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Syria’s SPC Courts IOCs As Re-engagement Accelerates
...ogress was made (MEES, 3 January 2014). A more recent agreement, signed in 2022 was with Kapital LLC, believed to be ultimately owned by former Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. Mr Qablawi told MEES that Chevron would fund new seismic surveys – an investment likely to be required of all IOCs en...
Volume: 69Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2026 -
Qatar Hopes To Start First NFE Train In 3Q 2026
...cility’s imminent start-up. The project has been in the works for more than a decade, after Qatar decided in 2014 to convert its Golden Pass import terminal into an export terminal due to the surge in US gas production (MEES, 11 July 2014). Beyond adding 23% to QatarEnergy’s current LNG capacity, it wi...
Volume: 68Issue: 50Published at Fri, 12 Dec 2025 -
Mauritania’s Banda Integrated Gas Project Progresses
...ergy needs. UK based Tullow took Banda in 2011 from Malaysia’s Petronas and announced commerciality a year later (MEES, 22 February 2013) before having to cut back on investments when prices began to drop in 2014. Development plans only recovered recently when Banda and the nearby 0.9tcf Tevet fi...
Volume: 68Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2025 -
US Blocks Gunvor-Lukoil Transaction
...nnady Timchenko exited in 2014 just ahead of being sanctioned by the US for links to Putin (MEES, 25 April 2014). Gunvor says the Treasury Department statement “is fundamentally misinformed and false,” adding that it “has for more than a decade actively distanced itself from Russia, stopped trading in...
Volume: 68Issue: 45Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2025 -
Iraq Hopes Major Interest Will Spur Capacity Growth
...strictions. Since 2014, Iraq has announced numerous capacity targets, but most have failed to materialize. Officials this year signaled plans to increase capacity to 6-7mn b/d by the end of the decade. This would keep Iraq ahead of the UAE as Opec’s second largest producer, though the UAE could overtake it as it...
Volume: 68Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2025 -
Egypt Posts First Gas Output Rise In Three Years
...d-2023, though still well shy of the record 921mn cfd posted in 1Q 2014. EGYPT GAS OUTPUT (BN CFD): Q3 OUTPUT REBOUNDS TO 4.20BN CFD FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT DRILLING. CAN IT BE SUSTAINED? *INCLUDES OFFSHORE, ‘EASTERN DESERT’ (GOS WEST BANK) & SINAI (E BANK). SOURCE: EGYPT PETROLEUM MI...
Volume: 68Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2025 -
Algeria To Launch New Bid Round In Early-2026 Amid Shale Gas Push
...ploration in the Algerian Sahara in 2014 and 2015, amid environmental concerns, with violent clashes breaking out between protesters and police forces (MEES, 6 March 2015). A 2014 bid round featuring a number of shale-plays failed to garner interest, with no contracts awarded for any of the shale blocks of...
Volume: 68Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2025 -
Qatar Targets 380,000 B/D From Al Shaheen
...s contract for the field in 2022, but output has dropped from 7,700 b/d in 2015 to 1,800 b/d in 2023. The only one of these fields on a growth trajectory of late is Al Khalij, which was awarded to TotalEnergies in 2014 (MEES, 20 March 2015). Output dropped from 23,600 b/d that year to just 10...
Volume: 68Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2025 -
Neutral Zone Output Steady As Partners Seek Capacity Gains
...4,000 b/d (MEES, 31 January). That was the last full year of production before fields were shut from late-2014 onwards amid disagreements over management between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait (MEES, 24 October 2014). Operations are now in full swing after that prolonged shut-in, with expansion work underway. Mu...
Volume: 68Issue: 34Published at Fri, 22 Aug 2025 -
Qatar’s NFPS Ensures Legacy LNG Facilities Maintain Capacity
...tar carried out was the Plateau Maintenance Project (PMP) which started up in 2014. It involved brownfield work in the North Field and a revamp to onshore facilities aimed at maintaining the 10mn t/y capacity at its oldest three trains (MEES, 17 October 2014). Like the PMP project over a decade ag...
