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Iran Casts Wary Eye On Shared Field As Qatar Celebrates LNG Success
...eaky horizontal drilling,” a state-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) official tells MEES. “Qatar’s best drilling sites are right on the median line, so if there is migration it would go our way,” he said. Qatar has a moratorium until 2014 on new projects in the field, while QP completes its study into re...
Volume: 53Issue: 51Published at Mon, 20 Dec 2010 -
Naimi Likely To Stay At Helm Of No 1 Global Oil Power
...entually discarded ExxonMobil-led Core Venture 2 of the Saudi Strategic Gas initiative, proposed in the early part of the decade. Closer at hand, the offshore Middle East Gulf 1.8bn cfd Karan gas development is set to start up next year. In 2014 the 2.5bn cfd Wasit gas plant, which will process gas fr...
Volume: 53Issue: 51Published at Mon, 20 Dec 2010 -
Shuweihat S3 Power Deal Suggests Dip In Financing Costs
...wer in summer 2013 and then gear up to full rates of 1.6gw before the 2014 summer peak loading period. It will be fueled by gas. Once the PPA is signed, ADWEA is expected to make a decision on the next IWPP or IPP. This was originally going to be Taweelah C, which was supposed to have been launched as...
Volume: 53Issue: 51Published at Mon, 20 Dec 2010 -
Syria’s 2011 Draft Budget Targets Lower Deficit
...bsequently the deficit/GDP ratio is projected to rise slightly to 6% in 2012, before falling to 5.8% in 2013, 5.5% in 2014 and 5.4% in 2015, according to the government budget statement that was presented to parliament. The budget was approved by the cabinet on 12 October and is currently being debated in...
Volume: 53Issue: 50Published at Mon, 13 Dec 2010 -
Qatar Delays Barzan Project Due To Domestic Gas Supply Surplus
...st the World Cup that year. Qatar has a surplus of gas for its domestic market and is delaying the start up of the 1.5bn cfd Barzan project to 2015, from the planned 2014, MEES learns. Barzan’s gas from the North Field – the final project approved under the moratorium on further developments of th...
Volume: 53Issue: 50Published at Mon, 13 Dec 2010 -
GCC Power Grid Project Nears Completion
...ich it is boosting to 2.5gw next year and to 3.6gw by 2014, which is expected to be greater than demand. Qatar plans to boost its power production to more than 8.707gw by 2011, from 4.263gw at the end of the second quarter of 2008. GCC Electricity Ministers Approve Single Tariff A meeting of the GC...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Turkmenistan Tilts Towards West, Considers Rapprochement With Azerbaijan
...PC and Turkmengaz, once the 1,000km, 30 bcm/year capacity East-West pipeline is com-pleted in 2014. On top of that, the former head of Turkmengaz noted, “as early as 2011, Turkmenistan needs a market for gas produced by the Malaysian Petronas company on an offshore block at a rate of 5 bcm/y.” Me...
Volume: 53Issue: 48Published at Mon, 29 Nov 2010 -
Iran Wants To Renegotiate Offshore Gas Treaty With Qatar
...ing back the gas that has migrated.” Qatar has a moratorium on further new development projects before 2014, when it will complete its study into the field’s depletion. But QP engineers complain that to calculate the rate they need meaningful figures from Iran about its extraction plans, but ar...
Volume: 53Issue: 48Published at Mon, 29 Nov 2010 -
North Africa’s Investment Star Wanes
...heduled to come on stream in the second quarter of 2014 at a targetted capital investment of $920mn. Total is struggling to keep costs to below $1bn, MEES understands. Low gas prices have pushed Algeria into stopping spot gas sales (MEES, 11 October). A number of foreign operators had output slashed ea...
Volume: 53Issue: 45Published at Mon, 08 Nov 2010 -
Abu Dhabi Plans Artificial Islands To Boost Oil Output By 470,000 B/D
...kum expires in 2026, and ZADCO’s operating concession for offshore fields Umm al-Dalkh and Satah expires in 2018. While ExxonMobil is happy with its ZADCO partners, it is not however content with its position in ADNOC’s onshore oil company ADCO, whose agreement expires in 2014. ExxonMobil has a 9....
