1. Lebanon Power Overhaul Gathers Pace

    ...e table 1) are crucial to boosting growth from the average 1.6% annual GDP growth since 2011. With the world’s third-highest debt-to-GDP ratio (150%), the government is otherwise broke and unable to break the low-investment low-growth cycle that has long plagued it, especially since the 2011 ou...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 11
    Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019
  2. Sudan’s Upstream Oil & Energy Sector: Investors Sought But IOCs Remain Cautious

    ...ABILIZED AFTER SOUTH SUDAN’S 2011 SECESSION BUT HAS DWINDLED SINCE 2015 ('000 B/D) *TO MID-MARCH. SOURCE: IEA, BP, MEES.   Last year saw the easing of wide-ranging western sanctions after 20 years. Their key legacy is that the country’s upstream (and that of South Sudan) is dominated by st...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 11
    Published at Fri, 16 Mar 2018
  3. Libya: Talks Postponed As Jihadists Step Up Oil Field Attacks

    ...rst, in February 2011, just before the country fell into civil war, was a success. Three more wells were drilled in 2013 with one success. The October 2013 well on Block NC-115 which tested the Waha prospect encountered “very promising flow rates” of 39°API crude. Of the three 2014 wells, OMV an...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 11
    Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2015
  4. Algeria Confronts Libya Spillover Threat

    ...li, in 2013. For him, Algiers’ analysis of the situation in Libya has been proved right: back in 2011 it had warned leading members of the NATO-led coalition of the dire consequences of the manner in which they were intervening in Libya. Relations with Tunisia which is equally exposed to the de...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 11
    Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2015
  5. Israel Attacks Gaza

    ...ccession as unrest spreads across the region in 2011. Parliament says that it will not hold the vote if the government expels Israel’s ambassador. ...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 11
    Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2014
  6. Domestic Upheavals Challenge Oil Industry In Iraq, Libya

    ...IRAQ/LIBYA   Domestic Upheavals Challenge Oil Industry In Iraq, Libya   Moves to less centralized structures, both planned and unplanned, in Iraq since the 2003 invasion and in Libya since Qadhafi’s 2011 ouster have left the oil industry in both countries in uncharted te...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 11
    Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2014
  7. Iran-Pak ‘Peace Pipeline’ Progress Raises Stakes in New ‘Great Game’

    ...kistan Energy Yearbook 2011....

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 11
    Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013
  8. North African Energy Producers Face Growing Challenges

    ...proven gas reserves, Algeria has been a leading exporter to Europe for around 50 years. However, there has also been a steady decline in natural gas exports, from 64bcm in 2005 to 54bcm for 2011. Crude production has also fallen, from 1.36mn b/d for 2005 to 1.18mn b/d last year, while domestic co...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 11
    Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013