Middle East News

LONDON (Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia is to tweak the benchmark it uses to sell its crude in Europe, in a concession to refiners in the region that have long complained about their ability to hedge using the current measure. Saudi Arabian Oil Co., as the country’s state-owned company is formally known, will sell crude into Europe, Africa and Latin America ...

PARIS, France – CGG has been awarded a multi-year integrated geoscience study by Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) to identify resource growth potential in the onshore partitioned zone (PZ). The geoscience study will be conducted by CGG GeoConsulting and, importantly, involve KGOC geoscience experts embedded in the project team. The combined team will work together to integrate recently acquired and processed ...

LONDON (Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia has said oil giant Saudi Aramco is worth more than $2 trillion, enough to consume Apple Inc. twice, and still have room for Google parent Alphabet Inc. The kingdom may have to settle for less. A lot less. Industry executives, analysts and investors told Bloomberg their analysis — based on oil reserves and cash flow ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 21 (Shana) – The petroleum ministers of Iran and Iraq have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in various oil and gas-related grounds. The document concerns development of joint oil and gas fields by the two OPEC-member Asian countries, exchange of technical and engineering services, export of goods and cooperation in petroleum industry-related grounds. Iranian Minister ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 20 (Shana) – Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh left Tehran for Baghdad on Monday as the head of a delegation to Iraq . The visit is being made as a follow-up on last month’s visit of another Iranian delegation to neighboring Iraq for discussing details of two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) between the oil ministers of the ...

HOUSTON — Saudi Aramco and Baker Hughes announced today the first installation of the TransCoil rigless-deployed electrical submersible pumping (ESP) system, which is designed to help operators bring wells on production faster and lower the costs associated with installing and replacing ESPs. Because they can eliminate the need for a rig in fields where rig availability is a concern or ...

DOHA, Qatar (Bloomberg) — Qatar Petroleum is exploring for oil and gas in Cyprus and Morocco as part of a strategy to expand the tiny Gulf emirate’s global energy investments. The world’s biggest producer of liquefied natural gas known as QP must cope with local limits on growth as it seeks to expand its LNG business and increase its production ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 07 (Shana) — Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh and his Omani counterpart Mohammed bin Hamad Al Rumhy held energy talks in Tehran on Tuesday. Iran is planning to export natural gas to Oman through a subsea pipeline. Prior to the Tuesday talks Zangeneh expressed optimism that the talks would bear favorable results for the two countries. “We ...

DUBAI (Bloomberg) — Lukoil is seeking opportunities for growth in the Middle East as Iran opens more of its oil fields to international partners, according to the Russian energy company’s regional head. The Moscow-based company plans to add output from the region to existing operations in Iraq and Egypt as long as it finds projects with production costs as low ...

DUBAI — McDermott International has been awarded an offshore pipelay contract in the Middle East. The pipelay contract, sizeable in value, includes the engineering, procurement and installation of two oil pipelines offshore. Work on this contract is expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter in 2018. “This contract marks another example where our clients in the ...