 12 in Muthanna province. Rosneft acquired the block through its controversial takeover of operator Bashneft in 2017. Russia, and in particular Stroytransgaz, is also picking up upstream assets in eastern Syria, which Anbar province borders. Stroytransgaz will be keen to replicate its co...
Volume: 62Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2019 -
Russians Grab Syria Acreage
...portant backer of the government in Syria’s eight year civil war, and now aims to secure repayment. It is widely expected to win lucrative contracts as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad looks to rebuild the economy (MEES, 22 December 2017). Russia’s Stroytransgaz, which was awarded acreage in Iraq this we...
Volume: 62Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2019 -
Egypt: Key Oil JVs Plan Output Hike
...nuary and July this year, the highest since late 2017: but this is still 27% below 2010 levels. One of the key producers in the region is BP, via its Gupco operations. These are in the process of being taken over by Dragon Oil, a subsidiary of Dubai state firm Enoc, in a deal worth an estimated $500mn (ME...
Volume: 62Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2019 -
Algeria’s Gas Projects: Playing Catch-Up
...me Algeria hit that record, none of the three projects that comprise SWGP had come online. The Repsol-led 2.9bcm/y Reggane Nord started-up in late 2017 and Total’s 1.8bcm/y Timimoun tight-gas project in early 2018. The largest element, the 4.5bcm/y Neptune Energy-operated Touat project, was on the cu...
Volume: 62Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2019 -
PIF Muscles In On Aramco Amid Oil Sector Shakeup
...r Saudi Arabia’s struggles to secure the foreign investment inflows required to boost economic diversity. Whether Mr Khorayef is likely to achieve more success than Mr Falih is far from clear. After all, investors have been deterred by the fallout from the Jamal Khashoggi killing and 2017’s in...
Volume: 62Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2019 -
KRG: Chevron Awards Sarta CPF Contract
...February that various export options implying initial volumes may be temporarily trucked while a spur pipeline is connected to the KRG’s export line to Turkey. Sarta will be the first new field brought online since UAE firm Taqa's Atrush field started production in July 2017 (MEES, 14 July 2017). ...
Volume: 62Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2019 -
Kuwait’s KNPC Begins Clean Fuels Commissioning
...om 270,000 b/d to 454,000 b/d and reduce Mina al-Ahmadi’s from 466,000 b/d to 347,000 b/d. KNPC originally aimed for start-up of the CFP in late 2017, but as is often the case in Kuwait the schedule has slipped. The latest official start-up target is by the end of 2019, but slippage to 2020 looks in...
Volume: 62Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2019 -
BP, Shell Step Up Egypt Offshore Action
...the east. At North Damietta’s Atoll field, BP plans to drill a fourth development well in 1Q 2020 hiking output from 300mn cfd to 400mn cfd. Discovered in 2015, ‘Phase-1’ Atoll output began in December 2017. Development is also ongoing at the nearby Qattameya field, discovered in March 2017...
Volume: 62Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019 -
Algeria Touat: Imminent
...mpleted in 2016 (MEES, 25 August 2017). The Touat delay has forced Neptune to revise down its overall net output guidance for the year to 150-155,000 boe/d from 155,000 boe/d targeted in its Q1 results. Neptune’s 35% project stake will give it “around 16,000 boe/d net production at plateau,” a level th...
Volume: 62Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019 -
Total Lauds Latest QP Tie Ups
...ighboring blocks 2913B and 2912. QP will take 30% of Block 2913B, with Total retaining a 40% operating stake alongside private firm Impact Oil (20%) and state firm Namco (10%). The block lies 150km west of (ie further offshore from) the Kudu Gas field and Impact says that 3D seismic data acquired in 2017 in...
Volume: 62Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019 -
Mauritania: Total Wildcat
...cember 2017), and Shell with two blocks last year (MEES, 27 July 2018) also see Mauritania as a key part of their international exploration portfolio. As for the Pacific Santa Ana, following the completion of Total’s C-18 well, it will plug and abandon former production wells at the Chinguetti field un...
Volume: 62Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019 -
Saudi Bags Growing Share Of Key Chinese Market
...finers Sinopec and PetroChina shunning Iranian volumes, the bulk of recent arrivals, imported by state trader Zhuhai Zhenrong, appear to have gone into China’s strategic petroleum reserve (SPR), in particular the 19mn barrel site at Jinzhou northeast of Beijing which was completed in 2017. Data in...
Volume: 62Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019 -
Aramco Eyes Chinese Take-Away From Sabic Purchase
...e polyurethane components and other chemicals manufactured at the Sadara joint venture plant of Aramco and US firm Down Chemical in the Saudi downstream hub of Jubail (MEES, 28 July 2017). Indeed China, and Asia more generally, are also key buyers from Saudi refineries. However, the focus has be...
Volume: 62Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019 -
Bahrain’s Oil Sector Optimism Spreads To Powergen
...ve existing grid-linked power plants delivered 17.8TWh of electricity in 2018. Additions from the Alba power plants and the GGC grid took total electricity delivered to the grid to 18.0TWh. Bahrain’s peak load fell slightly to 3.44GW in 2018 from a record 3.57GW in 2017, although the trend in recent ye...
Volume: 62Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019