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Corporate Profile: OMV Looks To Iran To Re-Boot MENA Portfolio
...eitina fields it shares with US firm Occidental. At the time Libya provided almost 20% of OMV’s oil output making it the firm’s third most productive upstream province. But output collapsed to just 10,000 b/d in 2011 with the Libyan revolution. As with other producers in the country, hopes that a 2012 ou...
Volume: 59Issue: 16Published at Fri, 22 Apr 2016 -
Imports Of Iranian Crude & Condensate Rise Strongly; But Is It Sustainable?
...• South Korea imported 243,000 b/d from Iran in March. Though this was down a touch on February’s 267,000 b/d it marked the third straight month over 200,000 b/d with first quarter imports from Iran at the highest quarterly level since Q3 2011, just before sanctions were tightened (see p21 fo...
Volume: 59Issue: 16Published at Fri, 22 Apr 2016 -
South Korea 1Q16 Crude Oil & Condensate Imports ‘000 B/D: Iran Volumes Double To Highest Level Since 2011
...SOUTH KOREAN CRUDE IMPORTS FROM IRAN IN 1Q16 BACK AT 2011 LEVELS FOLLOWING SANCTIONS REMOVAL (‘000 B/D)...
Volume: 59Issue: 16Published at Fri, 22 Apr 2016 -
PDO Accepts Oman Oil Ministry Challenge To Drive Push To 1mn b/d
...ar between 2011 and 2014. Speaking at an industry event late last August, MOG undersecretary Salim al-‘Oufi asked “what would it take” for the company to boost its crude oil production beyond its then 570,000 b/d level to 600,000 b/d. “We need to understand the timeframe [and] cost,” he sa...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
Qatari LNG Faces Up To Uncertain Global Climate
...r gas-fired power generation. South Korean demand for LNG rose significantly in 2013 due to the shutdown of several nuclear plants following the nuclear fake certificates scandal. Meanwhile, all of Japan’s nukes have remained out of action since the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011. China, wh...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
MENA LNG Exporters Set To Lose Market Share
...curity issues causing operator Total to halt production earlier this week. Yemen LNG exported 6.27mn tons for 2014, down 0.6mn tons on 2013. In 2014, global LNG imports reached 239.2mn tons, up 1% from 2013 but still below the 2011 levels, when LNG demand from Japan, the world’s largest importer, ro...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
Oman’s Forecasts 85% Power Demand Rise To 2021; Gas Shortage A Worry
...18 (MEES, 27 March). OPWP is also assisting the Rural Areas Electricity Company (Raeco) with a 120MW IPP in Musandam for start-up in 2016. Oman completed a 220KV link to the GCC grid in the UAE in 2011, and officially joined the GGC Interconnection Authority (GCCIA) in December. OPWP says this li...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
US OUTPUT RISE TO CONTINUE TO 2020-EIA
...ice’ and the ‘High Oil and Gas Resource’ case the US becomes a net oil exporter after 2020. Opec countries have already seen their quantities drop, falling to 2.32mn b/d in January almost halving since reaching 4.58mn b/d in July 2011. Saudi Arabia, the largest Opec exporter of crude to the US, was hi...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
IMF Warns Qatar Of Budget Deficit
...dition, expenditure growth could be further restrained if energy subsidies are reduced. Qatar does not disclose details of allocation for energy subsidies, but the IMF has estimated them at 3.5% of GDP in 2011. It adds that water subsidies may also be sizable, “as water consumption rates and technical lo...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
After Iran’s Nuclear Deal, Economic Reforms Are A Must
...th exports and production to pre-sanctions levels in just a matter of months, once sanctions are lifted. Iranian oil exports have been running at an average of 1.2mn b/d over the past six months, down from just over 2.5mn b/d in 2011 – pre-sanctions. Iranian crude oil production meanwhile has av...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
Egypt’s Economy: Still A Long Road To Recovery
...3% in 2016. It expects general government debt to “decline gradually to less than 90% of GDP during 2015-16.” Debt peaked at 90.5% of GDP in 2013-14, according to IMF figures, up from 77% before the 2011 ‘Revolution’. Egypt is targeting a doubling of foreign direct investment (FDI) for the cu...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
SOUTH KOREAN 1Q15 CRUDE IMPORTS: SAUDI AND KUWAIT REMAIN TOP AS IRAQ MUSCLES INTO 3RD (‘000 B/D)
...14 1Q14 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Mar-15 Feb-15 Jan-15 MENA TOTAL 2,...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
QATAR’S TOP LNG CUSTOMERS (MN T/Y)... ...BY REGION (%): ASIA NOW TAKES OVER 70% 18 WITH EUROPEAN BUYING LITTLE OVER HALF 2011 LEVELS
...QATAR’S TOP LNG CUSTOMERS (MN T/Y)... ...BY REGION (%): ASIA NOW TAKES OVER 70% 18 WITH EUROPEAN BUYING LITTLE OVER HALF 2011 LEVELS...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
Iran Targeting Crude Output Hike Alongside Upstream Opening
...ude output averaged 2.82mn b/d over the first quarter of the year, down close to 800,000 b/d on 2011’s pre-sanctions output. Exports are also much depressed, averaging just 1.1mn b/d in 2013, from around 1.5mn b/d as recently as 2011, according to MEES estimates. But with a potential opening on th...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
Oil Exports Resume In Eastern Libya
...Cs are less concerned about their ability to revive production should the export routes open up. While in 2011 fields were hastily shut down by workers escaping the fighting, last year pumps were shut in properly, and facilities have been maintained since. “The fields should come back fast, they al...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
Suez Revenue Steady
...2013. For gross tonnage (including vessel weight), the 2013 figure of 915mn t is just down on 2011’s record 929mn t. The average size of vessels using the canal is rising. Despite record cargo and revenues holding steady, the total number of ships using the canal has fallen in each of the last fi...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
GCC Polymers Increasing In Volume And Sophistication, Says GPCA
...08-13 Chg 2013-18 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 MN T % %/yr...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
Iran Power Supply Up 4.6%, Capacity Hits 70GW
...n be viewed as remarkable progress given international sanctions. Recent international focus on Iran’s power sector has centered on the 1GW Bushehr nuclear plant, which western powers fear hides a nuclear weapons program. The plant has operated intermittently since 2011 start-up; it is currently sh...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
MENA Countries Hike Defense Spending For 2013
...stern Anbar province bordering Syria. Bahrain has beefed up arms purchases since mass protests by its marginalized Shi’a majority were suppressed with the help of its GCC neighbors in 2011.Oman’s military spending fell 27% in 2013, although this comes on the back of a more than doubling in spending be...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
Iraq’s Management of its Natural Gas Potential - INES Revisited
...veloping the country’s own natural gas potential had been effectively halted. Even now, in 2014, utilization of Iraq’s natural gas, excluding Kurdistan, is around the same as it was in 2003. Since 2011 two contracts costing Iraq around $720mn have been signed to build two pipelines to import around 1.6bn cf...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014