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IMF Sees Algeria’s GDP Growth At 2.5% In 2011 And 3.5% In 2012
...ALGERIA IMF Sees Algeria’s GDP Growth At 2.5% In 2011 And 3.5% In 2012 Algeria’s growth in 2011 is estimated to have remained solid and higher oil prices have strengthened the country’s external balance and boosted its fiscal revenue, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on 27 Ja...
Volume: 55Issue: 06Published at Mon, 06 Feb 2012 -
Dana Egypt Production Slides On Non-Payment Standoff
...EGYPT Dana Egypt Production Slides On Non-Payment Standoff UAE-listed Dana Gas saw 2011 production flat-line as the company scaled back Egyptian drilling in response to non-payment of revenues from the Egyptian authorities. The company’s Egyptian production finished the year at 38...
Volume: 55Issue: 06Published at Mon, 06 Feb 2012 -
Iran Raises Its Budget Oil Price To $85/B For 2012-13
...slightly higher than the current year’s oil price of $80/B (MEES, 28 February 2011). Prior to the submission of the draft budget, the agency projected oil revenue in 2001-13 at $57bn based on an oil price of $85/B. Mr Ahmadinejad said that the new budget proposes a 5.6% drop in government sp...
Volume: 55Issue: 06Published at Mon, 06 Feb 2012 -
Start Date For Phase 2 Of Subsidy Reform Plan Still Unclear
...rrent Iranian year – which began on 21 March 2011 – as a direct consequence of these subsidy cuts. Mr Farzin also added that despite fervent parliamentary opposition, some 10mn relatively well-to-do individuals would be excluded from receiving support payments in the second phase. “Speaking of the su...
Volume: 55Issue: 06Published at Mon, 06 Feb 2012 -
Turkey Files Lawsuit Against Iran Over Gas Price
...quirement, according to a 31 January TRT Haber TV report. In 2011 Iranian exports to Turkey increased by 12% compared to 2010, although the overall supply of 24mn cmd compares with a pipeline nameplate capacity of 36-40mn cmd. Turkish Minister of Energy Taner Yildiz had announced Ankara’s intension to take Ir...
Volume: 55Issue: 06Published at Mon, 06 Feb 2012 -
Kuwait’s Opposition Gaining Seats In Parliament
...vestigations – one each by the ministry and parliament – into an ongoing consultancy contract that Shell has in the development of northern Jurassic gas fields (MEES, 8 August 2011). The dissolution of parliament halted the enquiries, which are expected to restart once there is a new government and pa...
Volume: 55Issue: 06Published at Mon, 06 Feb 2012 -
Qatar Earmarks $25Bn For Domestic Petrochemicals Output Expansion
...5bn petrochemical complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City (MEES, 12 December 2011). The plant will include a world-scale steam cracker, a 1.5mn t/y monoethylene glycol plant, a 300,000 t/y linear alpha olefins plant and another olefin derivative unit. The agreement gives state-owned QP an 80% stake in th...
Volume: 55Issue: 06Published at Mon, 06 Feb 2012 -
APICORP Puts 2012-16 MENA Energy Sector Investment Needs At $525Bn
...mmentary. Despite far-reaching implications of the ongoing upheaval stemming from the Arab Spring, the sovereign debt crisis, and imposition of sanctions by Europe on Iranian crude imports, APICORP said that its September 2011 forecast remains unchanged (MEES, 3 October 2011). However, the bank warned that ac...
Volume: 55Issue: 06Published at Mon, 06 Feb 2012 -
Gulfsands KHE-102 Appraisal Well Encounters Gas And Oil
...eld of 49 barrels per mn cu ft. As far as concerns production and exploration activities in 2011, Gulfsands said that Khurbet East and Yousefieh fields continued to perform extremely well during the year. It noted that four new wells were drilled, raising oil production to a level in excess of 24...
Volume: 55Issue: 06Published at Mon, 06 Feb 2012 -
Dragon Oil Generates Record 2011 Revenues, Ups Production By 30%
...UAE/CASPIAN Dragon Oil Generates Record 2011 Revenues, Ups Production By 30% Dubai-based Dragon Oil has announced record revenue figures for the 2011 calendar year, during which its crude oil production increased by 30% relative to 2010. The exploration and production company ramped up...
