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Will Trump’s Mediation Finally Resolve The Egypt-Ethiopia Dam Dispute?
...naissance Dam (GERD) (MEES, 12 September 2025), US President Donald Trump has waded back into the 15-year dispute over Nile water security, offering to mediate between Ethiopia and the downstream states of Egypt and Sudan. Ethiopia broke ground on the $5bn megaproject in 2011, while Egypt was busy qu...
Volume: 69Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2026 -
Trump Intervention Throws Iraqi Politics Into Disarray
...d then supported his crackdown on Shia militias during his first term in office. But after the US military withdrawal in 2011 he drew closer to Iran, while the rise of the Islamic State during his second term further tarnished his reputation in Washington. While Iraq’s Sunnis publicly opposed a Ma...
Volume: 69Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2026 -
Syria Boosts Domestic Gas Supplies
...mand, and Syria has also signed agreements to import pipeline gas from neighboring states (see p12). SPC has also now started trucking crude oil from the Jebissa and Deir Ezzor’s Omar and Tanak fields to the Homs and Banias refineries. Prior to the start of Syria’s civil war in 2011, the fields were pa...
Volume: 69Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2026 -
Libya Takes ‘Pivotal Step’ With First Deepwater Well
...adames Basin (see map & MEES, 4 June 2007). The UK major pledged to spend $900mn drilling 17 wells at the assets, but the plans were disrupted by the 2011 revolution and the ensuing instability. Eni has since taken over as operator of the consortium with each firm holding 42.5%. As a deepwater wi...
Volume: 69Issue: 04Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2026 -
Kurdish Hopes Of Autonomy In New Syria Unravel
...ants in Deir Ezzor. Prior to the 2011 civil war, Omar processed gas from fields operated by the Al-Furat Petroleum Company (AFPC), a consortium made up of the Syrian government, Shell, CNPC and India’s ONGC. AFPC’s largest field was Omar and Youssef Qablawi, CEO of the Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC), sa...
Volume: 68Issue: 23Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2026 -
Cronos To Bolster Egypt’s Gas Hub Ambitions
...oducing field, with Eni seemingly overtaking the Chevron operated (35%) 3.5tcf Aphrodite field. Aphrodite was discovered in 2011, but first gas isn’t expected until 2031, twenty years later (MEES, 8 August 2025). While a finalized development plan for Cronos has yet to be agreed with Nicosia, MEES un...
Volume: 69Issue: 03Published at Fri, 16 Jan 2026 -
Opec+ In 2025: Navigating A Year Of Turbulence And Growth
...AR? Venezuela and Iran are not the only Opec members dealing with significant risks. Libya has struggled with huge political instability in the decade and a half following its 2011 civil war. With the country divided between two governments in the West and East, tensions between warring factions has of...
Volume: 69Issue: 02Published at Fri, 09 Jan 2026 -
Libya Achieves 15-Year High Oil Output In 2025
...25, a 19.4% increase year-on-year and the highest annual figure since the country’s 2011 revolution (see chart). “This clearly indicates the impressive success of NOC’s strategy to increase crude production,” the state firm said in a statement on 1 January. RECORD HIGHS The ou...
Volume: 69Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2026 -
Morocco Looks To Renewables In Western Sahara Recognition Powerplay
...rst wind project which started up in 2011. It has since been joined by Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power – Riyadh is a longstanding ally of Rabat and has long accepted Morocco’s control over Western Sahara – and Italy’s Enel. Meanwhile French national champion Engie (formerly Gaz de France) partners Mo...
Volume: 68Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2025 -
Libya Welcomes Frozen Asset Breakthrough
...The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) – Libya’s sovereign wealth fund – this week hailed two long-awaited decisions regarding its overseas frozen assets, an estimated $68bn that the country has struggled to recover since the 2011 ouster of dictator Muammar Gaddafi (MEES, 7 August 2015). On...
