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Kuwait: New Oil Minister Eyes Neutral Zone Restart
...ll be a particular target. Such a move could prompt the Emir to dissolve parliament again. Similarly, the population’s patience with the prime minister, first appointed in December 2011, is running out. NEUTRAL ZONE RESTART LOOMING? Rumors have been rife in recent weeks that Saudi Arabia and Ku...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
KRG Goes Fishing For New Investors, But Will They Bite?
...ES. …EXXON GO-SLOW ExxonMobil was awarded six blocks in 2011 but progress has been minimal, largely due to proximity to the front line with areas under Islamic State (IS) control. The firm has the Pirmam block just east of Chevron’s Sarta, as well as the controversial Al-Qush and Baeshiqa bl...
Volume: 59Issue: 49Published at Fri, 09 Dec 2016 -
Iraq’s Unattractive Contracts Claim Fresh Victim As Shell Eyes The Exit
...rine offshore fields where Shell assumed control in February. Output has collapsed in recent years – from almost 800mn cfd net in 2011 to just 251mn cfd last year (MEES, 18 March) – in part due to BG’s refusal to sanction new investment in protest at payment delays ($1.1bn owed as of mid-2016). Si...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Total Aims To Become Mena’s Dominant IOC
...0 B/D 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 UAE 20...
Volume: 59Issue: 47Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2016 -
Eni Touts Zohr As East Med Hub
...ope of any tie-in with Zohr. This could also provide the best hope for development of US firm Noble’s 5 tcf 2011 Aphrodite discovery – the only one offshore Cyprus to date – which runs the risk of being stranded. The geopolitics of Aphrodite development, and by extension future finds offshore Cy...
Volume: 59Issue: 47Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2016 -
Total, Eni Slam Cyprus Port Snafu
...Total plans to drill its initial well offshore Cyprus by April. But, with this now only five months away it has still not been able to secure the use of a port as a logistics base. Previous drilling offshore Cyprus, by US firm Noble with its 2011 Aphrodite discovery, and by Eni on Block 9 in 20...
Volume: 59Issue: 47Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2016 -
Libya’s Rising Output: Now For The Hard Part
...l company and we will follow closely what they are doing to recover operations on those fields,” he says. Elsewhere Total’s Libya situation is also one of ‘no change.’ “Offshore, we are operating Al Jurf as usual,” he said of the field that, with only a small interlude in 2011, has steadily pr...
Volume: 59Issue: 46Published at Fri, 18 Nov 2016 -
Jordan: Opposition To Israel Gas Deal Strong But Ineffectual
...rged Egyptian gas was cut-off in 2011, its deficits were close to this $700mn figure, reflecting a state subsidy through debt. Despite the economic necessity, domestic politics weigh heavy and a letter of intent with almost identical terms that was signed in September 2014, was canned just over a ye...
Volume: 59Issue: 43Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2016 -
Libya Output Continues To Rise In Wake Of Renewed Sirte Basin Production
...pacted Waha capacity. The Hess report implied crude production potential of 270,000-275,000 b/d, in line with the highest quarterly output achieved since 2011 (269,000 b/d for both Q1 and Q2 2013). The consortium had planned to increase capacity on the Waha fields to 500,000-600,000 boe/d by the de...
Volume: 59Issue: 42Published at Fri, 21 Oct 2016 -
Libya Output Nears 500,000 B/D; Can The Gains Continue?
...adames basin, which has a capacity of about 10,000 b/d. Majid has production capacity potential of about 4,000 b/d, down from about 10,000 b/d prior to 2011. Crude from Nafoora shipped via the Ras Lanuf terminal prior to the declaration of force majeure on the port, while the Hamada field typically su...
Volume: 59Issue: 39Published at Fri, 30 Sep 2016 -
Israel Struggles To Attract Interest In Offshore Acreage
...ars back in 2012 for his role in the 2005 deal to send Egyptian gas to Israel, a deal that was terminated following the 2011 ouster of former president Husni Mubarak (MEES, 30 April 2012). Though Mr Fahmy was last year released on appeal, this will hardly fill anyone signing a deal with Israel with an...
