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Israel-Egypt Energy Ties Deepen As 2022 Sees Record Gas Flows
...tacks in the Sinai, though growing gas shortages in Egypt were the underlying reason, as well as changing political currents in Egypt following the 2011 ouster of President Mubarak (MEES, 30 April 2012). Sameh Fahmy, the minister who inked the deal with Israel, was thrown in jail post-Revolution, al...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Egypt Gas Output Slumps For Q4, Consumption Down More For 12-Year High LNG Exports
...s the lowest December figure since 2015. Add in the record Q4 imports of 709mn cfd from Israel and Egypt was able to export a bumper 1.62bn cfd of gas for Q4, the highest figure in Jodi data stretching back to the start of 2011. Of this, 1.56bn cfd was exported as LNG and 53mn cfd to Jordan. Fi...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Israel & Egypt’s Blossoming Energy Relationship
...ntacts have been threadbare (save Israeli tourists in Sharm el Sheik). The first two attempts at energy tie-ups, the 2001 Midor refinery, and the 2008 East Mediterranean Gas (EMG) pipeline built to deliver Egyptian gas to Israel collapsed in acrimony (MEES, 1 August 2011). Even the latest pr...
Volume: 64Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2021 -
Gulf Loses Patience With Sudan
...an 450,000 b/d prior to the secession of South Sudan to 115,000 b/d in late 2011 and has fallen further since. The government puts current production at between 70,000-75,000 b/d; even this is probably an overestimate, says Mr Elhaj. On 13 February the Sudanese pound fell to a record low of SP 83 to...
Volume: 62Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2019 -
Baghdad-Erbil Refining Deal Signals Pragmatism Winning Out
...yala provinces, most likely crossing into Iran around Naft Shah. This is where a 10bcm/year gas pipeline from Iran to power stations supplying Baghdad is meant to cross into Iraq. The deal was signed in 2011 but the project has stalled due to security concerns in Diyala province. Despite recent mi...
Volume: 60Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2017 -
Iraq: Abadi’s ‘Technocrat’ Reshuffle Plan Slim On Detail
...s been held up by political gridlock in parliament for years; in fact the cabinet passed a draft for an independent company back in August 2011. With the possibility of passing an oil law seemingly out of reach, Mr Abd al-Mahdi may have decided that this less ambitious goal was a better use of hi...
Volume: 59Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016 -
Iran Talks: Caution Urged Despite ‘Good Start’
...chnically, Iran is allowed to maintain its crude oil exports at “current levels” of around 1mn b/d, and no more. Iran’s crude oil exports have nosedived under the weight of US and EU sanctions, averaging just over 1.1mn b/d in 2013. This represents a 54% drop in shipments relative to 2011, before the la...
Volume: 57Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2014 -
Syria Oil Sector In Chaos As War Barrels On
...SYRIA Syria Oil Sector In Chaos As War Barrels On Production from government-controlled areas of Syria has fallen to just 14,000 b/d, from 385,000 b/d at the beginning of the crisis in 2011, Syria’s Oil Minister Sulaiman al-‘Abbas says, with the oil ministry “depending on th...
Volume: 57Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2014 -
Yemen Shows IOCs The Exit As Contract Deadlines Approach
...rd on the street is that no one gets an extension. Ever.” Up for renewals are Blocks 5, 10 and 53, which together account for close to half of the country’s current crude oil production – estimated at close to 170,000 b/d. This is down from around 180,000 b/d in 2012, 220,000 b/d in 2011 and a 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2014 -
Kuwait Prepares Refinery Bidding, Amid Latest Political Chaos
...grill Mr Husain have said that they have dropped their plan to also question him about Shell’s $800mn consultancy deal with KPC’s upstream firm Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) to help develop northern Jurassic gas fields (MEES, 8 August 2011). Shell investigations by the government and parliament probed if...
Volume: 56Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2013