1. ‘Welcome Change’ In Qatar’s LNG Export Strategy, Says Fesharaki

    ...ndow of opportunity for Qatar’s LNG marketing efforts: “An expected buyer’s market was turned into a mild seller’s market very quickly and the market promises to become tighter. Still, by 2017 another buyer’s market is likely to emerge.” Qatar has normally sought long term contracts with cu...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 52
    Published at Mon, 26 Dec 2011
  2. Shah Deniz To Reach EU Gas Pipeline Decision By June 2012

    ...ogram. The Shah Deniz partners have said that the first Stage 2 gas will flow into Turkey in 2017, while the 10bcm/year capacity pipeline to Europe would be filled by 2019 at the latest. An apparent discrepancy between Mr Mammadyarov’s pronouncements and the consortium’s plans was addressed by Socar Pr...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 51
    Published at Mon, 19 Dec 2011
  3. Sasol Moves Ahead With Uzbekistan GTL Plant

    ...cision on the 34,000 b/d plant – Sasol 44.5%, Malaysia’s Petronas 11% and state-owned gas producer Uzbekneftegaz 44.5% – will be taken in mid-2013. It would then start up in 2017-18, Ed Cameron, Managing Director of Sasol Synfuels International tells MEES. The consortium will buy dry methane – ma...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 50
    Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011
  4. QP And Shell To Develop $6.5Bn Petchem Complex

    ...oducts manufactured at the new facility will primarily be marketed into East Asian growth markets, the statement added. The project is due to begin operation in 2017. Speaking after the signing, Mr Sada said that the project was part of Qatar’s strategy of building its chemicals industry, and “re...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 50
    Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011
  5. Moody’s Assigns Aa2 Rating To Qatar’s Global Bonds

    ...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIV No 50 12-Dec-2011 QATAR Moody’s Assigns Aa2 Rating To Qatar’s Global Bonds Moody’s Investors Service on 6 December assigned an Aa2 rating to the Qatari government’s recent $5bn global bond offering in three tranches: $2bn due in January 2017...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 50
    Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011
  6. ECAs To Provide $10Bn Of ENEC’s Nuclear Facility Financing

    ...ggested that funding will be requested later in the year, given the amount of money needed to be raised and that this is a new sector, not only for the UAE, but the GCC. The first plant is expected to start operating in 2017. The other three plants are scheduled to be completed and operational by 20...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 50
    Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011
  7. Engineering Firms Wait On West Qurna-2 Contract Award

    ...oject has been hard going, with demining, relations with local communities and negotiations with the joint operating committee all proving significant challenges, MEES understands. The West Qurna-2 development aims to hit its 1.8mn b/d plateau target by 2017. Statoil (15%) and state-owned North Oil Co...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 49
    Published at Mon, 05 Dec 2011
  8. Petroceltic Eyes Production Debuts In Algeria And Kurdistan

    ...$1.7-1.8bn just to get to first gas,” Mr O’Cathain said. ʹAin Tsila partners – Petroceltic (56.625%), Sonatrach (25%) and Italy’s Enel (18.375%) – are provisionally looking at a first quarter 2017 production start-up. Petroceltic, which farmed out to Enel in April this year, is looking at se...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 48
    Published at Mon, 28 Nov 2011
  9. Saudi Arabia Pens Nuclear Cooperation Deal With South Korea

    ...ntract in 2009 to build four nuclear plants in the UAE, set to be ready between 2017 and 2020, making the UAE the first Gulf Arab nation with nuclear power (MEES, 4 January 2010)....

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 47
    Published at Mon, 21 Nov 2011
  10. TPAO Plans East Mediterranean Offshore Deal With Shell

    ...oduction by the beginning of 2017,” he said. Commenting on TPAO’s status, the minister said it had strengthened and can now enter partnerships with large firms. He said that the company might one day be capable of conducting searches with its own ship. Recently, the CGG Veritas seismic ship Oceanic Ch...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 47
    Published at Mon, 21 Nov 2011
  11. IAB Invites International Experts To Review UAE Nuclear Energy Plans

    ...e year 2020, official figures show. The UAE is planning to build four nuclear power plants by 2020 as part of a $20bn nuclear program scheduled to begin commercial operations by 2017 (MEES, 14 November)....

