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Kurdish Hopes Of Autonomy In New Syria Unravel
...nister Nouri al-Maliki now the frontrunner for the post (MEES, 16 January), Iraqis are experiencing a sense of déjà vu, drawing an uneasy parallel with 2014, when ISIS fighters swept across the country under his watch, seizing Anbar province, Mosul and large swathes of territory. For now, incumbent Pr...
Volume: 68Issue: 23Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2026 -
BP & Adnoc’s Landmark NewMed Deal: Testing the Water or Troubled Waters?
...structive, it could potentially damage relationships and credibility with existing key partner Chevron as well as with prospective partners as BP and Adnoc. “Look at what happened in prior Delek negotiations with how close they came with [a $2.5bn, 2014 deal to sell 25% of Leviathan to Australia’s] Wo...
Volume: 66Issue: 23Published at Fri, 09 Jun 2023 -
Gulfsands Bullish On Syria Return As Key Russian Investor Consolidates Position
...nserving cash for potential Syria re-entry. Whilst Gulfsands says it has had no control over and received no revenue from its Syria assets since 2011, it was informed by Syrian state firm GPC that the Block 26 fields, having produced intermittently since 2014, “returned to regular production in January 20...
Volume: 64Issue: 23Published at Fri, 11 Jun 2021 -
Algeria: Government Reshuffled But Course Unchanged
...o have become increasingly desperate for new policies in the wake of the oil price crash in 2014, are likely to be sorely disappointed. On the face of it, major changes have been made. Abdelmalek Sellal finally comes to the end of his tenure as prime minister, a post he held for almost five ye...
Volume: 60Issue: 23Published at Fri, 09 Jun 2017 -
Jordan’s Energy Supplies: Lots Of Options, None Of Them Good
...ickly with any increase in oil prices. “If 2014 price levels were sustained throughout the next decade, savings from LNG could exceed $400mn/year (1.3% of GDP), reducing both the import bill and [state electricity firm] Nepco’s losses,” he says. Additional gas imports may become available from the Ea...
Volume: 58Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015 -
Syrian President Asad Shows Staying Power
...rdish forces aren’t strictly pro- or anti-regime. Recently, Kurdish militias have engaged radical jihadist groups in eastern Syria. Additionally, rebel groups have been busy fighting each other since the start of 2014 when the Islamic State of Iraq and greater Syria (ISIS), fixed on gaining and co...
Volume: 57Issue: 23Published at Fri, 06 Jun 2014 -
Cost Of Conflict Rises To $144bn
...producing fields and facilities by rebel groups, especially in the Deir Ez-Zor areas, in eastern Syria. Oil production in the regime-controlled areas in the first quarter of 2014 had fallen to around 13,000 b/d, or 3.4% of 385,000 b/d production at the beginning of the upheaval (MEES, 9 May). Al...
Volume: 57Issue: 23Published at Fri, 06 Jun 2014 -
Iraqi Politics: Sinking Into The Morass?
...shkhabour pumping station near the Turkish border. The construction of the Kurdish line inside Iraq is scheduled to be completed by year-end, with commercial throughput expected during early 2014. However, under the constitution, only Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) is allowed to export Iraqi oi...
Volume: 56Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2013