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Outlook Hazy For MENA Project Financing
...velopment following its achieving of a targeted 77mn tons/year LNG production capacity. Until the moratorium is lifted, which will not be until at least 2014, further projects will be concentrated downstream. Qatar Vinyl Company is seeking an adviser on its expansion project. Qatar has embarked on an un...
Volume: 54Issue: 52Published at Mon, 26 Dec 2011 -
Qatar’s Barzan Becomes World’s Largest 2011 Project Financing
...d and Phase 3 another 2.5bn cfd. Start-up is earmarked for 2014 and it is expected to ramp up to produce at least 100,000 b/d of condensate as well as 1.4bn cfd of gas. The main engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contractors are Japan’s JGC (onshore) and South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy In...
Volume: 54Issue: 51Published at Mon, 19 Dec 2011 -
Gulf Arab Producers: We Can Guarantee Energy Security
...tional Oil Company (ADNOC) pays ExxonMobil $1/B produced. ExxonMobil has a 9.5% stake in Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO), the consortium that operates Abu Dhabi’s largest onshore fields. The concession expires in January 2014. It also has 28% of Zakum Development Company (ZADCO), wh...
Volume: 54Issue: 50Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011 -
Qatar Moratorium Continues As North Field Proves Challenging
...til 2014 while the reservoir’s depletion is studied. ExxonMobil, which has been doing the study for about four years by collecting the data from all projects in the field, requested a 2014 deadline to give it 10 years of data to work with since major production started. The North Field’s st...
Volume: 54Issue: 50Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011 -
Iraqi Oil Sector Faces Year Of Challenge And Promise
...0,000 b/d in 2014. A new 255km, 400,000 b/d pipeline to tie in with the main Iraqi crude export line to Ceyhan is also planned at an estimated cost of $450mn, Mr Hayward, the former CEO of BP, said. The Shaikan Effect Gulf Keystone’s Shaikan field will be the largest single contributor to new KRG su...
Volume: 54Issue: 50Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011 -
Iran Announces 10,000 B/D GTL Project, But Faces Hurdles
...ll start in 2012. So far, there is slow progress being made in construction of the onshore facilities and it is very unlikely that the contractor will be able to complete them before 2014-15. Offshore the project has been faster, which suggests that Phase 12 production may be ready to start before th...
Volume: 54Issue: 49Published at Mon, 05 Dec 2011 -
GTL Costs Under The Microscope As Qatar Inaugurates $18.5Bn Pearl Plant
...id in its June financial report that Oryx will debottleneck to boost capacity 10% by 2014. The increase is a scale-down from previous plans to add a further three trains, taking total capacity to 100,000 b/d. ‘Huge Capex Costs’ Furthermore, MEES learns that the costs for building such a plant ha...
Volume: 54Issue: 48Published at Mon, 28 Nov 2011 -
Gulf Sukuk Issuers Brave Volatile Markets
...ll be much better, he warned. With the amount of debt maturing in the Gulf set to spike in 2012-14, Gulf bond issuers are facing rising refinancing risks, cautioned Standard & Poor’s Rating Services (MEES, 21 November). Bonds and sukuk worth $25bn will mature in 2012, rising to $35bn in 2014, ac...
Volume: 54Issue: 48Published at Mon, 28 Nov 2011 -
LNG Producers Face Market Challenges, Qatar Mulls Russian Partnership
...til the North Field study is completed in 2014. Data from the RasGas-managed Barzan project’s production wells will help finalize QP’s study into the North Field reservoir’s structure and depletion rate. RasGas manages the 1.4bn cfd sales gas Barzan development within the North Field for the do...
Volume: 54Issue: 47Published at Mon, 21 Nov 2011 -
OPEC Highlights Economic Uncertainty
...ilization rates and likely lead to a period of depressed margins and relatively poor economics for the refining sector,” the WOO predicts. OPEC’s World Oil Outlook In Figures (Mn B/D) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2020 20...
