- Sort by:
- Score
- Published ▼
-
OPEC’S Choice: Low Prices Now, Or Low Prices & Low Output Later-Naimi
...mmodities Research said on 15 December that a move below $60/B is not sustainable in the long run “as it would place considerable strain on the cost curve of the unconventional supply system required to meet demand requirements in 2016 and 2017.” Its analysts expect Brent to average $67/B in the first half of...
Volume: 57Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 19 Dec 2014 -
Abu Dhabi Advances Upstream Projects Despite Mounting Cost Pressure
...8mn b/d target. Meanwhile, the Zakum Development Company (Zadco) is moving forward with plans to boost production at the offshore Upper Zakum field by some 200,000 b/d to 750,000 b/d by 2017. Adnoc holds a 68% stake in Zadco, while ExxonMobil and Japan Oil Development Company (Jodco) hold 28% and 12%, re...
Volume: 57Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 19 Dec 2014 -
Is $90/B The New $100/B For Saudi Arabia?
...ll produce 200,000 b/d. The 250,000 b/d Shaybah expansion is due to be completed in 2015 and Khurais in 2017, according to Aramco’s work schedule, ensuring that Saudi Arabia can maintain its current production capacity beyond the end of the decade. OPEC Demand Forecasts OPEC’s WOO expects gl...
Volume: 57Issue: 45Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2014 -
Saudi Arabia Taps Service Companies for Oil Capacity Upgrades
...cline further by 2017. Iraq, which had been expected to be the single largest contributor of additional supply during the current decade, has recently lost large tracts of territory in the north and northwest to Islamist jihadists. And although output in the south has so far been unaffected by th...
Volume: 57Issue: 34Published at Fri, 22 Aug 2014 -
Algeria Heading For Oil Output Drop
...velopment plan for the Ahnet tight gas project projected a 2015 start up, but first gas is now more feasible in 2017. The Timimoun project was originally intended to come online in 2010, it is now slated for completion in 2017. Together, the projects that are currently in the pipeline will add 20 bcm/ye...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Saudi Arabia Sees No Need For OPEC Output Hike
...ghly ambitious 5.7mn b/d by 2017, up from 3.7-3.8mn b/d today (MEES, 18 April). OPEC’s production, according to MEES surveys of monthly output, rose above the OPEC-12 ceiling of 30mn b/d in February, but has since been below target, largely because of Iran and Libya. Yet Mr Naimi says the focus sh...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Asian Buyers Influence Key Oil Benchmarks
...teoric growth in US oil output makes exports of US light sweet crude inevitable by 2017, Platts quoted him as saying on 26 February. The debate over potential exports has already begun in Washington but the proposal to open up new markets still faces still opposition from some quarters concerned about en...
Volume: 57Issue: 09Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2014 -
Saudi Arabia Increases Asian Focus With Japan Oil Storage Deal
...ntractors to secure the contract to build the UAE’s first nuclear power plant, the first unit of which will be operational by 2017 with completion of all three units by 2020. Down Under Investment Creation of an energy distribution hub in the Asia-Pacific rim might explain Abu Dhabi’s decision to en...
Volume: 57Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2014