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Libya Instability Back With A Vengeance With Half Output Shut In
...untry in fear for their lives. Mr Kabir had, at least until recently, been a well-respected and long-standing governor: almost uniquely among Libyan officials the veteran had been in the post for the whole of Libya’s post-revolutionary period, since 2011. When Mr Kabir’s position came under threat ea...
Volume: 67Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2024 -
New Iran Cabinet Brings Back Shades Of Ahmadinejad
...ree branches of government: the presidency, parliament and judiciary. OWJI FOR OIL For the high-profile petroleum ministry, Mr Raisi nominated Javad Owji, who served under the former ultra-conservative petroleum minister Rostam Ghasemi as deputy minister from 2011 to 2013. His former boss had be...
Volume: 64Issue: 32Published at Fri, 13 Aug 2021 -
Libya: Symptoms Of A Failed State
...shed hundreds to the streets this week across key parts of the war-torn country. The overthrow of long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 marked the beginning of a series of conflicts that has gradually led to a deep fragmentation of Libya. As a result, the ability of the ‘state’ to cater for the ba...
Volume: 63Issue: 35Published at Fri, 28 Aug 2020 -
IAEA Inspectors Return To Iran Sites Amid US Threats
...ternationally until US President Donald Trump unilaterally resumed sanctions in May 2018 – lost patience with Iran over the access issue and adopted a resolution calling for Tehran to “fully cooperate” with the IAEA (MEES, 19 June). Iran began its foray into nuclear power in 2011 with the operation of a 1GW re...
Volume: 63Issue: 35Published at Fri, 28 Aug 2020 -
Washington’s Obsession With Syrian Oil: What’s It All About?
...Donald Trump is fixated on oil fields in Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria, and has finally found a US firm to ‘develop’ them. But is it anything more than a political play? Since the beginning of Syria’s civil war in 2011, supporters of President Bashar al-Assad’s government have often po...
Volume: 63Issue: 33Published at Fri, 14 Aug 2020 -
Turkey’s Plan For The East Mediterranean: Disrupt, Stir Up, And Provoke
...y. CLAIMS AND COUNTERCLAIMS IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY Turkey certainly aims to show it means business. Since the 2011 discovery of the 4.2tcf Aphrodite field by US firm Noble Energy in RoC-awarded Block 12 - and the subsequent 2018 Calypso and 2019 Gl...
Volume: 62Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2019 -
Tunisia At The Crossroads
...llowing the 2011 ouster of long-time ruler Zine al Abidine Ben Ali and into a young democracy. As prime minister of the transitional government in 2011, the secularist Mr Essebsi could have caused all sorts of problems for the ‘Islamist’ Ennahda party which won the October 2011 elections. He chose not to...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Sinai Insecurity: Sisi’s Achilles’ Heel
...cade intended to flush out Sinai-based militants. ‘Operation Eagle’ was launched in August 2011 and ‘Operation Sinai’ a year later but neither have effectively rid the region of militants. The main focus of COS has been around the towns of Arish, Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah, the region in the northeast of...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Oman’s Duqm Development: Dustbowl Or ‘Dubai’?
...ptember opening of a new passenger terminal: it remains to be seen if more flights will materialize. DUQM SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE (PLANNED) ALL ABOUT THE REFINERY The Special Economic Zone of Duqm (SEZAD) was established in 2011 to “diversify the national economy.” But recent mo...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Libya Power Expansion Going Nowhere, Blackouts Continue
...e 2011 revolution, capacity was 7.1GW, according to IEA estimates. Things have also been far from plain sailing at Libya’s key ongoing power project, the 640MW Ubari plant in Libya’s remote southwest. As with a planned plant in Tobruk (awarded to Greek firm Mytilineos), this is designed to use ga...
Volume: 61Issue: 33Published at Fri, 17 Aug 2018 -
Turkey Plans East Med Drilling: Politics Over Geology?
...unters with either military muscle or by stepping up its own ‘plans’ for hydrocarbon exploration. This was the case back in 2011 when US firm Noble began drilling Block 12 off southeast Cyprus (MEES, 26 September 2011), and Turkey further ramped up the rhetoric after Noble’s drilling resulted in the 5tcf Ap...
Volume: 61Issue: 32Published at Fri, 10 Aug 2018 -
Syria’s Iranian Crude Imports Dwindle, But Data Suggests It’s Finding Other Sources
...ort of 7,700 b/d in the first half of 2016. Syria’s first half 2016 official production compares with 9,500 b/d for 2015 and represents less than 2% of the 387,000 b/d recorded in first quarter 2011, before the start of Syria’s civil war. ALTERNATIVE SUPPLIES Mr Ghanim’s data su...
Volume: 59Issue: 34Published at Fri, 26 Aug 2016 -
Politics And Prices Stifling East Mediterranean Gas Hopes
...rdan to a lesser extent), but history shows that any deal to send Israeli gas to Egypt or vice versa is at best risky. Egypt’s former oil minister Sameh Fahmi was sentenced to 15 years in jail in 2012 for his role in the 2005 deal to send Egyptian gas to Israel, which was terminated following the 2011 ou...
Volume: 59Issue: 33Published at Fri, 19 Aug 2016 -
IDB Loans Egypt $425mn
...ruggling to revive its sagging economy, following the decline in growth since the overthrow of former president Husni Mubarak in early 2011. Egypt is seen by Gulf countries as key to stability throughout the Arab and Muslim world; stability which needs to be reinforced at a time of major political up...
Volume: 57Issue: 35Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014 -
Algeria: Terrorist Threat Low, But IOCs Keep An Eye On Security
...ys Riccardo Fabiani, an analyst at the Eurasia Group. And while the Algerian military were not deemed to be up to the task in 2011, some oil executives are now confident that the security forces have responded well to the shock of In Amenas. “We are conscious of what happened last year, co...
Volume: 57Issue: 34Published at Fri, 22 Aug 2014 -
Pressure Eases As Yemen Secures Long-Awaited Loan
...y oil and gas infrastructure has been regularly targeted by Islamic militants and tribesmen alike, since the start of anti-government protests in 2011. The protests, and the eventual ouster of President Salih the following year, left a power vacuum in the state that militants have since been looking to...
Volume: 57Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2014 -
Confusion Reigns As Iran Denies Russia Oil Deal Reports
...anian oil exports are down by more than 1mn b/d on average over the past 12 to 16 months, relative to 2011 levels, on the back of international sanctions placed on it on account of its nuclear program (MEES, 1 August). Given Russia’s place among the P5+1 group of world powers currently in ne...
Volume: 56Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2014 -
Libya: Anarchy Entrenched As Fighting Continues
...uld be a first step towards strengthening central government in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution that toppled Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi. The despot left behind few state institutions that could be used as the basis for a functioning government; instead power quickly fell to the disparate militia groups th...
Volume: 57Issue: 31Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2014 -
Rohani Champions Diplomacy Despite Ongoing Sanctions Threat
...60,000 b/d through December 2013. State-owned IOC, India’s third largest customer of Iranian crude, has slashed the volume of crude oil it plans to purchase from Iran in the upcoming fiscal year by almost one quarter. This move is in line with US legislation passed in December 2011 cu...
Volume: 56Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2013