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Kuwait’s Upstream Foreign Investment Drive Begins
...indication as to where the focus of any exploration would be. Total has previously looked at investing in Kuwait, with then-oil minister Isam al-Marzuq saying in 2017 that the French IOC and Russia’s Lukoil were to be awarded ETSAs for heavy oil development (MEES, 2 June 2017). Those plans ul...
Volume: 69Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2026 -
Libya Gas Exports Fall To 22-Year Low
...ich provides the bulk of the country’s output and 100% of exports. Eni’s net sales gas output in Libya slumped from its 2017 record of 1.58bn cfd to just 568mn cfd for 2024. However, there are signs of a rebound, with production having bottomed out at 510mn cfd in 2021. It has since risen in...
Volume: 69Issue: 03Published at Fri, 16 Jan 2026 -
Mauritania’s Banda Integrated Gas Project Progresses
...n provide momentum to this (MEES, 15 August). Banda is located roughly 61km southwest of Nouakchott, to the east of the Chinguetti field (see map). Chinguetti is Mauritania’s only ever commercial oil field, but having started up in 2006 production stopped in 2017. UK major Shell held the su...
Volume: 68Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2025 -
Qatar Targets 380,000 B/D From Al Shaheen
...%, TotalEnergies 30%) since 2017. A multi-phase development plan kicked off in 2017 and has helped the firms revive the field’s fortunes. Production appears to be on course to rise above 300,000 b/d this year. Kpler data shows exports increasing by 12% so far this year, implying average output of mo...
Volume: 68Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2025 -
Kurdistan’s Miran Partners Target 2027 First Gas
...up to 8tcf and was previously operated by London-listed Genel Energy. The KRG, disappointed by the lack of progress years after signing a gas sales agreement (GSA) with Genel in 2017, revoked the company’s PSC for Miran and the nearby Bina Bawi block in 2021 (MEES, 20 August 2021). Under the te...
Volume: 68Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2025 -
Kurdistan’s Gas Ambitions Advance With Chemchemal Kickoff
...rk had fallen victim to a period of tumultuous relations with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), with lengthy arbitration from 2013 to 2017 holding back development at both Khor Mor and Chemchemal (MEES, 13 July 2018). But that episode is in the past and Chemchemal’s development will ensure no...
Volume: 68Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2025 -
KPC Seeks IOC Investment As It Chases Down 4mn B/D Target
...wait and Saudi Arabia. The two subsidiaries are in the process of being merged as KPC seeks to streamline its operations (MEES, 26 July 2024). KOC capacity fell from 3.151mn b/d in 2017-18 to just 2.629mn b/d in 2020-21, before gradually edging up to its current levels. The firm hasn’t released ca...
Volume: 67Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
New Egypt Gas Increments Slow Output Declines
...t to lift the project’s output to 420mn cfd, the highest level since 2017. It’s still a far cry from peak WDDM output of just over 2bn cfd in 2008. Since then, new development phases have aimed to keep the project alive rather than return output to previous heights. Shell is now looking for an in...
Volume: 68Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
Israel-Iran Conflict Exposes East Med Gas Interdependence
...d blockade of Qatar between 2017-2021. Since then, relations have improved and Doha deposited $5bn in Egypt’s Central Bank in 2023 to help its ailing economy. In the energy sector, QatarEnergy has been slowly expanding its Egyptian upstream footprint since first entering in 2021 (MEES, 15 November 20...
Volume: 68Issue: 27Published at Fri, 04 Jul 2025 -
Gas In The Gulf: Cooperation Is Limited
...om Iran. This resulted in a significant increase in reported flows that month (see chart 3). Since 2017, Iran has also exported gas to Iraq through two pipelines, but flows have become increasingly unreliable due to Iran’s own gas shortages as domestic demand has increased. Exports to Iraq peaked at...
