Middle East Offshore Oil & Gas Production News

DNO International has had to shut in production from two fields in block 8 offshore Oman.

National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) has allocated $182 million to further development of the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf.

Oil has started flowing from the NS377 field in the North Shadwan concession in the shallow water Gulf of Suez, offshore Egypt.

Noble Energy and its partners have signed a gas sales agreement to provide supplies from the Tamar field offshore Israel to Israel Electric Corp. Ltd. (IEC).

Oil loading operations have reportedly started from a new floating single point mooring (SPM) facility offshore southern Iraq.

Gas production from the South Pars field in the Persian Gulf has reached a new peak of 290 MMcm/d (10 bcf/d).

National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) is considering producing helium from the South Pars field in the Persian Gulf.

A project to harness associated sweet gas from two oil fields in the Persian Gulf is nearing completion.

Leighton Offshore has contracted Lamprell to fabricate two topsides and jackets plus a metering skid and associated piping.

BG Group says production has started from the second stage of the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) Concession Phase 7 in the Egyptian sector of the Mediterranean Sea.

National Iranian Offshore Oil Co. (NIOOC) expects oil output from the Forouzan field in the Persian Gulf to rise by 20% over the next 14 months.

Delek Drilling and Avner Oil Explorations have commented on technical problems at Israel’s sole current offshore gas production complex.

Delek Drilling and its partners in the Tamar lease offshore Israel have signed a gas supply agreement with Dalia Power Energies.

Moving into the new year, economic indicators point to higher offshore spending by oil and gas operators as the price of oil trends steadily upward, a good sign for the oil services sector in general and offshore drillers in particular.

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, has inaugurated the Pearl Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) Project, claimed to be the world’s largest GTL plant.

Mellitah Oil & Gas, the joint venture operating company between NOC and Eni, has restarted gas production from the Sabratha platform offshore Libya.

Water and gas injection techniques are being applied to boost oil production from the Salman oil field in the Persian Gulf.

Eni has started gas production from the Guendalina field platform in the Adriatic Sea.

Burullus Gas Co. has started gas production from Phase 8a of the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) deepwater project offshore Egypt.

Production from the Reshadat oil field in the Persian Gulf should increase by 10,000 b/d over the next few days.

Production from the Balal oil field in the Persian Gulf is heading toward 40,000 b/d, according to a report by Iranian news service Shana.

Dragon Oil is working on a strategy for plugging, abandonment and decommissioning of old non-producing wells in the Cheleken Contract Area in the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea.

Pars Oil and Gas Co. (POGC) has brought onstream six new wells from Phase X of the South Pars field in the Persian Gulf.

Events in Libya hit Eni’s second-quarter liquids and gas production figures.