1. 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: 68
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2025
  2. 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: 67
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2024
  3. 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: 66
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2023
  4. 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: 64
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 30 Jul 2021
  5. Qatar Looks To Bolster Share Of Taiwan LNG Market

    ...Australia edged out longtime number one Qatar as top LNG supplier to global number five importer Taiwan for the first half of 2021. Qatar has been top in Taiwan for every year since 2011. But its lead over Australia narrowed from 2.3mn tons for 2018 to just 0.4mn tons for 2020. For 1H 20...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 27
    Published at Fri, 09 Jul 2021
  6. Audit For Libya’s Central Banks

    ...estions related to the alleged squandering of Libya’s oil revenues since 2011. London-based Deloitte will carry out the audit which will “commence as soon as possible.”  ...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020
  7. Sisi Approves Cyprus Pipeline

    ...lek (30%) agreed last month with Nicosia to revise the terms of a production sharing contract signed for the field (MEES, 7 June). This was seen as a major breakthrough to finally develop the 2011 discovery, although first gas is still not slated until 2025, following the completion of further ap...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2019