Articles tagged with "algeria"
Oil Watch - OPEC Crude Oil Production (IEA)
Posted by Euan Mearns on November 28, 2012 - 3:45pm
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: algeria, angola, crude oil production, ecuador, iea, iran, iraq, kuwait, libya, nigeria, oil watch, opec, qatar, saudi arabia, spare capacity, united arab emirates, venezuela [list all tags]
Executive summary
OPEC is currently pumping at close to near term and historic highs of 31.2 mmbpd of crude oil. Outside of Saudi Arabia, the majority of spare capacity is deemed to lie in Iran and Nigeria. Iran could certainly pump more if permitted to do so by the international community. It is doubtful that Nigeria could. The UAE Kuwait, Qatar, Libya, Algeria and Venezuela are all pumping at close to capacity levels. Saudi Arabia alone has meaningful spare capacity of 2.1 mmbpd.
Embedded in the production stack (Figure 1) is an intriguing tale of general strike, international conflict, civil war and sanctions combined with masterly control of oil supply that has kept global markets in balance.

Figure 1 Monthly crude oil production for 12 OPEC countries. All data published in this interim report are taken from the monthly IEA Oil Market Reports.
From May 2007 to August 2010, Rembrandt Koppelaar published an e-report called Oil Watch Monthly that summarised global and national oil production and consumption data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) of the OECD and Energy Information Agency (EIA) of the USA. This is the second in a series of new Oil Watch reports, co-authored with Rembrandt and details crude oil production data for 12 OPEC countries (includes Angola and Ecuador, excludes Indonesia) as reported by the International Energy Agency. Earlier editions:
Tech Talk - the top 30 oil producers, a review
Posted by Heading Out on April 10, 2011 - 1:18pm
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: algeria, brazil, canada, china, crude oil production, iran, iraq, kuwait, mexico, nigeria, norway, russia, saudi arabia, united arab emirates, united states, venezuela [list all tags]
These posts have been going through the EIA list of the top oil producers in the world, over the past few weeks, I thought I might just review them collectively, but briefly, before starting to look at individual countries and oilfields. Even the posts that I have written recently have become out of date with new information (Russia increased production again in February by 20 kbd over January reaching 10.23 mbd) and then fell back to 10.2 mbd in March but at this stage, rather than focusing on such details, I am trying to generate a sense of the overall picture. It should also be recognized that I am just grabbing a snapshot of data, rather than the more detailed studies that look at the longer term, which folk such as Rembrandt, Rune and Euan provide. The simplest way to do this is to place my current estimates of production for the top 30 oil producers that I have reviewed in this series against the EIA estimate of their production in 2009.

Tech Talk - Thoughts on oil production from the MENA countries in turmoil
Posted by Heading Out on April 3, 2011 - 4:20am
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: algeria, crude oil production, egypt, ivory coast, jordan, libya, morocco, syria, yemen [list all tags]
The popular protests among the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are continuing to roil, and so, rather than the review of the countries that I have been discussing in the posts of the last few Sundays, I thought I would just briefly review the status of the countries that are now in various stages of unrest, and include their relative production and exports of oil. I am not going to discuss the natural gas situation since, in relative terms, there is currently a significant excess of natural gas available to the world market. As a result, should the MENA production falter (providing it does not spread to countries such as Qatar), any default can be made up from elsewhere.
I am going to take a quick look at Libya, Yemen, Syria, Algeria, Morocco, Bahrain and Jordan, as countries that are looking less than stable. The list is my estimate of the order in which they will fall, or not, in the sequence shown (my unapologetic dominoes). I am not going to talk about Tunisia and Egypt since, optimistically, they are now in transition with little impact, in the short term, for their hydrocarbon statistics. (And Schlumberger would add Ivory Coast to the list.)
Tech Talk - Lower second tier oil producers - Norway, Brazil, Iraq and Algeria
Posted by Heading Out on February 27, 2011 - 6:52am
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: algeria, brazil, condensate, crude oil production, iraq, natural gas pipelines, natural gas supply, ngl, norway, opec oil production [list all tags]
This current series of posts is aimed at an overview of the top oil producing nations, seeking to establish how the ranking of the countries is changing from the original table that EIA put out in 2008. After looking at the conditions governing the top six, this was followed last week when I looked at the condition of the following three (Mexico, UAE and Kuwait) in a little detail, but having spent four posts on Veneuela in the recent past forebore going back there again.
It is worth recapping, however, that the initial order has changed, and that Russia is currently at the head of the League, slightly ahead of Saudi Arabia, with both producing somewhere around 10.2 mbd. I’ll go more into that detail as the posts focus in on the individual countries later. The United States' production, if one includes ethanol, is around 8.2 mbd, and this is in third place. China has moved into fourth place, slightly ahead of Iran which is followed by Canada. At present these six appear to be the only countries producing over 3 mbd.
In the next tier down I have already mentioned the United Arab Emirates, which have moved into 7th place, with a production of around 2.81 mbd, now ahead of Mexico, albeit perhaps barely (based on the addition of NGLs etc). As with the UAE Kuwait has been limiting production in line with OPEC requests, but while only producting at around 2.35 mbd at the moment, is looking to increase this to up to 3.5 mdb by 2015, which would move it into the top tier. Venezuela, although it too has some grandiose plans, based on the potential increases in production from their tar sands, is currently producing at down around 2.26 mbd. As I have mentioned Venezuela does have plans to raise production to 4 mbd by 2015. However recent commitments to China of up to 1 mbd and problems that Venezuela continues to have in meeting current obligations leaves a large question mark on those predictions.
And so we come to the lower half of the second tier.
North African gas supplies to the European gas market
Posted by Euan Mearns on February 23, 2011 - 12:36pm
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: algeria, baltic pipeline, egypt, energy security, europe, exports, gas, imports, libya, nigeria, norway, qatar, russia, the netherlands, united kingdom [list all tags]
With civil and bloody unrest spreading across North Africa and The Middle East, it is once again appropriate to look at the dependency of Europe upon imports of gas from North Africa. With the North Sea in decline and Norway struggling to meet supply forecasts, Europe is becoming increasingly reliant upon gas imported from Russia, Africa and The Middle East. Below the fold is a post originally run in December 2007 called 'The European Gas Market'. It is a little out of date but still serves to illustrate the main suppliers and importers of natural gas from North Africa.
OECD European gas production looks set to peak in 2008. After that, falling production combined with rising demand will see OECD European gas imports wanting to rise from current 197 BCM per annum to 442 BCM per annum by 2020. Where will this gas come from and how will rising European imports affect N America and the rest of the world?

