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BP Signs 5-Well Egypt Deal
...diterranean, where all recent key drillings have taken place. While the rapid decline at WND, which started up in 2017 with the Phase 1 Libra and Taurus fields, will be a sore disappointment for BP, it now provides an opportunity to tie-in nearby finds, given that the development has infrastructure ca...
Volume: 68Issue: 37Published at Fri, 12 Sep 2025 -
Leviathan Supplying Jordan’s DEAD Sea Industry
...oor. Leviathan already supplies Jordan’s state utility Nepco. Chevron’s other Israeli field, the 13.7tcf Tamar has been supplying the Arab Potash and Jordan Bromine plants on the Dead Sea since 2017, likely the customers for the new Leviathan volumes, with volumes which averaged around 20mn cfd last year. ...
Volume: 68Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2025 -
Shell Greenlights Egypt Offshore Project
...me since 2017 and prolong the project’s lifespan (MEES, 18 July). MEES learns that Shell plans to drill the Mina West-2 appraisal well in Q1 next year to firm-up volumes with first gas potentially by the end of 2026. Operator Shell (60%) and partner, Kuwait state firm Kufpec (40%) had initially ap...
Volume: 68Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2025 -
BP Egypt Gas Boost
...tput had slumped to just 400mn cfd late last year, the lowest level since 2017 start-up with almost all current output from the ‘Phase 3’ Raven field. However the start-up last month of two Raven infill wells – the first two wells of the just-completed campaign – should have hiked output to around 60...
Volume: 68Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2025 -
KRG: Genel Finalizing Taq Taq Exit
...6,000 b/d in 2015, but it suffered a catastrophic output collapse as geological challenges prompted huge reserve downgrades from 2017 (MEES, 31 March 2017). Output was below 5,000 b/d even prior to the 2023 closure of the KRG’s export pipeline, and Genel opted not to produce from it last year (MEES, 26 Ja...
Volume: 68Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2025 -
Oman: Tethys Flops In Block 58
...16 December. Output is in decline at Tethys’ only producing asset, Blocks 3&4 (CCED 50%op, Tethys 30%, Mitsui E&P 20%) where production has averaged 26,000 b/d so far this year, down 35% from its 2017 peak. The firm recently submitted a field development plan for Block 56, though volumes he...
Volume: 67Issue: 50Published at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 -
Tunisia: 200mw Solar Plan
...lls for proposals in the past have met with threadbare success. The first such ‘call for projects’ in 2017 saw four projects totaling 22MW built, including the country’s only 2023 start-up – 10MW at Meknassy – whilst the three subsequent rounds (2018, 2019, 2020) have resulted in a princely 6MW of ca...
Volume: 67Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 -
Indian Oil Signs Up To Ruwais LNG
...w Delhi by Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, where he met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During the visit, Adnoc also signed a strategic framework agreement with Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Limited to extend its existing oil storage agreement. In 2017, Adnoc signed an...
Volume: 67Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2024 -
Oman: Sohar Refinery Back Online
...at predate the plant’s expansion in 2017 (MEES, 17 February). Due to the outage, OQ was forced to sell 1mn barrels of crude on a prompt tender to load at the end of the month, according to Reuters (MEES, 9 August). A trading source says that the impact was limited and only affected gasoline ex...
Volume: 67Issue: 34Published at Fri, 23 Aug 2024 -
Oman: Sohar CDU Down
...vernment data. Capacity at the refinery expanded in 2017 from 116,000 b/d to 197,000 b/d with mechanical completion of a second crude distillation unit, a new vacuum distillation unit, and kerosene Merox units (MEES, 17 February 2017). It is unclear how long the outage will last, but lengthy do...
Volume: 67Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2024 -
Algeria Adds Power Capacity
...rea had previously indicated 2025 completion for the project (MEES, 7 January 2021). When awarded in 2014 the target for completion was 2017....
Volume: 67Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 -
Kuwait Eyes 110kbd At Bahra
...23-24 financial year on 31 March. However, current output is much more modest at 45,000 b/d, perhaps due to Opec+ output constraints (see p10). Bahra, where Kuwait’s first oil well was drilled in 1936, is a mature field producing mainly from the Mauddud formation. Halliburton was brought in 2017 to...
Volume: 67Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2024 -
Harbour Expands With Wintershall Takeover
...ich in turn was formed in a 2017 merger (MEES, 1 December 2017). That deal left Wintershall Dea with substantial Russian assets, which, in a further complicating factor will be excluded from the Harbour transaction. As will one of Wintershall Dea’s key Mena assets, the ‘Wintershall’ fields in Li...
Volume: 66Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 22 Dec 2023 -
India Crude Imports: Iraq Rebound As Russia Remains Dominant
...Latest official Indian crude import stats for October show volumes from Iraq rebounding to 1.06mn b/d, the highest since March, and the first over 1mn b/d since April. Iraq was India’s top supplier every year from 2017 to 2022 but Russia has surged ahead this year. India’s imports from Ru...
Volume: 66Issue: 48Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2023 -
Algeria-Turkey LNG Deal
...gerian LNG. Nevertheless, Turkey has taken in excess of its contractual term volumes of Algerian LNG every year since 2017, whilst Turkey has been Algeria’s top export market for each of the past six years. For 2023, Algeria-Turkey volumes are on track to challenge the annual record of 4.37mn to...
Volume: 66Issue: 48Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2023 -
Shell Spuds Key Mauritania Wildcat
...scovery, the Chinguetti field which produced from 2006 to 2017. Shell entered Mauritania when it signed up for the C10 permit in 2018 (MEES, 27 July 2018), and in February signed up for a second permit, C2. QatarEnergy farmed in for a 40% stake in March (MEES, 7 April), whilst state firm SMH retains it...
Volume: 66Issue: 38Published at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 -
Oxy Hits Payday In Oman
...US independent Occidental (Oxy) is optimistic about the prospects at its Block 65 asset in northern Oman. Oxy was awarded Block 65 in Oman’s 2017 licensing round (MEES, 21 December 2018), with the asset lying in a crescent of acreage being developed by the firm running across the north of the su...
Volume: 66Issue: 32Published at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 -
Mauritania: Shell Q4 Wildcat
...two years, indicating the potential for additional wells on its Mauritania acreage or elsewhere. Mauritanian officials say the well will target oil as well as gas, with Block C10 surrounding Mauritania’s to-date only commercial oil discovery, the Chinguetti field which produced from 2006 to 2017...
Volume: 66Issue: 26Published at Fri, 30 Jun 2023 -
Iraq Restarts 3mn Barrel Nasiriya Storage Project
...P first began work on the project back in 2015, targeting 2019 start-up. However as with many projects in Iraq it has been subject to lengthy delays (MEES, 27 January 2017). CPP resumed work on 30 May. NNOCD is designed to store crude oil from CNPC’s 140,000 b/d capacity Ahdab and Gazprom Neft’s 80...
Volume: 66Issue: 23Published at Fri, 09 Jun 2023 -
Iran 210,000 B/D Refining Boost
...A long-delayed new 210,000 b/d CDU at Iran’s century-old 390,000 b/d Abadan refinery was completed on 17 March. First announced in 2017, the CDU is part of an expansion phase that includes a 100,000 b/d VDU upgrading unit which will reduce fuel oil yields from 40% to 20%. Iran secured a $1....
Volume: 66Issue: 12Published at Fri, 24 Mar 2023