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DME Oman: Assessing A Key Middle East Benchmark
...E Oman to regional NOCs and support them in finding the fair value of crude oil.” The biggest target for DME would be Iraq, which was considering switching from Platts Oman-Dubai to the DME Oman/Platts Dubai combination in 2017 (MEES, 15 September 2017). With production capacity of 5mn b/d, Ir...
Volume: 63Issue: 51Published at Fri, 18 Dec 2020 -
Energean Eyes 28,000 b/d Of Israel Oil Output
...eep decline: the 9M 2020 figure is down almost 20% from 2019 (225mn cfd gas, 5,500 b/d condensate: 45,500 boe/d total), which in turn is well down from 270mn cfd in 2017 (MEES, 4 August 2017). The key plan to reverse this decline is via the tie-in of the North El Amriya (NEA) fields to the north. En...
Volume: 63Issue: 48Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2020 -
Petrofac Seeks $530mn From Bp/Equinor Algeria Gas Project As Finances Stretches By Continued Saudi Boycott
...ly managed to fully complete the In Salah tie-ins in November 2017 – some 30-months beyond the development’s original 50-month work-schedule. It remains unclear how much of the delay stemmed from the In Amenas attack: similar-length delays are par for the course in Algeria. STRETCHED FI...
Volume: 63Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2020 -
In Salah & In Amenas Gas Output Slump
...oduction hitting a 12-year high 808mn cfd in 2018 following the November 2017 tie-in of four ‘southern fields’ with the completion of a $1.2bn EPC contract by the UK’s Petrofac (see main story). Whereas In Salah saw a sudden collapse in output from Q2 – a timing that meshes with Europe’s Covid-related de...
Volume: 63Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2020 -
KRG’s Sarta To Start Soon
...me online since the startup of 50,000 b/d Atrush in 2017, and could provide a significant boost to the region’s struggling oil sector. The startup of a new field, and critically the first operated by a US major, will be welcome positive news for the KRG– even if it will do little to rectify the on...
Volume: 63Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2020 -
Dana Gas Sells Producing Egypt Assets To Texas-Based IPR
...lations with Sukuk holders (MEES, 18 August 2017) and had flagged up the sale of its Egypt assets as a preferred method of meeting the looming payment (MEES, 14 February). This suggests that Dana was hardly in a position to dictate terms in the latest sale, though a $90mn one-year loan with UAE lender Ma...
Volume: 63Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2020 -
QP & Total Make Second South Africa Discovery
...panding internationally… my ambition is for Qatar Petroleum to be seen as an International Oil Company and be talked about at the same level as ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Total” (MEES, 8 December 2017). This ambition has led QP to partner with international majors at a host of overseas assets in...
Volume: 63Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2020 -
Sunny Hill: All Eggs Now In (Delayed) Algerian Basket
...hedule was for September 2022. Though project delays in Algeria are par for the course – the development of Ain Tsila to produce 3.5 bcm/y (340mn cfd) was originally slated for 2017 start-up (MEES, 21 July 2017) – Sunny Hill is particularly exposed to the risk given that it has now quit all of its other oi...
Volume: 63Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2020 -
The KRG’s $850mn Oil Arrears Problem
...vestor, but having just missed four months payments, the KRG doesn’t have much credibility. It’s a mess.” Erbil made a similar deal in 2017 with DNO and Genel (as well as the gas-focused Pearl Consortium) which saw the firms take the KRG’s 20% stake in Tawke along with monthly override payments. But, wi...
Volume: 63Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2020 -
EOG To Bring ‘Unconventional’ Know-How To Oman’s Upstream
...teral well. It says the Rhuddanian sand “is hydrocarbon bearing” in two of Block 36’s previously drilled wells – Al Hashman-1 and Burkanah-1. The Canadian firm flagged up further cause for optimism based on an analogous “discovery in a nearby block made in late 2017 and currently under development.” Th...
