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Tunisian CO2 Study May Scupper Plans For Zarat Development
...om West Africa, providing a steady revenue stream despite cashflow constraints having led PA to slash capital expenditure by more than 80% for 2012. A commitment well for the company’s Makthar permit in northwest Tunisia has been pushed back to 2014 with the company granted two years’ licence ex...
Volume: 55Issue: 35Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012 -
Mauritania Looks To Offshore Gas To Fuel Its Energy Future
...late to whether development will be of gas alone or include oil. Tullow also expects to take a final investment decision next year with first commercial production from between two and four wells slated for 2014 or 2015. Other nearby offshore discoveries, also operated by Tullow, could potentially be ti...
Volume: 55Issue: 35Published at Mon, 27 Aug 2012 -
Libyan Upstream Activity Picks Up
...ould add substantial oil and gas production increments from late 2014 (see Table 1). Eni, through its Mellitah Oil joint venture with Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC), plans to move two key projects to construction next year. Both are heavily reliant on existing infrastructure, making ra...
Volume: 55Issue: 34Published at Mon, 20 Aug 2012 -
Oil Roils Kurdish Politics
...r late 2013, but realistically this is unlikely to be completed before 2014 (MEES, 28 May). In the meantime, Turkish firms continue to consolidate their position the region. On 6 August Genel Energy announced it was boosting its 23% stake in the OMV-operated Bina Bawi block to 44%, with $240mn ac...
Volume: 55Issue: 34Published at Mon, 20 Aug 2012 -
Algerian Gas Set For Boost From 3.7 BCM/Y Petroceltic Development
...gineering and design (FEED) is slated for 2013 with construction set to begin in 2014. Second Farm-Out Planned Petroceltic plans to sell a further stake in the project in order to fund its share of $1.5bn expected capital expenditure to first gas, a massive amount for a company whose market ca...
Volume: 55Issue: 32Published at Mon, 06 Aug 2012 -
BP To Sign Gas Deal With Oman By September
...celerate Phase 2 to produce another 1bn cfd (MEES 16 April). Oman LNG, the country’s primary LNG producer – whose shareholders include Shell and Total – hopes to export more LNG after BP’s project hits full production. Oman LNG will have a clearer idea by 2014 on demand levels and possible ex...
Volume: 55Issue: 31Published at Mon, 30 Jul 2012 -
Confusion Spreads Over Abu Dhabi Oil Fields Concession
...shore fields and expires in January 2014. State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) invited selected firms to apply for prequalification by July 15, but BP has not yet been invited (MEES, 9 July). Nick Wilson writes. ““They did not receive an invitation. They were not on the list,” AD...
Volume: 55Issue: 30Published at Mon, 23 Jul 2012 -
New US Sanctions Hit Iran, Upstream Sector Already Stressed
...e project, tells MEES that when Pakistan invited contractors to bid for EPC work it told them to provide the finance themselves. “There isn’t that kind of money available in Pakistan and sanctions aren’t helping, so it won’t be completed in 2014,” he says. MEES learns that Iranian engineers – kn...
Volume: 55Issue: 29Published at Mon, 16 Jul 2012 -
BP Not Yet Invited To Bid For Major Fields, Abu Dhabi Eyes Crude Boost
...E BP Not Yet Invited To Bid For Major Fields, Abu Dhabi Eyes Crude Boost BP has not yet been invited to prequalify to bid for Abu Dhabi’s major onshore oil fields that are run under the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) concession, which expires in January 2014. BP is a cu...
Volume: 55Issue: 28Published at Mon, 09 Jul 2012 -
Iraq Prepares To Launch GTL Project
...int venture between state-owned Qatar Petroleum (51%) and Sasol (49%) – has because of problems with its slurry bed and air separation units produced at a maximum of about 90% of its capacity. Sasol aims to debottleneck the plant to reach design capacity by 2014, and also plans to add further trains, ta...
