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Deadly Clashes Threaten Libya’s Short-Lived Stability
...nister Khalifa Abdelsadiq hailed the relative stability the country has witnessed in the past few years, stressing that Libya was “open for business,” with existing partners like Repsol and OMV, as well as Italy’s Eni, recently resuming drilling in Libya for the first time since 2014 (MEES, 28 Fe...
Volume: 68Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2025 -
Kuwait’s Emir Suspends Parliament;Can He Quell Tumultuous Divisions?
...ss a crucial debt law since 2017 due to opposition by MPs, these onerous spending commitments saw Kuwait rack up some $108bn in cumulative deficits over 2014-2022 (see chart 2). A 2024-2027 government program published earlier this year envisages a further surging of deficits to a colossal total of KD...
Volume: 67Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2024 -
On Iraq Power, And Power Politics: MEES Interview with Luay al-Khatteeb
...proving supply efficiency from certain stations, and adding new units and power stations. Additionally, we added significant capacity to the transmission lines and extended the distribution system in the liberated areas – so for the first time since the 2014 Daesh [Islamic State] insurgency we have ma...
Volume: 63Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2020 -
Stalemate in Tripoli: A New Status Quo?
...rporation (NOC) are deposited in the Tripoli-based central bank. While the Tripoli central bank does pay out some cash for the day-to-day running of the eastern-based administration, it is the GNA that gets to decide on the bulk of the budget. Libya has been divided since 2014 when Islamists on the lo...
Volume: 62Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2019 -
Yemen: Second IOC Returns Despite No End In Sight To Conflict
...e drone attacks. YEMEN KEY OIL & GAS INFRASTRUCTURE YEMEN EXPORTS* REMAIN AT LESS THAN HALF 2014 LEVELS ('000 B/D) *BASED ON IMPORT DATA. SOURCE: MEES. PRODUCERS EDGE BACK… Further east, the story is markedly different. Vital supplies remain low and a st...
Volume: 62Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2019 -
Libya: What Hope For The UN’s Ambitious ‘Action Plan’?
...te April between Ageela Saleh, head of Libya’s Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HOR), and Khalid Mishri, head of parliament’s Tripoli-based consultative chamber, the High Council of State (HSC). The HOR and HSC broadly represent the political factions whose 2014 split led to Libya’s effective di...
Volume: 61Issue: 20Published at Fri, 18 May 2018 -
Algeria Parliamentary Poll: Status Quo - On, And On, And On Again
...% of registered voters (23 million out of a population of almost 40 million), compared with some 42% in 2012. Some independent observers put the figure lower still. Algiers had managed to buy social peace until 2014 as oil prices remained at over $100/B, but the latest elections coincide with he...
Volume: 60Issue: 20Published at Fri, 19 May 2017 -
Libya Output Down, Risk Of Further Collapse
...rminal. The largest oil export outlets remain shut – 450,000-b/d Es Sider and 250,000 b/d Ras Lanuf, both on Libya’s central Gulf of Sirte since December 2014, and 250,000 b/d Zueitina to the east for most of the past two years (MEES, 6 November 2015). There were a few moments in 2015 when Tripoli’s NO...
Volume: 59Issue: 20Published at Fri, 20 May 2016 -
US Tries To Soothe Gulf Arab Fears Over Iran At Camp David Summit
...ANIAN NUCLEAR PUZZLE, JUNE 2014....
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
KRG Pushed To Breaking Point As Oil Deal With Baghdad Falters
...bil as well as a contribution to the salaries of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, which have taken on the dual role of defending an extended border and pushing back IS fighters from adjacent territories. “This comes as the Kurdistan Region endures a heavy financial burden due to its 2014 budget being wi...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Iraqi Elections: Months Of Haggling Beckon As Maliki Looks To Cling On
...tablished the Governing Council in July 2003 on a sectarian basis. The 2014 election, however, has revealed a new phenomenon in current Iraqi politics: The country is not only divided along sectarian and ethnic identities, but is concurrently undergoing splits within each community. Exit polls indicate th...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014