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Tunisia’s Oil & Gas Output Falls Amid IOC Disinterest
...thout considering the firm’s limited technical capabilities. For Shell, the exit has been a long-time coming. It has only reluctantly operated in Tunisia since being landed with Miskar and Hadsrubal through its 2016 takeover of BG Group. It tried and failed to sell the assets for $500mn in 2017 (ME...
Volume: 65Issue: 34Published at Fri, 26 Aug 2022 -
Iran’s Energy Sector: Lots Of Bluster But Limited Progress
...m/year to the sultanate for re-export through the Oman LNG facilities (MEES, 14 March 2014). Notably, Oman was to be supplied with volumes from the Kish field. In 2017 a new route was approved to avoid UAE waters (MEES, 24 March 2017), but other than that there was no apparent progress between the ea...
Volume: 65Issue: 31Published at Fri, 05 Aug 2022 -
Iran Halts Power Exports To Iraq As Baghdad Struggles To Curb Attacks On Pylons
...66bn cfd earlier this year, flows now stand at just 800mn cfd, of which around 700mn cfd is to central Iraq and the remainder to Basra. Even at 1.66bn cfd, flows were well down on the 2.47bn cfd contractual obligation. Iran-Iraq gas flows averaged 1bn cfd for 2020. Flows started in 2017 with the op...
Volume: 64Issue: 33Published at Fri, 20 Aug 2021 -
Tunisia At The Crossroads
...der 25, whose inability to secure formal employment was a key catalyst for the 2010-11 revolution. Creating jobs is thus a political imperative for Tunisia. And an economic one too if is to reach its stated aim of a 3.9% fiscal deficit, down from 2018’s 4.6% and 2017’s 6% (see table). PUBLIC SE...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Saudi Woos Pakistan’s New PM But Qatar To Remain Key LNG Supplier
...participate in the economic embargo imposed against Qatar since June 2017 (MEES, 9 June 2017). That Pakistan may now be prepared to tack towards Saudi Arabia’s Qatar policy was indicated by Pakistan’s newly-appointed Minister for Petroleum Ghulam Sarwar Khan (no relation to the PM) who this we...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Oman’s Duqm Development: Dustbowl Or ‘Dubai’?
...erambition. But after five years of mostly bluster, developments are finally picking up. Chinese consortium Oman Wanfang announced in April 2017 the construction of a $10.7bn industrial park – the Sino-Oman Industrial City (see map): preliminary work has begun. Duqm’s airport is also set to see the 17 Se...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Syria: Upcoming Idlib Campaign Disturbs Power Balance
...vements on the front suggest the campaign could commence any day. But unlike Mr Assad’s other gains, which involved battering increasingly stretched and isolated rebel factions, regional player Turkey has a keen interest in Idlib. Under a 2017 Astana agreement between Moscow, Tehran and Ankara, Turkey wa...
Volume: 61Issue: 34Published at Fri, 24 Aug 2018 -
Libya’s Financial Black Hole
...ude prices, which at an average of $69.2/B for Libya’s light Es Sider crude, are up $19/B (38%) year on year. Hydrocarbons earnings, at LD15.6bn ($11.3bn) for 1H 2018, were 16% above the budget figure. They were also more than double the LD6.8bn earned from hydrocarbons in the first half of 2017: as we...
Volume: 61Issue: 33Published at Fri, 17 Aug 2018 -
Libya Power Expansion Going Nowhere, Blackouts Continue
...gineers were kidnapped last November (MEES, 24 November 2017). Three Turkish engineers (though apparently not their South African colleague) were released in late June, but work has yet to restart. Enka’s website gives the planned completion date as 1 August 2015. Sharply lower gas output resulting fr...
Volume: 61Issue: 33Published at Fri, 17 Aug 2018 -
Turkey Plans East Med Drilling: Politics Over Geology?
...will drill the first well… off the coast of Antalya… within Turkish economic waters,” he said 8 August. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, meanwhile, on 3 August announced that Turkey will acquire a second drillship. Turkey only acquired its first drillship late 2017, paying $200mn for the ‘De...
Volume: 61Issue: 32Published at Fri, 10 Aug 2018 -
Iraq: Saudi Power Play As Protests Continue
...sengaged entirely, creating a vacuum on which rival Iran capitalized. Riyadh is now belatedly seeking to engage, particularly since now-Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman began deciding the kingdom’s foreign policy in 2015 (MEES, 27 October 2017). Though few concrete developments have so far ma...
Volume: 61Issue: 31Published at Fri, 03 Aug 2018 -
Egypt: Mid-Size E&Ps Still Living Hand-To-Mouth Despite Gas Renaissance
...velopment, which is 80% complete and due for December 2017 start-up, by managing to pay off a large part of the receivables the firm is owed. At the end of 2016 Eni was owed $611mn, with $420mn overdue, but that has now almost been halved to $310mn with no amount overdue. Eni’s 10% partner in Zohr, UK ma...
Volume: 60Issue: 33Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2017 -
Qatar Oil & Gas Revenues Fall To Eight Month Low
...Qatar’s hydrocarbon revenues, and those from oil exports in particular, fell sharply in June amid ongoing geopolitical upheaval. Qatar’s 2017 deficit is already on track to exceed the budget figure, weakening revenues would provide a further blow. Qatari oil and gas export revenues fell to...
Volume: 60Issue: 31Published at Fri, 04 Aug 2017 -
Oman Taps China For $3.6bn Amid Ratings Downgrade
...tracted strong interest, prompting the government to raise the size from the original $2bn target. The ministry says the loan completes Oman’s external funding requirements for 2017 whilst adding geographical diversity to Oman’s external funding sources – past funding has largely come from western ba...
Volume: 60Issue: 31Published at Fri, 04 Aug 2017 -
New Iraqi Oil Minister Sets Out Priorities
...l production if it’s going to substantially boost its oil revenues. But this doesn’t look like occurring any time soon. UAE’s Taqa announced last week that first oil at the Atrush field – planned for 30,000 b/d – might slip into Q1 2017. Taqa is partnered with US-firm Marathon and Canada’s Sh...
Volume: 59Issue: 33Published at Fri, 19 Aug 2016 -
GCC Fiscal Reforms: Long Overdue And A Long Road Ahead
...arter of this year. The agreement paves the way for the introduction of these taxes in the GCC from 1 January 2017, for excise duty, and 1 January 2018, for VAT, respectively. The introduction of a GCC-wide VAT of 5% in 2018 will play a central role in supporting revenue diversification, however the li...
Volume: 59Issue: 33Published at Fri, 19 Aug 2016