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Sudans Oil Deal Bears Fruit
...pacity of about 90,000 b/d, but this has not been reached since 2011, and damage to the fields in the intervening years is likely to have reduced production potential. Somewhat more likely is that the five fields could deliver an additional 80,000 b/d but that the gains will come from resources ei...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Egypt Gas Exploration Focus Shifts East As Output Record Nears
...UCHES 6BN CFD IN JUNE, JUST SHY OF DECEMBER 2011’S RECORD 6.22BN CFD SOURCE: JODI, EGYPT OIL & GAS, MEES. JORDAN: THE COMEBACK? Egypt last week signed a deal to resume gas exports to Jordan, ostensibly from early next year. A 9 August statement from Jordan’s energy ministry sa...
Volume: 61Issue: 33Published at Fri, 17 Aug 2018 -
Lebanon Bid Round: Second Time A Charm?
...d not scare off the consortium, but adjacent Blocks 8 and 10 went bid-less. Five blocks were not tendered in the first round, so Lebanon has a total of eight it can offer up. The political situation is still more stable than 2011-16 when spillover from Syria was a critical concern, so if in...
Volume: 61Issue: 32Published at Fri, 10 Aug 2018 -
Iraq Takes On Mansuriya
...-year development service contract signed in 2011. Nonetheless, Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi calls their efforts a “failure” and maintains “great confidence” in the national oil companies’ capabilities to do a superior job. "The ministry will not hesitate to transfer unfulfilled contracts held by fo...
Volume: 61Issue: 31Published at Fri, 03 Aug 2018 -
Egypt Goes West And Digs Deep In Quest For Oil Output Boost
...nger term it hopes a recently-launched bid round will provide a boost (MEES, 25 May). The key blocks on offer are in the Western Desert. Since 2011 the Gulf of Suez has seen its importance wane. It has been overtaken by the Western Desert, the country’s key oil province, where May output of 36...
Volume: 61Issue: 31Published at Fri, 03 Aug 2018 -
Sudans Hope For Output Gains From Cooperation
...transit payments for the use of Sudan’s oil export infrastructure and overdue payments towards the $3.028bn agreed in compensation for Sudan’s loss of oil resources and infrastructure when the south became independent in July 2011. But Mr Gatkouth’s claim always appeared based on some overly op...
Volume: 61Issue: 29Published at Fri, 20 Jul 2018 -
Qatar Marks Embargo Anniversary With Exxon Tie-Up
...urces. The Golden Pass LNG import terminal (QP 70%, ExxonMobil 17.6%, ConocoPhillips 12.4%) in the US opened in 2011 with plans to import 15.6mn t/y of LNG from Qatar: but the “Shale Revolution” boosted US gas output to the extent that the partners began looking at turning it into an export facility (ME...
Volume: 61Issue: 23Published at Fri, 08 Jun 2018 -
Egypt Gas Output At Record Levels As Cairo Launches Bid Rounds
...l Minister Tarek El Molla said current output is running at 5.9bn cfd. Egypt’s output could in the coming months top the previous all-time high of 6.219bn cfd set in December 2011. Zohr is on course to reach output of 2bn cfd by end-2018 and full plateau output of 2.7bn cfd in 2019, Eni says. Zo...
Volume: 61Issue: 21Published at Fri, 25 May 2018 -
Oman Eyes Ambitious Downstream Gas Projects With Total, Shell MOUs
...ke off globally despite initial optimism. However, no information regarding scale, cost or timeframe of any plant was offered. Qatar has been the technology’s biggest player; its 140,000 b/d Pearl GTL JV with Shell is a world-beater. But the $18bn plant has suffered several setbacks since 2011 st...
Volume: 61Issue: 20Published at Fri, 18 May 2018 -
Qatar Plans For 2019 Drilling To Fuel Massive LNG Expansion
...equently had 5-6 operating up to mid-2018 as it was ramping up production capacity towards its current 77mn t/y, which was achieved in 2011 (MEES, 14 February 2011). QP’s drilling subsidiary Gulf Drilling International (GDI) has nine offshore rigs in total, of which three appear to currently be co...
