Issue 8

Oil & Gas

• Egypt Open For Business With New & Old Acreage On Offer In 2021 Bidding
• Eni Eyes LNG-Fueled Zohr Record For 2021
• Egypt: BP’s Key WND Project Sees Output Collapse

Corporate

• Oxy Highlights Mena Exploration Successes

OPEC

• Murban Futures: First Expiry Month To Be June
• US Gains Set Back By Texas Big Freeze As Rigs Top 300

Geopolitical Risk

• Algeria Oil & Gas: Still Searching For Stability
• Israel & Egypt’s Blossoming Energy Relationship
• Egypt-Palestine-Qatar

Refining & Petrochemicals

• Saudi Arabia’s Petro Rabigh Posts $1bn Loss In 2020
• Egypt Downstream: ERC Boosts Output & Exports To 2020 Records Despite Covid Slump

Power & Water

• Iraq Advances 755MW Solar Projects
• Egypt Power Fuels: Gas Surplus All But Ends Oil Burn

Economics & Finance

• Kuwaiti Politics Takes Center Stage As Economic Reforms Stall

News In Brief

• Iraq Freezes Oil Prepayment Deal With Zhenhua
• Total Plans Solar-Powered Oman LNG Bunkering
• Qatar: Saipem $1.7bn Offshore Award
• Qatar-Bangladesh LNG Deal
• Lamprell: First Saudi LTA Award
• Oman: Masirah Targets 30,000 B/D By End-March
• Israel: Technip Bags Karish North EPC

Op-Ed & Documents

• Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani: An Appreciation

Selected Data

• Crude Official Selling Prices ($/B)
• Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
• Egypt Gas Balance (bn cfd): Late 2020 Output Flurry Sees Egypt Post 750mn cfd Surplus For December