Volume: 68Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2025 -
Kuwait’s Extends Shell’s Key Upstream Role
...SA, which runs for 10 years (MEES, 21 March). There have been no subsequent ETSAs awarded, despite previous plans to award new contracts for heavy oil development (MEES, 2 June 2017) and for West Kuwait (MEES, 20 April 2018). Plans to develop a new contract model have also yet to reach fruition (ME...
Volume: 68Issue: 18Published at Fri, 02 May 2025 -
Egypt & Eni Plan $1bn-Plus Zohr ‘Phase-3’ To Facilitate Cyprus Tie-Backs
...nds. The fate of Egypt’s gas output has gone hand in hand with the country’s largest producer Zohr since the Eni-operated field’s late 2017 start-up. Zohr output initially soared to peak at 2.96bn cfd for 1Q 2021 but had slumped to 1.5bn cfd by early this year following water breakthrough issues that be...
Volume: 68Issue: 17Published at Fri, 25 Apr 2025 -
Egypt Gas & Oil Output Continues Decline In 2025
...w output (MEES, 7 March). *Decline from the country’s number three gas province, the onshore Nile Delta, has been severe, falling to just 332mn cfd for January, the lowest since mid-2014 and a far cry from the record 1.378bn cfd posted in August 2017. A key producer here is UAE firm Dana Ga...
Volume: 68Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 -
Oman State Upstream Firm Targets 2025 Growth Via Acquisitions & Upgrades
...sat oil field in 2017 and its ramp up through the construction of the Bisat A, B, and C crude processing facilities. OQEP is now expanding the Bisat C facility to take overall crude processing capacity from 60,000 b/d to 65,000 b/d with the expanded capacity to be ”commissioned in Q3 2025.” Last ye...
Volume: 68Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 -
Egypt Eyes Takers For Undeveloped Offshore Gas Finds
...e UK major in November 2022. It was followed up in 2017 with the Salamat West discovery, which also lies in the on-offer block. Salamat, like Satis, is an Oligocene discovery, and drilled to a total depth of 6,881ms in water depth of 650ms. EUG pegs the Salamat block’s gas in place at 3....
Volume: 68Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 -
Oman Taps BP’s Giant Khazzan Gas Field For LNG Boost
...fining change: the discovery and development of the massive Khazzan unconventional gas field on Block 61 in the center of the country. Back in 2017, BP brought the 1bn cfd Khazzan first phase online, followed by a further 500mn cfd under the second phase Ghazeer expansion in 2020. Capacity has been at...
Volume: 68Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2025 -
Egypt: Apache Eyes Gas Gains As Eni Output Slumps
...an half the 3Q 2015 peak of 1.412bn cfd. As such national gas output is back at levels last seen before the 2017 start-up of Eni’s giant Zohr offshore field. ENI: ZOHR SLUMP And falling output at Zohr itself is a key part of the reason. Production has fallen to less than ha...
Volume: 68Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2025 -
Aramco Approaches Finishing Line For Offshore Crude Increments
...AVY Aramco says that it ended 2024 with 189.8bn barrels of proved crude and condensate reserves, down from 191.3bn barrels last year and 204.8bn barrels in 2017 – the highest figure on record. The firm is hopeful that it will be able to tap into more of its reserve base from now on, with Saudi Ar...
Volume: 68Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2025 -
Saudi Arabia Eyes ‘Competitive Advantage’ From Gas Output Growth
...unconventional gas globally. The move across to the Middle East has been slow to occur, but is now picking up pace. Oman was the pioneer, with the BP-led Khazzan tight gas project starting up in 2017, and Muscat is now looking to increase output from the development above current levels of 1.5bn cf...
Volume: 68Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2025 -
Israel’s Leviathan: Chevron Advances Plans To Near-Double Capacity To 23 Bcm/y
...al that saw Leviathan development kickstarted (MEES, 8 December 2017). Beyond Chevron, London-listed Greek firm Energean is the only other operator in Israeli waters. Its 600mn cfd Karish is banned from exporting and Energean was able to secure a foothold in the domestic market by under-cutting Ta...
Volume: 68Issue: 09Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2025