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Tatneft Libya Find
...opped to two for much of 2022 with port and field shut-ins, relative stability in recent months has seen drilling activity bounce back with Baker Hughes recording 14 active rigs for April, within three of the post-revolution high of 17 hit in early 2014....
Volume: 66Issue: 19Published at Fri, 12 May 2023 -
Can Iraq’s New Government Weather The Economic Storm?
...l price, Iraq will burn through its fiscal buffers and we will see more social unrest.” “The biggest threat right now, and the one that can derail everything a whole lot faster, is denial,” Mr Tabaqchali says. “They are talking like this is 2014-2016 again and the difficult times will pass. So my...
Volume: 63Issue: 19Published at Fri, 08 May 2020 -
Tamar Shutdown Highlights Israel Upstream Risk
...3 May during a protest against the continued blockade of Gaza, the worst violence the region has seen since July and August 2014, when Israel launched a ground offensive on Gaza. Whilst Israel’s defense ministry says some 90% of rockets were intercepted by Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ defenses, four Is...
Volume: 62Issue: 19Published at Fri, 10 May 2019 -
Wintershall Dispute Takes Gloss Off Libya Production Peak
...Libyan output has topped 800,000 b/d for the first time since 2014. Output would be even higher were it not for a dispute with Germany’s Wintershall, says NOC. Crude production on 10 May was at least 800,000 b/d, according to officials from Tripoli-based National Oil Corporation (NOC), th...
Volume: 60Issue: 19Published at Fri, 12 May 2017 -
Yemen Conflict Sees Gulf States Test Their Military Prowess
...a lightning 2014 advance) have been pushed out of Marib to the western edge of the city, and there has been a negotiated truce with anti-government fighters in Al-Jawf and other provinces. But there is a complete stalemate in Taiz in the south. A coalition grouping the Houthis with militias loyal to fo...
Volume: 59Issue: 19Published at Fri, 13 May 2016 -
Global Conflict Fatalities, 2015
...BY REGION: MENA ACCOUNTS FOR 50% OF TOTAL 2015 FATALITIES… ...THOUGH THIS IS DOWN FROM 2014 2/3 OF 2015 MENA DEATHS (AND 1/3 OF THE GLOBAL TOTAL) WERE IN SYRIA SOURCE: IISS ARMED CONFLICT SURVEY, 20...
Volume: 59Issue: 19Published at Fri, 13 May 2016 -
Mideast Military Spending By The Numbers
...rong growth in spending in both countries far surpassed global growth in military expenditure, which in 2014 dollar terms (ie adjusted for inflation) grew by just 1% to $1.7trn in 2015. On this basis Mideast spending grew by 4.1% last year. Saudi Arabia was by far and away the region’s largest sp...
Volume: 59Issue: 19Published at Fri, 13 May 2016 -
DNO Losses Mount On Scant KRG Revenue; More Firms Look To Quit
...erating loss of $69.2mn and says it has cut its capex budget to $100mn for 2015, roughly a third of 2014’s figure. A third of the budget allocated for this year has been spent but DNO is targeting savings of $20mn by cutting costs starting middle of the year, Mr Mossavar-Rahmani said in presenting pr...
Volume: 58Issue: 19Published at Fri, 08 May 2015 -
Iraq Seeks IMF Help
...rears for 2014, and for 2015 an additional $18bn are needed to pay these IOCs (MEES, 24 April). This is happening at a time when Iraq’s international reserves are being run down as oil revenue falls due to low oil prices and the cost of fighting the Islamic State (IS) insurgency mounts. Iraq has an...
Volume: 58Issue: 19Published at Fri, 08 May 2015 -
Libya’s New PM Faces Old Problems
...y from the roughly 1.5mn b/d pumped prior to the outbreaks of strikes last July, and puts Tripoli under severe budgetary pressures. The government lost billions in forgone oil revenues last year, and has failed to sign a budget for 2014. Without the funds to invest in the country’s dilapidated in...
Volume: 57Issue: 19Published at Fri, 09 May 2014