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Syria: Why Are Foreign Firms Creeping Back?
...ly up-and-comer on the crude front with plans to increase production further from 24,000 b/d at Block 26 but was forced to leave in 2011 (MEES, 18 May 2018). Whilst nobody can fault Gulfsands’ keenness to return to Syria, the swarm of activity beginning to form around Syria’s oil sector certainly me...
Volume: 68Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2025 -
Rosneft Re-Elects Al-Sada Chairman
...In a 21 July update after its annual shareholders meeting, Russian state firm Rosneft announced it had re-elected former Qatari energy minister Muhammad al-Sada as chairman. Mr Sada was first elected chairman in June 2023 after serving as Qatar’s energy minister between 2011 and 2018. Top of hi...
Volume: 68Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2025 -
Syria Signs Socar Gas MoU, While Israel Launches Airstrikes
...24). Restoring Syria’s electricity sector, which provided 24/7 service before the outbreak of civil war in 2011 but now manages just a few hours a day in many regions, is a key pillar of the new government’s social contract with the population. Turkey is certainly playing its part in helping the new le...
Volume: 68Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
BP Sets Sights On Expanded Libya Operations With New MoU
...ngtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi started just as BP was preparing to drill its first well in February 2011, and drilling only started in October (MEES, 1 November 2024). The start of that Eni-led drilling campaign, coupled with this week’s MoU points to Libya potentially emerging as an important co...
Volume: 68Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2025 -
Israel-Iran Conflict Exposes East Med Gas Interdependence
...e recent conflict provides Chevron with a plausible excuse not to dip into its deep pockets to fund a multi-billion-dollar project like a Cyprus LNG plant; any new Israel conflict would risk depriving the plant of its main feedstock. For Cyprus, Aphrodite, it’s first discovery made in 2011, is no...
Volume: 68Issue: 27Published at Fri, 04 Jul 2025 -
Cairo Wary But Silent As Ethiopia Fills Contentious Dam
...ates.” Instead, Egypt proposed the replacement of the article with “…not to adversely affect the water security and current uses and rights of any other Nile Basin state.” While six countries (Ethiopia, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya) did sign the CFA between 2010 and 2011, Kenya’s pa...
Volume: 67Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2024 -
Libya-Italy Gas Slump
...te, 2024 is on pace for the lowest full-year figure since the start-up of the 8bcm/y (around 775mn cfd)-capacity Greenstream pipeline in 2004, lower than 2023’s 12-year low of 244mn cfd (MEES, 8 March) and the 215mn cfd seen in 2011 when Libya was wracked by revolutionary instability. In a de...
Volume: 67Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2024 -
India Imports Record Russian Crude In Q2 Despite June Dip
...roughout the quarter, with combined sales of 1.848mn b/d in June the lowest figure in MEES records back to 2011. Of course, the Middle East is not the only region seeing its position in India being squeezed. Volumes from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas have all weakened amid the influx of Ru...
Volume: 66Issue: 30Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 -
Libya Oil Outages Highlight Continued Instability
...vel with late-2019 as the highest monthly figure since February 2014 (see chart 3). 1: LIBYA’S CRUDE OUTPUT LEVELS HAVE BEEN HIGHLY VOLATILE SINCE THE EARLY 2011 REVOLUTION (‘000 B/D)… *AS PER OPEC ASB FOR SOME YEARS (INCLUDING 2022) THIS DOES NOT TALLY WITH NOC’S BY-CONCESSION FIGURES. NA...
Volume: 66Issue: 29Published at Fri, 21 Jul 2023 -
Sudan War Leaves South Sudan Desperate For Export ‘Plan B’
...o on 9 July 2011, the conflict has serious implications for the country. South Sudan’s economy is dangerously dependent on oil, which accounts for 90% of government revenues according to the IMF. This is exported to global markets via a 1,600km, 250,000 b/d capacity pipeline to the Bashayer export te...
Volume: 66Issue: 28Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2023 -
Cyprus’ Aphrodite Enters Make Or Break Period
...a unitization agreement between Cyprus and Israel: a small portion of the field crosses into Israeli waters, where it is called Ishai. Despite Aphrodite’s discovery in 2011 and the friendly nature of the two countries’ relations, no deal has been hashed out to-date, although efforts have ac...