Volume: 68Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
European Majors And New Entrants Secure Key Algeria Blocks In ‘Successful’ Bid Round
...untry’s influence within Opec+. Algeria produced 1.145mn b/d of crude oil in 2014 (see chart 1), but the subsequent collapse in oil prices led to a reduction in oil sector investment and capacity has dwindled ever since. According to the IEA’s latest medium-term outlook, Oil 2025, production capacity st...
Volume: 68Issue: 25Published at Fri, 20 Jun 2025 -
Egypt: New Deals Boost Gas Output, Oil Decline Continues
...the fourth quarter to be the highest of the year, and we anticipate exiting the year around 500mn cfd,” he adds. This in turn would be a two-year high if achieved, although still a far cry from the record 921mn cfd posted in 1Q 2014. While welcome news for Egypt, Apache’s gas gains are un...
Volume: 68Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2025 -
Algeria’s First Bid Round In A Decade: Will It Be A Major Success?
...Algiers is close to wrapping up its first bid round since 2014. It hopes to attract some of the largest international players, including possible country entries for US majors Chevron & ExxonMobil, and a re-entry for BP, with Asian and Gulf NOCs also a strong possibility. But one of the co...
Volume: 68Issue: 18Published at Fri, 02 May 2025 -
Libya ‘Open For Business’ As Bid Round Eyes Global Majors
...delsadiq meanwhile hailed the relative stability the country has witnessed recently, with existing partners like Repsol and OMV, as well as Italy’s Eni, recently resuming drilling in Libya for the first time since 2014 (MEES, 1 November 2024). “This is crucial for encouraging investors and allowing fo...
Volume: 68Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2025 -
Oman State Upstream Firm Targets 2025 Growth Via Acquisitions & Upgrades
...cond onshore block OQEP operates after Block 60. OQEP signed an exploration and production sharing agreement for Block 60 back in 2011. By 2014 it brought online the Abu Tabul tight gas field (MEES, 23 January 2015) where output averaged 20.1mn cfd for 1H 2024. This was followed by the discovery of the Bi...
Volume: 68Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 -
Libya’s Mega 2025 Bid Round 2025: 22 Blocks, 235,000 km2, 1.6bn boe
...ins on the back of increased drilling activity have renewed interest in the sector. Spain’s Repsol and Austria’s OMV, as well as Italy’s Eni, recently resumed drilling in Libya for the first time since 2014 (MEES, 1 November 2024), with the former two optimistic about further gains in 2025 (MEES, 28 Fe...
Volume: 68Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 -
Egypt Eyes Takers For Undeveloped Offshore Gas Finds
...05tcf. Notus is the third undeveloped gas discovery of Cluster 2, made in the Oligocene. Drilled in 2013 to a total depth of 7,200ms by UK firm BG (since taken over by Shell), gas in place is estimated at 1.22tcf by EUG. In 2014 BG filed a development plan for Notus but stated that moving forward wa...
Volume: 68Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 -
Egypt: Apache Eyes Gas Gains As Eni Output Slumps
...ES, 17 October 2014), Egypt returned to (joint) top billing in Apache’s Q4 results on 27 February. The US independent says it is “building a sustainable base, anchored by [the] Permian and Egypt.” Following a late-2024 agreement that brings “gas-focused investment to economic parity with oil,” by hi...
Volume: 68Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2025 -
Libya Upstream Enters ‘New Era’ With Launch Of Long-Awaited Bid Round
...aly’s Eni, recently resumed drilling in Libya for the first time since 2014 (MEES, 1 November 2024). ‘LIBYA IS BACK’ Ç In a televised event in Tripoli, acting NOC chief Massoud Suleiman launched the bid round, saying it marks the end of 17 years of “neglect” of Libya’s resources and “ye...
Volume: 68Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2025 -
Chevron Eyes Long Term Gains From Saudi-Kuwait Neutral Zone
...rm opportunities that are captured and can become very attractive.” NEUTRAL ZONE REBOUND Production in the PNZ was fully shut-in from May 2015 until February 2020, with the offshore Khafji field taken offline in October 2014 followed by the onshore Wafra field in May 2015. On th...
Volume: 68Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2025