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Algeria’s Southwest Gas Project Awaits Approval Amid Political Turmoil
...pply its future contracts,” notes one source close to the project. Reggane Nord will cost about $1bn to develop, with roughly another $1bn to be spent over the lifetime of the project, which if approval is given soon, should come on stream in 2014. Around 70 wells in all will be needed. Reggane No...
Volume: 53Issue: 08Published at Mon, 22 Feb 2010 -
Abu Dhabi’s ADCO Targets 1.8Mn B/D Oil Capacity
...rporation (GHC) and 30% by Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), which won part of the $1.3bn Shah and Sahil field development contract last year. Phase 2, scheduled to come on stream by 2014 ,will add another 70,000 b/d of new capacity, which will come from Bab, Asab and North East Bab. Me...
Volume: 53Issue: 08Published at Mon, 22 Feb 2010 -
Algeria Unveils 2010 Budget With 12.9% Increase In Expenditure
...ll also focus on the domestic market. According to a recent government report the plan is expected to achieve an average growth rate of 5% over 2010-14 and to reduce unemployment to less than 10% by 2014 from 11.3% in 2008 with the creation of some 3mn new jobs. Limited Effect Of Global Financial Cr...
Volume: 53Issue: 07Published at Mon, 15 Feb 2010 -
North Africa’s Largest Project Financing Eyes Finishing Line
...TK) contract and is scheduled for completion in 2014 (MEES, 24 August 2009). It was originally due on stream in 2011 at a cost of $2.25bn (MEES, 26 January 2009, 30 June 2008)....
Volume: 53Issue: 05Published at Mon, 01 Feb 2010 -
Saudi Aramco Takes Central Role Downstream
...port Refinery ConocoPhillips, Saudi Aramco 400 2014 Jazan Saudi Aramco 400 2015 Ras Tanura Expansion Saudi Aramco 50 2015 East Coast Refinery Saudi Aramco 40...
Volume: 53Issue: 04Published at Mon, 25 Jan 2010 -
Doha Rules Out New Gas Export Projects Post-Moratorium
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LII No 50 14-Dec-2009 Doha Rules Out New Gas Export Projects Post-Moratorium Qatar on 7 December gave its clearest message yet surrounding gas policy when it reviews its moratorium on new projects in 2014. Absolutely no new grassroots gas export pr...
Volume: 52Issue: 50Published at Mon, 14 Dec 2009 -
Looming Gas Glut And Upstream Constraints Hamper North African Export Plans
...a conference in Cagliari last week that the project was now expected to start up in 2014, with delays caused by the authorization process taking longer than planned. When the intergovernmental agreement between the two countries was signed two years ago, the project’s envisaged start up date was Ma...
Volume: 52Issue: 48Published at Mon, 30 Nov 2009 -
Regional Implications For BG’s Renegotiated Gas Price In Oman
...an.” By 2014 steam for the operation will be supplied by a cogeneration unit and like Qarn Alam, the Amal project aims to minimize the natural gas burned to create steam by capturing the waste heat from the power plant turbines. The peak production from the two fields is expected to be three times th...
Volume: 52Issue: 46Published at Mon, 16 Nov 2009 -
North Africa Embraces Renewable Energy
...geria has abundant gas reserves. But domestic consumption is expected to double over the next 10 years, from around 27 bcm/year now, with a significant proportion of this extra demand coming from new power plants, while exports are due to rise by nearly 40% by 2014 (MEES, 19 October, 8 June). Co...
Volume: 52Issue: 46Published at Mon, 16 Nov 2009 -
Tunisia Touts Export Potential, As Gas Projects Unfold
...15% on 2007, and compared with annual production of around 3 bcm. Furthermore, as ETAP’s Mr Becheikh himself said, Tunisia aims to cover 60% of its energy consumption with natural gas by 2014, compared with 40% in 2007 and just 5% in 1980. But exploration activity has produced good results si...
