1. Oil prices: How Long Can They Stay Low?

    ...veral years. - By Professor Paul Stevens* Since June 2014, the international price of crude oil has fallen by around 60%.  Since the start of this year, Brent has averaged around $54/B.  Given that the average price between 2008 and 2013 was $99/B (2013 dollars), this can be viewed as a “low” pr...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2015
  2. OPEC Faces $750bn Losses From Market Share Strategy

    ...r: An Economic Fiasco”, MEES, 6 October 1986, reprinted in Robert Mabro, The 1986 Oil Price Crisis: Economic Effects and Policy Responses, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 1988, Chapter 7. 2 OPEC MOMR, 12 November 2014, pp 83, 85. 3 OPEC World Oil Outlook, 6 November 2014, page 32. 4 In...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 11
    Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2015
  3. Financing MENA Energy Investment: Critical Issues And Challenges

    ...REGIONAL   Financing MENA Energy Investment: Critical Issues And Challenges   By-Ali Aissaoui*   APICORP’s review of MENA energy investment for the five-year period 2014-18 has estimated total capital requirements at about $765bn. Concurrently, the review has es...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014
  4. BOX: MENA Energy Investment Outlook

    ...REGIONAL   BOX: MENA Energy Investment Outlook   APICORP’s review of MENA energy investment, published in its Economic Commentary for January-February 2014, has established that despite slow global recovery, uncertain markets, and lasting regional turmoil, capital requirements fo...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014
  5. Algerian Gas Faces Three Challenges

    ...e Galsi pipeline which was due to be built to carry gas directly to north western Italy is on hold – it was planned to be operational in 2014 but its financing is not yet decided. The decline in European need for more gas and the ample room for more throughput in the two pipelines which carry Al...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 09
    Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013
  6. Foreign Policy – Energy Policy: A Norwegian Perspective

    ...ojected combined heat and power plant at Mongstad oil refinery in Norway. It will be fully operational by the end of 2014. We are developing groundbreaking new technology, which can become an export item and a guarantee for future petroleum activities in Norway. CO2 separation and storage is pa...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 10
    Published at Mon, 05 Mar 2007