Volume: 65Issue: 30Published at Fri, 29 Jul 2022 -
Kuwait’s Emir Appoints Eldest Son As PM
...nister portfolio. In 2011, when a regular MP, al-Ghanim organized the grilling of Sheikh Ahmed Al Fahad over allegations of corruption in contracts worth $900mn. This, amongst other factors, led to the cabinet resigning. The allegations extended to court cases in the United Kingdom and Switzerland an...
Volume: 65Issue: 30Published at Fri, 29 Jul 2022 -
Tunisia Set To Return To The Past With New Constitution
...Tunisian President Kais Saied is pushing ahead with a new constitution which is set to reverse almost all the democratic gains of the 2011 revolution. Meanwhile, the economy is crashing. Tunisia is set to cap a decade-long experience with democracy on 25 July. President Kais Saied’s new ‘on...
Volume: 65Issue: 29Published at Fri, 22 Jul 2022 -
Biden Arrives In Saudi On Quest For Oil: How Much Does The Kingdom Have In Reserve?
...pex (MEES, 26 March 2021). This was reflected in a steep drop in the number of completed wells in 2021 according to the Opec Annual Statistical Bulletin (ASB). This report shows the number dropping from 580 in 2019 to just 314 for 2021. Not just was that the lowest number since 2011’s 312, it...
Volume: 65Issue: 28Published at Fri, 15 Jul 2022 -
Egypt’s 1H 2022 LNG Exports: Europe Dominant
...Egypt exported 5.34mn tons of LNG for 1H 2022, up 57% on 1H 2021 for the highest first half figure since 2011. Perhaps not surprisingly given global LNG trade dynamics, with Europe sucking in more cargoes as it seeks to cut imports from Russia, the proportion of Egyptian cargoes he...
Volume: 65Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2022 -
Opec Revenues Set For 2022 Windfall After 2021 Turnaround
...ectrum lie the many Opec members which are struggling to keep up. One example is Algeria, where state oil firm Sonatrach says it is expecting around $50bn in hydrocarbon revenues for 2022. MEES estimates Algeria will earn around $38bn from oil exports alone, up 65% on last year. In 2011, Al...
Volume: 65Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2022 -
Syria Oil-For-Aid Initiative: Can It Gain Traction?
...London-based independent Gulfsands has had zero production since 2011. With the firm’s sole assets frozen in Syria, it is trying to drum up interest in an oil-for-aid program that would see itself and other foreign producers return to their fields. The Syrian state’s share of proceeds from th...
Volume: 65Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2022 -
Tunisia: President’s Power Grab Shakes Democracy To The Core
...elfth since Tunisia’s January 2011 revolution – after the ouster of predecessor Elyes Fakhfakh (MEES, 24 July 2020) Mr Saied, who has a legal background but previously worked as a TV commentator and as such is an outsider to Tunisia’s fractious party politics, was elected president in October 2019. He...
Volume: 64Issue: 30Published at Fri, 30 Jul 2021 -
Morocco’s Disputes With Algeria & Spain Heat Up As Pipeline Deadline Looms
...Algeria’s gas exports, for 2013-18. Though volumes dipped for 2019 and 2020 they are back at around this level for 2021. GME is not the only Algeria-Spain pipeline connection. A direct Algeria-Spain route, the 8bcm/y capacity Medgaz, started operations in 2011 (see map). Currently, the 54...
Volume: 64Issue: 29Published at Fri, 23 Jul 2021 -
Israeli Utility IEC Bags Price Cut For Tamar Gas
...ke or pay volume of 3bcm/y under a 15-year deal signed back in 2012, although this was due to carry forward volumes. This contract set a fixed base price of $5.042/mn BTU as of 2011 with subsequent annual adjustment according to US inflation (CPI) plus 1%, switching to minus 1% from 2020. By 2020 th...
Volume: 64Issue: 29Published at Fri, 23 Jul 2021