1. Egypt Water Security Concerns Rise As Ethiopia Inaugurates Nile Dam

    ...hiopia began work on the $5bn megaproject in 2011. It hopes that the 5.15GW hydroelectric dam will supply power to the 65 million (over 50% of the population) who currently lack access to any form of electricity. It will double the country’s electricity generation capacity and turn Ethiopia into Africa’s la...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 37
    Published at Fri, 12 Sep 2025
  2. Algeria To Step On The Gas: Max Revenue For Minimal Spend Amid Opec Constraints

    ...R project by Sonatrach and its then-partner BP, output from REB dropped to about 20,000 b/d in 2011, compared to a peak of about 85,000 b/d in early 2000. BP withdrew from the project in 2012 (MEES, 12 March 2012). Diversion of gas from REB would free up about 12mn m³/d (425mn cfd or 4.4bcm/y) ac...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 37
    Published at Fri, 15 Sep 2017
  3. Syrian Oil: ‘$48Bn Losses’

    ...SYRIA Syrian Oil: ‘$48Bn Losses’ Damascus says “direct and indirect loss” to the oil and gas sector in Syria since the March 2011 start of the country’s civil war have reached $48bn. Oil minister Sulaiman al-‘Abbas, tells local daily al-Watan that since then “terrorist groups” ha...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 37
    Published at Fri, 11 Sep 2015
  4. Obama Pursues Diplomatic Option On Syria

    ...wer. The Syrian regime will say, as it did after losing the Golan Heights in 1967, that it is victorious because it survives.   Since it began in March 2011, Syria’s civil war has been fought at various local, regional and global levels.  Domestically, over 100,000 people have been killed and mi...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 37
    Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013
  5. Hopes High For Oil Restart As Sudans Return To Talks

    ...venues was one of the main issues left unresolved when the South broke away from Sudan in July 2011, taking with it around 75% of Sudan’s historical oil reserves (MEES, 9 July 2011). The two sides had since been locked in a bitter dispute which came to a head in late January, when the South shut down its 35...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 37
    Published at Fri, 07 Sep 2012