- Sort by:
- Score
- Published ▼
-
Iran Mulls Offering South Pars To IOCs As Opening Delayed
...ll behind schedule, whilst oil production and exports are now running at just two-thirds, and one half of 2011 levels respectively. But, as Iran continues its diplomatic push towards an agreement with the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the US, UK, France, China and Ru...
Volume: 57Issue: 35Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014 -
Israel Refineries Hit Throughput Record, Diesel Exports Boom
...14 1H13 ‘000 b/d ***% 2013 2012 ‘000 b/d ***% 2011 2010 2009 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 35Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014 -
GTL Back On The Radar For Mideast Downstream Planners
...2006 Qatar Shell/QP Pearl GTL, Ras Laffan 140 2011 Pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 35Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014 -
Saudi Aramco To Invest $40bn Annually
...0bn barrels to existing resources. Saudi Arabia has 260bn barrels of recoverable reserves, a number that has remained constant even as output has risen steadily over the past decade to exceed an annual average above 9mn b/d since 2011. In addition to improved reservoir management, Aramco is lo...
Volume: 57Issue: 35Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014 -
IDB Loans Egypt $425mn
...ruggling to revive its sagging economy, following the decline in growth since the overthrow of former president Husni Mubarak in early 2011. Egypt is seen by Gulf countries as key to stability throughout the Arab and Muslim world; stability which needs to be reinforced at a time of major political up...
Volume: 57Issue: 35Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014 -
Indonesia’s Medco Returns To Tunisia As N American Firms Pull Back From MENA
...7.7mn sold Medco its Storm Ventures International subsidiary that holds the rights to the blocks. The deal once again gives Medco a foothold in Tunisia after it had relinquished its blocks in the country in 2011. Unlike other North African countries such as Libya and Algeria, Tunisia is not a major oi...
Volume: 57Issue: 35Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014 -
Saudi Arabia Official Crude & Products Output, Consumption And Trade Figures, 1h 2014 (‘000 B/D)
...13 2012 2011 2010 2009 Crude Production 9780 +75 +138 9705 9660 97...
Volume: 57Issue: 35Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...13 2012 2011 WTI 94.55 94.39 97.19 102.36 105.13 103.00 98.56 98...
Volume: 57Issue: 35Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014 -
South Sudan Oil Sector Takes Hit With Exxon Exit
...stopped operations at the block in 1985, after the resumption of the former Sudan’s decades-long civil war, which ultimately ended with a 2005 peace deal that paved the way for the South’s secession in 2011. And despite regularly talking up its plans to resume exploration at the block, it is yet to...
Volume: 57Issue: 34Published at Fri, 22 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 -
Oman Oil Names Former Oxy Executive As New CEO
...$8mn from a senior official at Korea’s LG International some years ago, after the Korean firm won a total of $2bn-plus in contracts related to key downstream projects. The case came to light two years after the Omani leader Sultan Qaboos launched an anti-graft campaign in 2011, aimed at de...
Volume: 57Issue: 34Published at Fri, 22 Aug 2014 -
Arab Bank In Court
...nks – like France’s BNP Paribas – have faced US charges for doing business with countries against which the US has sanctions in place. The case may have implications for banks elsewhere in the Middle East. Lebanese banks, for instance, are notoriously secretive. In 2011, US Treasury Department ac...
Volume: 57Issue: 34Published at Fri, 22 Aug 2014 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...12 2011 WTI 93.96 97.19 97.52 102.36 105.13 103.00 98.56 98.03 94...
Volume: 57Issue: 34Published at Fri, 22 Aug 2014 -
Kurdistan Grapples With ISIS Threat; Oil Output Steady For Now
...reign oil companies, including ExxonMobil, whose entry into Iraqi Kurdistan in 2011 gave the KRG a claim of legitimacy that the smaller independents could not provide. Evacuations Continue But with evacuations of foreign staff underway by several of the more than 50 operators in the Kurdish oil se...
Volume: 57Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2014 -
Israel Upgrading Power Plants To Exploit Natural Gas Reserves
...wnward trend (see graph). Israel has been slowly phasing out the use of both in power plants since 2008 when it began importing Egyptian gas. The sharp downward trend – gasoil consumption alone halved in 2009 – was temporarily sent into reverse in 2011 and 2012, when Egypt first reduced shipments and th...
Volume: 57Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2014 -
Jordan Advances Solar Plans In Restive Southern Deserts
...the wake of 2011 regional unrest – is in talks to finance several smaller PV plants in the Ma’an area through loan packages. The three projects, totaling 40 MW, are being developed by Norway’s Scatec Solar and the European Jordanian Renewable Energy Projects company. The EBRD says that it may pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 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 -
Saudi Set For $28bn 2014 Surplus
...13 2012 2011 2010 2009 Actual* vs13% Bud. Actual Bu...
Volume: 57Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2014 -
Jordan: $1bn Eurobond
...F-backed economic reforms which are aimed at reducing state subsidies. Until 2011 Jordan received cheap Egyptian gas; but Egypt no longer has enough gas for export. Meanwhile fighting between ISIS Jihadists (now IS) and Baghdad in Iraq’s Anbar province bordering Jordan put an end to the import of...
Volume: 57Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2014 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...13 2012 2011 WTI 95.58 97.52 99.79 102.36 105.13 103.00 98.56 98...
Volume: 57Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2014