Volume: 55Issue: 27Published at Mon, 02 Jul 2012 -
Thin Exploration Returns Leave Libya Reliant On EOR-Fuelled Expansion
...d 72, awarded in 2003). BP, which has three deepwater areas further offshore from Hess and Repsol (Areas 37, 38 and 39) will be hoping to extend the region’s discoveries when it restarts drilling in 2013 or 2014 (MEES, 4 June). Although Hess’s exploration efforts have been moderately su...
Volume: 55Issue: 27Published at Mon, 02 Jul 2012 -
Iraqi Infrastructure Crunch Begins To Bite
...e Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) area (currently running at half of 300,000b/d capacity), Chairman of the Prime Ministerial Advisory Committee Thamir Ghadhban said. Next year 500,000 b/d of new capacity should be added, with around 700,000 b/d in 2014, to achieve a sustainable capacity target of...
Volume: 55Issue: 26Published at Mon, 25 Jun 2012 -
Abu Dhabi Invites IOCs To Prequalify – Partex’s 2% Stake Up For Grabs
...rtex (2%) – which expire in January 2014, while replacing Partex with a newcomer that can bring finance or technology to the consortium – or auction off individual fields, which produce a total of over 1.4mn b/d. Prequalifying submissions have to be in by mid-July. Partex’s 2% stake is a historical qu...
Volume: 55Issue: 26Published at Mon, 25 Jun 2012 -
Oman Anticipates More LNG Exports On Back Of BP Upstream Output
...ditional exports in the period post-2016 after BP has ramped up to ‘to be agreed with government’ production levels for tight gas. In 2014 plans for 2016-onwards production and demand levels will be firmed up and the options to export, or not, will be clearer.” Oman LNG (government 51%, Shell 30...
Volume: 55Issue: 26Published at Mon, 25 Jun 2012 -
Nogaholding Poised For Bahrain Energy Sector Expansion
...e pre-Khuff contains commercial volumes of gas. A final investment decision on pre-Khuff development is not expected until 2014. Like the GCC, which is gas-short apart from Qatar, Bahrain is a “gas consumer rather than supplier,” stresses Shaikh Mohamed. But recent developments help consumers, he sa...
Volume: 55Issue: 25Published at Mon, 18 Jun 2012 -
‘Revolutionary’ Economies Face Financing Woes
...nking On A Euro-Rebound The World Bank predicts a sharp rebound in the two key Arab Spring economies of Egypt and Tunisia, with growth of 3.6-3.8% for 2013 and 4.6% by 2014, “more in line with their underlying potential.” But this may prove optimistic given that it is predicated on a stabilization of...
Volume: 55Issue: 25Published at Mon, 18 Jun 2012 -
Iran Condensate Severely Discounted, Gulf Producers Face Changing Market
...ach full production and export capacity by 2014, but it is still unclear how it will market it all. Qatar must now determine its future direction as a condensate seller that has committed most if not all of its export availability. “Tasweeq has to ensure that it doesn’t target both condensate and LPG at...
Volume: 55Issue: 25Published at Mon, 18 Jun 2012 -
Kuwait’s Oil Minister Stands Firm Against MPs, Appoints Senior Management
...urisly as chairman and managing director. KOTC plans to build nine tankers by 2014 – taking the total to 33 (MEES 30 January). Mr Khashti is a veteran KPC executive whose positions have included heading Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) and Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (Kufpec). Mr Bourisly be...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
New Algerian LNG Capacity Faces Lack Of Gas
...sition to supply them a final investment decision (FID) has been repeatedly put back. The project, which had been due on stream in 2014, will almost certainly be shelved later this year. Italy, which remains Algeria’s top export customer, is already linked (via Tunisia) by the TransMed pi...
Volume: 55Issue: 24Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2012 -
Qatar Continues To Boost Budget Expenditure In 2012-13
...owth in the hydrocarbon sector slowing down to 3% due to Qatar’s self imposed moratorium on the development of new North Field projects until 2014, while substantial investment in infrastructure, coupled with increased levels of production in Qatar’s manufacturing sector is projected to boost growth in th...
Volume: 55Issue: 23Published at Mon, 04 Jun 2012