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Cyprus: Aphrodite First Gas Slated For 2025
...December 2011 (MEES, 12 December 2011), but despite initial optimism it has failed to ignite a wave of industry for Nicosia. Instead, development has been stymied by the field’s location – 160km offshore in 1,750ms of water, straddling the maritime border with Israel – and low demand in Cyprus’ sm...
Volume: 62Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2019 -
Israel: Energean Bags More Reserves, But More Needed
...cm/y processing capacity and 800,000 barrels of oil storage, “leaving a further 3.4bcm/y of spare capacity for additional sales of discovered gas at Karish and the tie back of future discoveries,” Energean says. Karish and the 2011 Tanin discovery were purchased in 2016 for $148mn (plus a share of fu...
Volume: 62Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019 -
Egypt ‘Zohrs’ Past Libya As Eni’s Top Gas Producer
...e lowest figure since the Revolutionary year of 2011 (MEES, 11 January). Eni has plans to boost its gas production offshore Libya through the development of peripheral fields (MEES, 29 March). But overall Eni expects its Libya output to fall over the coming years (MEES, 13 April 2018) as the fi...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Libya: Key BP/Eni And Total Deals Yet To Materialize
...,000 km2 acreage – ‘Area A’ and ‘Area B’ in the Ghadames Basin bordering Tunisia and Algeria and a huge offshore block in the Sirte Basin – in 2007 committing to spend at least $900mn and drill 17 wells (MEES, 4 June 2007). But just as BP was to commence offshore and onshore drilling in February 2011...
Volume: 62Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2019 -
Egypt Close To Tapping Aphrodite
...Egypt’s parliament this week passed a law approving the construction of a pipeline from Cyprus’ economic waters, clearing the path for the development of the Mediterranean island’s 4.2tcf December 2011 Aphrodite discovery. MEES understands operator Noble Energy is close to concluding a de...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Egypt Launches Red Sea Bidding
...l in 1908 and source of 239,000 b/d of 2018 output. Most recently US firm Hess drilled a dry well in April 2011 on the Cherry prospect in 700ms water depth on its North Red Sea block which includes acreage in new Blocks 1, 2 and 3. At the time Hess said it was targeting “a potential extension of Gu...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Shell Boosts Egypt Gas Output, Retains LNG Force Majeure
...gas (2.45bcm) for 2018, a five-year high. This is little more than a quarter of 2011 volumes, Shell Egypt country manager Gasser Hanter told MEES in Cairo in February that the firm expects to export 30 LNG cargoes in 2019 after exporting 22 in 2018. SHELL NET EGYPT GAS OUTPUT ROSE LAST YEAR FO...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Exxon Makes ‘World Class’ Cyprus Discovery
...US major ExxonMobil has discovered 5-8tcf of gas on Cyprus offshore Block 10, the third significant gas discovery made off the Mediterranean island since 2011. But there is still no clear route for any of those fields to be developed. The announcement this week by US major ExxonMobil (60...
Volume: 62Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2019 -
New Egypt Gas Projects To Boost Output
...y IOCs for their gas. But this price was increasingly seen as unattractive by IOCs, contributing to a 2011-15 investment hiatus: output had slumped to a 12-year low of 3.891bn cfd by early 2016. Cairo evidently needed to revise terms if it was to re-attract the big firms. It changed the pricing fo...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
Oxy Advances Mena Strategy 2.0
...ploration blocks in November (MEES, 9 November 2018). Prior to that, it hadn’t added to its Mena portfolio in 11 years, since signing up to develop the Shah field in 2011 (MEES, 24 January 2011). The reason for the hiatus was a 2013 decision to move forward with a strategic restructuring aimed at st...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
Algeria Oil Output On The Slide
...ng-term decline, collective output is the lowest since El Merk’s first full year of output in 2014 (see chart). At just 174,000 b/d for 2018, combined HBNS and Ourhoud output is half 2011 levels and a mere 31% of the 470,000 b/d 2007 figure. Anadarko says the completion of a water treatment pr...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
Genel Farm-In Boosts Development Prospects At Chevron KRG Blocks
...20. The first well was drilled in 2011 but then-operator, Canada’s Niko Resources deemed the quantities of light 43-46°API crude non-commercial (MEES, 12 November 2012) and relinquished the asset the following year. Chevron pounced on the block in early 2013 (MEES, 1 February 2013) as it was sn...
Volume: 62Issue: 04Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2019 -
Libya Revenues At 5-Year High But Remain Unstable As Noc Eyes Gas Boost
...volutionary year of 2011. At a press conference in Benghazi on 6 January NOC chief Mustafa Sanalla said the country’s current output is 953,000 b/d, with a 2018 average figure of 1.107mn b/d. The latter figure, presuming that it is accurate, almost certainly includes NGLs. MEES estimates Libya’s 2018 cr...
Volume: 62Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019 -
East Med Gas Developments Gather Pace In 2019
...arby prospect will be drilled back-to-back. Despite hopes surrounding ongoing drilling, Cyprus’ key existing discovery, 2011’s 4.2tcf Aphrodite, has yet to move to development. 2019 could finally be the year, however, with the field’s partners, US firm Noble Energy, Shell and Israel’s Delek, in on...
Volume: 62Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2019 -
Egypt-Israel In EMG Arbitration Settlement
...12. Already volumes had dwindled in 2010 and 2011 amid domestic gas shortages and numerous attacks on the pipeline which traverses the unstable Sinai Peninsula. In a cautionary tale for those inking current deals with Israel, the EMG deal became politically poisonous in the wake of Egypt’s February 2011...
Volume: 61Issue: 47Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2018 -
Israel: Pipeline Bottleneck Blunder Adds to Exports Headache
...19,” with “technical evaluation” and “flow reversal planning” ongoing – the route was previously used to ship Egyptian gas to Israel. But volumes halted in 2011 amid pipeline bombings, political disputes and an underlying shortage of Egyptian gas to export (MEES, 1 August 2011). Noble’s timeline lo...
Volume: 61Issue: 45Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2018 -
Egypt Confident It ‘Has The Keys To The Future’ Of East Med Gas
...orage depots, and terminals as well as pipelines,” Mr Molla says. Of course, this has also been true in the intervening years since Israel discovered the 22tcf Leviathan field in 2010 and Cyprus the 4.2tcf Aphrodite in 2011. So what’s changed? For one thing, the discovery of the 21.5tcf Zohr field of...
Volume: 61Issue: 44Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2018 -
MEES Interview With Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum
...dependence earlier this year. What have been the driving forces? A: The petroleum sector faced several challenges in recent years stemming from the political and economic situation in Egypt between the two revolutions of January 2011 and June 2013. Investments in the petroleum industry fell, there was di...
Volume: 61Issue: 44Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2018 -
Egypt Gas Hub Ambitions Gather Pace
...ter peaking at 6.22bn cfd in December 2011, gas output dwindled as demand increased, falling to a nine-year low 3.89bn cfd in May 2016. The 2011 revolution played its part in scaring off investors, but it was unfavorably low gas prices paid by the state, growing dues to IOCs which ballooned to $6.4bn at...
Volume: 61Issue: 40Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2018 -
Kuwait Gets Jurassic Gas Boost, Eyes Further 2020 Gains
...al problems began when Shell won an enhanced technical service agreement (ETSA) for development of the fields in 2010 (MEES, 22 February 2010). Mired in parliamentary enquiries from 2011 (MEES, 4 July 2011) to 2016, Shell was initially unable to make progress (MEES, 29 April 2016). But the election of...
Volume: 61Issue: 38Published at Fri, 21 Sep 2018