Figure 1 OECD Europe gas production and conceptual forecast. Click all charts to enlarge
The European Gas Market
Posted by Euan Mearns on August 1, 2008 - 9:50am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Tags: algeria, baltic pipeline, egypt, energy security, europe, exports, gas, imports, libya, nigeria, norway, original, qatar, russia, the netherlands, united kingdom [list all tags]
[With Centrica and EDF announcing hefty retail gas price increases in the UK this week, I thought it was worth reposting this story that was first published in December 2007. The follow on story Daddy will the lights be on at Christmas?, is perhaps more pertinent this year than last.]
OECD European gas production looks set to peak in 2008. After that, falling production combined with rising demand will see OECD European gas imports wanting to rise from current 197 BCM per annum to 442 BCM per annum by 2020. Where will this gas come from and how will rising European imports affect N America and the rest of the world?

Figure 1 OECD Europe gas production and conceptual forecast. Click all charts to enlarge
Algeria & Morocco: Natural Gas Cartels, Fertilizer Mercantilism, and Rising Tensions
Posted by jeffvail on July 14, 2008 - 10:00am
Tags: algeria, fertilizer, infrastructure protection, infrastructure targeting, lng, mercantilism, morocco, natural gas, natural gas cartel, original, peak oil, phosphate [list all tags]
| Algeria is one of the world’s most important oil and gas exporters. Morocco has no significant oil and gas production, but has about 2/3 of the world’s rock phosphate reserves, a critical component in global fertilizer supply that increased 300% in price in the past year (.pdf) and may peak alongside global oil production. The two nations have historically been at odds, especially over the phosphate-rich territory of Western Sahara. Now, more than ever, their exports are critical to the energy and food supplies of the world. Alongside increasing importance, tensions between the two are on the rise as the US and Russia provoke the situation with massive opposing arms deals and bi-lateral trade agreements. This article will look at the forces behind these rising tensions and consider issues of fertilizer mercantilism, infrastructure vulnerability, and the potential formation of a natural gas cartel. |

Will Demand for Gas & Fertilizer Bring New Conflict to Morocco & Algeria?
The European Gas Market
Posted by Euan Mearns on December 11, 2007 - 11:00am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Tags: algeria, baltic pipeline, egypt, energy security, europe, exports, gas, imports, libya, nigeria, norway, qatar, russia, the netherlands, united kingdom [list all tags]
OECD European gas production looks set to peak in 2008. After that, falling production combined with rising demand will see OECD European gas imports wanting to rise from current 197 BCM per annum to 442 BCM per annum by 2020. Where will this gas come from and how will rising European imports affect N America and the rest of the world?

Figure 1 OECD Europe gas production and conceptual forecast. Click all charts to enlarge
A Simple Oil Production Estimate for 2007
Posted by Prof. Goose on March 6, 2007 - 11:30am
Tags: algeria, aspo-australia, chris skrebowski, eia, iea, libya, opec, qatar, united arab emirates [list all tags]
The following is a guest post by Phil Hart, a petroleum facilities engineer and member of ASPO-Australia. Phil worked for Shell in the UK for five years, before returning home to Melbourne in late 2006. Phil's blog can be found here.
Following a summary of EIA data for 2006, I thought I would make a more detailed country-by-country estimate of the potential for 2007.
Starting with the headline EIA figures for last year:
Crude Oil and Condensate: 73.5 Mb/d (down 0.2)
Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs): 7.9 Mb/d (up 0.14)
Other Liquids: 3.3 Mb/d (up 0.08)
Total Liquids: 84.6 Mb/d (up an insignificant 0.02)
Mb/d = million barrels per day
kb/d = thousand barrels per day
Numbers for November and December suggest real OPEC production cuts in Algeria, Libya, Qatar and UAE. The total cut could be 230kb/d which knocks around 50kb/d off annual average production. I did not expect to find evidence for cuts, but that's how the data looks to me - four small cuts made at the same time by countries that otherwise increased their production last year through announced projects. Thus, I believe those four OPEC members, but only those four, have the ability to restore that production. Without those cuts, crude and condensate production would still be clearly down, but total liquids would have shown a somewhat more significant increase.
Peak Oil Salvation?
Posted by Dave Cohen on January 4, 2007 - 12:55pm
Tags: algeria, angola, brazil, china, kazakhstan, kuwait, nigeria, oil production, russia, saudi arabia [list all tags]
Taking a different approach, I decided to single out those countries that have made significant production increases in recent years defined as any producer nation that has contributed an additional 0.5% to the current global liquids supply from fossil fuels (crude oil, condensates + natural gas liquids) since the year 2000. The result is shown in Figure 1.
Countries contributing at least a 0.5% increase since 2000 in world production of liquids fromfossil fuels (grey) versus the rest of world (blue). Does not include CTL or GTL. Data from BP Figure 1
Will these difference makers deliver us from the turbulence & chaos of economic contraction and provide peak oil salvation?






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