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MENA upstream in brief

12 September 2018

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12 September 2018

MENA upstream in brief

Report summary

The MENA upstream in brief provides Wood Mackenzie's expert opinion and analysis of the key events impacting the upstream industry in the Middle East and North Africa. We draw upon our upstream database and data tools to help deepen our clients' understanding of the region. The report primarily focuses on exploration and appraisal drilling, project developments, production, licensing, fiscal and regulatory changes, geopolitics, and corporate and M&A activity.

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- Qatargas signs major LNG deal with PetroChina
- Algeria's Touat hits another delay
- Egypt's Damietta LNG plant set to restart
- Court rules in Union Fenosa Gas' favour: what does this mean for Egypt's Damietta LNG plant?
- A summer of success: Eni's Western Desert story
- Total to exit Iran's South Pars Phase 11 project
- Eni’s flurry of Egyptian activity
- Majnoon expansion gets the go-ahead
- Egypt's EGAS bid round extended
- First wave of US sanctions on Iran: oil production outlook downgraded
- Put to the test: production begins at the offshore unconventional Khalij al-Bahrain discovery
- Sounds good to Schlumberger: new joint venture in eastern Morocco
- Oman records highest ever monthly gas production
- Eni stregthens its position in Algeria
- Peshkabir provides a boost for Kurdistan
- Libya pushes an elephant up the stairs
- Libya lifts force majeure on its eastern ports
- Eni bolsters Libyan production
- Petrofac sells Chergui field in Tunisia to Perenco
- Sharjah joins the UAE's exploration licensing frenzy
- OPEC agrees to ease production restraint
- Libyan National Army (LNA) regains control of Ras Lanuf and Es Sidra ports
- Ibrahim Jathran, the scourge of Libyan production, strikes again
- Morroco's Tendrara FEED studies begin
- Qatar enters the shale sector with Argentina acquisition
- Iran and the Pergas consortium sign HoA for the Karanj oil field
- Egypt bid rounds - two for one
- Kuwait Energy sells 68% of the family silver
- Shell and Total sign MOUs to develop Oman gas
- US announces withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal
- Eni's new Western Desert discovery – high-value barrels onshore Egypt
- Eni's lucky drillshipfalters
- Crescent Petroleumdominates Iraq's Round 5
- BP announces sanction of Khazzan expansion phase in Oman
- Indian Oil enters Oman, acquiring Mukhaizna from Shell for US$329 million
- OMV wraps up ADNOC Offshore concession awards
- Are Bahrain’s giant oil and gas discoveries commercial?
- North Africa team to present in Cairo
- Total and CEPSA start-up the second of Algeria's Southwest projects
- Energean takes FID on Karish and Tanin
- PetroChina awarded stakes in two ADNOC Offshore concession areas
- NIOC awards IPC to local operator Pasargad Energy
- Total joins Eni in ADNOC Offshore
- Iran signs its first oil IPC with Zarubezhneft
- Qatar and Abu Dhabi extend agreement for shared Bunduq oil field
- Eni in two deals with Abu Dhabi
- ONGC Videsh and Zarubezhneft signcooperation agreements with Iran's IDRO
- Attracting international investment to Iraq
- Total buys Marathon's Waha stake in Libya
- Japan's INPEX joins ONGC in UAE's Lower Zakum
- Repsol and Shell extend footprint in Morocco
- Abu Dhabi offshore builds momentum with Cepsa award
- Indian consortium awarded 10% of Lower Zakum field, Abu Dhabi
- Eni makes Calypso gas discovery in deepwater Cyprus
- Kuwait remains on track to introduce super light blend in April
- Qatar Petroleum partners with Majors to expand internationally
- President Sisi to inaugurate Zohr
- Noble Energy sells down stake in Israel's Tamar gas field
- Genel Energy upgrades its Kurdistan gas resources
- North Africa team to present in Cairo
- ADNOC launches FEED for sour gas projects
- Shell refocuses its Middle East business
- Oman awards Block 57 to new entrant Petroleb
- Eni extends in offshore Morocco
- Repsol unwraps new Algerian southwest gas before Christmas
- What to look forin 2018
- Gazprom signs MoU with NIOC to revive the Iran LNG project
- Iraq agrees Kirkuk oil swap with Iran
- Energean clears FID hurdle with latest gas sales agreements
- East Med pipeline to Europe inches forward

Tables and charts

This report includes 39 images and tables including:

China Contracted LNG Volumes by Source
Commercial structure of the Damietta plant
Eni's Egyptian investment (2015-2020) and production by basin

Eni licence extensions and assumed Nour well location
New oil production capacity from recent project approvals
Map of blocks on offer
2017 KAB-2 discovery well
2018 gas production and consumption
Libyan production (January - November 2018)
Eni’s global portfolio by remaining value (US$ million nominal)
Map of social unrest
2018 Sharjah Licensing Round
Tendrara map
Kuwait Energy Portfolio
Eni's South West Meleiha block in Egypt's Western Desert
Wells drilled offshore Morocco since 2013
Blocks won
Blocks won
Indian Oil Corporation working interest production
ADNOC Offshore participation
2017 exploration wells offshore Bahrain
Contracted gas supply into Israeli domestic market (2010-2025)
ADNOC Offshore participation
Location of Jufeyr and Sepehr oil fields
ADNOC Offshore participation
Aban and West Paydar combined production
Location of Bunduq oil field
ADNOC Offshore participation
Main IOC analysis: strategic fit of Libya
Acreage held by Repsol and Eni in Morocco. Inset shows Repsol's new block and the Tendrara field
Cepsa working interest production by country (2013 to 2023)
Abu Dhabi gas supply by source
Middle East upstream value per barrel
Block 57
IOC Moroccan blocks and net acreage held
Southwest gas production (2016-2025)
Karish and Tanin contracted volumes
Delivered cost of gas into Europe, 2030
BP Egyptian capex (2010-2030)