1. Kuwait Eyes Long-Delayed Jurassic Gas Expansion

    ...ES, 27 June 2011). The EPFs are at three of Kuwait’s northern Jurassic sour gas fields, development of which has stalled since 2010 when Shell signed an Enhanced Technical Service Agreement (ETSA). The contract was subject to considerable parliamentary scrutiny: the public prosecutor only dropped it...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2017
  2. Qatar Looks To Expand Its Lng Options As Contract Renegotiations Loom

    ...erogative of trading houses – the direct source of almost all of Egypt’s LNG imports, for example (MEES, 10 February). Of course Qatar itself has had to make compromises: buyers have more choice in the current market landscape. For instance, under the initial MoU signed in 2011, Bangladesh was initially pl...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2017
  3. Saudi Approves Scaled-Back Nuclear Plans, Studies Reactors Large And Small

    ...shehr-1 2011 1.0 1 3.5 Rosatom built. Operation intermittent until 2013  Under Construction 6....

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2017
  4. Libya Looks To Corral IOCs Into Activity Boost

    ...couraging the return to Libya of firms that prior to the 2011 Revolution were active in upstream exploration and development. Exploration successes from the four international licensing rounds held since the 2004 introduction of the EPSA-IV model have been largely disappointing. The first round yielded by...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2017
  5. GCC States Double Down On Gas Development

    ...M)                         2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 20...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2017
  6. Delayed Projects To Shave Cumulative 80bcm From Algeria’s Gas Output By 2020

    ...nouncement that a consortium of the state company with Thai and Chinese counterparts PTT (24.5%) and CNOOC (24.5%) had confirmed the potential of the Hassi Bir Rekaiz block in the southeast, on which exploration has been ongoing since 2011 (MEES, 17 February). Against the background of bid round fa...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2017
  7. Cairo Advances Energy Sector Privatizations

    ...ck to levels last seen at the start of the 2011 revolution. Egypt received the first $2.75bn tranche of the IMF cash last November with a second, $1.25bn, tranche approved on 13 July. The IMF delegation came to Egypt to review the reforms with the government last May. They announced in a st...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2017
  8. US Output Growth: Records Tumble But Is A Slowdown On The Way?

    ...me high of 14.075mn b/d in May and rose further to 14.173mn b/d in June. Growing output means that domestic production is now equivalent to 70% of US domestic demand, up from 47% in 2011, and this despite US demand rising to a 9 1/2 –year high of 20.30mn b/d in June. Gasoline demand, at 9....

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2017
  9. Tunisia Oil Output At 41-Year Low

    ...ghlights the amorphous range of protestors and grievances that has hit Tunisian output since the 2011 revolution ushered in an era not only of democracy but of instability. • Investment has nosedived with yet another company – cash-strapped London-listed Gulfsands – to quit the country after the May ex...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2017
  10. Syria’s Ongoing Conflict Inflicts Huge Loss Of $226bn To GDP

    ...The conflict which has ravaged Syria since 2011 has taken an extraordinary human toll, with more than 400,000 killed and millions displaced. The destruction has also leveled much of the country’s infrastructure, inflicting cumulative GDP losses estimated at $226bn (in 2010 prices) by the end of...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2017
  11. Libya Oil Output Breaches 1mn B/D

    ...2017 were 454mn cfd, close to the 464mn cfd average exported in 2016, but down 34% compared to the 2015 average, and barely half of average annual exports between 2008-10 before Libya’s 2011 revolution (see charts). Within these headline figures, monthly volumes have fluctuated significantly. Th...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 27
    Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2017
  12. Morocco Faces Socioeconomic Headwinds As Deficit Overshoots, Growth Slows

    ...-Hoceima and Imzouren. Over 100 were arrested. Such instability brings into question Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s response to the Arab Spring protests which shook the region in 2011. A constitutional referendum later that year increased the powers of the elected parliament, though the country re...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 27
    Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2017