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China’s Imports of Iranian Oil Jump: Will Biden Act?
...uld be the highest monthly figure since April 2019 according to Kpler. For what it’s worth the highest ever crude figure in the official Chinese import stats was 798,000 b/d set back in April 2014; April 2019 was just below this at 787,000 b/d. But whilst the official figures – which presumably re...
Volume: 64Issue: 11Published at Fri, 19 Mar 2021 -
Lebanon Power Overhaul Gathers Pace
...e map) was supposed to be the main driver. Work on ‘Deir Ammar-2’ restarted last year after the energy ministry and contracting firm J&P Avax renegotiated a previous $435mn EPC deal into a 20-year BOT agreement, thus settling a scandalous multi-million-dollar arbitration dispute dating back to 2014. Bu...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Sudan’s Upstream Oil & Energy Sector: Investors Sought But IOCs Remain Cautious
...gure at 45% in 2014), with hydropower and oil burning accounting for almost all of the country’s installed capacity (see below). In a 27 November speech Mr Osman flagged up increasing capture of associated gas and pursuing a program to exploit non-associated gas reserves as a priority. But, wi...
Volume: 61Issue: 11Published at Fri, 16 Mar 2018 -
Baghdad Close To Winning War In Mosul; Can It Win The Peace?
...rruption and lack of development of areas outside of Baghdad helped to facilitate the emergence of IS in 2014 (or more accurately its re-emergence from the embers of Al-Qa’ida in Iraq). Iraq’s leaders have a challenging set of circumstances if they are to prevent the same mistakes from being repeated. MO...
Volume: 60Issue: 11Published at Fri, 17 Mar 2017 -
Algeria’s In Salah Gas Plant Hit By Rocket Attack
...turned to a normal staffing rotation at In Amenas in September 2014 after specialists had visited the site in June to verify the implementation of the “last security measures” and prepare for a resumption of “ordinary operations,” said the company in a statement in September 2014. According to the st...
Volume: 59Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2016 -
Libya: Talks Postponed As Jihadists Step Up Oil Field Attacks
...e Algerian border, which has condensate production capacity of 15,000 b/d; and the offshore Bahr Essalam field, which has 30,000 b/d condensate capacity. El Feel was offline for much of the second quarter of 2014, but started up in June 2014 (MEES, 25 July 2014). It produced an estimated 80...
Volume: 58Issue: 11Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2015 -
Algeria Confronts Libya Spillover Threat
...ternal investigation into the event by Statoil, for which In Amenas is one of its key overseas interests, made it clear that the Algerian military had not been prepared to meet a determined assault by a large group of terrorists (MEES, 22 August 2014). ALGERIA: KEY OIL AND GAS IN...
Volume: 58Issue: 11Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2015 -
Domestic Upheavals Challenge Oil Industry In Iraq, Libya
...rliamentarians, who support them, have blocked the discussion of the 2014 budget in parliament. Baghdad has refused to pay the KRG its share of the budget, leading to much aggravation among KRG civil servants. The KRG-Baghdad oil conflict has wider scope, raising protests among oil producing governorates. For ex...
Volume: 57Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2014 -
North African Energy Producers Face Growing Challenges
...d is focusing on the 2014 presidential elections, and particularly on the question of which candidates will run against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Nonetheless, however hard the Algerian energy authorities try to put the In Amenas attack behind them, the incident has tarnished the co...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013