1. Kurdistan Oil Sector Outperforming Expectations in 2018

    ...likely, but the 10,000 b/d production facilities are relatively close to a light oil discovery by Total and US firm Marathon that lies within the same current block (Block 11). The 43°API discovery at the Jisik-1 well in the now-defunct Harir block flowed at 6,100 b/d according to Total in 2014 (MEES, 5 De...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018
  2. Turkey Mixes Business & Politics As Qatar LNG Surges

    ...13 2014 2015 2016 2017 Russia (P) 12.57 -1.71 -12.0 14.27 19.47 17.58 25.41 26.49 26.21 26.98 26.78 24...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 35
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  3. Sinai Insecurity: Sisi’s Achilles’ Heel

    ...litants in the region were made up of disaffected Bedouin tribesmen but since 2014, a local group called Ansar Bait al-Maqdis pledged its allegiance to IS, rebranding as the latter’s ‘Sinai Province’. This group claimed responsibility for the downing of a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai in Oc...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018
  4. Iraq Readies Baiji Unit

    ...Iraq is ready to restart one of three units at the Baiji refinery in Salahuddin province, which was badly damaged by Islamic State jihadists in June 2014. A unit which had 70,000 b/d crude distillation capacity before the destruction is now expected to process 60,000 b/d. “The re...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018
  5. Israel Refiners Pump At Record Levels

    ...17). 2018 should see a reverse of that trend. First half gasoline output of 88,500 b/d puts Israel on track to top the previous annual output record of 84,500 b/d set in 2014 (MEES, 25 March 2015), whilst Bazan in its first half report says that national consumption of transport fuels gasoline, diesel an...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018
  6. Algeria Halves Trade Deficit, Thanks To Higher Oil Prices

    ...tal exports, though this would be the lowest share since the turn of the millennium. Based on year to date figures and the current oil futures price, MEES estimates that for 2018 as a whole Algeria will earn $42.2bn in export revenues, up 17% on 2017’s $35.2bn and the highest figure since 2014 wh...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018
  7. Key Syria Oil Field Restarts

    ....3%, India’s ONGC 9.4%) until fighting halted output in 2013 (MEES, 5 April 2013). Islamic State militants subsequently resumed production after seizing the fields in 2014. The Financial Times in 2016 estimated output from the field at 10-12,000 b/d under IS-operation. One report puts current Tanak ou...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 35
    Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018