Volume: 53Issue: 45Published at Mon, 08 Nov 2010 -
OPEC Sees Future Riven With Uncertainty Despite Tentative Economic Recovery
...dium term demand projections from last year’s WOO, but higher projections for non-OPEC supply means the call on OPEC crude remains constrained until 2014, the report highlights. The WOO’s reference case now predicts demand growth of 1mn b/d this year, more than double that expected in last ye...
Volume: 53Issue: 45Published at Mon, 08 Nov 2010 -
Egypt Poised To Hit GDP Growth Target, But Long Term Challenges Linger
...onomy,” he said, noting expectations of improved capital inflows from Europe and the US in 2011, once the liquidity issue is resolved. Furthermore, the Ministry of Finance plans to reduce the overall fiscal deficit to 7.7% in 2010-11, gradually cutting it to 3.5% of GDP by 2014-15. This is optimistic, gi...
Volume: 53Issue: 45Published at Mon, 08 Nov 2010 -
Sanctions Slow Iran’s Condensate Export Growth
...scounted price to Iran.” Iran Base-Case Condensate Supply Outlook (‘000 B/D) 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Current Pr...
Volume: 53Issue: 44Published at Mon, 01 Nov 2010 -
Iranian Crude Production Faces Continual Decline
...sources and/or changes in technical modifications, including installing offshore platforms. Its start-up target is 2012-13, but 2014 is more likely. It was originally meant to provide 2bn cfd to go to NIOC’s Iran LNG project. Phase 11 was also meant to provide a further 1.9bn cfd for LNG. It may start up...
Volume: 53Issue: 43Published at Mon, 25 Oct 2010 -
Barka-3, Sohar-2 Financing Shows Good Lender Appetite For Oman Power
...xt IPP, which is the 1.5gw plant being planned for Sur. This invites bids from developers to provide around 400mw of early power ahead of peak summer demand in 2013, and proceed with full commissioning ahead of 2014 peak summer demand. OPWP had originally planned to set up an IWPP at the al-Gh...
Volume: 53Issue: 40Published at Thu, 14 Oct 2010 -
Algeria Rediscovers Virtues Of Long Term Commitment
...ing to be short or long, you just have to look at the LNG supply/demand curve. If you lack LNG, the whole market worldwide is going to miss gas. If you have excess of LNG, the whole market of LNG is going to be long,” he continued. “We believe around 2014 Europe will be competing with Asia for LN...
Volume: 53Issue: 41Published at Mon, 11 Oct 2010 -
Region Needs $70Bn Investment Over 10 Years To Avoid Power Crisis
...ar (MEES, 9 August). Abu Dhabi is investing $20bn in four nuclear reactors with a capacity of 1.4gw each to come on line by 2017-20. There is no new planned major source of non-associated gas coming available before 2014, leaving the country’s gas output dependent on crude oil, whose production is cu...
Volume: 53Issue: 39Published at Mon, 27 Sep 2010 -
Multi-Billion Dollar Financing Proposal Boosts Nabucco Project
...bcm/y of Shah Deniz Stage 2 natural gas, which is expected to become available as early as 2014-15. Furthermore, Nabucco intends to transport gas from Iraqi Kurdistan, where Nabucco consortium leader OMV and partner MOL of Hungary hold shares in the Khor Mor and Chemchemal gas fields as partners in...
Volume: 53Issue: 37Published at Mon, 13 Sep 2010 -
Egypt’s 2010-11 Budget To Pursue Growth Path
...ven the containment of the world financial crisis, his ministry envisages a reduction in the debt/GDP ratio to 55-60% by 2014-15 from 65.8% at end-December 2009 and the fall in the budget deficit/GDP ratio to 3.5% by 2014-15. This would require the adoption of fiscal measures and laws by parliament to br...
Volume: 53Issue: 36Published at Mon, 06 Sep 2010 -
Hawrami Eyes Filling Half Nabucco, As Pipeline Consortium Targets Iraqi Gas
...on as 2014, Mr Hawrami says. Last year, OMV and MOL formed a joint venture with the UAE’s Crescent Petroleum, potentially worth $8bn, for the development of the Khor Mor and Chemchemal fields to supply gas into Nabucco (MEES, 25 May 2009). A dispute between Mr Hawrami and Crescent put a stop to dr...
Volume: 53Issue: 35Published at Mon, 30 Aug 2010