Volume: 54Issue: 46Published at Mon, 14 Nov 2011 -
MENA Turns To Solar Power For EOR As Well As National Grids
...the Neutral Zone, whose production is shared 50:50 by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Chevron says it could increase production by an additional 500,000 b/d. A final investment decision on the full field steam injection program is scheduled for late 2014, with first injection scheduled for late 2017. So...
Volume: 54Issue: 45Published at Mon, 07 Nov 2011 -
Saudi Banks Dominate Oversubscribed $3.6Bn Ma'aden Project Financing
...ll’s construction in August. First commercial production from the smelter and mill is scheduled for early 2013, with first production from the mine and refinery set for early 2014. Alcoa will supply alumina to the smelter in the interim period. The smelter has been designed to accommodate ex...
Volume: 54Issue: 43Published at Mon, 24 Oct 2011 -
Fight For Abu Dhabi Oil And Gas Field Concessions Heats Up
...ich expires in January 2014. The emirate may break up the consortium’s – ADNOC (60%), Shell, Total, BP and ExxonMobil (9.5% each) and Portugal’s Partex (2%) – concession, which includes most of the emirate’s major onshore fields, and allow individual firms to operate separate fields. An advantage to Ab...
Volume: 54Issue: 42Published at Mon, 17 Oct 2011 -
Satorp Paves Way For Saudi Project Sukuk Issuers With $1Bn Offering
...nerally want to hold long dated limited recourse instruments with call options that ultimately change the tenor, said one bank expert, noting that that the Satorp Mudaraba sukuk carries a 14-year tenor and an embedded call option (so it matures in 2014). Even in mature markets like the US the project bo...
Volume: 54Issue: 42Published at Mon, 17 Oct 2011 -
Gulf Turns To Unconventional Gas To Ease Shortage
...ate-owned Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO). Bahrain will take a decision by the first quarter of 2012 on awarding an LNG import terminal contract (MEES, 15 August) to import 400-800mn cfd of LNG for 15 years starting in 2014. But it will only drill the first Awali field pre-Khuff deep gas ex...
Volume: 54Issue: 41Published at Mon, 10 Oct 2011 -
Barzan $10Bn Gas Project Financing Attracts 30 Banks
...the ECA-covered facilities, the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Kexim are providing direct loans to the Barzan project. Pricing on the direct ECA funding typically comes in below the level paid to the commercial banks. Barzan is planned for start-up in 2014 and ex...
Volume: 54Issue: 41Published at Mon, 10 Oct 2011 -
Abu Dhabi To Take ADCO Concession Renewal Decision By Year-End
...ncession when it expires in January 2014, an official from a major tells MEES. The consortium’s international oil company shareholders are concerned that the Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) will award fields to the lowest bidders, in a decision that will affect Abu Dhabi’s oil production for 30 years, Ni...
Volume: 54Issue: 41Published at Mon, 10 Oct 2011 -
BP’s SEEP Pipeline Option Stirs Southern Gas Corridor Debate
...rmitting process unscathed, and this is thought to involve giving them an equal share of the project’s benefits both in gas and rates of return. The problem with offering equity is the states involved, except for Turkey, will have already spent several tens of millions of euros by 2014 on integrating th...
Volume: 54Issue: 41Published at Mon, 10 Oct 2011 -
Storm Clouds Gather Over Iraqi Oil Development
...Neel’s presentation estimates. The problem, the source says, is that rising demand means that new capacity won’t really begin to be felt until what could be a politically unacceptable 2014. Mr Neel urged Baghdad to review its electricity subsidy policy sooner rather than later to promote co...
Volume: 54Issue: 40Published at Mon, 03 Oct 2011 -
BP Reveals Fourth Pipeline Option For Shah Deniz 2 Gas
...ere is concern about the potential extent to which it would overlap with a number of interconnector pipelines that are due to become operational throughout Southeast Europe by 2014. BP’s Vice-President for Shah Deniz Development, Al Cook, described the SEEP project as “another possible so...
Volume: 54Issue: 40Published at Mon, 03 Oct 2011