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Abu Dhabi’s 3.5Mn B/D Target Slips To 2019
...l Operations (ADCO) consortium – ADNOC 60%, BP 9.5%, ExxonMobil 9.5%, Total 9.5%, Shell 9.5% and Partex 2% – whose concession to run the emirate’s major onshore oil fields expires on 11 January 2014, will continue after this date. ADNOC senior management has made contradictory public statements and ha...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
Northern Morocco Joins Farm-Out Fever
...rmit from early 2013 to be followed by the anticipated drilling of “at least three” exploration wells from early 2014. Seismic is also planned for the neighboring Taounate permits in 2013. Gulfsands notes that the acreage immediately to the west of the Fes permit, now operated by Triangle Energy (see be...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
PTT Extends Algerian Finds
...dding, comprises Blocs 443a, 424a, 414xt and 415ex around 100km south east of the Bir Seba field, PTT’s other Algerian upstream interest. Production from Bir Seba and the nearby Mouiat Oulad Messaoud field on Blocks 433a and 416b is slated for start-up at 20,000 b/d in the first half of 2014...
Volume: 55Issue: 51Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2012 -
Eni Returns To Libyan Exploration Drilling
...cilities (MEES, 14 September). Unlike the bulk of foreign producers in Libya who have put any possible expansion plans onto the back burner, Eni has made Libyan expansion a key part of its international production targets. First additional production could come as soon as 2014. Although some other fo...
Volume: 55Issue: 50Published at Fri, 07 Dec 2012 -
South Tunisia Gas Development Pushed Back
...the block was dry. Gulfsands says it plans to drill a further well in 2014. On Kerkouane a commitment well is slated to be drilled “prior to February 2014,” Gulfsands says. ADX is in the process of further reducing its remaining 30% Chorbane stake signing a 28 November letter of intent to...
Volume: 55Issue: 49Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012 -
Baghdad Sets Road Show Date
...velopment project. Lukoil is hoping to start ramping up a 200,000 b/d Phase 1 of the 1.8mn b/d project at the end of 2013. Field capacity could eventually rise to hit 400,000 b/d by 2014. But sometime that year, this project, and others, are likely to “hit a wall,” sources say, unless significant efforts ar...
Volume: 55Issue: 49Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012 -
Aramco Awards Contracts To Maintain Production Capacity
...fshore oil field – has been producing since the early 1950s and has reserves of 35bn barrels. The work will be finished by end 2014 and includes a tie-in platform and auxiliary platforms. Engineering firms bidding for the work include Houston-based McDermott and Italy’s Saipem under their existing Long Te...
Volume: 55Issue: 49Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012 -
Algeria’s South West Gas Project Delayed To Late-2016
...gan earlier this year with a total of 41 wells, of which 24 were to be drilled before first production. Construction of gas processing facilities will begin in 2014, GdF says. GdF is operator with 49% whilst Sonatrach has its customary 51% stake. However GdF is responsible for almost two-thirds (65%) of...
Volume: 55Issue: 48Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2012 -
Qatari Condensate Production On The Rise
...Energy and Industry Muhammad al-Sada signed a 25-year renewal of Total’s PSA for 25,000 b/d offshore al-Khaleej. The contract was due to expire in early 2014. For Qatar’s swing producer, the offshore al-Shaheen field, the development plan is to plateau production at current rates of 30...
Volume: 55Issue: 48Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2012 -
Morocco Set For Record 2013 Drilling As Genel Expands
...year exploration period. The firm says it will kick off seismic acquisition in January, “with the aim of drilling our first well in 2014.” The 3,259 sq km block has water depths of 60ms to 320ms. Mir Left is directly offshore Agadir and immediately northeast of the Sidi Moussa Block where Genel in Au...
Volume: 55Issue: 48Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2012 -
Abu Dhabi Concession - Game On For BP
...erations (ADCO) consortium whose concession to run the emirate’s major onshore oil fields expires on 11 January 2014. UK Prime Minister David Cameron visited the UAE in early November to meet UAE President Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayid al-Nuhayyan and Crown Prince Shaikh Muhammad bin Zayid al-Nu...
Volume: 55Issue: 47Published at Fri, 16 Nov 2012 -
Abu Dhabi Looks To Offshore Future
...t to start ramping up end 2014-early 2015 and hit its 750,000 b/d target in 2016. Construction of the first island, North Island, with targeted capacity of 279,000 b/d, a planned permanent population of 500 workers and 200 well slots, has just been completed. Total island facilities’ pr...
Volume: 55Issue: 47Published at Fri, 16 Nov 2012 -
KOC Eyes $56bn Investment Bonanza
...pital expenditure of $11.5bn in 2012-13, $5.9bn in 2013-14, $11.4bn in 2014-15, $12.5bn in 2015-16, $9.1bn in 2016-17, and $5.4bn in 2017-18. Bad Press To some Kuwait may appear a poster child for how not to run an oil industry. But while there are clear issues surrounding pa...
Volume: 55Issue: 47Published at Fri, 16 Nov 2012 -
Ankara Poised To Unleash KRG Upstream Investment
...condly to be absorbed into the Iraqi military, the Czech planes, which are lighter fighters, ideal for use in the KRG, could be operational by early 2014, one security analyst tells MEES. Iraq’s oil industry take-off, which at long last is promising to deliver a measure of prosperity and se...
Volume: 55Issue: 46Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2012 -
Iraqi Oil Sector Set For Major Change
...d his political ally, Deputy Prime Minister, Husain al-Shahristani. The latter is widely talked of as a challenger to Mr Maliki in the 2014 elections. Despite the recent agreement over a restart to KRG oil exports and a face-to-face meeting with his rival KRG Natural Resources Minister, Ashti Ha...
Volume: 55Issue: 45Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2012 -
Libya’s AGOCO Looks To New Ghadames Production Heartland
...-4 to the east the 15mn barrels Tlascin field. In addition to Agoco, Italy’s Eni is planning to take advantage of synergies from the Medco development with plans to produce 10,000 b/d of crude from Ghadames Basin Block NC-118 from late 2014 (MEES, 20 August). Production would flow via a 60...
Volume: 55Issue: 45Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2012 -
South Sudan Orders Oil Production Restart
...vernments to raise output. The IEA said last week it expected Sudan to produce 70,000 b/d on average this year, which should jump to 90,000 b/d in 2014, before dipping to 60,000 b/d in 2017. “Sudan and South Sudan are expected to rebound to a combined 360,000 b/d by 2015, though still 10...
Volume: 55Issue: 44Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2012 -
Tamar Partners To Supply Dorad Energy With Gas
...fshore infrastructure in order to meet contracted supplies. But as some buyers will not be ready to receive gas until the end of 2014 or later, the Tamar partners are expected to be able to juggle deliveries. However, an offshore LNG regasification facility supplied by Excelerate of the US is due to come in...
Volume: 55Issue: 43Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2012 -
Foreign Investors Look For Streamlined Algerian Oil Bureaucracy As Shell Exits
...r 2016 – revised back from 2014 earlier this year. But potentially Total’s biggest Algerian project is the 4bcm/y Ahnet tight gas development, also in Algeria’s deep southwest. A “technical” development plan filed in July 2011 still awaits approval. The delays are largely due to a st...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012 -
Thailand’s PTT, PetroVietnam and China’s CNOOC Expand In Algeria
...art-up at 20,000 b/d in the first half of 2014 before ramping up to 36,000-40,000 b/d plateau volumes of 44°API crude from 2016. PetroVietnam has 40% and is operator, PTT has 35% and Sonatrach 25%. Development now appears to be going smoothly – 2012 has seen progress on the drilling of 16...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012