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Yemen: New Import Hub Increases Houthi Economic Control
...port terminal. STRATEGIC LOCATION Ras Issa sits in a strategic bay on Yemen’s Red Sea coast. It has traditionally been the country’s primary export terminal, receiving crude oil from the Marib Basin via a 110,000 b/d pipeline. But with the onset of civil war in 2014, targeted sabotage of th...
Volume: 66Issue: 44Published at Fri, 03 Nov 2023 -
Algeria Set To Squander Energy Windfall
...cording to Finance Minister Brahim Djamel Kassali. He expects this to further rise to $60bn in 2023 (see chart 1). And having last year notched up its first trade surplus since 2014, Algeria is set to repeat the trick this year with a more substantial surplus of $17.7bn according to the latest of...
Volume: 65Issue: 44Published at Fri, 04 Nov 2022 -
Egypt Economy Marches Upwards, But Higher Oil Prices Hit Subsidy Reforms
...th May’s $503.1mn the highest since August 2014 (MEES, 26 October). Its share of state revenue has also risen from 11% in 2016-17 to 12% in 2017-18. After a sluggish start, Egypt is now reaping the rewards of its $8.5bn August 2015 canal expansion. Revenues fell in 2015 and 2016 but rose in 2017 an...
Volume: 61Issue: 44Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2018 -
Iran Reshuffles Cabinet Ahead Of US Sanctions
...change was in April 2014 at the height of US and EU sanctions, but this failed with just one very small lot of crude oil sold. Exporting oil by the private sector also risks encouraging corruption in countries under sanctions, as witnessed in Iran with the notorious case of Babak Zanjani, the Iranian bu...
Volume: 61Issue: 44Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2018 -
UAE Plans 3% Spending Cut For 2017
...er a five-year period with the aim of fulfilling the objectives of the UAE Vision 2021. Previously the UAE had issued a three-year budget for 2014-16, also intended as a planning tool to implement longer term policies (MEES, 17 October 2014). More than half of the 2017 budget outlay some Dh 25...
Volume: 59Issue: 44Published at Fri, 04 Nov 2016 -
Algeria: Forex Down Again, On Track For $20bn Deficit
...ES CALCULATIONS. ALGERIA’S FOREIGN CURRENCY RESERVES ($BN, END PERIOD) *FORECAST BY PRIME MINISTER SELLAL, JULY 2016.SOURCE: ALGERIAN CENTRAL BANK, IMF, APS. ALGERIA: LATEST TRADE FIGURES INDICATE 2016 OIL & GAS EXPORT EARNINGS DOWN 58% FROM 2014...
Volume: 59Issue: 44Published at Fri, 04 Nov 2016 -
UAE Cuts Federal Budget By 4% For 2016
...d $1.21trillion in total assets as of end-June, up by a healthy $136bn on October 2014, according to the US-based SWF Institute. This is almost 18% of global holdings, the largest single national share. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is by far the UAE’s largest such fund with $773bn in reserve as...
Volume: 58Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2015 -
Russia Denies Syria $1bn
...lf of 2014, according to government sources – a mere 4.4% of 385,000 b/d pre-war oil output (MEES, 3 October). The Syrian government now issues a weekly list of prices of subsidized petroleum products, including diesel, heating oil and gasoline, to regulate the market in the light of changing su...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
GCC Countries Face Up To Falling Oil Prices
...the Gulf countries, expansion into foreign markets and boosting competitiveness. GCC countries’ overall current account surplus could plunge to about $100bn in 2015 from $275bn in 2014 if oil prices hold at about $80/B, IMF Regional Director Masood Ahmed told Bloomberg this week. MENA Oil Ex...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
UAE Issues 2014 Budget
...UAE UAE Issues 2014 Budget The UAE cabinet on 27 October approved the 2014 federal budget with total expenditure of Dh46.2bn ($12.6bn), of which more than half is allocated to welfare. The original 2013 budget had projected expenditure at Dh44.6bn (Dh12.1bn), but the go...
Volume: 56Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013