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Kurdistan Slams Baghdad Over Continued Pipeline Closure
...rkuk-Ceyhan crude oil export pipeline which has been offline since the Islamic State damaged it in 2014 (see map, p10 & MEES, 12 April). Iraq optimistically says the pipeline could be up and running by the end of this month – mere days away – and will be capable of exporting 350,000 b/d. MEES un...
Volume: 67Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 -
Iraq Awards Akkas To Ukrainian Unknowns
...rce majeure in 2014 when the field was overrun by Islamic State militants, and even after the area was retaken by Iraqi security forces cited security concerns and refused to resume work. More recently Saudi Aramco was tapped for the project amid a thawing of relations between the two Gulf ne...
Volume: 67Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 -
Egypt-Turkey Talks: Gaza Conflict Tops Agenda As Relations Thaw
...RMALIZATION The landmark presidential visits are the first since relations soured over a decade ago after Sisi ousted Turkey-backed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in a 2013 military coup (MEES, 5 July 2013), assuming the presidency a year later (MEES, 26 June 2014). In the years that followed, Turkey gr...
Volume: 67Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 -
UN Libya Envoy Quits, Slams Squabbling Politicians
...sources since 2014, further stalling the much-anticipated elections originally slated for 2021 (MEES, 17 December 2021). In an effort to revive the electoral process, Mr Bathily set up a High-level Steering Panel for Libya to determine the electoral laws in spring 2023. But the initiative failed to br...
Volume: 67Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 -
Iraq Aims To Restart Kirkuk-Turkey Pipeline
...lamic State in 2014 (MEES, 5 December 2014), Mr Khudaier says he expects “flows by the end of this month.” Any flows are likely to be small at first, but prior to the shut-in of the Kurdistan Region’s alternative pipeline last year, Federal Iraq was exporting around 100,000 b/d to Turkey....
Volume: 67Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 -
Libya’s Mabruk: 2025 Restart?
...France’s TotalEnergies reveals in its 2023 annual report on 29 March that output at Libya’s Mabruk field will restart next year at best. The field in Libya’s Sirte Basin oil heartland has not produced since being overrun and badly damaged by IS-affiliated militants in December 2014 (MEES, 6 Ma...
Volume: 67Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2024