1. Kuwait Cabinet Resigns, Again

    ...pacting the government’s ability to pass a much-needed debt law, reduce bloated spending, and diversify the economy away from oil reliance. On 4 April, local Kuwaiti Al Anbaa reported that finance ministry documents showed that since “the public debt law’s validity ended in October 2017,” Kuwait withdrew “ab...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 08 Apr 2022
  2. Cairn Finalizes Mauritania Deal

    ...mmercial discovery, Frégate, in 2012-13 (MEES, 13 February 2013), Dana and UK-based partner Tullow Oil quit the acreage in 2017, only for Total to snap up Block C-7 later the same year. When announcing the original farm-in in March 2020, Cairn flagged up possible drilling targeting a turbidite fan play an...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 09 Apr 2021
  3. Egypt: Draft 2021/22 Budget

    ....8bn) and set to be the lowest spending figure since 2017-18 as Cairo’s finances finally show signs of the impact of Covid-19 (MEES, 5 March). Subsidy allocations are down around 40% to E£87.8bn ($5.6bn) while the budget forecasts a deficit of 6.6% of GDP, up marginally from the 6.3% forecast in the cu...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 09 Apr 2021
  4. Saudi Opens Iraqi Consulate

    ...Saudi Arabia has reopened a consulate in Iraq for the first time since 1990 as Riyadh advanced efforts to warm ties with Baghdad. Indications that Saudi Arabia was adopting a more conciliatory approach towards Iraq emerged in 2017 as the kingdom sought to woo its neighbor away from regional ri...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2019
  5. Aramco: Riyadh Refinery Deasphalter Award

    ...ut down in early 2017 for the tie-in of units including a new naphtha splitter and diesel hydrotreater and the debottlenecking of a hydrocracker as part of a clean fuels project to reduce the sulfur content of produced fuels to less than 10ppm (MEES, 3 March 2017). Refiners across the GCC are in...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2019
  6. Iraq Exports Slump In March

    ...Iraqi crude exports plummeted 244,000 b/d in March to their lowest levels since October due to Opec+ compliance cuts (see p9) as well as weather-related issues. Southern exports slumped to 3.255mn b/d – the lowest since September 2017 – after reported flooding hampered output from the 24...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2019
  7. Brazil Output Down

    ...Key non-Opec producer Brazil saw output fall to 2.40mn b/d in February, the lowest level in almost three years, a combination of delayed start-ups at key offshore fields and declining output at mature onshore acreage. 2018 output averaged 2.58mn b/d, down from 2017’s record 2.62mn b/d (ME...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 14
    Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2019