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International Hydraulic Fracturing Market Pump trucks at BP’s fracturing operations, Khazzan-Makarem field, Oman

Is Rising Middle East Gas Demand… Increasing power demand Competition from US shale gas boom More challenging gas fields Growth of steel, aluminum and petrochemicals sector Maturing oilfields and need for gas in Enhanced Oil Recovery …encouraging investments in unconventional reserves?

Which Middle East and North African countries are developing unconventional gas? Which are the best shale gas markets? Who are the main operators and hydraulic fracturing service companies? What is the hydraulic fracturing capacity per pumper and per country and what is forecast for the future? What are the major hydraulic fracturing projects? What are the frac parameters for the major projects? What are the dominant proppant type per country and what are the volumes used? This report answers:

Contents Overview of the MENA frac market Unconventional geology and shale resource potential Hydraulic fracturing capacity per country and pressure pumper Frac parameters Ranking of MENA countries by attractiveness for unconventional oil & gas development Detailed country analysis on Saudi Arabia, Oman, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt covering basin and play maps, current unconventional gas projects, hydraulic horsepower capacity, frac demand, supply, utilization, constraints and forecasts. Summary of Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan and Kuwait hydraulic fracturing market.

Methodology Primary Intelligence: in-depth surveys and conversations with industry leading experts and technical specialists. Secondary Intelligence: market research reports, news articles and speeches and presentations by industry experts

Sample Slides

MENA Hydraulic Fracturing MENA Fracturing Capacity by Country Saudi Arabia Country attractiveness Matrix Note: Country attractiveness matrix is available for the MENA as a whole and individually for Saudi Arabia and Oman (the largest hydraulic fracturing markets in the Middle East) Note: Figures available upon purchase of report

MENA Hydraulic Fracturing Arab Gulf Fracturing Capacity (HHP at year-end) Saudi Arabia has the highest HHP at year end 2012 Oman is expected to have the highest HHP at year end 2013 Total upstream costs for conventional gas production in Oman is approximately $3/MMBtu. Total costs for unconventional gas production such as the BP Khazzan project are higher ($5-6/MMBtu) BP agreed in December 2013 to move forward with the development of the $15+ billion tight gas Khazzan project Note: Figures available upon purchase of report

Source: PacWest; Manaar research CURRENT ACTIVITY 10  Objectives: Study of MENA shale gas potential to predict hydraulic fracturing market  Implementation: 1.Open source review 2.In-depth interviews with operators, NOCs, service companies 3.Prediction of trends for hydraulic fracturing services by MENA country & support services (e.g. proppant) MENA Hydraulic Fracturing

Contact Details The report is available in MENA-only (29 pages) and worldwide versions (45 pages including the MENA section). Please contact Roa Ibrahim on for further information and purchases.

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