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Saudi Succession Remains Unclear
...wer to choose the crown prince (but which does not appear to have played much of a part in the appointment of a successor to Prince Sultan in 2011 or Prince Nayif in 2012). Perhaps all that can be concluded from the latest developments is that the Allegiance Commission, for whatever reasons, has yet to...
Volume: 56Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2013 -
UAE’s Dragon Oil Hikes Crude Output
... UAE UAE’s Dragon Oil Hikes Crude Output UAE-based hydrocarbons minnow, Dragon Oil, says it produced an average of 67,600 b/d of crude on average in 2012, though it increased its December average production to 73,500 b/d. This represented a 10% increase over 2011...
Volume: 56Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2013 -
Syria Announces Cabinet Reshuffle As Economy Falters
...dustries. The petroleum sector’s loss is very high, with crude oil production falling by 47% after the imposition of sanctions and the exit of foreign companies in October 2011. Syrian Prime Minister Wail al-Halqi, who retains his post after the reshuffle, acknowledged in January that “acts of te...
Volume: 56Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2013 -
IMF Says Morocco’s 2012 Growth Slows To 3.2%
...ocks, in coordination with other macroeconomic and structural policies. Morocco: Selected Economic Indicators, 2010–18 2010 2011 2012 2013 20...
Volume: 56Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2013 -
UAE Attracted $8Bn Of Capital Inflows In 2012
...Maktum, told an open forum of government officials and citizens in Dubai. He explained that large amounts of capital left Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Yemen and other Arab countries in search of safe havens after the outbreak of political and economic turmoil in early 2011. He noted that Arab ca...
Volume: 56Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2013 -
UAE Takes On The Muslim Brotherhood
...sed international Muslim Brotherhood organization. However, since the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011 the activities and objectives of Jam’iyat al-Islah, particularly in the UAE, have changed dramatically, as did the Brotherhood’s goals, which moved from merely using the Gulf state as a source of fu...
Volume: 56Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2013 -
QP Considers Next Step For North Field
...e Iranian side of the field – productivity of recently opened phases has fallen, while another drilled a dry hole, and salt water is increasingly entering some South Pars wells (MEES, 12 December 2011). Furthermore, Iran gives unreliable reports about how much gas it intends to extract and the ti...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
Iraqi Production Rise Hits Hiccup
...IRAQ Iraqi Production Rise Hits Hiccup By Rafiq Latta Iraqi production surged last year by some 300,000 b/d compared to 2011, and 2012 levels stand some 700,000 b/d higher than 2008, despite well-publicized delays on projects and a cut-off in Kurdistan Re...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
In Amenas Fallout Continues As BP And Statoil Weigh The Options
...around 3.5bcm/y – a message repeated by Mr Yousfi on 5 February. Evaluation of damage to the plant continues, Mr Yousfi added. Lost Production In Amenas output averaged 7.8bcm for both 2011 and 2012 – 10% of Algeria’s total commercial gas production – significantly below the plant’s 9b...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
Production Rise Fails To Dent Prices
...rch 2011-March 2012 Iranian year, and a 12-well drilling drive on the offshore Kish gas field. But it is clear Tehran is worried. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking on 7 February during the first visit of an Iranian President to Egypt since the 1979 Islamic revolution, responded positively to a US...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
Benchmark Crudes, Official Iraqi Oil & Gas Data and Iraqi Gas Output & Flaring
...12 2012 2011 WTI 95.83 97.44 95.83 94.88 88.26 88.25 92.21 94...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
Egypt: Eni Digs Deep
...om “at least two” planned 2013 development wells – slated to produce 2,000 b/d each – targeting the Upper and Lower Safa. Production will be delivered to the existing Melehia facilities. 2011 production, all from shallower reservoirs, was 19,000 b/d. Output has since risen sharply, with pr...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
Oman Energy Sector Changes Could Impact DME Benchmark
...ading volume on the DME climbed 25.7% to 103,904 contracts from 82,671 in December 2011. Oman crude futures is the DME’s only contract and acts as the benchmark for Oman and Dubai official selling prices (OSPs). The Oman and Dubai governments launched the DME in 2007 to create transparent pr...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
SEC Revises IPP Program To Add Second Dhuba Plant, Adjust Timings
...52gw Jiddah South-2 plant, intended for start-up in 2020. Dr Alawaji estimated that Saudi Arabia had a total available power capacity of 53gw and a peak load of 47.3gw to date. He expected electricity demand to grow by 7.6% a year in 2011-15 and 4.7% a year during 2016-20, and predicted that de...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
Schlumberger Sees Middle East As 2013 Driver Of Growth
...e company expects to achieve the highest growth in Sub-Saharan Africa – where it currently holds a strong position – and Russia, where it joined forces with Integra, a local oil services group; and Geothech Holding, a Russian seismic company, to form IG Seismic Services in December 2011. Th...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
SABIC ‘Barely Impacted’ By Strike At Dutch Subsidiary
...lyethylene and 620,000 t/y of polypropylene. SABIC’s total polymers output was 11.33mn tons in 2011. The company recently reported a net income of SR24.72bn ($6.59bn) for 2012, compared with SR29.24bn ($7.80bn) for 2011. The 15.5% decline was attributed to the “higher cost of sales and lower sales pr...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
Egypt’s Budget Deficit Rises 24%
...its Financial Monthly for January 2013. Total revenue in July-December 2012 rose 31.1% to E£152.9bn ($22.8bn) from the corresponding period of 2011, mainly as a result of the 38.1% increase in tax revenue. Income tax revenue in July-December 2012 rose by 53.1% over the same period in 2011. Non-oil ta...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
Revolutions Spiral Out Of Control
...prived southern town of Tataouine are debated (MEES, 30 November 2012). Not only has the fall in oil production of recent years continued, the decline accelerated for 2011 whilst the sharp climb in gas output over the years to 2010 has gone into reverse (see graph). Of the almost 10...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
Examining The CBI-Iraq Government Conflict – A Focus On Forex
...ccess to secure loans from the CBI to finance a possible deficit in the budget. (Article 26 of the CBI Law prohibits lending to the government.) Since then, efforts to limit the bank’s independence resulted in a decision by the High Federal Court in January 2011 to subordinate the CBI and other in...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
‘Arc Of Instability’ Spreads Across North Africa
...Dellys was attacked at least nine times between 1995 and 2008 (MEES, 28 July 2008). According to Algerian media reports a guard was killed during two further attacks in 2011. And Bouira town was the site of a double car bombing in August 2008, which killed 12 local employees of the Canadian en...
Volume: 56Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2013