Volume: 55Issue: 06Published at Mon, 06 Feb 2012 -
IMF Says Algeria Managed To Mitigate The Effects Of Global Financial Crisis
...its latest Article IV consultation published on 26 January. Real GDP growth in 2010 is projected at 3.3%, with non-hydrocarbon real GDP estimated at 5.3%, and projections for 2011 are almost at the same level as in 2010. The IMF said that the prudent macroeconomic management of the last 10 ye...
Volume: 54Issue: 06Published at Mon, 07 Feb 2011 -
Azerbaijan To Sell Gas Directly To Greece
...pplies, while looking to become a leading participant in the South Stream pipeline project, including a transit option towards Italy. Mr Kouvelis also proposed to Mr Aliyev that Socar participates in the tendering process to buy shares in DEPA, which is due for privatization in the second half of 2011. Th...
Volume: 54Issue: 06Published at Mon, 07 Feb 2011 -
Ratings Agencies Downgrade Egypt On Political Unrest
...ting of the class A3 notes issued by Petroleum Export Limited (PEL), said Moody’s. There are some structural features in the transaction that lead the class A3 notes to currently have an intrinsic credit quality that is stronger than Egypt’s Ba2 rating. The notes will mature on 15 June 2011 and ha...
Volume: 54Issue: 06Published at Mon, 07 Feb 2011 -
Iran’s Inflation Rate Rises To 10.8% In January
...e table below. CBI Debt Repayment Schedule Year Debt Repayment ($Bn) 1389 (2010-11) 9.513 1390 (2011-12) 3.749 1391 (2012-13) 1.884 1392 (2013-14) 1.502 1393 (2014-15) on...
Volume: 54Issue: 06Published at Mon, 07 Feb 2011 -
Jordan’s Foreign Aid Tops $1.1Bn In 2010
...is total, grants amounted to $782.2mn, or 69%, and concessionary loans to $351.2mn, or 31%. An official of the ministry said that Jordan has managed to receive the same level of foreign aid in the period 2008-10 despite the global financial crisis and hoped that this level would be maintained in 2011...
Volume: 54Issue: 06Published at Mon, 07 Feb 2011 -
Lebanon Asks UN To Broaden UNIFIL Mandate For Offshore Demarcation
...tober 2011 (MEES, 29 November 2010). However, the current state of political affairs in Lebanon does not bode well for follow-up legislation that will enable Lebanon to advance its nascent energy sector. The UN initially declined to become involved in the demarcation of Lebanon’s maritime borders. UN...
Volume: 54Issue: 06Published at Mon, 07 Feb 2011 -
Saudi Economy’s Real Growth Rate Was 3.8% In 2010, Says Jadwa
...ready picked up in January, initially because of investor confidence about the outlook for 2011. The jump in the final few days of the month lifted the total value of shares traded to SR83.8bn ($22.34bn), the highest since May 2010, it concluded....
Volume: 54Issue: 06Published at Mon, 07 Feb 2011 -
Bulgaria Ratifies Nabucco Agreement, Hungary Gets Serious On South Stream
...cision is due to be made in the last quarter with construction to begin in 2011 (MEES, 14 December 2009). The project has been delayed by a failure to secure gas supply agreements, although Azerbaijan and Iraq appear to be the most likely future suppliers at this time. Last December, RWE said it hoped to si...
Volume: 53Issue: 06Published at Mon, 08 Feb 2010 -
US Senate Passes Further Sanctions Against Iran
...nopec is developing two catalytic crackers at the Hormuz and Abadan refineries, which are both scheduled for completion in 2011. On 2 February US Director for National Intelligence Denis Blair told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that “Iran has made contingency plans for dealing with future ad...
Volume: 53Issue: 06Published at Mon, 08 Feb 2010 -
World Bank Expects MENA Economies To Show 4.4% Growth By 2011
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIII No 6 8-Feb-2010 REGIONAL World Bank Expects MENA Economies To Show 4.4% Growth By 2011 The economies of the Middle East and North Africa are ex...
Volume: 53Issue: 06Published at Mon, 08 Feb 2010