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Libya Gas Exports Fall To 22-Year Low
...ich provides the bulk of the country’s output and 100% of exports. Eni’s net sales gas output in Libya slumped from its 2017 record of 1.58bn cfd to just 568mn cfd for 2024. However, there are signs of a rebound, with production having bottomed out at 510mn cfd in 2021. It has since risen in...
Volume: 69Issue: 03Published at Fri, 16 Jan 2026 -
Cronos To Bolster Egypt’s Gas Hub Ambitions
...forts to change Damietta’s configuration to increase flexibility have not had sufficient impact. Eni had hoped that gas production from Zohr, which started up in late 2017, would provide the feedgas for Damietta. But Zohr’s output has collapsed from 2.74bn cfd in 2021 to less than 1.3bn cfd cu...
Volume: 69Issue: 03Published at Fri, 16 Jan 2026 -
Pax Silica: Forging A New Regional Security Architecture?
...e US, having appointed a minister of state for artificial intelligence in 2017 and launched the UAE strategy for AI in the same year. Artificial Intelligence was at the center of the opening speech by UAE’s Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and Chairman of Masdar, Sultan al-Jaber, at AD...
Volume: 69Issue: 03Published at Fri, 16 Jan 2026 -
Red Sea’s Geopolitical Chessboard Latest Global Flashpoint
...s support for the autonomous region. In 2017, Somaliland allowed the UAE to develop a military base at the port of Berbera, a year after granting a permit to Dubai’s DP World to build a commercial port there. Israel’s recognition of Somaliland further complicates the already fragmented political sc...
Volume: 69Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2026 -
Kuwait Upstream Capacity Tops 3mn B/d
...pacity back up from 563,000 b/d in 2020 to 700,000 b/d (MEES, 26 July 2024), though capacity will remain below its 2017/18 peak of 760,000 b/d. Also in northern Kuwait, a boost came from heavy oil reserves, with KOC earlier this month stating that capacity here has hit 90,000 b/d from 75,000 b/d in 20...
Volume: 68Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2025 -
MBS-Trump Investment Pledge Boosts Aramco US LNG Investment Plans
...int venture with Shell. This operated three refineries with a combined crude processing capacity of 1.065mn b/d, but was split up in 2017 with Aramco ending up with a 100% stake in the 600,000 b/d Port Arthur refinery (MEES, 10 March 2017). The Port Arthur plant accounted for 115,000 b/d of Saudi cr...
Volume: 68Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2025 -
KRG: Genel Finalizing Taq Taq Exit
...6,000 b/d in 2015, but it suffered a catastrophic output collapse as geological challenges prompted huge reserve downgrades from 2017 (MEES, 31 March 2017). Output was below 5,000 b/d even prior to the 2023 closure of the KRG’s export pipeline, and Genel opted not to produce from it last year (MEES, 26 Ja...
Volume: 68Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2025 -
Oman Gas Output Surges To Record 54.5bcm For 2024 With Further Expansions Eyed
...e single largest addition to upstream gas output since BP’s massive 1.5bn cfd Khazzan gas field started in 2017. Indeed, the gains at Mabrouk North East – whose output averaged 480mn cfd for 1H 2024 – were more than those for Oman overall, implying that output was cut at other gas fields to make sp...
Volume: 68Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2025 -
BP Spuds Egypt Well As Shell Eyes Higher WDDM Gas Price
...fshore infrastructure was sparse. But that has since changed with BP developing WND which came online from early 2017 (MEES, 12 May 2017). BP’s WND facilities have 1.4bn cfd of gas processing capacity, so there will still be 800mn cfd spare even after the two recent Raven wells are brought online. An...
Volume: 68Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2025 -
Trump’s Twin Desires: Energy Dominance & Low Prices
...rst term started in 2017. The year prior to his first term, liquids exports of 5.26mn b/d were well behind Saudi Arabia and Russia, but they have since doubled and have been running at more than 10mn b/d for the last two years. The US overtook Saudi Arabia in 2020 to seize the crown as the world’s la...
