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Can Iran’s Nuclear Power Program Offset Surging Consumption?
...ngthy delays, Bushehr-1 began supplying Iran’s grid in 2011, and typically supplies around 6TWh annually. Officials subsequently announced plans for two additional plants at Bushehr (bringing the total there to four), as part of a broader plan to generate 20GW from nuclear alone by 2030. 15 years on fr...
Volume: 68Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2025 -
Russia’s Gazprom Seeks North Africa Expansion
...e years running up to the 2011 revolution. But production has been badly hit by years of instability (see chart). Last year, SOO output was entirely shut-in for eight months during a forced nationwide oil blockade led by an eastern-based warlord (MEES, 25 September 2020). Tumanov says that SOO pl...
Volume: 64Issue: 21Published at Fri, 28 May 2021 -
South Sudan: Remaining Oil Output Under Threat
...velopment (IGAD) going nowhere, and the crisis showing few signs of abating, the focus has once again turned to South Sudan’s oil fields, the country’s main revenue earner. Oil production is down from around 245,000 b/d pre-conflict, and 347,500 b/d in the second half of 2011, immediately after the So...
Volume: 58Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2015 -
Libya: Battlelines Drawn As Clashes Force Groups To Choose Sides
...andoff raises both the spectre of civil war, and an end of the political stalemate that has stalled progress since the overthrow of deposed leader Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi in 2011. On 16 May, the “Libyan National Army” commanded by former general Khalifa Haftar attacked the bases of Islamist militia in Be...
Volume: 57Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2014 -
Yemen Mired In Fuel Subsidy Dilemma
...fficult to eliminate, as their main beneficiaries in society push – or in some cases even riot – to hold on to their subsidy-related ‘benefits.’ What was already a politically thorny issue however has taken on another dimension, in the aftermath of the 2011-12 wave of revolutions that swept across the Mi...
Volume: 57Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2014 -
Can Saudi Arabia and Iran Put Regional Rivalry To Rest?
...esident Obama’s visit to Riyadh convinced Saudi rulers that compromises were necessary with Iran at this time. It may be that Riyadh is signalling a readiness to put an end to the simmering Shi’a-Sunni conflict that has reared its head since 2011 and is threatening the cohesion of countries like Iraq. An...
Volume: 57Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2014 -
Libya: New Law Divisive
...ficial posts during the Qadhafi era (1969-2011) face a 10-year bar from political office. The law will affect a number of senior politicians who were leading figures in 2011’s revolution, including Prime Minister ‘Ali Zidan, GNC President Muhammad Magraif, former prime minister Muhammad Jibril and NTC ch...
Volume: 56Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2013