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Audit Bureau Highlights Strategic Failures In Kuwait’s Oil And Gas Sector
...mmissioning of the fourth refinery and the closure of the ageing Shu'aiba plant will be to lift national refining capacity from 930,000 b/d now to 1.5mn b/d by 2011, implying that the expansions will lift the two existing plants’ capacity by 150,000 b/d collectively. The fourth refinery is expected to come on-st...
Volume: 49Issue: 49Published at Mon, 04 Dec 2006 -
Saudi Aramco Making Good Headway On Gas Exploration
...celeration with which gas exploration and development are being pursued – a program that will see the company drilling more than 40 wells a year by 2010, he said. Under current Saudi Aramco plans, gas well completions will rise from 35 in 2006 to 70 in 2011, with exploration wells up from nine in 2006 to 15...
Volume: 49Issue: 48Published at Mon, 27 Nov 2006 -
Jazan Export Refinery Opens Way For Selective Saudi Private Participation
...investments leading to over-capacity. “The fate of projects beyond 2011 will be determined to a great extent by the performance of the industry in the coming few years,” he said. With the Middle East showing the highest ratio of new-build refineries to existing plants the dangers of ov...
Volume: 49Issue: 48Published at Mon, 27 Nov 2006 -
MENA Refiners’ Capacity Expansion Program Gathers Momentum In 2006
...ports. The program includes the construction of three new refineries: a three-train 360,000 b/d condensate splitter plant at Bandar Abbas expected on-stream in 2009; a second crude oil refinery at Bandar Abbas, with throughput capacity of 300,000 b/d, scheduled for completion in 2011 and intended to ha...
Volume: 49Issue: 48Published at Mon, 27 Nov 2006 -
Saudi Aramco To Double Khursaniyah Gas Plant Capacity To Handle Offshore Karan Field Gas
...e end of this decade will tap some of the kingdom’s heavier crude reserves,” he said, referring to the Manifa increment due on-stream in 2011. He said the slate of crude increment projects would enable Saudi Aramco to maintain spare capacity of at least 1.5-2mn b/d above and beyond forecast pr...
Volume: 49Issue: 46Published at Mon, 13 Nov 2006 -
Saudi Arabia Targets 12.5Mn B/D Oil Capacity By 2009, Says Naimi
...pacity added in 2011. Manifa, which was discovered in 1958 and plugged in 1980, is problematic because of the high sulfur content in its Arab Heavy crude oil (28° API) reserves (MEES, 4 September). Saudi Arabia says its oil production capacity now stands at 11.3mn b/d following the inauguration of th...
Volume: 49Issue: 38Published at Mon, 18 Sep 2006 -
QP Urges LNG Lenders To Accept More Risk As Pricing, Spot Sales Evolve
...ock of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) costs. While QP has not given clear indications on the length of the moratorium, Mr Kharbotli emphasized that LNG “has been and still is the bulk of QP’s investment.” Qatargas and RasGas (which will have a combined capacity of 77.2mn t/y by 2011...
Volume: 49Issue: 38Published at Mon, 18 Sep 2006 -
Iran Launches Strategy To Reduce Gasoline Imports As Sanctions Threat Looms
...0 B/D) Abadan Upgrade 2008 360 - 360 Replacement of 180,000 b/d crude units. New 45,000 b/d FCC Abadan New Refinery 2011...
Volume: 49Issue: 37Published at Mon, 11 Sep 2006 -
APICORP Lifts MENA Five-Year Energy Investment Call By 52% To $395Bn
...ergy investment requirements in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the next five years to 2011, published on 1 September, APICORP has lifted its forecast by 52% to $395bn, reflecting a mix of soaring project costs and expanded scope for projects on the drawing board and already un...
Volume: 49Issue: 36Published at Mon, 04 Sep 2006 -
NIORDC Clarifies Iran’s Crude Distillation Capacity Expansion Plan
...UD Distillation Kermanshah Expansion 2009 18 Early stage Distillation Bandar Abbas New Refinery 2011 160 UD...
Volume: 49Issue: 34Published at Mon, 21 Aug 2006 -
IEA’s Medium-Term Outlook: More Comfortable Spare Oil Production Capacity By 2011
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. XLIX No 30 24-Jul-2006 SUPPLY/DEMAND IEA’s Medium-Term Outlook: More Comfortable Spare Oil Production Capacity By 2011 The International Energy Agency (IEA) pu...
Volume: 49Issue: 30Published at Mon, 24 Jul 2006 -
Oryx GTL Plant Inaugurated But Clouds Gather Over Industry’s Expansion Plans
...y continue) would raise serious questions over the viability of ExxonMobil’s planned 154,000 b/d GTL project, which is provisionally due for start-up in 2011. Statements of intent between QP and Marathon for a 120,000 b/d plant and with ConocoPhillips for a 160,000 b/d project have already been fr...
Volume: 49Issue: 24Published at Mon, 12 Jun 2006 -
Adco, ADMA-Opco Concessions To Be Renewed On Similar Terms
...arns. Shareholders want to at least start discussions on renewing concessions before committing to ADNOC’s capital intensive upstream expansion plans, which envisage production capacity rising from 2.7mn b/d at the end of this year to 3.5mn b/d in 2011 (MEES, 8 May). Moreover, recent comments by Abu Dh...
Volume: 49Issue: 23Published at Mon, 05 Jun 2006 -
Qatar To Focus On Optimizing Existing Projects After 2010
...ich is provisionally due for start-up in 2011. While cost is one of the more obvious hurdles for Qatar’s decision-makers, QP’s internal debate about the longer-term strategy for gas use is also beginning to make itself felt....
Volume: 49Issue: 18Published at Mon, 01 May 2006 -
MENA, China And India Dominate Proposals For Global Refining Capacity Expansion
...pacity On-stream Comments Algeria Tiaret 300 2011 New plant, bidding under way (MEES, 10 April). Egypt Port Said/Da...
Volume: 49Issue: 16Published at Mon, 17 Apr 2006 -
Egypt Aiming To Double Gas Exports, Add 30 TCF Gas Reserves By 2011, Says Fahmy
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. XLIX No 11 13-March-2006 EGYPT Egypt Aiming To Double Gas Exports, Add 30 TCF Gas Reserves By 2011, Says Fahmy Egypt aims to double gas exports – through expansion of its two LNG plants and increasing sales through the Arab Gas Pipeline (AG...
Volume: 49Issue: 11Published at Mon, 13 Mar 2006 -
Qatar Reiterates Hold On New Gas Commitments As Price Pressures Increase
...ports hit 77mn tons/year in 2011. He also emphasized Qatar’s commitment to diversification – which has led to pipeline gas supplies to neighboring GCC countries through the Dolphin project and three major GTL projects which will produce 300,000 b/d by 2010, as well as gas use in downstream industry, po...
Volume: 49Issue: 09Published at Mon, 27 Feb 2006 -
Impact Of Caspian Shelf Crude Production On World A Decade Away
...heduled to begin in late 2006 and Phase 1 development is to reach a level of 8.4bcm/y by 2011. Subsequent development will increase production to 16bcm/y. Gas will be exported and delivered to Turkey and Georgia via the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) beginning late 2006. Later gas deliveries will ex...
Volume: 49Issue: 04Published at Mon, 23 Jan 2006