1. Syria: Gas Output At 75% Pre-War Levels, Oil Recovery Lags

    ...agnation but also the exodus of some seven million Syrians abroad. OIL: FROM BAD TO WORSE   Syria’s oil outlook was precarious even before the conflict broke out, and then government-controlled output fell to 9,000 b/d by 2014. Natural declines had nearly halved output and poor contract conditions al...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2018
  2. Iraq’s Kirkuk Deployment Reshapes KRG’s Oil Sector

    ...rkuk in the process. Iraq capitalized on the Kurdish gamble, reclaiming areas seized by the KRG in 2014 with stunning decisiveness, and indeed pushing further into KRG territory. The KRG is now diminished territorially, politically and economically. It may yet recover, but it looks set to be a long and to...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 20 Oct 2017
  3. Iraq’s Mosul Offensive Begins Amid Patchwork Coalition

    ...lice personnel would enter Mosul proper. The point was to emphasize that neither Shia militias nor the Kurdish Peshmerga would be entering Sunni Arab-populated urban areas. IS has held Mosul since June 2014, when Iraqi army divisions in the north, weakened by corruption and politicization under the fo...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 21 Oct 2016
  4. Kuwait Dissolves Parliament Amidst Subsidy Reform Uproar

    ...ril). The relative détente of the past three years has provided sufficient political stability for Kuwait to award important contracts to foreign firms to develop its oil and gas sector. The impact of this is beginning to be felt, with September’s 2.86mn b/d crude output the highest since September 2014...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 21 Oct 2016
  5. Iraq Progresses With Giant Gas-Fired Plant, But Where’s The Fuel?

    ...r the current shortfall of available gas, Iraq is instead burning liquids to minimize power blackouts, including direct burn crude which averaged 223,000 b/d in July and August, a substantial hike over the average 136,000 b/d burned in 2014. Iraqi Minister of Electricity Qasim al-Fahwadi told pa...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2015
  6. 2014 Presidential Elections Dominate Algerian Politics

    ...ALGERIA   2014 Presidential Elections Dominate Algerian Politics   Three issues are dominating the present Algerian political scene: A power struggle between the supporters of Algeria’s president and the heads of the Algerian State Intelligence Service (DRS); the growing th...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 42
    Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2013