1. Iran Mourns Raisi & Abdollahian As Succession Speculation Mounts

    ...preme Leader, only the second in the Islamic Republic’s history after its founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1979-89) is rumored to be ill. He was treated for cancer in 2014. In recent years, he has grown weary of what he and others see as Western plans for regime change, increasingly throwing his we...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 21
    Published at Fri, 24 May 2024
  2. Iraq’s Summer Power Provision Hangs On Emergency Financing Law

    ...at her ministry is drawing up a 2022 budget. But it is not clear how that will pass when the government is powerless constitutionally and parliament is in no position to enact one on its own. Iraq has failed to pass budgets before in recent years. This occurred in 2014 as oil prices collapsed and la...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 21
    Published at Fri, 27 May 2022
  3. Russia’s Gazprom Seeks North Africa Expansion

    ...sin known as ‘Area 64’ (see map). ALGERIA PLANS           In neighboring Algeria, Gazprom says it plans to make a decision in 2021 on the “commercial attractiveness” of its 2010 Rhourde Sayah (RSH) and 2014 Rhourde Sayah North (RSHN) discoveries on the El Assel license (236b). The two fields ar...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 21
    Published at Fri, 28 May 2021
  4. South Sudan: Remaining Oil Output Under Threat

    ...e responsible for the entirety of South Sudan’s current oil output, following the shut-down of output from the country’s only other producing region, Unity state, in January 2014 (see table). With round after round of peace talks mediated by the eight-nation Intergovernmental Authority on De...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 21
    Published at Fri, 22 May 2015
  5. Yemen Mired In Fuel Subsidy Dilemma

    ...eds to cover the subsidies for the first quarter of 2014, and has also fallen behind on payments from the fourth quarter of last year, Ms Tairy said, amounting to around YR7bn ($40mn). The Ministry of Finance is also behind on payments to Yemen’s Ministry of Electricity to the tune of YR6-7bn ($34...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 21
    Published at Fri, 23 May 2014