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Oman Oil Names Former Oxy Executive As New CEO
...$8mn from a senior official at Korea’s LG International some years ago, after the Korean firm won a total of $2bn-plus in contracts related to key downstream projects. The case came to light two years after the Omani leader Sultan Qaboos launched an anti-graft campaign in 2011, aimed at de...
Volume: 57Issue: 34Published at Fri, 22 Aug 2014 -
Gulfsands Struggling To Regroup More Than Two Years After Losing Syria Assets
...rce majeure at its Syria operations, Gulfsands’ only producing asset, in December 2011. Gulfsands’ working interest from its Syria operations totaled about 8,500 b/d in 2011, down from 10,300 b/d in 2010. In a corporate update issued at the end of June, Gulfsands suggests that it remains ho...
Volume: 57Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2014 -
Egypt To Slash Petroleum Subsidies As Part Of New Budget
...too low however, and could threaten growth, Egyptian economists warn. Social Expenditure In Egyptian Budgets: 2011-2015 (E£ Mn) 2014-15* 2013-14** 2012-13 2011-12 Total So...
Volume: 57Issue: 22Published at Fri, 30 May 2014 -
Aramco Annual Review: Gas Record, Oil Down
...10 2011 2012 2013 ‘13vs’12 (%) RESERVES (re...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
QPI Makes Second Canada Move With UK’s Centrica
...int oil and gas projects in Canada in 2011. After the latest deal, QPI and Centrica’s interests in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin are fully aligned. In a statement, Nasir al-Jaidah, CEO of QPI, said: “We are pleased to have expanded our strategic alliance with our partner Centrica through this ac...
Volume: 57Issue: 19Published at Fri, 09 May 2014 -
SABIC Targets ‘Innovation And Ingenuity’
...ale cracker in the US (MEES, 12 April 2013). The report gives 2013 output for only two of SABIC’s business units: fertilizers 6.7mn tons and “metals” (steel production) 5.9mn tons. The most recent data for other units are for 2011 output: chemicals 44mn tons, polymers 11.3mn tons, innovative pl...
Volume: 57Issue: 19Published at Fri, 09 May 2014 -
Total Reorganizes E&P Operations, Merges Mideast And North Africa
...0,000 b/d. The company has submitted bids for either a 5% or 10% stake in a new concession, but no decision is expected from current operator ADNOC before early 2015. Total, which has targeted production growth of 3% between 2011 and 2015, assuming an average oil price of $100/B for benchmark grade Br...
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
RWE-Dea Sold To Russian Investor Group
...ncessions in Libya, which remain undeveloped (see table). Dea’s regional portfolio would have meshed well with Wintershall’s Libyan assets, which yielded 100,000 b/d before the 2011 civil war plunged the country’s oil sector into disarray. Wintershall, a subsidiary of German chemicals company BASF, is al...
Volume: 57Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014 -
MEES Analysis: Gulf NOCs Go Global; Refining Leads The way
...ternational downstream, but it does not have as robust an international downstream strategy as Saudi Arabia. Abu Dhabi-owned International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) has long held equity in Spain’s Cepsa, and completed a takeover of the company in 2011. Cepsa has about 660,000 b/d of refining ca...
Volume: 57Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2014 -
Hit By Subsidies At Home, ENOC Looks Abroad
...ofitability,” says ENOC chief executive Said Khury. “However, as a responsible government entity, we focused on optimizing resource use and maximizing productivity through strategic initiatives, which enhanced our performance.” He says revenues grew by 50% from 2011 to 2013, while profits rose by 39%, without re...
Volume: 57Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2014 -
Oman Oil Corruption: Ministry Blames Individuals, Not System
...e country’s key downstream projects – the 116,000 b/d Sohar refinery and polypropylene plant commissioned in 2006, and related aromatics plant commissioned in 2010. All are now operated by the sultanate’s state-refiner Oman Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC), established in 2011. Th...
Volume: 57Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2014 -
Petrofac Bags $1.2Bn Oman Gas Deal
...12 BCM % 2011 2010 Industry 22.59 21.72 +0.87 4.0 20.17 19.64 Po...
Volume: 57Issue: 09Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2014 -
Oman Needs To Sell Assets Or Borrow
...e years since then. Last August the IMF also pointed out that Oman’s recent spending initiatives, including job creation in 2011-13, have increased expenditure by some 70%, and reduced the country’s ability to respond to shocks. “A sustained fall in oil prices could exhaust available buffers and ne...
Volume: 57Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2014 -
Kuwait Energy Has Breakout Year, Complicated Future
...ake gives it 10,500 b/d on a working interest basis, Chilean firm ENAP is operator with 50.5%). Output was close to 18,000 b/d for 2013 as a whole, more than twice 2011 levels. East Ras Qattara production peaked after the second production well came online in 3Q13, falling by about 4.4% between th...
Volume: 57Issue: 07Published at Fri, 14 Feb 2014 -
Dana Gas Sees Production But Also Receivables Rise in 2013
...bitration. Dana Gas reported an 8% increase in overall production across its KRG and Egypt asset base, reaching 64,700 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) in 2013, compared with 2012 levels of 59,800 boe/d. Production in 2013 was still 2.3% lower than the firm’s 2011 net production level. While KRG pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2014 -
Upper Zakum Extended, Terms Sweetened
...morandum of Agreement brings together the expertise of two of our investee companies currently operating across diverse geographic regions.” Cosmo has a small concession in Abu Dhabi, which was renewed in 2011. Abu Dhabi Oil Company (Cosmo 63%, Nippon 31.5%, Tepco 1.8%, Kansai 1.8%, and Chubu 1.8%) op...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
Kufpec Scales Up Ambitions With Shell LNG Buyout, RWE-Dea Bid
...bmitted the highest bid – of about $6.8bn – when proposals were due this week, the Wall Street Journal reports. RWE-DEA Oil & Gas Production (Net) 2012 2011 Oil (‘000 b/d): Germany 13...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
Weatherford Hit By MENA Corruption Rap As Region Ranks Poorly
...change Commission (SEC) to settle corruption charges linked to a string of incidents in the Middle East and Africa. The firm “between at least 2002 and July 2011” routinely secured business through bribes and lavish corporate hospitality, according to evidence catalogued by the SEC in a 25-page do...
Volume: 56Issue: 49Published at Fri, 06 Dec 2013 -
Egypt’s Gas Crunch: Is A Quick Fix Possible?
...reements within two weeks, he added, and amend another seven. These numbers have caused some confusion in the industry. EGPC in October said it had approved the 11 licences awarded in November 2012 (MEES, 16 November 2012) following its most recent bidround, which was launched in 2011. Ganope said in...
Volume: 56Issue: 48Published at Fri, 29 Nov 2013 -
Cepsa Boosts Asia Portfolio
...ployees. We believe that Coastal provides a tremendous foundation for furthering our E&P strategy." IPIC completed the takeover of Cepsa in 2011 when it acquired Total’s 49% stake (MEES, 8 August 2011)....
Volume: 56Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2013