Volume: 63Issue: 39Published at Fri, 25 Sep 2020 -
Aramco Joins IOCs In Green Research Drive
...eir aggregated upstream operations from a 2017 baseline of 23 kg CO₂e/boe to 20-21 kg CO₂e/boe by 2025. Aramco’s carbon intensity is already just 10.4 kg CO₂e/boe. Given the current industry trajectory, it is not difficult to envision a scenario a few years from now whereby producers with the lo...
Volume: 63Issue: 37Published at Fri, 11 Sep 2020 -
Conoco Enters Morocco
...stomary 25%) at the massive 10,000km² Tanfit exploration permit. Shell previously held the acreage as a reconnaissance permit (Issouka), converting to a full exploration permit at the end of 2017 whilst bringing in Repsol which previously had neighboring reconnaissance acreage. Moving to Morocco’s of...
Volume: 63Issue: 37Published at Fri, 11 Sep 2020 -
Egypt Expediting West Med Drill Plans
...e country’s gas production. It has been a meteoric rise for the region after output bottomed out in Q1 2017 at just 38.1% of the national total. Output was first given a boost by BP’s 5tcf West Nile Delta project, when the Phase 1 Libra and Taurus fields came online in May 2017 (MEES, 12 May 2017...
Volume: 63Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2020 -
Delek’s Leviathan Endgame: Chevron Entry, Debt Mountain Make Sale All But Inevitable
...cember 2017), may well be interested. Indeed, if Chevron comes to be seen as having escaped lightly in geopolitically terms from its decision to enter Israel, this may well lead other majors and large IOCs to see the country in a different light. For Total and Eni, with Lebanon exploration and a he...
Volume: 63Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020 -
Oil Services Firms: Mideast The Relative Bright Spot Amid North America Carnage
...05, 32.8%) for the first time. And whilst Baker Hughes has since 2017 not split oilfield services revenue by region (aside from ‘North America’ and ‘International’), the Middle East with Asia has almost certainly overtaken North America’s share here too given that the International share rose to a re...
Volume: 63Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020 -
Israel’s Delek Drilling Eyes $2.5bn Leviathan RBL Facility
...ble and Delek have struggled to overcome geopolitical headwinds to fulfill the field’s full potential. It took seven years from 2010 discovery before FID was finally taken in 2017. And this was for a greatly scaled back 12bcm/y (1.2bn cfd) development, little more than a third of planned 3.2bn cfd ou...
Volume: 63Issue: 29Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2020 -
Tethys Oil Expands In Oman With Extra Southern Block
...opted a similar strategy with blocks 49 and 56. Tethys acquired a 100% interest EPSA for Block 49 as part of Oman’s 2017 bid round, launching a 3D seismic campaign a year later (MEES, 14 December 2018). Per its Q1 report, Tethys says there have been no changes to 2020 plans to commence drilling – the 4,...
Volume: 63Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2020 -
Israel Gas Market: Competition Heats Up, Litigation Abounds
...21 to sell the remainder of its current 22% stake (MEES, 30 June 2017). At Leviathan they have 39.66% and 45.34% respectively (see charts). This gives Noble, and especially Delek, a strong incentive to favor sales of gas from Leviathan over Tamar. Noble and Delek collectively have 47% of Tamar, ri...
Volume: 63Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2020 -
Energean Retains East Med Focus In Cut-Price, Cut-Scope Edison Deal
...9bcm/y Reggane, which started up in December 2017 (MEES, 22 December 2017), and Norwegian North Sea discoveries – were ones for the future, Abu Qir is in steep decline. Abu Qir output (100% Edison) was 45,500 boe/d (225mn cfd gas and 5,500 b/d condensate) for 2019. This is well down from 270mn cfd in 2017...
Volume: 63Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2020 -
Key Saudi Gas Plant Fully Operational
...duces the impact of Opec production cuts on gas output. Overall, Saudi Aramco has brought more than 5bn cfd of non-associated gas processing capacity online since 2016. As well as the 2.5bn cfd Fadhili plant, the 75mn cfd Midyan plant was commissioned in 2017, while the 2.5bn cfd Wasit plant came on...
Volume: 63Issue: 25Published at Fri, 19 Jun 2020