1. Libya Revenues At 5-Year High But Remain Unstable As Noc Eyes Gas Boost

    ...volutionary year of 2011. At a press conference in Benghazi on 6 January NOC chief Mustafa Sanalla said the country’s current output is 953,000 b/d, with a 2018 average figure of 1.107mn b/d. The latter figure, presuming that it is accurate, almost certainly includes NGLs. MEES estimates Libya’s 2018 cr...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 02
    Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019
  2. Egypt Delays Subsidy Reform With Economy On The Mend

    ...tbacks since the 2011 ouster of former President Husni Mubarak. Revenue has slowly picked up since the October 2015 downing of a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai Peninsula but it appears trouble is never far away. On 29 December a roadside bomb in Giza killed three Vietnamese tourists and their Eg...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 02
    Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019
  3. Algeria Set For 11th Straight Deficit In 2019

    ...dget anticipating a $17.4bn deficit. Algeria has run up cumulative budget deficits of over $100bn since 2009, with deficits recorded even in 2011-14 when oil prices were over $100/B. They have ballooned since as oil prices tanked (see charts 1 &2). 2017 was the closest Algeria has got to ba...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 02
    Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019