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Yemen resumes flows from Shabwa
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YEMEN’S Safer Oil Co. last week said that it hadresumedoilflowsfromfieldsintheShabwa region to a terminal on the Arabian Sea.
Safer officials provided the update to Reuters, though did not confirm to which terminal crude flows had resumed, though Middle East Oil & Gas (MEOG) understands it is the bir Ali or Hisn An-Nushaymah facility, which is fed by a conduit that runs almost parallel to the gas line that feeds the balhaf LNG terminal.
Officials from state-owned Safer told Reuters that flows were running at 5,000 barrels per day, with the pipeline’s throughput seen increasing to 15,000 bpd soon.
The official said that the oil was sourced from the Iyad field in block 4 and was being moved to the coast via the Arabian Sea pipeline rather than the Marib-Ras Issa conduit, allowing the companytoavoidtheterminalofthesamename, which is held by Iran-backed Houthis who also control the capital Sana’a.
The oil producing regions of Shabwa and Hadramout remain under the control of the internationally-recognised administration of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Haddi.
Oil production in Yemen, though a far cry from the 127,000 bpd of 2014, has rebounded during the last year.
In late June, Australia’s Petsec Energy said that it was preparing for the restart of production and that work had commenced on an oil transit pipe- line ahead of completion by the end of the year.
It also noted that Austria-based OMV had “maintained oil production in the order of 14,000 [bpd] since April 2018 in the neighbour- ing block S-2 from its Habban oilfield (350mn
barrels)” with shipments of 500,000 barrels made every“1to2months”.
In January, a senior source at Petsec told MEOG: “We have been intimately involved in encouraging operations and seeking support from the Hadi administration to restart our production.” The company operates the onshore Damis block S1 and block 7 (Al barqa permit) licences in the Marib basin.
Petsec’s results showed that output would soon resume from An Nagyah oilfield in the Damis block S1, with the company pointing to the convenience of the new pipeline as a route to maket.
When approached by MEOG for clarity on output from its Yemeni operations, OMV’s cor- porate spokesperson Andreas Rinofner said the company does not “disclose any production fig- uresofsingleassets”.
Yemeni oil production averaged 50,000 bpd during 2018, with exports resuming in small quantities.
SOCAR’s drilling unit opens rep office in Turkish capital
tUrkey
SOCAR AQS, an integrated drilling and well services management company and subsid- iary of Azerbaijan’s state oil firm SOCAR, has opened a representative office in Ankara.
The company was established in 2007 by SOCAR and Absheron Drilling Co.
Commenting on Socar AQS’s likely future operations in Turkey, the company’s director general Ramin Isayev said it would drill 40 wells to expand the storage of the Salt Lake Natural Gas Storage Facility, located in central Anatolia.
The facility has capacity to store 600mn cubic metres (mcm) of gas and has another 600 mcm
of capacity under construction with plans to reach 5.4 bcm by 2023-24.
“We look forward to utilising the full poten- tial of the company to work in close cooperation with our business partners and stakeholders to make this project a great success for Turkey, our client, and Socar AQS,” he said.
During the implementation of the project, Socar AQS will also utilise the infrastructure of local Turkish business partners and the company will invest in the further training and development of young Turkish drilling specialists.
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