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Saudi-Iran Fracas Ratchets Up Regional Tension, Oil Output Likely To Rise
...s on fire on 6 January. However, neither the protests nor security crack-down have as yet been on the same scale as in 2011. It was for his alleged role in orchestrating these 2011 Shia protests that Shaikh Nimr was arrested in 2012 and sentenced to death in 2014. REGIONAL SUPPORTERS WEIGH IN...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
Libyan Security From Bad To Worse As IS Trashes Oil Facilities
...r the Es Sider terminal has shipped crude since force majeure was declared on the facilities in December 2014. Force majeure was briefly lifted on the Ras Lanuf terminal on 2 July 2015, but an attempt to lift crude by the Tripoli-based National Oil Corporation (NOC) was blocked by the PFG and the in...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
Ninth-Time Lucky For Cyprus Gas Import Tender?
...illion BTU by 2025. According to the terms of the tender, first gas is to be delivered between 1 January 2016 and 30 June 2017, but that is looking increasingly unlikely and will most likely be revised if an agreement is reached with any of the bidders (MEES, 18 April 2014). ...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
Total, Eni Stick With Cyprus Exploration
...to Israeli waters, but also declared the field a commercial (Israeli) discovery. Nicosia views the announcement as a strong-arm negotiating tactic on the part of the Israelis (MEES, 27 November 2015). Noble and BG are also reportedly close to finalizing a letter of intent signed in June 2014 to su...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
Oman Slashes Subsidies In 2016 Budget, Announces Economic Reforms
...clude the impact of falling oil prices and the effect of regional and geopolitical conditions on the Oman economy, which would require suitable measures to sustain the financial situation and provide economic stability. OMAN'S 2014-2016 FINANCES (OR MN) *LATEST (JAN 16) FORECAST. SOURCE: OM...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
Saudis Slash Subsidies As Oil Revenue Collapses
...FICIT Actual 2015 revenue is estimated by the ministry at SR607bn ($162bn), down 15% in nominal terms from the original budget projection, with oil revenue at SR445bn accounting to 73% of total revenue, a drop from the 87% share in 2014. Non-oil revenue however increased in 2015 by 29% to hit SR...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
Iran’s Rohani: A Mid-Term Report
...veral months to materialize. And, finally, strong opposition by domestic hardliners to the agreement’s content in both Iran and the US, and the document’s initial uncertain fate in both the US Congress and the Iranian Majlis. To combat the lingering economic slack President Rohani, in August 2014, pr...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
Iraqi Provinces Demand Payment Hike After KRG Deal
...nister Hoshyar Zebari recently told MEES that the payment was being postponed due to the projected deficit as a result of lower oil prices and the cost of fighting Islamic State (IS) militants (MEES, 12 December 2014). Oil exports account for nearly all of Iraq’s revenues, with monthly takings falling fr...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
Baghdad Looks To Press On With Jordan Pipeline
...aqi consortium has been formed and asked to submit a preliminary technical proposal for the 2.25mn b/d pipeline that will tie Basra oil fields to Jordan’s Red Sea port of Aqaba. (MEES, 21 November 2014). The companies, led by Chinese state firm CNPC, one of the biggest investors in southern Iraq, is ca...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
Subsidies Should Go As Oil Price Falls: IEA Chief Tells Arab Ministers
...ould take advantage of lower crude oil prices now to phase out costly energy subsidies or miss a golden opportunity to stop burning their oil and gas for power generation, she said. Oil prices have sunk to a five year low since peaking at $115/B for Brent futures in mid-June 2014. This makes the im...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
Egypt: Oil Price Fall Slashes Subsidies Spend
...cember. This is 30% below the E£104bn ($14.5bn) projection in the country’s 2014-15 budget which in turn is down on 2012-13’s record outlay of $22bn (MEES, 14 November). Front month Brent crude was trading around $57/B as MEES went to press, down 50% from the mid-June peak (see p24). Cairo assumes an...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
Cairo Hopes $2.1Bn IOC Payment Will Pave Way For Bid Round Success
...yments throughout 2014. “We… try every quarter, or four months, to have something, so that we can [pay down the arrears] over a maximum of two years from now. It’s working. We started to turn the wheel and it’s ongoing,” he says (MEES, 5 December). Company filings tracked by MEES suggest that the to...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
Egypt To Ease Gas Crisis With Algeria LNG
...EGYPT Egypt To Ease Gas Crisis With Algeria LNG Cairo saw a flurry of activity in the final days of 2014 as Egypt moved to address a number of issues regarding its current energy crisis. Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources’ first move was to sign a contract to receive si...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
New Gulf Petchems Start-Ups In Shadow Of Aramco Mega-Projects
...oject) Location Start-Up Main Products (‘000 T/Y) Borouge (Borouge 3)* Ruwais, UAE 2014 1,080 PE, 960 PP, 350 LDPE Sipchem* Ju...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
MENA Power Survey: Generators Seek Fuel Diversity; Capacity Up 3.4% To 370GW
...REGIONAL MENA Power Survey: Generators Seek Fuel Diversity; Capacity Up 3.4% To 370GW Regional electricity generators raised total capacity by 3.84% to 372.1GW in 2014. GCC countries led the expansion through an increase of almost 4.5% over 2013, equivalent to 5.45GW of new capacity (se...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
Saudi Oil Policy In Spotlight As King Admitted To Hospital
...ergy policy, which took a dramatic turn in 2014, would survive the king’s departure. Mr Naimi, who is serving his fifth term in office, is known to be close to the present king and enjoys his unwavering support and trust. The king has reportedly refused to allow the veteran minister, who will turn 80...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
South Sudan Turns To China As Warring Parties Prepare To Renew Hostilities
...5,000 b/d pre-conflict output online for the best part of 2014, despite repeated rebel threats against its key fields. And it is the production from these fields in Upper Nile state which South Sudan is looking to consolidate and ramp up, while also bringing its Unity state production – all offline since Ja...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
IOCs Consider Yemen Pull-back As Attacks Mount
...cilities were being used as a base from which drone strikes were being launched on their members and bases, and claimed responsibility for a failed 18 December rocket attack on the 6.7mn tons/year Total-operated Yemen LNG liquefaction plant in Balhaf (MEES, 19 December 2014). This warning came just ho...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
Lebanon Bid Round
...l and gas file has spent months on ice – with essentially no progress whatsoever towards advancing the bid round since the end of former President Michel Sulaiman’s term in May of 2014. Political deadlock thwarted the election of a new president, and Lebanon has since faced a vacuum in its executive br...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
Israel: Leviathan Development Set For Further Delays Following Anti-Trust U-Turn
...fshore Israel, to keep hold of both the giant 22 tcf Leviathan field and the 10 tcf Tamar field. Anti-trust Commissioner David Gilo labelled the firms, which operate all of Israel’s major offshore discoveries (see table), a cartel. This reverses a March 2014 ruling stating Noble and Delek could keep ho...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015