1. Rosneft Re-Elects Al-Sada Chairman

    ...In a 21 July update after its annual shareholders meeting, Russian state firm Rosneft announced it had re-elected former Qatari energy minister Muhammad al-Sada as chairman. Mr Sada was first elected chairman in June 2023 after serving as Qatar’s energy minister between 2011 and 2018. Top of hi...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2025
  2. Libya-Italy Gas Slump

    ...te, 2024 is on pace for the lowest full-year figure since the start-up of the 8bcm/y (around 775mn cfd)-capacity Greenstream pipeline in 2004, lower than 2023’s 12-year low of 244mn cfd (MEES, 8 March) and the 215mn cfd seen in 2011 when Libya was wracked by revolutionary instability. In a de...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2024
  3. India Imports Record Russian Crude In Q2 Despite June Dip

    ...roughout the quarter, with combined sales of 1.848mn b/d in June the lowest figure in MEES records back to 2011. Of course, the Middle East is not the only region seeing its position in India being squeezed. Volumes from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas have all weakened amid the influx of Ru...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2023
  4. Tunisia: President’s Power Grab Shakes Democracy To The Core

    ...elfth since Tunisia’s January 2011 revolution – after the ouster of predecessor Elyes Fakhfakh (MEES, 24 July 2020) Mr Saied, who has a legal background but previously worked as a TV commentator and as such is an outsider to Tunisia’s fractious party politics, was elected president in October 2019. He...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 30 Jul 2021