Volume: 68Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2025 -
Egypt Gas Output Boost As BP & Shell Complete Offshore Drilling
...e to imminently begin its own two-well campaign at Zohr in an attempt to add 220mn cfd to the current 1.6bn cfd output (just half of 3.2bn cfd capacity) by mid-2025 (MEES, 10 January). The WND Phase-1 Libra and Taurus fields were brought online in 2017 with Phase-2 Giza and Fayoum joining them tw...
Volume: 68Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 -
Syria Scrambles For Fuel Supplies Amid Complication Of Continued Sanctions
...yraktar telling CNN Türk on 10 January that his ministry has already sent two delegations to Damascus, with plans to expand its business there. “We have been exporting electricity and fuel oil to Syria since 2017. There are local companies there. They buy from us and distribute. We will be looking for ho...
Volume: 68Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 -
South Korea 2024 Crude Imports: UAE & USA Gain On Dominant Saudi
...*South Korea, the world’s number four crude importer after China, the USA and India, saw imports rise by just under 2% to 2.78mn b/d for 2024, though this remains 250,000 b/d shy of the record annual import figure of 3.03mn b/d set in 2017 (see chart & table). *Latest official Ko...
Volume: 68Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 -
Egypt LNG Imports Hit 7-Year High 2.78mn T For 2024, Eyes Tentative Exports For 2025
...Egypt resumed LNG imports last year after a six-year hiatus, with volumes of 2.78mn tons the highest since 2017 after a late-year surge. Cairo eyes the resumption of exports later this year, but this is far from guaranteed. Egypt’s slumping gas output and rising demand saw the country dr...
Volume: 68Issue: 02Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2025 -
Mauritania: Mena’s Newest Gas Producer
...ack at being a petrostate. The Chinguetti oil field started up with much fanfare in 2006 but output rapidly dwindled from an initial 75,000 b/d, with the country’s only producing field finally coming to a halt in 2017. And, with further exploration having largely dried up, expansion at Tortue and/or...
Volume: 68Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2025 -
Oman Hits Record Gas And Condensate Output For 2023
...tput increases (see chart 1). The biggest gains came with the 2017 start-up and subsequent expansion of the huge Khazzan tight gas field on Block 61 (BP 40%op, OOC 30%, PTTEP 20%, Petronas 10%: MEES, 7 July 2023). Gas sector momentum shows signs of continuing into 2024, with international companies pu...
Volume: 67Issue: 04Published at Fri, 26 Jan 2024 -
Saudi Investment Primes DME For Regional Expansion
...ainst the DME Oman contract, but DME has long targeted Iraq’s Somo (MEES, 15 September 2017) and Saudi Arabia’s financial backing may tempt it to make the switch from Platts Oman. The partners have sought to emphasize that “ensuring the integrity of the DME Oman contract” is of the utmost priority an...
Volume: 67Issue: 04Published at Fri, 26 Jan 2024 -
South Korea 2023 Crude Imports: Saudi Dominant, UAE Biggest Gainer
...*South Korea, the world’s number four crude importer after China, the US and India, imported 2.73mn b/d for 2023, down 3% year on year and 300,000 b/d below the record 3.03mn b/d set in 2017. *Saudi Arabia remained clear number one supplier with 955,000 b/d for a 35% market share de...
Volume: 67Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2024 -
Iran Faces Blowback After Rocket Attacks Hit Iraq, Pakistan & Syria
...nior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies. “Iran is pressuring the KDP to align with its agenda for Iraq. Iran has not forgiven the KDP for spearheading the 2017 [Kurdistan independence] referendum and siding with Sadr and Halbousi against the PMUs after the 2021 elections,” he ex...
Volume: 67Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2024 -
Iran’s High Winter Gas Demand Dampens Transit Hub Ambitions
...llowing a five-year hiatus after Turkmengaz in 2017 halted flows over claims that NIGC owed it $1.8bn for previous deliveries (MEES, 13 January 2017). This was officially resolved last June according to NIGC after Baghdad paid some $2.76bn from Iran’s frozen energy dues in Iraq. The nature of the Tu...
Volume: 67Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2024