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Turkey’s ITP Exit Sets Stage For Intensive Talks With Iraq
...ghdad largely emerged as the winner in an arbitration case against Ankara for facilitating independent Kurdish oil exports between 2014 and 2018 (MEES, 31 March 2023). Before the shutdown, the ITP carried up to 400,000 b/d of Kurdish crude and around 70,000 b/d of Federal Kirkuk production to Ceyhan. Th...
Volume: 68Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2025 -
Kuwait’s Emir Appoints Eldest Son As PM
...nistry of Interior. Prior to his March ministerial appointment, he had served as the Governor of Hawalli province from 2014. He had risen within the Ministry of Interior to become Deputy Interior Minister for Education and Training while holding a Lieutenant General rank. The PM-designate had pursued hi...
Volume: 65Issue: 30Published at Fri, 29 Jul 2022 -
Kuwait’s Ailing Emir
...bah. But both have been tarnished by their rivalry and appear out of the running (MEES, 4 July 2014). More recently, Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak’s resignation as Prime Minister last year ended any faint prospect of his potential elevation – he is from a more minor branch of the family. The new PM Sh...
Volume: 63Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2020 -
Iraq Water Crisis Highlights Baghdad’s Impotence
...outing to keep the dam from sinking and disintegrating—an event that could trigger a tidal wave affecting millions downstream. Iraqi officials consistently downplay the threat, but the dam’s structural integrity was further undermined when IS forces briefly took the dam in 2014. Ross Filkins of the Ne...
Volume: 61Issue: 30Published at Fri, 27 Jul 2018 -
Libya Election Timetable To Slip Further Amid Factional Divisions
...rliamentary polls in June 2014 led to the de facto division of Libya between two rival administrations. It is “increasingly doubtful” that elections will be held by end-2018, says Tarek Megerisi, Libya specialist at the European Council on Foreign Relations, after meeting senior officials from several co...
Volume: 61Issue: 30Published at Fri, 27 Jul 2018 -
Libya Looks To Corral IOCs Into Activity Boost
...en shut in for more than two years due to a combination of security concerns, infrastructure damage and a lack of a route to market. The 250,000 b/d Ras Lanuf export terminal on the Sirte basin coast re-opened in September 2016 having stopped exporting in December 2014. The nearby Es Sider terminal, wi...
Volume: 60Issue: 30Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2017 -
Dubai In Unwelcome Headwinds
...ported this week that property prices in Dubai have fallen by around 25% since their most recent peak in 2014, but remain above their 2011 trough. However, the IMF reports that the quality of the real estate loan portfolio is significantly better than prior to the 2009 crash. Overall, Dubai, in...
Volume: 59Issue: 30Published at Fri, 29 Jul 2016 -
Nuclear Deal Breathes New Life In To Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline Project
...pefully, as the sanctions are removed, it facilitates us to address our energy needs, and also meet the contractual obligation,” the minister said. Under the terms of the latest deal signed between the two countries in 2009, 750mn cfd of Iranian gas was to begin flowing to Pakistan by 31 December 2014, wi...
Volume: 58Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2015 -
Jazan Development: Saudi Aramco Sprints To The Rescue
...0 Satorp 62.5 Total 400 Total Current Domestic 2,505 Yasref (2014) 62.5 Si...
Volume: 57Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2014