1. Iran Hopes To Develop Iraq Border Fields, Finances & Technology Stand In The Way

    ...er to the new administration was development of the Azar field. Production began at 30,000 b/d in 2017 and had hit 65,000 b/d and 71.5mn cfd by the end of the 2020-21 Iranian year. On the Iraqi side of the border, the field is operated by Russia’s Gazprom Neft and is known as Badra.   The ne...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 39
    Published at Fri, 01 Oct 2021
  2. Iran Oil Exports Go Dark As Sanctions Loom

    ...VE SINCE DROPPED BELOW 2MN B/D* (‘000 B/D) *AUGUST FIGURES ARE MEES ESTIMATES EXCEPT FOR JAPAN & SOUTH KOREA. SOURCE: IMPORT STATS, MEES.   EUROPE STRUGGLING TO REPAIR IRAN DEAL        After averaging 570,000 b/d over the course of 2017, EU imports from Iran have now fallen be...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 39
    Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2018
  3. KRG’s Troubled Waters

    ...0 B/D)   2017* vs 2016* 2014 2015 Tawke 111.0 3....

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 39
    Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017
  4. Assad Looks To Rebuild As Syria War Enters Final Act

    ...maged by IS rockets launched during the Palmyra offensive in early 2017. Small-scale production of 35mn cfd at Ebla resumed this month: Mr Ghanem optimistically claims this will ramp up to 75% of pre-war production, 66mn cfd, by 2018. Gas production is crucial to meeting Syria’s domestic power de...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 39
    Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017
  5. IS, Syria, Yemen – World Leaders Face ‘Crisis-Control’ On Multiple Fronts, IISS Says

    ...ipman. “Multiple strategic earthquakes” have left “world leaders in a constant state of crisis control.” As a result, said Mr Chipman, “foreign policy has become and will continue to be in 2017 a branch of psychology. Managing competing interests or settling neat balances of power…will be superseded by th...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 39
    Published at Fri, 30 Sep 2016
  6. Kurdish Political Unity Fragments As Barzani Reaches Out To Baghdad

    ...litics is becoming increasingly fractious and there is a growing geographical split between the KDP-dominated Erbil and the PUK/Goran-stronghold of Sulaymaniyah. With parliamentary elections due by September 2017, the region’s political stability could deteriorate further. Its demise was the cu...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 39
    Published at Fri, 30 Sep 2016