Volume: 68Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2025 -
Eni/Kogas Quit Cyprus Blocks As Development Plans Awaited
...tension to the standstill, MEES understands. Aphrodite was Cyprus’ first gas find in December 2011. But amid protracted wrangles over contractual terms (MEES, 30 August 2024), it may be overtaken by Cronos as the first Cyprus field to reach production. CYPRUS KEY BLOCKS & GAS DISCOVERIES...
Volume: 68Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 -
New Syria Seeks ‘Jordanian Gas’ To Alleviate Power Shortages
...s flows via the AGP in 2011 – was in a condition to accept renewed flows. POWERSHIPS: NETWORK HURDLES Ç Should the ‘Jordanian gas’ option fail to materialize, Mr Shaqrouq says an alternative is to hire one or more floating power plants, potentially operated by Turkish fi...
Volume: 68Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 -
Libya Ends 2024 With 1.4mn b/d Crude Milestone As Bid Round Remains Stalled
...INSTABILITY The instability that has plagued Libya’s vital oil and gas sector since the 2011 revolution that ousted longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi has made IOCs wary of committing to serious investments in the country (MEES, 19 January 2024). Ambitious plans to boost crude ou...
Volume: 68Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2025 -
Cyprus’ Gas Ambitions: Could Cronos Overtake Aphrodite?
...Cyprus’ 2011 Aphrodite gas discovery risks being overtaken by Eni’s 2022 Cronos find in the development stakes. Nicosia faces key 2024 gas decisions. CYPRUS’ 2024 UPSTREAM MILESTONES *Mid-January: Cronos drilling completes *End-March: Deadline for Chevron to su...
Volume: 67Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2024 -
Kuwait Appoints New Pm
...reign affairs minister in 2011 due to his concerns with government corruption. That corruption scandal prompted the infamous ‘storming’ of parliament by protestors and the resignation of prime minister Nasser Mohammed Al Sabah (MEES, 5 December 2011). The new PM is the first of Al Salem branch of th...
Volume: 67Issue: 01Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2024 -
Cyprus Gas Ambitions: From Dreams To Reality In 2023?
...Cyprus has seen five sizable gas discoveries, the first back in 2011. But none has moved to development despite the presence of key majors in its offshore. Candidates in next month's elections know that victory could result in them being the President that finally succeeds in transforming Cy...
Volume: 66Issue: 04Published at Fri, 27 Jan 2023 -
Libya Gas Exports To Italy Pick Up
...d (3.23 bcm) for 2021, the lowest annual figure since 2011, when that year’s revolutionary anarchy completely halted exports for several months (see chart). Supplies have now fallen each year since 2019 after the completion of the second phase of the Bahr Essalam project which bumped capacity by 40...
Volume: 65Issue: 04Published at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 -
Egypt Extends Deadline On Key Offshore Block
...05). A development lease had already been granted based on four gas fields discovered by Apache, and Hess made a further discovery (Dekhila) in 2008 (MEES, 22 December 2008). But though production had been slated to begin in 2009, development never happened. Hess relinquished the block in 2011 having fa...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
Egypt Posts 10-Year High LNG Exports Of 6.8mn Tons For 2021
...ghest monthly figures since 2011 (see charts 1 & 2). Egypt has two LNG liquefaction facilities. The 7.2mn t/y ELNG terminal at Idku (Shell 36.75%, Petronas 36.75%, TotalEnergies 2.5% and 12% each for Egypt state firms EGPC and Egas) shipped 3.82mn tons or 58 cargoes for 2021 according to figures fr...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
Mideast Drilling At 10-Year Low Despite End-Year Uptick
...nce 2011. Saudi Arabia’s 62 was the lowest since 2005, Kuwait’s 25 the lowest since 2010, Iraq’s 39 the lowest since 2011, and the UAE’s 42 a six-year low (see chart 1). *With regional heavyweights bemoaning the risk of low industry investment, there are signs that they are now backing up ta...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022