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Russian Warships To Escort Iranian Oil Tankers To Syria
...MAGE’ In January, Syria’s Prime Minister Hussein Arnous put production from government controlled territories at 20,000 b/d. Prior to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the government’s production across the country was 390,000 b/d (MEES, 22 January). Plans to grow production from fields Da...
Volume: 64Issue: 16Published at Fri, 23 Apr 2021 -
Libya’s Financial Vulnerabilities Laid Bare By Dwindling Oil Revenue
...ccessive governments following the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 tried to reign in militias by co-opting them into the system and handing them salaries. The state ultimately failed to control them, but it continued to pay their wages. Fast forward a few years and some of those militias have al...
Volume: 63Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2020 -
Syria Emerges As Iran’s Top Crude ‘Customer’
...TTER OF SURVIVAL Iran’s Syria crude trade was never supposed to be about economics – rather it was about keeping key ally President Bashar al-Assad in power. And for Mr Assad, the Iranian credit line to import free crude was a matter of survival. Prior to the outbreak of war in 2011, Sy...
Volume: 63Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2020 -
Battle For Tripoli Rages On
...far, no disruption has been reported. GREATEST THREAT In a meeting with GNA prime minister Fayez Sarraj, NOC head Mustafa Sanalla said oil and gas exports face their greatest threat since 2011. He also told the Financial Times on 11 April: “Unless the problem is solved very quickly, I am...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Israel-Egypt Gas ‘By End-Q2’: Is This Realistic?
...URCE: NOBLE ENERGY, DELEK GROUP, MEES. ARBITRATION HURDLE The start of Israel-Egypt gas shipments also requires the resolution of a long-running legal dispute over Cairo halting of gas flows via the EMG to Israel in 2011 (MEES, 11 December 2015). In 2015, the Geneva-based International Ch...
Volume: 62Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2019 -
Lebanon's Gas Hype: Is It All Hot Air?
...mmercial discovery is a fait accompli. But Lebanon needn’t look far for examples of the tricky realities of East Med development: after discovering the 5tcf Aphrodite field in 2011, many of the island’s “experts” and officials boasted as if Cyprus were the new Qatar (MEES, 10 April 2015). Israel’s 22tcf Le...
Volume: 61Issue: 17Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018 -
Tunisia Awaits $2.5bn In Fresh Aid As Economy Undershoots, Energy Bill Soars
...her in the Arab Spring in 2011, Tunisia has been seen as the last best hope of an Arab democratic transition, prompting international donors to pledge financial support. TUNISIA- IMF FORECASTS: REPEAT DOWNGRADES TO PAST PROJECTIONS UNDERMINE FORECASTS OF FUTURE IMPROVEMENT ON GR...
Volume: 60Issue: 16Published at Fri, 21 Apr 2017 -
Return Of Iranian Crude Makes Big Splash In Europe
...mmission. Of this, $812mn (17% of the total) came in December thanks to a confluence of high export volumes and rising prices. By comparison, EU imports of Iranian crude in 2011 were valued at $23.5bn. Iran’s EU successes last year made it the 9th largest supplier of crude to the bloc, but it remains well do...
Volume: 60Issue: 14Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2017 -
Obama Looks To Mend Fences In Riyadh
...s not a direct attack on Saudi Arabia, but a call for a more collaborative approach to regional security. Recalling pressure for the US to intervene in Libya in 2011, Mr Obama told The Atlantic’s Jeffery Goldberg that he wants “Europeans and Gulf countries to be actively involved in the coalition.” Th...
Volume: 59Issue: 16Published at Fri, 22 Apr 2016 -
Libya Unity Government Faces Huge Challenges
...rack Obama described the failure to properly prepare for the 2011 ousting of Libyan leader Colonel Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi as the greatest error of his presidency, the new Western-backed government in Tripoli faces huge challenges if it is to establish its legitimacy in the conflict-torn country. Asked in...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
Firms Face Up To Mounting Libya Write-Offs
...LIBYA Firms Face Up To Mounting Libya Write-Offs The past year has seen a significant downturn in output for oil companies operating in Libya, with several firms recording their worst year since the toppling of Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi in 2011, and others deciding to write-off expenses fr...
Volume: 58Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2015 -
Libya’s NOC Could Be Split By Baida Power Grab
...ARTUP IMMINENT The Eni-operated Bu Attifel fields on Blocks NC-100 and NC-125 in the far east of the Sirte Basin may be close to a resumption in output, according to a report in the local Libya Herald on 5 April. Prior to the 2011 unseating of Gaddafi, the field had capacity of 95,000 b/d, but this ha...
Volume: 58Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015 -
Libya: GNC Sacks PM As Oil Output Rises With Prospect Of More to Come
...e UN Security Council adopted resolution 2214, which called on the sanctions committee set up in 2011 to “consider expeditiously” the “transfer or supply of arms and related materiel” to the Libyan government for the use by its official armed forces to combat IS, Ansar al- Sharia, al-Qa’ida and th...
Volume: 58Issue: 14Published at Fri, 03 Apr 2015 -
Syria: Between A Rock And A Hard Place
...test the waters, and could resort to larger shipments in future. Syria’s revolution started in March 2011 with mainly peaceful demonstrations. Army deserters established the moderate Free Syrian Army, a grouping of militias that remains splintered. Islamist militias followed. Both the Free Sy...
Volume: 57Issue: 17Published at Fri, 25 Apr 2014 -
MENA Countries Hike Defense Spending For 2013
...stern Anbar province bordering Syria. Bahrain has beefed up arms purchases since mass protests by its marginalized Shi’a majority were suppressed with the help of its GCC neighbors in 2011.Oman’s military spending fell 27% in 2013, although this comes on the back of a more than doubling in spending be...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
Iraqi Provincial Elections: Prelude To A New Balance Of Power
...ections, down from 72% in previous elections in 2009. The drop reflects growing disillusionment with the post-2003 political process. The April 2013 elections are the first to be held following the departure of US forces in late 2011. Iraqis typically vote on the basis of their sectarian or et...
Volume: 56Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2013 -
US Pressure Smothers Kurdish Oil Export Ambitions
...ar or so, this was a policy that lacked teeth. After an initial entry of US firms in 2007 into the region, American investment gathered momentum in 2010 and 2011 (see table). This investment influx coupled with the active participation of former US officials as consultants in the sector, al...
Volume: 56Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2013 -
Egypt: Fraying At The Seams
...d been founded. Shell and Statoil – both deepwater heavyweights – gave up deepwater exploration in 2011, not because there was no gas, but because rising costs left them unable to see a way of commercially exploiting any discoveries. And this is with Egypt – unlike Cyprus or Israel – al...
Volume: 56Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2013 -
Comment: Domestic Problems Vex Egypt’s Regional Role
...ve been weakened, not strengthened. Egypt has traditionally played a dominant role in regional Middle Eastern politics, and in the wake of the 2011 revolution it was widely expected that Cairo would reclaim this position for the first time since the Camp David Accords in 1978. However, th...
Volume: 56Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2013