EGPC, Kuwait Energy sign agreement on Iraq's Siba gas field - NATURAL GAS WORLD

October 28th, 2016 8:35amShardul Sharma

Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation has inked an agreement with Kuwait Energy to buy stake in Siba gas field in Iraq’s Basra region, the Egyptian oil ministry said October 26. The field has reserves of 555bn ft³ of natural gas and 37mn barrels of condensate.

The ministry stated that EGPC will have a 15% interest in the field. It expects production to be 70mn ft³/d by 2017 which is likely to rise to 100-150mn ft³/d. Egyptian Petrojet will be the general contractor of the field development project through carrying out all the executive and engineering works of the project at costs of $200mn.

This is the second partnership between the two sides outside Egypt. Kuwait Energy farmed out a10% working interest in Block 9 in southern Iraq to EGPC and now has 60%.

A ‘boring’ proposition - THE TIMES OF MALTA

The yard in Sharjah can handle storage, inspection,
maintenance and repair of pipes.

Thursday, February 25, 2016, 06:01 by Vanessa Macdonald, Sharjah, UAE

You might think that – if you excuse the pun – a pipe storage facility would be boring.

In fact, it might cross your mind that it is a rather strange investment for Medserv to make. And not just any investment but a $45 million one, doubling its size overnight.

It turns out, however, to be a very smart move indeed. Middle East Tubular Services was founded in 2006 and like the entrepreneurial spirit of Medserv’s executives, its founder Paul Hayward, with Peter Howes, saw opportunity and went for it.

METS has pipe storage yards in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, since 2010 at Basra in Iraq and since 2012 in the Sohar Free Zone in Oman, just 4.5 kilometres from a port on the Indian Ocean, employing around 160 people overall.