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OPEC Faces $750bn Losses From Market Share Strategy
...nisters could do both simultaneously. Many outside observers and analysts (including ourselves) expected OPEC to pursue its price defense strategy by reducing its ceiling of 30mn b/d, in place since 2011. A cut to something nearer 28.4mn b/d, OPEC’s own projected global requirement for OPEC crude oil in...
Volume: 58Issue: 11Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2015 -
Iraqi Domestic Gas Pricing: Is Reform Needed?
...IRAQ Iraqi Domestic Gas Pricing: Is Reform Needed? By- Ali Merza* According to Iraq’s Integrated National Energy Strategy (INES), published last year, which projects total energy investment of $540bn (in 2011 dollars) in 2013-30, $95bn, or 18%, is earmarked for natural ga...
Volume: 57Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2014 -
Why Saudi Arabia Welcomes The US Shale Boom
...lps stabilize oil prices. Take the uprising in Libya in 2011, which cut Libyan production and led to a sharp rise in price. Over the last 12 months, when there has again been a crisis in the country, and falling supplies, there has been no repeat of the price increases. There is no doubt that the oil ma...
Volume: 57Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2014 -
Between A Rock And A Hard Place: Egypt’s New Natural Gas Supply Policy
...rbouche and Robert Mabro “Egypt’s Natural Gas Market: So far so Good, But where to Next?” in Bassam Fattouh and Jonathan Stern (Ed.) Natural Gas Markets in the Middle East and North Africa, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2011. 2. USGS, “Assessment of Undiscovered Conventional Oil and Gas Re...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
Algerian Gas Faces Three Challenges
...geria. The country’s gross production of natural gas in 2011 was 6.7tcf compared with 6.8tcf the year before. Of this total, 2.9tcf was marketed at home and abroad while the rest was re-injected to enhance oil recovery, flared or lost due to shrinkage. According to Paris-based gas association Cedigaz es...
Volume: 56Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013 -
Towards Convergence Of Sustainable Energy Pathways
...OIL PRICES/OPEC Towards Convergence Of Sustainable Energy Pathways By Noé van Hulst Dr van Hulst is Director of the new Energy Academy Europe (EAE), based in Groningen, the Netherlands. He was Secretary-General of the International Energy Forum (IEF) from 2008 through 2011...
Volume: 55Issue: 13Published at Mon, 26 Mar 2012 -
Last Chance For Russia To Replace Iran Barrels
...al possibility to boost Urals exports to the Mediterranean just when the need arose. The oil export duty reform enacted in October 2011 was expected to pressure simple refineries to cut runs, which would have caused an increase in Urals exports to the Mediterranean. Instead, refineries have actually in...
Volume: 55Issue: 12Published at Mon, 19 Mar 2012 -
Iraq’s Oil And Gas Production And Export: Politics, Security And Challenges
...IRAQ Iraq’s Oil And Gas Production And Export: Politics, Security And Challenges By Thamir Uqaili Dr Uqaili is an exploration and production consultant. This article is an update of Dr Uqaili’s ‘One Hundred Days In The Iraqi Oil Industry’ (MEES, 27 June 2011...
Volume: 55Issue: 11Published at Mon, 12 Mar 2012 -
Iraq: Does Distribution Of Some Oil Revenues Among Citizens Help?
...aq, January 2011. Central Bank of Iraq, Annual Economic Reports for the years 2007-10. The “fantasy” of distributing oil revenues in cash among the Iraqis initiated immediately after the occupation in 2003 by some foreign concerns which were interested in the pr...
Volume: 55Issue: 10Published at Mon, 05 Mar 2012 -
Towards A New Egyptian Oil Policy After 25 January 2011
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIV No 12 21-Mar-2011 EGYPT Towards A New Egyptian Oil Policy After 25 January 2011 By Hussein Abdallah Dr Abdallah is an energy consultant based in Cairo, Egypt. What shouldthe new oil minister do after the 25 January revolution? Nothing mo...
Volume: 54Issue: 12Published at Mon, 21 Mar 2011 -
Fiscal Break-Even Prices: What More Could They Tell Us About OPEC Policy Behavior?
...ICORP). It is published concurrently in APICORP’s Economic Commentary dated March 2011. The views expressed are those of the author only. Comments and feedback may be sent to: aaissaoui@apicorp-arabia.com. As markets currently operate, oil producers’ fiscal policies are unarguably not a key de...
Volume: 54Issue: 11Published at Mon, 14 Mar 2011 -
Caspian Sea Region Pipelines – Existing and Proposed
...rkey’s Bosphorus and Dardanelle Straits it has been on the drawing board since the mid-1990s. Construction is expected to begin in late-2008 and the target date for operating is 2011. The 900km crude oil pipeline (750,000-900,000 b/d capacity) will cost $1.2-1.5bn and carry Russian and Caspian Sea cr...
Volume: 51Issue: 11Published at Mon, 17 Mar 2008