Volume: 61Issue: 19Published at Fri, 11 May 2018 -
Cyprus Exploration: Crunch Period Nears
...om drilling in Block 3 by Turkish warships (MEES, 16 February). This was the first time though that Turkey has managed to halt drilling offshore Cyprus since 2011. The likelihood that it would block drilling in Block 10 is lower: both due to the relative diplomatic strength of the US and Italy, an...
Volume: 61Issue: 18Published at Fri, 04 May 2018 -
Iraq Bid Round Flatters To Deceive
...bstantially larger with 2017 gross output of around 80,000 boe/d, of which 80-90% was gas. UEG’s production is all in Pakistan, after acquiring BP Pakistan’s assets for $775mn in 2011. Output has increased under UEG, from around 35,000 boe/d under BP (10,000 b/d oil, 200mn cfd gas). ...
Volume: 61Issue: 17Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018 -
Waha: Total Says Done & Dusted, Libya Thinks Otherwise
...s US partners. Whilst Conoco and Hess (and hitherto Marathon) have since 2011 habitually excluded Libya from their output guidance, Total’s Mr Pouyanné says his firm has no intention of doing likewise. Libya, at 80,000 b/d net, now represents 5% of the company’s total liquids output. “Yes, it’s ta...
Volume: 61Issue: 17Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018 -
Eni Plans For Libya Output Drop
...2011, falling to about 260,000 b/d in 2017. Or maybe he is talking about crude only, where again the decline has already taken place: gross capacity from Eni-operated fields fell from about 305,000 b/d in 2010 to 210,000 b/d in 2017. “For 8 years, we had very good [output], but we didn’t in...
Volume: 61Issue: 15Published at Fri, 13 Apr 2018 -
Algeria Struggles To Maintain Gas Output Amid Project Delays
...ntract.’ Its expiry in 2011 saw BHP quit Algeria and Sonatrach take over as operator. The latest figures imply that by the 2020 start-up of the Tinhert fields, Ohanet output is expected to be just 5mn m³/day (175mn cfd, 1.8bcm/y). This is borne out by the most recent available Sonatrach data which pegs Oh...
Volume: 61Issue: 12Published at Fri, 23 Mar 2018 -
Eni Swoops For Abu Dhabi Offshore, Sells Mubadala 10% Of Egypt’s Zohr
...quisitions annually to 2025 and that it’s targeting the Middle East’s burgeoning demand. ENI’S MIDDLE EAST PUSH Eni’s traditional stomping ground has been the Mediterranean and North Africa. Within the Mena region, North Africa provided Eni with 233,000 b/d net output in 2017, the lowest since 2011’s 20...
Volume: 61Issue: 11Published at Fri, 16 Mar 2018 -
Algeria Gas Set For Record 2018 With Start-Up Of Key Southwest Fields
...tal (37.75%), alongside Abu Dhabi-owned Spanish firm Cepsa (11.25% – until 2011 Total owned 50% of Cepsa) and state energy company Sonatrach (51%). The start-up follows a new contractual framework agreed between the partners and Algeria’s state licensing body Alnaft on 12 December. South Korea’s Sa...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Abu Dhabi Awards Offshore Stake To State-Owned Firm Cepsa
...ter an Indian consortium was awarded 10% in the 360,000 b/d Lower Zakum concession (MEES, 16 February). Cepsa, a Spanish-based integrated oil firm, was acquired by Abu Dhabi investment vehicle IPIC in 2011. IPIC then merged with fellow state-firm Mubadala last year, with the combined entity known as...
Volume: 61Issue: 08Published at Fri, 23 Feb 2018 -
Egypt Gas Turns The Corner, But Can It Maintain Investment?
...d IOC executives descended on Cairo this week to attend the 2nd annual Egypt Petroleum Show (EGYPS) as Egypt intensifies efforts to attract investment in its hydrocarbons industry. The country has been reeling since the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions which scared off investors. Petroleum Minister Ta...
Volume: 61Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2018 -
Eni Discovery Doubles Cyprus Reserves; Is It Enough To Make It A Gas Producer?
...antities – rumored at 6-8tcf, which would put it ahead of the 2011 Aphrodite discovery – will prove commercially viable. In favor of the latest discovery, dubbed Calypso after the nymph who enchanted Odysseus, is its operator and location. Whilst almost 180km southwest of Cyprus and in 1,000ms water de...
Volume: 61Issue: 05Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2018