30 August 2024
The acreage on offer is split into three distinct categories; frontier West Mediterranean acreage, previously held and well worked onshore Nile Delta acreage and previously held but not extensively drilled blocks in the more prolific offshore Nile Delta basin (see table & map). ... A feature of the well-worked eastern portion of Egypt’s Mediterranean is that acreage often isn’t relinquished for long. ...
14 June 2024
Indeed, Libya awards have featured prominently in the activity overview sections of SLB’s results for both 4Q 2023 and 1Q 2024. ... Initial output was achieved last August, with production ramping up from 2,500 b/d to the current 4,500 b/d with the 19 May start-up of a 50km pipeline connecting the North Hamada fields to Agoco’s Tahara field (which entered production in 2022) from where output enters the El Feel-Mellitah trunk pipeline (see map). ...
16 February 2024
With renewed support to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), one of the two rival armies vying for control in a brutal civil war since April last year (MEES, 3 November 2023), Iran is now seen as seeking more Red Sea access and influence through Sudan’s 750km coastline (see map), where others like Russia and Turkey are hoping to build their own naval bases. ... “Before Iranian drones became a feature of Sudan’s war, we have been seeing Ukrainian drones and commandos as well as Turkish drones (provided via Egypt), none of these forms of support helped to shift the tide.” ...
31 March 2023
Rapid decline rates are a common feature of Egyptian fields, necessitating a constant pipeline of new volumes to be brought online just to maintain production levels. As such, BP is not resting on its laurels despite posting back-to-back output highs, and in 2022 it was awarded five exploration blocks offshore Egypt (see map & MEES, 2 December 2022). ...
9 September 2022
Next year’s exploration spending will focus on three new 500km2 3D seismic surveys on the Southeast Horus and West El Fayum concessions as well as the start of an extensive exploration drilling program on the South Abu Sennan concession (see map). ... A common feature of operating in Egypt is ‘receivables’ owed by state firm EGPC as a result of the lag between handing over produced volumes to the state firm and EGPC paying for them. ...
8 July 2022
Yet in a slick video featuring SGC’s director general Hamzah Abdulbaqi signing the FEED contract in the presence of KBR and SGC executives, there was no sign of any executives from the French giant. ... BGC is expecting the first 200mn cfd train from its $1bn under-construction BNGL two-train 400mn cfd expansion project (see map), also located at Ratawi, to start-up in 2Q-3Q 2023. ...
26 November 2021
Arguably the most attractive feature however is IPTF’s proximity to VTTI Fujairah’s facilities, with barely 100m between the two (see map). ...
17 September 2021
Indeed, even the ‘Egyptian’ volumes entering southern Jordan are in effect re-directed Israeli supplies which arrive at Arish via the EMG pipeline (see map). ... MEES understands that technical features of the two train (2 x 3.6mn t/y) Idku plant enable it to ramp up and ramp down volumes much more easily than Damietta which is much more complex and time-consuming to shut down and then restart. ...
7 May 2021
Bids Are In For Kuwait’s Next Two Jurassic Gas Facilities* The facilities will process volumes from a range of fields in the north of Kuwait including Raudhatain, North West Raudhatain, Sabriya, Umm-Niqa, Dhabi and Bahra (see map). ... Missing project deadlines and targets have become a recurring feature of Kuwait’s oil and gas industry. ...
26 February 2021
The key project to feature in the joint communique was plans for Phase-2 development of Israel’s giant 23tcf Chevron-operated Leviathan field via tie-back to Egypt’s underutilized LNG liquefaction facilities. Tie back to either the Shell-operated 7.2mn t/y ELNG plant at Idku, or else the Eni-operated 5mn t/y Segas plant at Damietta (see map) has long looked the most attractive option for full-field development, which would see capacity raised from 1.2bn cfd to 2.1bn cfd (MEES, 13 December 2019). ...
5 February 2021
Maturity is one of their distinctive features. ... More than fifty best practices have been mapped, portraying the collective experience of S&EK’s thousands of employees from the field, including the monitoring of wells, purging separators, and gauging oil tanks. ...
31 January 2020
Algeria-Morocco-Western Sahara: Mapping A Relationship The issue looked to have been settled in 1969. ... Morocco wasn’t in the top fifteen in the other direction, and for the first 11 months of 2019 it didn’t feature in the top 15 in either direction. ...
3 November 2017
Egypt also features prominently among BP’s planned 2018 start-ups. ... The firm’s other key Egyptian acreage is three adjoining exploration blocks in the deepwater Mediterranean, with a one-well commitment on each of the North Port Fouad, North Thekah and North East Ha’py blocks (see map, MEES, 24 March). ...
18 August 2017
Though water depths go from zero to 1,000ms, maps of prospects suggest drilling is likely to be in the deepwater portion. ... The firm proposed replacing the existing facilities ($350mn at 7% and $350mn at 9%) with a new four-year Sukuk “at less than half the profit rates without a conversion feature.” ...
10 February 2017
Block C103 features the 60,000 b/d-capacity Intisar fields. ... In theory it still has extensive exploration interests in Libya (see map). ...
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