1. Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)

    ...13 2012 2011 WTI 97.32 93.38 92.76 97.91 93.85 97.54 105.73 98...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014
  2. In Amenas Attack Heightens Security Tensions – In Libya As Well As Algeria

    ...stability on the “Pandora’s box” of weapons which had spread across North Africa following Libya’s 2011 conflict. “It is absolutely essential that we broaden and deepen our counterterrorism cooperation going forward with Algeria and all countries of the region,” Ms Clinton said, adding that she had visited Al...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  3. Saudi Arabia, Qatar Push Offshore Upstream Development

    ...nce he took over leadership of the ministry in January 2011, he has focused on reversing slumping Qatari crude production: Output fell to an average of 740,000 b/d last year, from 836,000 b/d in 2008.   At the center of the program is Qatar’s swing producer, the Maersk-operated al-Shaheen of...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  4. South Sudan Looks To Alternate Export Routes

    ...uth, and East Darfur in the North, which has proved a major sticking point in talks thus far. Khartoum claims the area as Sudanese land and in September 2012 demanded it to be excluded from the demilitarized zone.)   South Sudan broke away from Sudan in July 2011, taking with it around three qu...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  5. QP: What’s Next?

    ...s financial muscle to become a major regional political player. So what comes next for Qatar’s leadership? MEES examines the possibilities.    QP – which in 2011 according to its annual report had 66 subsidiaries, joint ventures and equity stakes ranging from catering and real estate to st...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  6. IEA Sees Chinese Demand Strength Driving Call On OPEC

    ...12 2Q12 3Q12 4Q12 2011 2012   OPEC IEA OPEC IEA OPEC IE...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  7. Oman Eyes Bangladesh Energy Sector

    ...tal thus far (17 offshore, 58 onshore), which have resulted in 25 gas discoveries – mostly in the country’s east. In its latest Statistical Review of World Energy, BP put Bangladesh’s proved gas reserves at 12.5 tcf, which is slightly above Bahrain’s 12.3 tcf. BP said Bangladesh’s 2011 gas output was 1....

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  8. Noble to Delay Aphrodite Appraisal Drilling

    ...mpletion of a second appraisal well on the Aphrodite field. Noble completed its exploratory drilling on Aphrodite in December 2011, when it announced that it had discovered a field with an “estimated gross resource range of 5-8 trillion cubic feet (tcf), with a gross mean of 7 tcf.” Appraisal drilling is ne...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  9. Iran Exports To China, India and South Korea Fall In 2012

    ...y not however be wholly attributable to the effect of international sanctions.   Although Chinese imports declined in 2012 by almost 21% to 441,000 b/d compared to 557,000 b/d in 2011, the reduction may be primarily the result of a price dispute between the National Iranian Oil Company (NI...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  10. Suez Canal Traffic

    ...v-12 Oct-12 2012     Change vs 2011 2011 South-North '000t '000t % '000t '000t '00...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  11. Petchems The Catalyst For Middle East Economic Diversification

    ...d services industries.  In 2011, said Mr Mady, SABIC’s direct value-added contribution to national GDP was about 2%, its private sector contribution was about 9% and its contribution to the industrial non-oil sector was 34%. “SABIC takes the process of employing local talent seriously,” he sa...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  12. SEC Profits Up 20% In 2012

    ...  SAUDI ARABIA   SEC Profits Up 20% In 2012   Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) announced on 20 January that it made a profit of SR2.563bn ($683mn) in 2012, compared with SR2.123bn ($566mn) in 2011. Dividends for the year were SR0.62 ($0.17) per share in 2012 compared wi...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  13. SABIC Reports 15% Fall In Profits For 2012

    ...85bn) for 2011. The company attributed the 15.5% net income decline to “higher cost of sales and lower sales prices for certain products, despite higher sales and production volumes and reduction in financial charges.” Gross profit for 2012 was SR54.31bn ($14.48bn), down by 12.6% from SR62.13bn ($16...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  14. Yemen’s 2013 Budget Aimed At Speedy Return To Stability

    ...en subjected to numerous sabotage attacks during 2012, disrupting production and export operations for long periods. Mr Wajih estimated the fall in crude oil output in the first nine months of 2012 at 28.2% below the corresponding period of 2011.     To achieve the government’s oil and gas ta...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  15. IMF: Qatar’s Economic Outlook Remains Robust

    ...    2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Production and Pr...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013
  16. Baghdad Shrugs Off Political Turmoil To Proclaim Imminent Output Surge

    ...05 to 2.358mn b/d in 2010 and 2.653mn b/d in 2011, Mr Laibi’s presentation showed. MEES estimates (the ministry does not appear to account for KRG production consumed within the region or smuggled oil) are actually higher at 2.441mn b/d and 2.754mn b/d for 2010 and 2011 respectively. Crude revenues ha...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 04
    Published at Mon, 23 Jan 2012
  17. EU Considers Iran Petchems And Gold Bans To Offset Oil Embargo Delay

    ...er the course of 2011 by buying heavy sour Middle East grades, much of it Iranian. If they push that back out, it will be replaced by Saudi, Iraqi, Kuwaiti and some Qatari output.” But this may cost Korean refiners money, according to Korean media. Iranian crude imports last year amounted to 82...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 04
    Published at Mon, 23 Jan 2012
  18. Egypt Negotiates IMF Lifeline As Economy Deteriorates

    ...urces.  Egyptian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Fayza Abu al-Naja said that finalizing the loan with the IMF had become a priority with the rise of the balance of payments deficit to $16bn from about $6bn in July 2011, when the terms of the loan were rejected, and the bulging budget de...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 04
    Published at Mon, 23 Jan 2012
  19. Abu Dhabi Continues Uncertainty Over 1.4Mn B/D Concession

    ...ld its ADCO partners that it expected the Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) to make a decision in 2011 on extending the concession – first saying it would be made in the summer and then by the year end. The uncertainty has dampened the consortium’s enthusiasm for investing in fields that it may soon no lo...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 04
    Published at Mon, 23 Jan 2012
  20. Israel And Cyprus Face Decisions As Gas Reserves Expand

    ...jections and the subsequent presence of its warships. Closer Ties Since January 2011 when Israel’s Delek Group proposed to the Cypriot government joint cooperation for the creation of a LNG plant on the island’s southern coast (only weeks after the announcement of the Leviathan discovery and the si...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 04
    Published at Mon, 23 Jan 2012