Volume: 52Issue: 45Published at Mon, 09 Nov 2009 -
Tough Investment Climate Darkens North African Upstream Prospects
...pected on-stream in 2014, will feed into the planned pipeline connecting all the tight gas fields in the remote southwest to Algeria’s main gas hub at Hassi R’Mel. Another important gas development that has suffered unforeseen delays is the installation of a low-pressure compression project at the Ti...
Volume: 52Issue: 44Published at Mon, 02 Nov 2009 -
Banks Upbeat On Project Finance As Mega-Deals Target Year-End Close
...e refinery is state-of the-art and when it comes on line at the end of 2013, or early 2014, it will be the Middle East’s most advanced. While not quite at the level of the Reliance Jamnagar refinery in India, which was commissioned at the end of 2008, Jubail is “top drawer stuff,” commented Pr...
Volume: 52Issue: 38Published at Mon, 21 Sep 2009 -
Basri Proposes New Approach To Budget Planning In Iraq
...provement of government services (health and housing) and for raising productivity in promising projects by adopting the PPP model Dr Basri projects a gradual increase in oil production/exports and revenues during the five-year period, with a rise in oil revenue to $94.5bn in 2014 from $36.0bn in 2009. No...
Volume: 52Issue: 37Published at Mon, 14 Sep 2009 -
North Africa Forges Ahead With Refinery Upgrades, Expansions More Elusive
...amant that the project will be completed by the second quarter of 2014. However, he concedes that the global financial crisis, which caused difficulties in securing financing and procuring materials, has delayed the project and driven up the costs. It was originally due on stream in 2011 at an estimated co...
Volume: 52Issue: 34Published at Mon, 24 Aug 2009 -
EU Balkan States Considering Arab LNG Imports Via Greece
...ansmission system operator DESFA, Panayiotis Kanellopoulos told MEES on the sidelines of the conference that “Revythousa’s capacity is expanding. Planning has already commenced to increase its existing storage capacity by almost 70% by 2014.” Mr Hatzidakis had told the conference that “Greece is also pl...
Volume: 52Issue: 31Published at Mon, 03 Aug 2009 -
Faltering Upstream Progress Undermines Libyan Output Targets
...ploitation of new ones, is the Waha oil company, whose Chairman Bashir El-Ashahab said in an interview earlier this month that it was targeting 650,000 b/d by 2014. The company is currently producing 370,000 b/d, according to Waha sources, and the first of four major development projects, Faregh Phase 2, is...
Volume: 52Issue: 30Published at Mon, 27 Jul 2009 -
RasGas Sees Largest Ever Order Book For Middle East Bond
...anned total of $2.23bn, divided into a series of three with bullet maturities – the E series is worth $500mn, maturing in 2012; the F series worth $1.115bn, maturing in 2014; and G series of $615mn, maturing in 2019 (MEES, 13 July). Pricing was attractive, with the three-year issue at treasuries pl...
Volume: 52Issue: 30Published at Mon, 27 Jul 2009 -
Saudis Focus Efforts On Economic City Drive
...iversity of Science and Technology (KAUST), currently under construction and which is being touted as a ‘Harvard on the Red Sea’. State-owned Saudi Aramco and its partner Japan’s Sumitomo are proceeding with plans for a further multi-billion dollar expansion at PETRORabigh, which should be complete by 2014...
Volume: 52Issue: 30Published at Mon, 27 Jul 2009 -
Nabucco Partners Sign Intergovernmental Agreement
...ll as Turkey apparently softening its stance on Nabucco, the 31 bcm/year pipeline project that is scheduled to start in 2014 received a significant boost with the surprise offer by Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at the signing ceremony to supply it with 15 bcm/year of gas. However, it re...
Volume: 52Issue: 29Published at Mon, 20 Jul 2009 -
Egypt Raises Gas Supplies To Israel After Reaching New Price Agreement
...vertheless, the original memorandum of understanding (MOU) potentially allows Israel to import up to 7 bcm/year of Egyptian gas. And with Israel’s big new gas discoveries not expected on stream before 2014, Cairo stands to benefit from its neighbor’s greater energy dependency, especially now that an ac...
Volume: 52Issue: 25Published at Mon, 22 Jun 2009