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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 -
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 -
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 -
Kuwaiti Government Resigns. Again
...quired to ease the government’s reliance on direct oil revenues by tapping into its dollar reserves has been stuck since October 2017. With government ministers objecting to the debt relief bill, and MPs seeking to “grill” two cabinet ministers, the cabinet opted to resign. Prime Minister Sheikh Ah...
Volume: 66Issue: 04Published at Fri, 27 Jan 2023 -
Intra-Kurdish Rift Risks United Position In Baghdad
...ghdad. That is no longer the case, especially since the 2017 death of PUK founder and long-time leader Jalal Talabani. With the KDP and PUK backing different factions in last year’s lengthy government formation process, the fissures between the two deepened further (MEES, 17 June 2022). That melodrama ha...
Volume: 66Issue: 03Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023 -
Can Iraq Use Gulf Football Tournament To Score GCC Investment Hike?
...fice. Saudi Arabia’s newfound willingness to deal with its northern neighbor then became more apparent from 2017 (MEES, 27 October 2017). The appointment of Mr Maliki’s close-ally, new Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani, has been met with initial wariness from Riyadh (MEES, 18 November 2022), with hi...
Volume: 66Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2023 -
Eastmed-To-Europe Gas Pipeline Loses Key Us Support
...chstein, who is currently serving as the State Department’s Senior Advisor for Global Energy Security, in 2017 labeling the EastMed route a “Pipedream”. East Med-to-Europe energy tie-up ambitions are now set to move on to only slightly less ambitions high voltage power interconnectors. And for now the US...
Volume: 65Issue: 03Published at Fri, 21 Jan 2022 -
Long-Running Qatar Embargo Ends With GCC Summit Agreement
...Three and a half years after it began, the embargo of Qatar is over as Saudi Arabia and its allies agreed to restore ties. The decision appears based on pragmatic economic calculations, with Saudi Arabia keen to attract foreign investment. But the scars from 2017’s actions mean that full re...
Volume: 64Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2021 -
Algeria & Morocco: Uneasy Neighbors
...fore GME crosses into Morocco) to the Medgaz jump-off point at Beni Saf (MEES, 22 November 2019). Morocco and Algeria also exchange electricity through three interconnection points. In 2018, Morocco exported 3.9GWh to its neighbor after importing 149.1GWh in 2017. But these numbers pale in co...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Turkey Planning More Drilling Off Southern Cyprus
...ports, and the government spokesman, implied that Ankara had used nefarious tactics to obtain the data, going as far as also claiming that Eni had colluded with Turkey. Ultimately, the data had been published in 2017 on a government website, then subsequently removed. ...
Volume: 63Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2020 -
Israel Scores Gas Diplomacy Breakthrough As Leviathan-Egypt Flows Begin
...is marked the start of Israel-Jordan gas deliveries indicate just how successful Jordan has been at avoiding publicity for the modest imports that began back in 2017. Those initial volumes were of gas from the Tamar field to Jordan’s Arab Potash plant on the Dead Sea. GEOPOLITICAL WIN-WI...
Volume: 63Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2020 -
Leviathan Reserves Get ‘Contingent’ Boost
...reserves is the same as for 2P. But the difference is the lack of an approved economic development plan for the “contingent” volumes. Leviathan development only moved forward in early 2017 on the basis of a scaled-back version of what had been dubbed ‘Phase 1’ development: with just four pr...
Volume: 63Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2020 -
Gulf States Call For De-Escalation Of Regional Tensions
...ES, 8 December 2017). Saudi Arabia’s deputy minister of defence Khalid bin Salman – brother of de facto leader Muhammad bin Salman – wrote on Twitter on 8 January that “the Kingdom and its leadership always stand with brotherly Iraq and its dear people,” adding that Saudi Arabia “will do everything in...
Volume: 63Issue: 02Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2020 -
Israel’s Leviathan: Deliveries Start, Controversy Remains
...viathan in 2010 but struggled for years to get the sales deals in place to support even Phase-1 development under which output is slated to hit 1.2bn cfd later this year. It finally took FID in 2017. Noble has 39.67%, partnered by Israeli firms Delek (45.33%) and Ratio Oil (15%)....
Volume: 63Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2020 -
Iran: Exports Edge Up But Outlook Remains Bleak
...port data as the only reliable source of numbers – and by definition such data does not cover bonded storage. IMPORTS OF IRANIAN CRUDE & CONDENSATE ('000 B/D): VOLUMES EDGE UP IN DECEMBER; 2018 DOWN 580,000 B/D ON 2017 *INDIA & TURKEY DEC FIGURES ARE ESTIMATES BASED ON SHIPPING DATA AND RE...
Volume: 62Issue: 04Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2019 -
Libya Halves 2018 Budget Deficit But Remains Hostage To Oil And Conflict
....5% is factored in. Of this, oil and gas income accounted for a massive 93%, a five year high: any semblance of economic diversification is a long way off (see table). Non-oil revenues came in at a puny LD2.4bn, not only a whopping 56% lower than the figure projected in the budget but 23% down on 2017...
Volume: 62Issue: 04Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2019 -
KRG Poised For Another Bumper Oil Year In 2019
...Iraqi Kurdistan’s oil sector overcame immense challenges in 2018. It countered expectations to boost production by some 90,000 b/d, ending the year at around 420,000 b/d. Despite the loss of around 280,000 b/d production from the Bai Hassan and Avana Dome to federal forces in October 2017 (ME...
Volume: 62Issue: 03Published at Fri, 18 Jan 2019 -
Saudi, UAE Tighten Pakistan Links With Downstream Dollar Diplomacy
...tar, which supplied 84% of Pakistan’s 4.6mn tons 2017 LNG imports. Qatari exports to Pakistan are booming and hit an all time high of $640mn in 3Q 2018, up $240mn year-on-year. There is no sign of any slowdown either with vessel tracking showing that Qatar remains the dominant supplier as of early Ja...
Volume: 62Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019 -
Syria Eyes Post-Conflict Gas Gains, But Bottlenecks Loom Large
...SHREEN IN EXCHANGE FOR ELECTRICITY AND WATER. CURRENT POWERGEN IS UNCLEAR. *EXPANSION OF EXISTING PLANT. SOURCE: MOE, SYRIA REPORT, MEES. SYRIA ELECTRICTY OUTPUT (TWH): TENTATIVE 2017 REBOUND AFTER 2013-16 COLLAPSE DUE TO DAMAGED POWERPLANTS AND FUEL SHORTAGES SOURCE: MOE, SYRIA RE...
Volume: 62Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2019