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Pax Silica: Forging A New Regional Security Architecture?
...e US, having appointed a minister of state for artificial intelligence in 2017 and launched the UAE strategy for AI in the same year. Artificial Intelligence was at the center of the opening speech by UAE’s Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and Chairman of Masdar, Sultan al-Jaber, at AD...
Volume: 69Issue: 03Published at Fri, 16 Jan 2026 -
Syria Scrambles For Fuel Supplies Amid Complication Of Continued Sanctions
...yraktar telling CNN Türk on 10 January that his ministry has already sent two delegations to Damascus, with plans to expand its business there. “We have been exporting electricity and fuel oil to Syria since 2017. There are local companies there. They buy from us and distribute. We will be looking for ho...
Volume: 68Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 -
Iran Faces Blowback After Rocket Attacks Hit Iraq, Pakistan & Syria
...nior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies. “Iran is pressuring the KDP to align with its agenda for Iraq. Iran has not forgiven the KDP for spearheading the 2017 [Kurdistan independence] referendum and siding with Sadr and Halbousi against the PMUs after the 2021 elections,” he ex...
Volume: 67Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2024 -
Intra-Kurdish Rift Risks United Position In Baghdad
...ghdad. That is no longer the case, especially since the 2017 death of PUK founder and long-time leader Jalal Talabani. With the KDP and PUK backing different factions in last year’s lengthy government formation process, the fissures between the two deepened further (MEES, 17 June 2022). That melodrama ha...
Volume: 66Issue: 03Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023 -
Eastmed-To-Europe Gas Pipeline Loses Key Us Support
...chstein, who is currently serving as the State Department’s Senior Advisor for Global Energy Security, in 2017 labeling the EastMed route a “Pipedream”. East Med-to-Europe energy tie-up ambitions are now set to move on to only slightly less ambitions high voltage power interconnectors. And for now the US...
Volume: 65Issue: 03Published at Fri, 21 Jan 2022 -
Israel Scores Gas Diplomacy Breakthrough As Leviathan-Egypt Flows Begin
...is marked the start of Israel-Jordan gas deliveries indicate just how successful Jordan has been at avoiding publicity for the modest imports that began back in 2017. Those initial volumes were of gas from the Tamar field to Jordan’s Arab Potash plant on the Dead Sea. GEOPOLITICAL WIN-WI...
Volume: 63Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2020 -
Leviathan Reserves Get ‘Contingent’ Boost
...reserves is the same as for 2P. But the difference is the lack of an approved economic development plan for the “contingent” volumes. Leviathan development only moved forward in early 2017 on the basis of a scaled-back version of what had been dubbed ‘Phase 1’ development: with just four pr...
Volume: 63Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2020 -
KRG Poised For Another Bumper Oil Year In 2019
...Iraqi Kurdistan’s oil sector overcame immense challenges in 2018. It countered expectations to boost production by some 90,000 b/d, ending the year at around 420,000 b/d. Despite the loss of around 280,000 b/d production from the Bai Hassan and Avana Dome to federal forces in October 2017 (ME...
Volume: 62Issue: 03Published at Fri, 18 Jan 2019 -
‘The New Tunisia’: A Work In Progress
...the country going to the wall. By 2016 crude output had slid to just 46,000 b/d, a mere 50% of demand. Things could only get better, right? Wrong. 2017 saw a further slump in output to just 38,000 b/d, the lowest figure since 1966, Tunisia’s virgin year of production (MEES, 8 December 2017...
Volume: 61Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2018 -
Tunisia’s Loss, Algeria’s Gain
...A key boost to Algeria’s 2017 finances came from sales of gas and oil products to Tunisia, where crude output fell 16%. Tunisia largely imports oil from seaborne markets, with net imports hitting a record 81,000 b/d in August. But for gas the only choice is to buy from Algeria, via of...
Volume: 61Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2018 -
The Plan: Boost SMEs; The Reality: Boost The State Payroll
...rld Bank’s annual ‘Doing Business’ rankings in 2013 pegged Tunisia at a reasonably-respectable fifty-first place, just ahead of Spain. But Tunisia has fallen in the rankings every year since – to #88, in the latest rankings issued in November 2017, just behind Bosnia and Zambia (though ahead of Saudi Ar...
Volume: 61Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2018 -
Iran: After The Turmoil Will It Address Its Domestic Problems?
...ly 2015 and the subsequent lifting of the bulk of sanctions in January 2016. But hopes that this would end Iran’s isolation and usher in much-needed foreign investment have been largely dashed. Oil export revenue has risen from $27.3bn in 2015 to $59.4bn in 2017, with crude/condensate exports ne...
Volume: 61Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2018 -
Egypt: Sisi In The Wings As Arab Spring Challenges Remain Center Stage
...s able to pay back $1.5bn of its debts to IOCs late last year, with the promise to pay a further $3bn in instalment by 2017. The prospect of higher remuneration for gas produced in high-cost offshore developments has meanwhile reinvigorated interest in Egyptian acreage. Unfortunately for the fu...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014