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Gulf Offshore Drilling At 10-Year Low As Saudi, Abu Dhabi Stall On Contracts
...The number of active offshore rigs in the Gulf has fallen to the lowest level since January 2011. Excluding Iran, for which accurate data is not available, just 25 drilling rigs were active in the region in October, according to Baker Hughes data. Of these, just 10 were active off Saudi Ar...
Volume: 63Issue: 47Published at Fri, 20 Nov 2020 -
EOG To Bring ‘Unconventional’ Know-How To Oman’s Upstream
...ll to be drilled was Hayah-1, but shortly after that came up dry in 2016 (see map, MEES, 27 May 2016), operator DNO chose to walk away. That left Apex, a small private firm out of Alberta, with a 100% stake at the asset which it was originally awarded in September 2011. Apex kept the faith. Ac...
Volume: 63Issue: 39Published at Fri, 25 Sep 2020 -
Chevron Arrows In On East Med With $5bn Noble Takeover
...al will benefit Cyprus where Noble (35%op) partners Shell (30%) and Delek (30%) at the 4.1tcf 2011 Aphrodite discovery. The official plan is for late-2022 FID and for first gas in 2025. But this now looks ambitious (MEES, 26 June). The favored development option is tie-back to Egypt’s Idku LNG pl...
Volume: 63Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2020 -
Israel’s Delek Drilling Eyes $2.5bn Leviathan RBL Facility
...so has around 26% (22% directly, 3.8% indirectly – see chart) of 11.9tcf Tamar which it is obliged to sell by end-2021 under a 2016 anti-trust ruling (MEES, 19 August 2016). The firm’s only other significant assets are 30% of Cyprus’ undeveloped 4.1tcf 2011 Aphrodite discovery (MEES, 26 June), and th...
Volume: 63Issue: 29Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2020 -
Tethys Oil Expands In Oman With Extra Southern Block
...,000 b/d Blocks 3&4. Athens-based CCED holds 50% and Japan’s Mitsui holds the remaining 20%. Outside Blocks 3&4, Tethys’ only other producing asset is a 25% non-operating stake in a small Lithuanian field, netting it less than 100 b/d. Blocks 3&4 began pumping in 2011 and gradually ramped up to an an...
Volume: 63Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2020 -
Algeria’s Sonatrach & Spain’s Naturgy Prepare For Gas Price Battle
...ttled for €1.5bn ($1.9bn), with Sonatrach taking a stake in the Spanish firm as part of the settlement (MEES, 20 June 2011). This stake stood at 4.1% in 2019. Naturgy and Sonatrach also partner each other on the Medgaz pipeline and recently upped their stakes to 49% and 51%, respectively (MEES, 5 Ju...
Volume: 63Issue: 25Published at Fri, 19 Jun 2020 -
Syria’s Block 26 Continues To Pump As UK’s Gulfsands Waits On Standby
...lfsands’ Block 26 was one of Syria’s most promising oil assets when the war erupted in 2011, forcing the UK minnow (and every other western firm) to declare force majeure and halt operations. The firm still retains 50% of the block, with Chinese state firm Sinochem holding the other half. But since 2014 wh...
Volume: 63Issue: 24Published at Fri, 12 Jun 2020 -
Qatar Signs Record-Breaking Deal For LNG Tankers
...mn t/y, which it reached in 2011 (MEES, 8 April 2011). Nakilat lists its current LNG fleet as comprising of 69 LNG tankers including 31 Q-Flex (210-217,000m³) and 14 Q-Max (263-266,000m³) tankers. These Qatari tankers are literally in a class of their own: almost all non-Qatari LNG tankers are of a re...
Volume: 63Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020 -
Eni Offshore Egypt: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
...ars ago having peaked at 2.05bn cfd, almost 35% of Egypt’s gas output in 2011. But the two firms got a boost to their overall regional output with the 2017 start-up of the 1bn cfd Nooros field in the Abu Madi West concession (Eni 75%, BP 25%). But it was Zohr, which started up at the end of 2017, pr...
Volume: 63Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2020 -
Cepsa’s Upstream Shift Hampered By Algeria Output Slump
...coming 100% owner in 2011 when it bought out remaining partner Total. IPIC was merged into Mubadala in 2016 (MEES, 8 July). Following an abortive attempt at a Cepsa IPO (MEES, 21 September 2018) Mubadala last year sold 37% to the Carlyle Group (MEES, 12 April 2019). In January Mubadala sold an additional 1....
Volume: 63Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2020 -
Total’s Upstream Operations Enjoy Strong 2019
...conventional concession, and Adnoc says “the first gas from unconventional [reserves] in Abu Dhabi, [will enter] into the market in mid-2020.” While initial volumes will be modest, Adnoc targets 1bn cfd by 2030 (MEES, 15 November 2011). MENA LIQUIDS OUTPUT HAD RECORD 2019 BUT OVERTAKEN BY AFRICA AS #1 TO...
Volume: 63Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2020 -
Egypt Bags Major Investment In Frontier Areas
...stern neighbor Libya (see p5). The other seven blocks garnered no bids. These include Block 2, the northernmost of the coastal blocks on offer and the only one to have seen significant past exploration – US firm Hess drilled a duster in 2011. All bidders were given access to 2D seismic shot across th...
Volume: 63Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2020