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Kuwait: Former PM Appointed New Crown Prince
...reign minister (2011-2019). He is the first crown prince to have been appointed after previously serving as prime minister, with the two positions having been joined until 2003. The separation of the posts of prime minister and crown prince has often been blamed for encouraging opposition MPs to ch...
Volume: 67Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2024 -
Eni, Cyprus Talk Recent Gas Finds, EastMed Pipeline
...y case these comments will have alerted US major Chevron which is finally progressing development of Cyprus’ first gas discovery, 2011’s 4.5tcf Aphrodite, where FID is potentially planned for 2025 (see p5). GROWING FOOTPRINT In addition to its dominant position offshore Egypt, Eni in to...
Volume: 66Issue: 26Published at Fri, 30 Jun 2023 -
Kuwait: Another Cabinet, Another New Oil Minister
...med had been a political outcast since 2011 when he was forced to resign under the threat of parliamentary questioning over allegations of corruption in contracts worth $900mn. This, amongst other factors, led to the whole cabinet resigning (MEES, 5 December 2011). Sheikh Ahmed had been involved in...
Volume: 66Issue: 25Published at Fri, 23 Jun 2023 -
BP & Adnoc’s Landmark NewMed Deal: Testing the Water or Troubled Waters?
...e operated by US major Chevron. While Leviathan goes from strength to strength with plans to expand capacity from 1.2bn cfd to 2.1bn cfd set to be finalized by end-2023 and FLNG a leading option, Aphrodite has remained undeveloped since its 2011 discovery. That could change with Chevron (35%op), Sh...
Volume: 66Issue: 23Published at Fri, 09 Jun 2023 -
East Med Power Politics As US & EU Officials Fly In
...ttle on its previous claim submitted to the UN in 2011, although this would still require Israel to cede 860km² of disputed waters. It is unlikely that Israel will accept Beirut’s new proposal but rising tensions and the lack of an agreement on where the maritime border between the two countries li...
Volume: 65Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 -
Gulfsands Bullish On Syria Return As Key Russian Investor Consolidates Position
...0 B/D) *2020 TOTAL INCLUDES 1,100 BOE/D (6.6MN CFD) OF GAS. SOURCE: GULFSANDS, SYRIA REPORT, MEES. GULFSANDS BLOCK 26 IN SYRIA MODEST OUTLAY, MASSIVE UPSIDE With no ongoing income since declaring force majeure on its Syria assets in late 2011, Gulfsands is entirely re...
Volume: 64Issue: 23Published at Fri, 11 Jun 2021 -
Mena’s Poor Relations Turn To IMF To Weather The Covid-19 Storm
...START? Egypt’s tourism sector accounts for 6% of GDP, employs a tenth of the workforce and is a key source of foreign exchange (MEES, 20 March). And it had only just begun to get back on its feet following the 2011 Arab Spring and its ensuing instability. Tourism revenues hit a record high $13.03bn fo...
Volume: 63Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020 -
Rising Gulf Tensions Cast Spotlight Back On Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities
...wever, are uranium upgrading plants at Natanz and Fordow (see table). Bushehr-1 was started up in 2011 after a much-delayed gestation and suffered teething problems before commercial operation was declared in September 2013 (MEES, 10 October 2014). Russia’s Atomstroyexport provides uranium enriched to...
Volume: 62Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2019 -
Libya’s Oil Sector Feels The Strain
...oke out “due to the high temperature experienced in an electric generator” at compound 1 of the Sarir field in the Sirte basin, resulting in a production loss of around 30,000 b/d. Sarir has experienced persistent outages due to power problems since the 2011 ‘revolution’. NOC said the day before th...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Cyprus: Aphrodite Contract Agreed, 2020 FID?
...Cyprus looks to be finally on the path to the realm of gas producers. Nicosia has agreed to sweeten terms in return for a guarantee from Noble, Delek and Shell to develop the 2011 Aphrodite discovery. The Cyprus government and the partners at the country’s 4.2tcf Aphrodite gas field have ag...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Jordan Protests Victorious As Government Nixes Imf-Backed Tax Bill
...reign aid (MEES, 13 April)—the conflict in Syria has severely stunted Jordan’s growth. Jordan averaged 6.6%/year GDP growth from 2005 to 2011 versus 2.6% since, with 2016 and 2017 the lowest yet. The World Bank expects Jordan to average 2.4% growth in 2018 —only up marginally from 2017 (see chart). Fr...
Volume: 61Issue: 23Published at Fri, 08 Jun 2018 -
Tunisia: Oil Blockades Ease But Costs Keep Rising
...MBERS 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Ja...
Volume: 60Issue: 25Published at Fri, 23 Jun 2017 -
Egypt Ends Forex Controls
...ntrols placed by the CBE on the movement of foreign currency after the 2011 revolution in order to limit the flight of capital. An acute shortage of foreign exchange strangled the economy in recent years and sharply reduced international reserves which fell from $36bn in 2010 to $15.5bn at end-July 20...
Volume: 60Issue: 25Published at Fri, 23 Jun 2017 -
Algeria: Government Reshuffled But Course Unchanged
...rengthened its grip on the much-feared state security service. When the tremors of the Arab Spring reached Algeria in early 2011, demonstrations of a few dozen people in Algiers were met with more than 30,000 security personnel. BOUTEFLIKA: NOT MOVING That is not to say there are not risks to st...
Volume: 60Issue: 23Published at Fri, 09 Jun 2017 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Libya Dreams Of 1Mn B/D End-Year Output
...cal refineries, with the balance exported. Libya’s plans to boost refining capacity to 1mn b/d from the current (theoretical) 380,000 b/d (see table), halted by the security collapse since 2011. “We had a good plan. We had a workshop in April 2012, we invited all Libyan experts and carried out a fe...
Volume: 58Issue: 25Published at Fri, 19 Jun 2015 -
Iran Touts Gas Export Progress, Plots Key Regional Role Post-Sanctions
...ian markets, including Japan, South Korea and India. A final agreement with Oman would be a major breakthrough after years of discussions. Talks on gas trade between the two countries resumed in 2011, after the collapse of a 2005 memorandum of understanding (MOU) on oil and gas cooperation. The ea...
Volume: 58Issue: 24Published at Fri, 12 Jun 2015 -
Jordan’s Energy Supplies: Lots Of Options, None Of Them Good
...sue, which ‘Amman aims to tackle through its Electricity Master Plan. Jordan imports both crude oil for its sole refinery, the 100,000 b/d nameplate capacity Zarqa plant, and refined products, given that demand has raced ahead of domestic refining capacity since gas supplied from Egypt dwindled in 2011...
Volume: 58Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015