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Tunisia Output Collapses: Southern Fields Shut In, No End In Sight To Protests
...in the wake of Tunisia's 2011 uprising. The lack of perceived benefits to locals from oil and gas output has been a recurrent theme. The Nawara project, previously known as the ‘South Tunisia Gas Project’ gave rise to protests in the south of the country even before it was sanctioned in 20...
Volume: 60Issue: 22Published at Fri, 02 Jun 2017 -
Saudi Looks To Pop Deficit With Fizzy Drinks Tax
...anwhile latest statistics from the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) show that the kingdom’s foreign reserve assets have shrunk to $500bn at end-April from $508.7bn at end-March, the lowest since May 2011 (see charts). Reserves have continued to fall despite the raising of $9bn in Islamic sukuk by the ki...
Volume: 60Issue: 22Published at Fri, 02 Jun 2017 -
Will The ‘Golden Age Of Gas’ Ever Arrive?
...The International Energy Agency in 2011 asked the question whether the world was entering a ‘golden age of gas’. It continues to flag up gas as the key “transition fuel” between a coal and oil-fuelled present and a low-carbon future, notably ahead of last December’s climate conference in Pa...
Volume: 59Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2016 -
LNG Supply Glut To Depress Prices For Years To Come
...Global LNG export capacity rose by 45% between 2011 and 2015 with 90% of this coming from the US and Australia. The “massive expansion” of Australian and latterly US export capacity, particularly since 2014 “just as demand slows” means “global gas prices are set to stay under pressure” for th...
Volume: 59Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2016 -
Iran: New NIOC Chief Tasked With Securing Foreign Investment
...sed in January, but is struggling to put in place a framework that will entice IOCs back into its upstream sector. Without international firms’ technical expertise and financing, Iran will struggle to push beyond pre-sanctions output of 3.58mn b/d in 2011. Prior to resigning, Mr Javadi was coming un...
Volume: 59Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2016 -
Egypt Gas: ‘Remarkable Turnaround,’But Not Quite Yet
...rrent 32GW capacity includes 46% gas-fired and 43% gas or oil) – though the share of both renewables and coal has been increasing as the country’s chronic gas shortage since 2011-12 has forced it to seek alternatives. Massive power cuts in 2012 and 2013 helped catalyse protests that led to the ov...
Volume: 59Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2016 -
Egypt Revisits IMF Loan As Gulf Aid Slows
...Egypt has resumed “preliminary” loan negotiations with the IMF, local daily Al-Masry Al-Youm says, citing government sources. The amount has yet to be determined but Cairo conducted drawn-out discussions with the IMF with a view to finalizing a $4.8bn loan in the aftermath of the country’s 2011...
Volume: 59Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2016 -
Bahrain: New Minister Challenged By Oxy/Mubadala Withdrawal
...cording to our agreement, in 2010 production will rise to 35,000 b/d, and then to 47,500 b/d in 2011. By 2016, it should grow to 102,300 b/d, before reaching a peak of 112,600 b/d in 2019” (MEES, 16 November 2009). The venture has had greater success in its plans to increase gas production capacity fr...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
OPEC May Production Drops Despite Saudi And Iran Increases
...vels of 3.58mn b/d (2011). May’s 3.42mn b/d is the highest output figure since February 2012’s 3.46mn b/d, just after the announcement of tighter EU sanctions but before they took their full toll on production. Both countries remain intent on securing their “rightful” market share, following the 2 June Op...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
US Imports More Gulf Opec Crude As Production Continues To Fall
...y (see p24) “the highest monthly level recorded since EIA started tracking global disruptions in January 2011.” US crude production of 8.75mn b/d in May was the lowest since June 2014 and down some 950,000 b/d from the April 2015 peak, recording the biggest month on month fall since September 20...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
Libya: Joint Action Pushes Back IS, But Unity Far From Complete
...ke Sirte without significant Western support,” says Mr Pusztai. “In 2011 it took them almost two months to take the city from the remaining Qadhafi loyalists, and that was with air support from the West. Now they are facing battle hardened jihadists who are well trained and experienced in operating in...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
Iran Struggles To Attract Investment Amid Continued Sanctions, Both Real & Perceived
...clear capability, has had a crippling impact on its economy. After these sanctions were tightened further in 2011, Iran’s roughly $420bn economy shrank by about 9% in the following two-year period that ended in March 2014, according to the IMF. Crude oil exports fell from 2.48mn b/d in 2011 to ju...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
Crude Official Selling Prices ($/B)
... SAUDI ARABIA CUTS PRICE FOR NW EUROPE SALES OF ARAB MEDIUM TO 5-YEAR HIGH DISCOUNT* OF $6.45/B FOR JULY... ...THIS PUTS THE GRADE AT A $1.60/B DISCOUNT TO COMPETING BASRA LIGHT**, THE HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE FEB 2011 *FOB RAS TANURA, VS...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016 -
Jordan Looks To Join Underused GCC Power Grid
...gas from Egypt until Egypt halted exports in 2011 forcing a shift to liquid fuels, though Jordan began importing LNG last year. Jordan is looking to diversify further and is currently developing renewables and oil-shale fired capacity in a bid to reduce this reliance (MEES, 15 April). The GC...
Volume: 59Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2016 -
Eni Advances Libya Gas Plans Amid Short-Term Cuts
...erated Greenstream pipeline linking Mellitah with Sicily – Libya’s sole gas export output – to rise to 688mn cfd last year, the highest level since the 2011 ouster of Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi. Eni, in its recently-released 2016-19 strategic plan gives the Bahr Essalam Phase II start-up date as H1 2018 with ne...
Volume: 59Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2016 -
Opec: Fit For Purpose? What Purpose Is That Exactly?
...enna at the time. Iran would be integral to any such agreement given its continued post-sanctions production ramp up – reaching 3.38mn b/d in April, up 460,000 b/d since sanctions were lifted in January and only 200,000 b/d below 2011’s 3.58mn b/d output. Unsurprisingly Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Za...
Volume: 59Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2016 -
Anti-Hizbollah Banking Sanctions Tear At Lebanon’s Political Fabric
...th the high cost and strains on basic utilities, associated with the hosting of close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees who had fled their war-torn country since the beginning of the conflict in Syria in early 2011. So any new shocks to the Lebanese banking sector which has so far been resilient, de...
Volume: 59Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2016 -
Egypt Lays Out Further Subsidy Cuts For 2015-16 But Overall Spending Up
...ckwards in the three years following the country’s January 2011 ‘revolution,’ over the last year or so both planned and actual spending – much of it fueled by Gulf cash – has taken off. In August 2014 Egypt laid out plans to spend $4bn on expanding the Suez Canal (MEES, 8 August 2014). Local media re...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Syria’s Economy: Down, Down, But Not Quite Out
...LLAPSES, GAS UNDER STRAIN Oil output from fields under regime control has collapsed from 387,000 b/d in early 2011, on the eve of conflict, to under 10,000 b/d for both 2014 and the first three months of this year (see graph and MEES, 1 May). Islamic State (IS) controls oil fields with a capacity to...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Russia Becomes China’s No. 1 Crude Supplier In May As Middle East Share Falls Below 50% (‘000 B/D)
...YTD14 May-15 Apr-15 Mar-15 YTD15 ‘000 b/d % YTD14 2014 2013 2012 2011...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015