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Iran Eyes Qatar As Diplomatic Bridge
...s Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) meeting in Doha. Qatar has always sought to maintain cordial relations with Iran, and the 2017-21 embargo of Qatar by its GCC neighbors strengthened ties between Doha and Tehran. Raisi alluded to this, saying that Iran “in difficult times always stands by the in...
Volume: 65Issue: 08Published at Fri, 25 Feb 2022 -
Egypt-Palestine-Qatar
...om Egypt and Qatar this week meeting in Kuwait to discuss the normalization of bilateral relations. Egypt in 2017 joined Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain in breaking off relations with Qatar. The three Gulf countries last month agreed to end the embargo and reestablish relations (MEES, 8 January). ...
Volume: 64Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2021 -
Saudi Crown Prince’s Asian Tour: Lots Of Promises, Little Detail
...increasingly precarious dependence on Chinese debt. As for Saudi Arabia, the investments could guarantee access to a growing market for its crude oil. It provided 88,000 b/d of Pakistan’s 212,000 b/d oil imports in the 2017-18 financial year, behind only the UAE on 121,000 b/d (MEES, 9 No...
Volume: 62Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2019 -
Gulf Loses Patience With Sudan
...$1; a lack of banking liquidity is expected to bring further declines. Government plans to print more large-denomination banknotes have been thwarted by a lack of the right kind of paper. Gross international reserves in 2017 were just $1.1bn, providing less than two months of imports cover, according to th...
Volume: 62Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2019 -
Libya Warns Of Potential Major Output Fall Amid Strained Economy
...sponsibility for the firm’s funding problems lies, claims Mr Sanalla. “The entire sector is suffering from these problems because of delays in the finance ministry disbursing budgets to the corporation for this year,” he said. NOC received only 50% of its capital budget in 2017, said Mr Sanalla in late Ja...
Volume: 61Issue: 08Published at Fri, 23 Feb 2018 -
Baghdad-Erbil Refining Deal Signals Pragmatism Winning Out
...eventing the onset of exports (MEES, 13 January 2017). While the current gas standoff highlights the potential obstacles to the Basra-Abadan pipeline, the second planned pipeline is far more ambitious. This would link the NOC fields in Kirkuk with Iran, most likely to the 110,000 b/d Tabriz re...
Volume: 60Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2017