Volume: 59Issue: 39Published at Fri, 30 Sep 2016 -
Eni Output Down In Q2 But On Course To Meet 2015 Levels
...turning to Iran’s upstream sector. The lion’s share of receivables come from cash-strapped and crisis-hit Venezuela which owes the firm some €1.234bn. There does not appear to be an end in sight for the South American country as crude output fell to 2.27mn b/d in July, the lowest since April 2011. Th...
Volume: 59Issue: 32Published at Fri, 12 Aug 2016 -
Algeria: In Amenas Gas Boost But Oil Set For Further Slide
...ndling” project that will boost rates of water treatment and thus re-injection from later this year. Cepsa, since 2011 owned by Abu Dhabi state investment fund IPIC, also operates the Bir El Msana (BMS) project, in the Berkine Basin around 100km north of Ourhoud. One of only two modest oilfield start-ups in...
Volume: 59Issue: 31Published at Fri, 05 Aug 2016 -
ExxonMobil, Statoil & QP Make First Forays Into Cyprus’ Offshore
...ntains Cyprus’ sole gas-find to-date, the 5 tcf Aphrodite, which was discovered in late 2011 by US-firm Noble and Israeli partner Delek. UK firm BG (since taken over by Anglo-Dutch major Shell) purchased a 35% stake in the field from Noble in November of last year (MEES, 27 November 2015). Eni is bidding fo...
Volume: 59Issue: 30Published at Fri, 29 Jul 2016 -
Iran Takes Major Step Towards New Contracts. But Will IOCs Bite?
...th Iranian crude. More significant however, is French supermajor Total’s signing of an MoU in March to produce a development plan of the 42bn barrel South Azadegan field (shared with Iraq, where it is known as Majnoon). Chinese state-firm CNPC was awarded the field under a buyback contract in 2011...
Volume: 59Issue: 28Published at Fri, 15 Jul 2016 -
QP Ousts Maersk At Key Qatari Oil Field Amid Sectoral Revamp
...e dominance of LNG revenues in comparison, oil is set to become a more important player in Qatar’s economic mix. But not through increased oil output, which has now stabilized after falling 130,000 b/d since 2011 (see p14), rather because LNG revenues look liable to fall further. Most analysts be...
Volume: 59Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2016 -
Will The ‘Golden Age Of Gas’ Ever Arrive?
...The International Energy Agency in 2011 asked the question whether the world was entering a ‘golden age of gas’. It continues to flag up gas as the key “transition fuel” between a coal and oil-fuelled present and a low-carbon future, notably ahead of last December’s climate conference in Pa...
Volume: 59Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2016 -
Bahrain: New Minister Challenged By Oxy/Mubadala Withdrawal
...cording to our agreement, in 2010 production will rise to 35,000 b/d, and then to 47,500 b/d in 2011. By 2016, it should grow to 102,300 b/d, before reaching a peak of 112,600 b/d in 2019” (MEES, 16 November 2009). The venture has had greater success in its plans to increase gas production capacity fr...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
Jordan Looks To Join Underused GCC Power Grid
...gas from Egypt until Egypt halted exports in 2011 forcing a shift to liquid fuels, though Jordan began importing LNG last year. Jordan is looking to diversify further and is currently developing renewables and oil-shale fired capacity in a bid to reduce this reliance (MEES, 15 April). The GC...
Volume: 59Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2016 -
Eni Advances Libya Gas Plans Amid Short-Term Cuts
...erated Greenstream pipeline linking Mellitah with Sicily – Libya’s sole gas export output – to rise to 688mn cfd last year, the highest level since the 2011 ouster of Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi. Eni, in its recently-released 2016-19 strategic plan gives the Bahr Essalam Phase II start-up date as H1 2018 with ne...
Volume: 59Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2016