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Iraq Seeks Kuwait’s Help To Ease Pain Of Lower Oil Price
...ficials to assess the country’s recent economic developments with a particular focus on the “double shock” of the IS incursion and the decline in oil prices. Mr Sdralevich said in the statement that Iraq’s GDP was expected to contract by around 0.5% in 2014 largely due to the economic effects of the in...
Volume: 57Issue: 50Published at Fri, 12 Dec 2014 -
UAE, Kuwait Redefine Oil Marketing
...nditions. Chinese imports of crude oil averaged 6mn b/d in 2014 with the Middle East accounting for half of total imports, despite a rise in the share of Latin American crudes locked out of the US market, he adds. Indian imports have also followed a similar trend, rising to 3.8mn b/d in 2014 due to a rise in...
Volume: 57Issue: 50Published at Fri, 12 Dec 2014 -
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait Set For Annual Drilling Record
...ate oil firm Sonatrach this week said the company had made 28 oil and gas discoveries during the first 10 months of 2014, compared to 29 in 2013. MENA Active Drilling Rigs, November 2014...
Volume: 57Issue: 50Published at Fri, 12 Dec 2014 -
Baghdad, KRG: Peace In Our Time?
...eak-even oil price of $105/B to balance its 2014 budget. The draft 2015 budget, expected to show a deficit, is being revised to include a lower price assumption nearer $70/B, Iraqi politicians say. Iraq’s federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) ended years of discord over re...
Volume: 57Issue: 49Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014 -
Iran’s Upstream Opening Stalls On Nuclear Extension
...r our colleagues at the Foreign Ministry to deal with,” he added, referring to Tehran’s nuclear negotiating team, led by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, and his deputy Abbas Araqchi. $100bn Pause Iran, the ministry said in early 2014, is looking to attract upwards of $100bn in oil se...
Volume: 57Issue: 49Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014 -
Egypt Closing In On Debt Repayment And New Bid Round, Minister Says
...used rolling blackouts over the summer and brought exports to a virtual standstill, leaving two LNG export facilities idled. Output slumped to 4.8bn cfd for the first seven months of 2014 (and a 10-year low of 4.55bn cfd for July – the most recent available data), over 700mn cfd down on estimated de...
Volume: 57Issue: 48Published at Fri, 28 Nov 2014 -
Baghdad, Erbil Find Common Cause As Oil Price Falls
...port assumption in the 2014 draft budget. The KRG agreed to place 150,000 b/d of its crude at the disposal of the Iraqi oil marketing organization SOMO in return for the release of $500mn to pay salaries and cover other administrative costs. Iraq’s Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd, said on 19...
Volume: 57Issue: 47Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2014 -
The Oil Price Slide: Just How Bad Is It For Iran?
...enarios, and have considered the consequences of choosing any of the oil prices between $70-80/B,” he said without going into any further detail. The government is hoping to settle on a figure by 22 November. This is in contrast with the budget for the current Iranian year (21 March 2014 – 20 March 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 47Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2014 -
Algeria Surplus Down
...ALGERIA Algeria Surplus Down Algeria’s trade surplus in the first nine months of 2014 has fallen by 18.2% to $5.4bn, from $6.6bn in the corresponding period of 2013, latest official customs statistics show. The value of exports stood at $49.23bn, of which $47.18bn (96%) came from oil an...
Volume: 57Issue: 47Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2014 -
BP Still Hopeful Of Kirkuk Deal
...Kirkuk, parts of which fell under KRG control after Iraqi troops withdrew rather than fight the advancing militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) – otherwise known as Islamic State (IS) – in the summer of 2014. It is, however, conducting work through contractors under a me...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
Genel Energy Steps On Kurdish Natural Gas
...oduction is expected in 2016 and gas for export scheduled to start in the first half of 2018, though the KRG has an option to request gas for domestic use in 2016. The agreement will allow Genel to honor its September 2014 gas sales agreement with Turkey for 10Bcm/year of Kurdish gas. Genel will be en...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
Baghdad, KRG Take First Step Toward Deal
...aq’s revenues and to 17% of refining volumes for domestic consumption, it says. This is only a fraction of the KRG’s annual entitlement from the 2014 federal budget, which was never passed. Under an informal agreement between Erbil and Baghdad, the KRG was to receive 17% of federal revenues but the KR...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
Oman Output Boost Plans Intact Despite Oil Price Slide
...eraged 947,900 b/d – largely in line with the 950,000 b/d average output target for 2014 it announced in March this year (MEES, 7 March). “There is no intention to phase out or delay any projects, and expenditure will continue as planned,” Finance Ministry Undersecretary, and former Undersecretary to...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
MENA Active Drilling Rigs, October 2014.*
...MENA Active Drilling Rigs, October 2014.* October Br...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
UAE Says Oil Price Will Not Impact Expansion
...ergy. Emirates LNG ‘’We expect to develop new gas fields and launch new projects to import LNG. These projects include the awarding of a contract for the Emirates LNG project in Fujairah by the end of 2014 or early 2015,” he told national news agency WAM in an interview on 9 November. The pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
UAE Keeps Oil Majors Guessing On Onshore Renewal
...pan’s Jan-Sep 2014 Oil Imports (‘000 B/D) Japan Oil Imports From Abu Dhabi (‘000 B/D) Japan too has a strong hand. The UAE is the second largest exporter of crude to Japan after Saudi Arabia (see below and p26) and Japan already has upstream stakes in the UAE, both of them in of...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
Iraq Says OPEC ‘Price War’ Partly To Blame For Revenue Fall, $84Bn Deficit
...velopment Fund for Iraq (DFI), which is held in New York and contains receipts from oil exports, in order to finance what he says is runaway spending that is not matched by revenues. Speaking to a special session of the cabinet on 3 November to discuss the 2014 budget, which has yet to be submitted to pa...
Volume: 57Issue: 45Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2014 -
Saudi Arabia’s Major Gas Development Stalls
...arter, maintains a completion date of end 2014 for Wasit, which will be one of the biggest non-associated gas plants in the kingdom. Its integrated facilities will process 2.6bn cfd of non-associated gas from the offshore Arabiyah and Hasbah fields. Under normal conditions, it will provide 1.7bn cfd of sa...
Volume: 57Issue: 45Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2014 -
Dana Plays Hardball With The KRG
...escent Petroleum, its largest shareholder, and maintain payments till the case runs its course. The ruling sets a precedent for foreign contractors in the Kurdish region, many of whom are yet to be paid their costs after Baghdad cut off federal funds. With Iraq’s 2014 federal budget still to be approved (se...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
East Med Gas Development: Pipeline Politics Drive Floating Solutions
...peline to Greece -1,536 Fail *5tcf Gas, Mar 2014 Lng Prices. ^Net Present Value. Source: Sapienta Economics. The industry consensus is that with a slew of LNG projects set to come onstream in the coming years – in Australia, Mozambique and po...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014