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Syria Emerges As Iran’s Top Crude ‘Customer’
...TTER OF SURVIVAL Iran’s Syria crude trade was never supposed to be about economics – rather it was about keeping key ally President Bashar al-Assad in power. And for Mr Assad, the Iranian credit line to import free crude was a matter of survival. Prior to the outbreak of war in 2011, Sy...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Battle For Tripoli Rages On
...far, no disruption has been reported. GREATEST THREAT In a meeting with GNA prime minister Fayez Sarraj, NOC head Mustafa Sanalla said oil and gas exports face their greatest threat since 2011. He also told the Financial Times on 11 April: “Unless the problem is solved very quickly, I am...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Libya Unity Government Faces Huge Challenges
...rack Obama described the failure to properly prepare for the 2011 ousting of Libyan leader Colonel Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi as the greatest error of his presidency, the new Western-backed government in Tripoli faces huge challenges if it is to establish its legitimacy in the conflict-torn country. Asked in...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
Libya’s NOC Could Be Split By Baida Power Grab
...ARTUP IMMINENT The Eni-operated Bu Attifel fields on Blocks NC-100 and NC-125 in the far east of the Sirte Basin may be close to a resumption in output, according to a report in the local Libya Herald on 5 April. Prior to the 2011 unseating of Gaddafi, the field had capacity of 95,000 b/d, but this ha...
Volume: 58Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015 -
Egypt: Fraying At The Seams
...d been founded. Shell and Statoil – both deepwater heavyweights – gave up deepwater exploration in 2011, not because there was no gas, but because rising costs left them unable to see a way of commercially exploiting any discoveries. And this is with Egypt – unlike Cyprus or Israel – al...
Volume: 56Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2013 -
Comment: Domestic Problems Vex Egypt’s Regional Role
...ve been weakened, not strengthened. Egypt has traditionally played a dominant role in regional Middle Eastern politics, and in the wake of the 2011 revolution it was widely expected that Cairo would reclaim this position for the first time since the Camp David Accords in 1978. However, th...
Volume: 56Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2013