Recently added articles from APS Review Gas Market Trends:
Kuwait's Trans-National Activities - The German Market.(Company overview)
Jun 22, 2009 ... KPC has invested very little in the German oil market, which is the biggest in Europe. KPI's products retail business in Germany is insignificant, however, and KPC has invested in Germany's petrochemical sector through a stake in the chemicals giant Hoechst AG. Hoechst and France's giant ...
East Europe.
Jun 22, 2009 ... In March 1990, KPI signed an initial accord with Budapest for up to 100 service stations in Hungary and to help in revamping a refinery. A deal was signed in January 1991 between KPI and state-owned Afor and Technoimpex to set up a fuel distribution JV called Kuwait-Afor. KPI paid $6.5m ...
Africa.
Jun 22, 2009 ... KPC's overseas E&P arm, KUFPEC, has upstream oil and gas interest in Africa, like Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia and other countries (omt25KwtTrE&PJun22-09). But KPC's downstream investments in Africa have been limited, though the situation might change as several countries have begun to ...
KPC Market Shares East Of Suez.
Jun 22, 2009 ... KPC is to have refineries east of Suez with a total capacity of 400,000 b/d before 2020, together with storage facilities and other logistics, and retail fuel units including LPG produced in Kuwait for export. KPC has been negotiating JV refineries and retail businesses in ...
Japan.
Jun 22, 2009 ... A high-ranking KPC delegation visited Tokyo in May 2005 and had meetings with Japanese refiners as well as with key officials at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). Talks were held with the executives of Nippon Oil Corp, and Cosmo Oil Co. and other refining firms. ...
India.
Jun 22, 2009 ... KPC has long wanted to establish a presence in India's refining sector and retail business. Until now, however, it has shied away because of New Delhi's slow pace towards oil market deregulation. In March 2006, KPC and state-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC) signed an initial agreement for ...
Pakistan.
Jun 22, 2009 ... KPC in recent years agreed to have a 100,000 b/d refinery built in Pakistan in partnership with Pakistan State Oil (PSO). KPC later was among bidders for a planned sale of 51% of PSO, which then had a 70% share of Pakistan's oil market. At the time, that market was estimated at 360,000 ...
Indonesia.
Jun 22, 2009 ... With KUFPEC producing oil in Indonesia, KPC has been invited to have equity in a 250,000 b/d refinery proposed to be built either on Lombok Island, east of Java island, or in the eastern part of Kalimantan. A group of private Kuwaiti and Indonesian investors were in 2005 planning to build ...
South Korea.
Jun 22, 2009 ... South Korea's emergency crude oil stockpile fell nearly 2m barrels to 25.6m barrels after KPC ended its joint storage deal with the state-run Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) in February 2007. KNOC then said a new stockpile volume will meet around 10 days of South Korea's consumption as the ...
The Philippines.
Jun 22, 2009 ... Filipino Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla on May 7, 2007 said a Kuwaiti company was to invest in the Philippine downstream oil sector, including distribution of fuels. Lotilla declined to ...
Int'l Jet Fuel Business.
Jun 22, 2009 ... KPC's Kuwait Petroleum Int'l Aviation Co. (KPIAC) and Kuwait Aviation Fuel Co. (KAFCO) provide airline companies with jet refuelling at more than 20 airports around the world. KPIAC, operating since 1983, is based in Staines, outside London. It has offices in Europe, ...
Kuwait Needs To Secure 5,000 MCF/Day Of Gas From Local Fields & Neighbours.
Jun 15, 2009 ... Kuwait's requirements of 5,000 MCF/day (51.5 BCM/year) of natural gas by 2020 must be met from the following sources: the emirate's own gas, both free gas found in 2006 and gas associated with its oil production; imports from neighbouring Iran and Qatar through pipelines and in LNG form; ...
Betting On Qatar Link Up With Nabucco Pipeline Via Kuwait.
Jun 15, 2009 ... Kuwait is hoping that Qatar agrees to plans proposed by the US and Turkey to have a 35-40 BCM/year marine pipeline to supply Bahrain, Kuwait and then run through Iraq and Turkey to link up with the planned Nabucco trunkline to supply the European Union. The EU is very eager to have Nabucco ...
The Iran Project & The Dorra Development.
Jun 15, 2009 ... KPC has been negotiating with Iran for years for a 300 MCF/d supply contract and a pipeline to be built across the Gulf. This has been discussed in parallel with a water pipeline from Iran to Kuwait. At the same time some progress has been reached in protracted talks between Kuwait and ...
Kuwait's LPG.
Jun 15, 2009 ... Kuwait has an installed capacity to produce over 50 MCM/d of associated gas for its complex at Shu'aiba to turn about 5m t/y of LPG. This compares with less than 47 MCM/d in the years of high oil and gas production years during the 1970s. Kuwait also has a 1m t/y LPG plant at the Mina ...
LPG Exports & Marketing.
Jun 15, 2009 ... After many years of trials and errors, KPC's marketing division has gained a good experience in the LPG business. For term clients, it prices the butane/propane mix in line with Saudi Aramco's market-related formula. Spot sales are often priced at a premium over the official contract price ...
Kuwait - The Northern Fields.
Jun 08, 2009 ... In February 2003, as the number of US and UK troops landing in Kuwait for the invasion of Iraq increased considerably, the northern half of the emirate became a closed military zone and KOC shut two small oilfields, Abdali and Ratqa, close to its border. Both fields were only pumping about ...
Kuwait - 'Abdali, Bahra & Ratqa - The Heavy/Sour Crude Project.
Jun 08, 2009 ... Abdali, on the border with Iraq, is producing about 10,000 b/d piped to Rawdhatain. Under an ETSA, Bahra, Ratqa and Abdali should be developed for a sustainable 20/25-year capacity of 150,000 b/d, compared with 45,000 b/d at present. KPC has said the IOC consortium to develop the northern ...
Kuwait - The Onshore Fields - Wafra.
Jun 08, 2009 ... Found in 1953 by American Independent Oil Co. (Aminoil, later Getty Oil and now Texaco as part of Chevron), Wafra is the largest of the three onshore fields. It went on stream in 1954. Its reservoirs range from shallow to Paleocene-Eocene Fms. (Hundreds of its 430 wells were set ablaze by ...
Kuwait's Geological Profile.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Kuwait is one of the world's prolific oil provinces, despite its small size, with an area of just over 18,000 sq km. Most of its oil reserves so far lie in relatively shallow formations (Fms) found before the 1970s. Until a few years ago, Kuwait was poor in natural gas other than the one ...