1. Egypt Gas Market Liberalization: Set For Take-Off?

    ...Cairo in 2017 passed a law enabling the liberalization of Egypt’s gas transmission and distribution grid. Private firms would, for a fee, be able to make use of infrastructure that will remain under the ownership of state firm Gasco. With 18 firms recently awarded licenses, and supposedly-im...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2019
  2. Yemen: IOCs Eye Re-Entry Amidst Battlefield Stalemate

    ...Upstream return looks optimistic given lack of access to export outlets. With the third anniversary of the Saudi campaign against Iran-affiliated Houthi militants in Yemen the conflict looks ever more like a gory stalemate (MEES, 27 October 2017). With violence now largely confined to the Ho...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 06 Apr 2018
  3. Return Of Iranian Crude Makes Big Splash In Europe

    ...bstantially higher figure this year, although 2011’s volume looks set to elude it. 2017 has got off to a relatively strong start according to initial results. Spain was the third largest EU buyer of Iranian crude last year with 49,900 b/d (see chart 2) and in January it lifted more than twice this at 91...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2017