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 47
    Published at Mon, 21 Nov 2011
  12. UAE Outlines Financing And Fuel Intentions For $20Bn Nuclear Program

    ...velop four nuclear reactors in the UAE. In 2009, Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) was awarded the contract to complete the construction of the four plants from 2017 to 2020, to making the UAE the first Gulf Arab nation with nuclear power (MEES, 4 January 2010). The financing structure for th...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 46
    Published at Mon, 14 Nov 2011
  13. Turkey, Azerbaijan Sign Landmark Transit Agreement

    ...peline, a tariff tender for the transit of the 10 bcm/y of SD2 production that will become available by 2017-18, all welcomed the decision. It is seen as the final step before the full implementation of Europe’s Southern Gas Corridor strategy that aims to limit the EU’s dependence on Russian gas. The pa...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 44
    Published at Mon, 31 Oct 2011
  14. Greece Links DEPA Sale To ITGI, Nabucco’s Viability Questioned

    ...lgaria starts up. “TGI is ready to transport gas to Europe and the Balkan States from 2012-13, so it will be ready for transportation of Shah Deniz gas in 2017.” The Greek Minister also underlined that ITGI will not face any problems with its financing, a worry that has been exacerbated due to Gr...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 44
    Published at Mon, 31 Oct 2011
  15. ADMA-OPCO Awards Nasr Field FEED Contract To Fluor

    ...bsea pipelines and an export pipeline to Das Island. Last year ADMA-OPCO announced that it planned to spend at least $10bn developing two offshore fields –Umm Lulu and Nasr – to boost the firm’s crude output 60% by 2017. A first phase development would have a 50,000 b/d oil production capacity, wi...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 43
    Published at Mon, 24 Oct 2011
  16. Nabucco Schedule Slips Again, Kazakhstan Declines Trans-Caspian Offer

    ...peline would be ready to start shipping Azeri gas from Shah Deniz Phase 2 in 2018 rather than the earlier scheduled start-up of 2017. This means that the construction start-up date for the 31 bcm/y capacity, $14bn project may be pushed back to 2014. Mr Roiss is currently touring Central Asian ca...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 42
    Published at Mon, 17 Oct 2011
  17. DP World Revenues Cushioned By Emerging Market Operations, Says Moody’s

    ...grading the rating on the $1.5bn Sukuk issued by DP World Sukuk Ltd, which is due in 2017 (MEES, 18 April). With a healthy cash balance of $4.1bn as of June 2011, relative to moderate debt maturities to 2017, the ratings agency suggests the group is in good health: “DP World remains well positioned de...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 42
    Published at Mon, 17 Oct 2011
  18. Dubai Plans Major Solar Power Plant

    ...bai government has previously said it expects to start its first nuclear power plant in 2017 – with local authorities expressing their hope that nuclear energy would eventually supply up to 25% of the countries demand for power. “The strategy of Dubai has looked at an array of alternatives and we ar...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 40
    Published at Mon, 03 Oct 2011
  19. NOC Poised To Launch 300,000 B/D Kirkuk Rescue Plan

    ...ntracts for the expected 110,000 b/d Najma field and the 120,000 b/d Qayara field. These are not scheduled to reach plateau output until 2017. Both projects are progressing slowly, MEES understands. NOC currently flares around 100mn cfd of its 300mn cfd gas production. But this is to be radically re...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 38
    Published at Mon, 19 Sep 2011
  20. Sohar Aluminium To Assist OPWP To Meet Peak Power Demand

    ...ojected to increase from 1.924gw in 2011 to 3.464gw by 2017, an average growth rate of about 9% per year(MEES, 16 May). Currently, Oman’s net power generation capacity is 3.8gw and is fully contracted to OPWP under long-term power and water purchase agreements....

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 38
    Published at Mon, 19 Sep 2011