1. Libya Set To Approve $20bn ‘Paper’ Budget

    ...ter the overthrow of long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. MEES estimates oil revenues rose to an eight-year high $30bn last year and may well top that this year as oil prices have pushed past $100/B (MEES, 28 January). The Bashagha camp’s latest moves are designed to radiate a sense of or...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 13 May 2022
  2. Qatar Slumps Into Recession

    ...ril). LNG: PAINFUL PRICES               Qatar’s expansion to 77mn t/y liquefaction capacity was completed in 2011 (MEES, 8 April 2011) and drove Qatar’s GDP ever-upwards, especially while oil-linked LNG prices were booming. Mining and quarrying accounted for 58% of the economy in 2011, before the sh...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 08 May 2020
  3. Iran Threat To Nuke Deal As Exports, Revenues Face Collapse

    ...ES, 30 November 2011), has been ramping up throughputs and is set to hit full capacity later this month, Reuters reports. But the fact that official Chinese data show overall record crude imports for April despite a heavy maintenance schedule, suggests that at least some of the bumper Iranian vo...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 10 May 2019
  4. South Sudan Coffers Empty Amid Crippling Crude ‘Diversions’ To Khartoum

    ...ss of three-quarters of its oil export revenue in the wake of South Sudan’s July 2011 independence. Compensation was to be paid at a rate of $15/B, implying total monthly payments of $24.1/B until the ‘transitional’ payments were cleared. BEHIND FROM THE START    South Sudan fell behind with pa...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 11 May 2018
  5. Output Slump, Revenue Slump

    ...tput, some 350,000 b/d for 3Q 2011. But output rapidly slumped. Output was shut in for 15 months from early 2012 as the result of a standoff with Sudan over access to the newly-independent country’s sole export route via Port Sudan. In March 2013, the two countries signed a deal on transit fees an...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 11 May 2018
  6. Libya Wins $1bn From SocGen, But Cases Highlight Shambolic Economic Governance

    ...nctions imposed on Libya in 2011. Ali Mahmud Hasan, who heads the LIA steering committee appointed by the GNA, has complained that the fund is losing money due to a lack of control over its equity and bond investments. But the unfreezing of the funds continues to be undermined by disputes over the le...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 12 May 2017
  7. Libya Investment Authority: A History Of Legal Wrangles

    ...rth $31mn, as the Libyan regime is prevented under sanctions from recovering unpaid debts. The LIA argues that as the debt pre-dated the imposition of sanctions in March 2011, it should not be subject to such restrictions.      ...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 12 May 2017
  8. Cairo Reinstates IMF Loan Negotiator

    ...oducts alone stood at an estimated $1.3bn for the fiscal year 2012-13, up from $1.1bn in 2011-12, according former oil minister Usama Kamal....

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 10 May 2013
  9. Kuwait Grants $215Mn For Jordan LNG Terminal

    ...abia and the UAE, with each of the four countries providing $1.25bn. The fund was set up in December 2011 in the wake of the Arab Spring and its resources are to be disbursed over a five-year period (MEES, 12 April).   The first agreement covers a $65mn grant to be used to help part-finance an LN...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 10 May 2013