1. Iraq Pledges Higher Oil Exports Despite Market Pressure

    ...r production capacity of 8.5-9mn b/d by 2017, having already lowered its sights from the initial target of over 13mn b/d when the first oil auction was launched at end 2009. Mr ‘Abd al-Mahdi said after meeting Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz in Baghdad, that SOMO would export 375,000 b/d th...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  2. Oman’s Abu Tabul Gas Starts Up

    ...eded short-term gas supplies, ahead of the planned 2017 launch of the 1bn cfd Khazzan tight gas project on Block 61. Despite overseeing a significant hike in gas output over the past decade, Oman faces a mounting domestic gas shortage, in the face of rampant domestic demand from the power, water de...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  3. Saudi Capacity Tops 2.9mn B/D As Yasref Ships First Products

    ....5 Sinopec Total Capacity 2,905       Jazan 400 2017 100   En...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  4. Egypt Plans 20GW Of Extra Coal Plants, 4.3GW Renewables

    ...esel ^2015 Suez EEHC 650 Oil 2016 Damietta West* EEHC 250 Gas 2017...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  5. OPEC Puts Russia On The Spot, Again

    ...rol, said during the same panel discussion in Davos that oil and gas upstream investment in 2015 is expected to decline by around $100bn, or by 15%, with a big chunk coming from the high cost areas. This, he says, will have implications, maybe not immediately, but in 2016 and 2017 should demand pick up an...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  6. MENA Youth Unemployment Chronic-ILO

    ...nkings out to 2017, according to the ILO’s projections (see graph). The ILO blames “tepid” MENA economic growth of 2.6% for 2014, due to “difficult political transitions, security challenges and rising regional conflicts,” for the lack of jobs. Though the ILO projects that growth will edge up to 3.8% fo...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  7. Egypt To Tap Bond Market

    ...tional Bank of Egypt announced earlier in the week that it is lending E£3bn ($416mn) to the Egyptian government to help finance the 1.95GW South Helwan Power project, due to start up in 2017, and an upgrade of the 650MW power plant at Assiut operated by EEHC. Egypt has ambitious plans to more than double it...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2015