Sudans Oil Deal Bears Fruit

...pacity of about 90,000 b/d, but this has not been reached since 2011, and damage to the fields in the intervening years is likely to have reduced production potential. Somewhat more likely is that the five fields could deliver an additional 80,000 b/d but that the gains will come from resources ei...

Turkey Mixes Business & Politics As Qatar LNG Surges

...G customer for 2017. TURKISH GAS IMPORTS (BCM)                                                                                       1H18 v 1H17 % 1H17 2009 2010 2011 2012 20...

Sinai Insecurity: Sisi’s Achilles’ Heel

...cade intended to flush out Sinai-based militants. ‘Operation Eagle’ was launched in August 2011 and ‘Operation Sinai’ a year later but neither have effectively rid the region of militants. The main focus of COS has been around the towns of Arish, Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah, the region in the northeast of...

Oman’s Duqm Development: Dustbowl Or ‘Dubai’?

...ptember opening of a new passenger terminal: it remains to be seen if more flights will materialize.  DUQM SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE (PLANNED)   ALL ABOUT THE REFINERY    The Special Economic Zone of Duqm (SEZAD) was established in 2011 to “diversify the national economy.” But recent mo...

Egypt’s Gas Surge Enables Planning Beyond Powergen Needs

...June, demand was a relatively comfortable 69% of output, versus a summer peak of 90% two years earlier. With the summer demand peak now over, no shortages have been reported. With production falling from a record 6.22bn cfd in December 2011 to just 3.89bn cfd in May 2016, Cairo was forced to be...

Algeria Halves Trade Deficit, Thanks To Higher Oil Prices

...200,000t set in 2011 (2017, with 190,000t, was just shy of the record) Elsewhere in Asia, Korea has yet to fall for Algerian LNG with just two cargoes imported for 2017 and none so far in 2018. But the country’s import stats for the first seven months of 2018 showed that it took 40,600 b/d of Al...

Iran: Rohani Under Fire As Economic Pressure Mounts

...esidents are no stranger to second term woes and Mr Rohani will have to strive to eclipse the drama of his predecessor’s efforts. Mr Ahmadinejad’s relationship with Supreme Leader Khamenei collapsed in 2011 after the latter re-installed a sacked intelligence minister against his will, prompting the pr...

Key Syria Oil Field Restarts

...tput at 5,000 b/d, but without extensive investment substantial production gains are unlikely. The Al Furat fields, which produce Syrian Light crude hit 400,000 b/d in the late 1990s due to water injection but had already fallen to 91,600 b/d by the outbreak of war in 2011 (MEES, 16 May 2011) – and Ta...

UK Gas Imports From Qatar Fell To 0.79bcm For 2q18, Lowest Since 1q 2009 And A Far Cry From 2011 When The Uk Was #1 Customer

Saudi Oil Inventories (Mn Barrels): Crude Stocks At Lowest Level Since 2011; Total Oil Stocks Down 100mn Bls (24%) From 2015 Peak