1. Qatar And China Strengthen Trade And Investment Ties

    ...ansformation in the coming years, when a number of Australian liquefaction projects are completed. Indeed, Australia is set to surpass Qatar as the world’s leading supplier of LNG in 2017. US LNG exports will follow Australia into the Asia Pacific market starting next year when Cheniere Energy’s first 4.5mn to...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2014
  2. Egypt Mulls PP Project At Alexandria

    ...Alexandria for 2017 start-up. Meanwhile, Tahrir is being developed by Dubai-based private firm Carbon Holdings (MEES, 4 April). The two linked Ethydco plants are being built by Japan’s Toyo and the ENPPI engineering unit of Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum (MEES, 19 April 2013). ...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 39
    Published at Fri, 26 Sep 2014
  3. The US Shale Gas Revolution: A Threat To Gulf LPG Exporters

    ...port, according to the Oxford Energy report. Both Qatar and Abu Dhabi are major LPG exporters, but like Saudi Arabia, the amount of LPG set for export will increasingly be limited by booming domestic petrochemicals industries. Qatari LPG exports will plateau at between 10-11mn tons/year through 2017...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014
  4. Turkey-Israel Gas Deal Faces Growing Political Obstacles

    ...vid Stover, President of Leviathan’s Houston-based operator Noble, last week gave the first indication that Leviathan would not begin production in 2017 but rather 2018, as the company attempts to “balance the technical and marketing pieces with necessary regulatory approvals”. A final investment de...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2014
  5. Will Fujairah Get With The LNG Bunkering Trend?

    ...vestment Company (IPIC) and state-owned Mubadala, plan to build a 1.2bn cfd LNG import facility at Fujairah by 2016 or 2017 (MEES, 15 November 2013). Environmental Regulations Behind the burgeoning market in LNG bunkering is more stringent regulation of maritime emissions (MEES, 20 June). Within Em...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 27
    Published at Fri, 04 Jul 2014
  6. QNB Optimistic LNG Market Will Continue To Favor Qatar

    ...16 US Sabine Pass Train 4 4.5 Cheniere 2017 Australia Wheatstone LNG Train 2 4.5 Chevron, Kufpec, others 2017...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 26
    Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014
  7. Egypt Mulls LNG Import Options

    ...se Algeria’s problem is a lack of gas, not liquefaction capacity. LNG exports, which declined from 14.26mn tons in 2010 to 10.9mn tons last year, are unlikely to increase substantially (if at all) until the Southwest Gas Project comes online from 2017, and maybe not even then, given Algeria’s pl...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 09 May 2014
  8. Cyprus: Bids In For Gas Import Tender

    ...d 30 June 2017, with DEFA thought to favor bids that stipulate an earlier start date. One of the bids came from Texas-based Noble Energy and Israeli firm Delek Group, partners in both Israel’s 19tcf Leviathan natural gas field and Cyprus’ own Aphrodite discovery. The others came from Dutch-owned oi...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 16
    Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014
  9. International Gas Union Sees Changing LNG Market After 2014

    ...stralia and Papua New Guinea LNG volumes hit the waters. Qatar’s 77.2mn t/y of production represented about 33% of the global LNG trade in 2013; however, IGU says that Australian liquefaction capacity will surpass Qatari capacity by 2017. In addition to existing capacity, the seven projects currently un...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014
  10. Jordan Advances Gas Strategy With Shell LNG Supply Deal

    ...peline plans currently stand, a 2.5mn b/d line will connect Basra oil to Haditha. A 1,000 km, 1mn b/d line will then connect Haditha to ‘Aqaba, with first oil through the pipeline expected by end of 2017 or beginning of 2018 (MEES, 28 February).   Iraqi Crude Supplied To Jordan By Truck (‘000 B/D)...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  11. Egypt Eyes Iraqi Gas

    ...e transit of 1mn b/d of crude, whilst a parallel gas pipeline would carry 138mn cfd (MEES, 28 February). Both are slated for completion in 2017 or early 2018. Once an exporter of gas to Jordan, Syria and Israel, Egypt is now struggling to meet its domestic demand, and is forecasted to slump in...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2014
  12. Oman Products Pipeline Plans

    ...ys for supply of products to distributors. The terminal and pipeline to Sohar refinery are scheduled to become operational in the first half of 2017. The pipelines will be reversible, with a computer-controlled buffering system to separate product streams. Orpic CEO Musab al-Mahruqi says: “As a mu...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 14 Feb 2014
  13. Iraq Hires Big Law Firm To Thwart KRG Export Plans

    ...t to rise to 60,000 b/d later in the year and reach a plateau of 170,000 b/d by 2017. The project was delayed amid doubts as to whether the Russian company would be allowed to remain in southern Iraq, after it farmed into three production-sharing contracts in the Kurdish region. One of the junior pa...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 06
    Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2014
  14. UAE Plans For Long-Term Gas Imports With North American Investment

    ...rminal in Fujairah. This will be capable of handling 1.2bn cfd of gas from 2016 or 2017 (MEES, 15 November 2013). It already has a floating regasification unit at Jebel Ali in Dubai. “There is a logic to... diversifying the sources and to have a contribution from the US and Canada,” Mr Mazru’i says. “We...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014
  15. Kurdish Oil Heads North But Not Yet To Sea

    ...r substantial gas resources at Miran and Bina Bawi for the Turkish market.” The GSA concluded with Ankara in November 2013, calls for an initial 4 bcm/year of gas exports starting in 2017, rising to 10 bcm/y by 2020 and the option of increasing to 20 bcm/y thereafter, Genel says. It anticipates th...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 03
    Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014