1. Middle East Oil Exports In 2024: A Year Of Transition

    ...sily breaking 2021’s previous record of 20.0%. Crude still accounts for nearly 80% of total exports, but with more than 22mn barrels of oil being exported from the region every day, a shift of a single percentage point equates to substantial volumes: refined products exports are up by 1.5mn b/d since 2017...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 51/52
    Published at Fri, 20 Dec 2024
  2. UAE Gas Growth Outlook Revised Up Sharply

    ...st, with its abundance of low-cost energy resources certainly has a strong business case to attract AI data centers, and the UAE has made no secret of its plans to capitalize on this. It appointed a minister of state for artificial intelligence in 2017, launching the UAE strategy for AI in the same ye...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 13 Dec 2024
  3. QatarEnergy Expands In Egypt Amid US LNG, Namibia Exploration Setbacks

    ...oust Doha-backed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. Further straining relations, Egypt also participated in the Saudi-led 2017-2021 embargo of Qatar, but that all appears to be water under the bridge, especially if Qatar’s deep pockets can help Cairo fix its finances. MAJOR PA...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 15 Nov 2024
  4. First Oil Export From UAE’s Belbazem

    ...velopment of Bu Haseer’s modest reserves economical, and Al Yasat has pursued a similar approach with Belbazem (MEES, 28 May). Outside of Al Yasat, CNPC is also present at Abu Dhabi’s largest concession, the 2mn+ b/d Adnoc Onshore concession. CNPC was awarded an 8% stake at Adnoc Onshore in 2017, ce...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2024
  5. QatarEnergy Boosts ExxonMobil East Med Collaboration With Egypt Farm-In

    ...up in breaking off relations – returning $7bn in loans and throwing Al Jazeera journalists in jail, among other measures (MEES, 8 July 2018). Egypt was more than happy to jump on the bandwagon of the Saudi-led embargo of Qatar from 2017 which finally came to an end in January 2021 (MEES, 8 Ja...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 20
    Published at Fri, 17 May 2024
  6. TotalEnergies Takes FID On 1mn t/y ‘Low-Carbon’ Oman LNG Bunkering Hub

    ...ctor in recent years. Output has risen every year for nearly a decade reaching an all-time high of 52bcm last year, and with growth attracting increased investment from international energy majors, the upwards trajectory looks set to continue. Driven by BP’s 2017 start-up of the massive 1.5bn cfd Kh...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 17
    Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2024
  7. QatarEnergy Signs Long-Term LNG Deal With Price-Sensitive Bangladesh

    ...ne 2017). Then in 2021, Qatar signed a deal with trading firm Vitol to supply 1.25mn t/y of LNG to Bangladesh until 2028. This was followed in June 2023 with another QatarEnergy-Petrobangla deal, this time for 1.8mn t/y for 15 years from 2026 (MEES, 2 June 2023). With the new deal’s full 1mn t/y ki...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2024
  8. Egypt’s Upstream Independents Feel The Pinch Of Local Dollar Shortages

    ...aros saw its receivables position rise 54% to end 2023 at $37.3mn. Pharos’ Egypt output comes from 45% stakes in the El Fayum and North Beni Suef (NBS) concessions south of Cairo operated by privately-held Texas-based IPR. Here output fell 21% to 3,070 b/d for 2023, less than half of 2017’s 7,...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2024
  9. Saudi Investment Primes DME For Regional Expansion

    ...ainst the DME Oman contract, but DME has long targeted Iraq’s Somo (MEES, 15 September 2017) and Saudi Arabia’s financial backing may tempt it to make the switch from Platts Oman. The partners have sought to emphasize that “ensuring the integrity of the DME Oman contract” is of the utmost priority an...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 26 Jan 2024
  10. Kufpec Eyes Portfolio Optimization After Exiting Norway & China

    ...cord 107,000 boe/d set in 2019 (see chart). Kufpec had previously aimed to reach 200,000 boe/d by 2020, but ultimately fell well short of this goal (MEES, 8 September 2017). NORWAY CLOSURE               Kufpec’s foray into Norway began in 2013 with the purchase of Norske AEDC, the Norwegian su...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 02
    Published at Fri, 12 Jan 2024