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Syria Emerges As Iran’s Top Crude ‘Customer’
...e embattled Assad government lost key northeastern fields to Kurdish-led forces and key Euphrates fields (once Shell and Total-operated) to various rebel groups, sending oil output to 28,000 b/d in 2013 and 9,000 b/d in 2014, where it remained for four years. Damascus subsequently developed a sh...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Libya Unity Government Faces Huge Challenges
...tions. Senior diplomats from first Italy (who sent foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni) and then the UK, France and Spain held face to face talks with the council in their first visits to Libya since EU embassies were closed for security reasons in 2014. There are some signs of political support for the co...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
Iraqi Parliament Crisis Deepens Policy Paralysis
...ecting Mr ‘Abadi in 2014, and has generally stood by him in his fights with other Shia leaders. But, once it became clear he intended to remove all political figures from the cabinet, it turned sharply against him. The 2014 agreement had given ISCI three ministries, most notably oil, and they would not gi...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
Libya’s NOC Could Be Split By Baida Power Grab
...rket Libyan oil products (MEES, 28 November 2014), and that it may have been involved in a recent attempt to load crude at the central port of Sider (MEES, 20 March). Baida’s new hardline attitude will do nothing to promote peace and unity in the country. In recent weeks, the eastern government has ap...
Volume: 58Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015 -
Iran Nuclear Talks Threatened By Us, Russia Posturing Over Oil Deal
...al, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) on 11 April putting global imports of Iranian crude and condensate at close to 1.37mn b/d for the first three months of 2014. Still, US officials insist they are not worried by these figures, dismissing them as nothing more than short-term fl...
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
Middle East Peace Process: Another Failed Attempt
...lestinians demanded it. The Palestinians have refused Israel’s demand to be recognized as a “Jewish state”. This position was also formally adopted in the Arab summit held in Kuwait in 2014. Israel, asserting that its future security might be threatened, is demanding that it keeps its armed forces wi...
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
Egypt: Fraying At The Seams
...andard $2.65/mn BTU state firm EGPC pays foreign operators. BG in February sanctioned the latest phase, ‘9b,’ of its giant West Delta Deep Marine project, which it hopes will boost output from 2014, having said that go-ahead was linked to receiving guarantees from EGPC on LNG export volumes. Of...
Volume: 56Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2013