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Can Iran’s Nuclear Power Program Offset Surging Consumption?
...ngthy delays, Bushehr-1 began supplying Iran’s grid in 2011, and typically supplies around 6TWh annually. Officials subsequently announced plans for two additional plants at Bushehr (bringing the total there to four), as part of a broader plan to generate 20GW from nuclear alone by 2030. 15 years on fr...
Volume: 68Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2025 -
Trump Offers Syria ‘Chance At Greatness,’ Pledges To Remove US Sanctions
...ther exit or restructure in the country. The harshest sanctions regime to date came with the outbreak of Syria’s civil war in 2011 when the US – this time joined by the European Union and the Arab League – targeted the Central Bank of Syria as well as its oil sector, which was a key source of re...
Volume: 68Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2025 -
Kuwait’s Emir Suspends Parliament;Can He Quell Tumultuous Divisions?
...position figures, including former MPs who were involved in the 2011 storming of parliament, in addition to those jailed or stripped of citizenship for state-security and terrorism-related charges. On 10 May, he doubled down saying “those who were convicted of treason were set free…I will never allow this to...
Volume: 67Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2024 -
Egypt’s New Capital In Spotlight As Spending Priorities Shift
...oject. In 2011, millions of Egyptians occupied the streets of Cairo and its iconic Tahrir square, with mass marches reaching the presidential palace and eventually forcing then-president Hosni Mubarak to resign. With Sisi having taken power in 2013 following a period of Islamist-flavored quasi-democracy, hi...
Volume: 67Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2024 -
Libya Slides Into Deeper Disarray
...bya want free and fair elections. But they want it on their own terms. The problem is that if there’s winners then there must be losers. The biggest losers are Libyans themselves who have undergone three civil wars since 2011. While politicians and military figures squabble over power, public se...
Volume: 65Issue: 20Published at Fri, 20 May 2022 -
Libya Sees Smuggling Surge As Oil Prices Rise
...e illicit trade of products like gasoline and diesel. As international oil prices shoot through the roof, so have reports of attempted fuel smuggling. Some may get caught, but many groups remain seemingly untouchable. Libya’s fragmentation following the fall of Gaddafi in 2011 has led to a state do...
Volume: 65Issue: 20Published at Fri, 20 May 2022 -
Russia’s Gazprom Seeks North Africa Expansion
...e years running up to the 2011 revolution. But production has been badly hit by years of instability (see chart). Last year, SOO output was entirely shut-in for eight months during a forced nationwide oil blockade led by an eastern-based warlord (MEES, 25 September 2020). Tumanov says that SOO pl...
Volume: 64Issue: 21Published at Fri, 28 May 2021 -
Can Iraq’s Power Sector Maintain Momentum? .
...ll inherit several imminent startups that will add another 2-3GW of available capacity to Iraq’s electricity capacity. The first addition should come from China’s CMEC which is nearing completion on its 1.26 GW powerplant in Samarra, Salahuddin province. The $1.2bn project was initially awarded in 2011...
Volume: 63Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2020 -
Gulf Monarchies Look To Score In Soft Power Premier League
...ampions League performance under Abu Dhabi ownership is the semis in 2015-16. At least this is one stage better than the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has managed to achieve since paying $100mn in 2011 for French Ligue-1 club Paris St Germain (PSG). QIA subsidiary Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) has si...
Volume: 62Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2019 -
Energean Taps Cyprus For Israel Gas Exports
...ospects for Cyprus’ own 4.2tcf 2011 Aphrodite discovery. And Energean will struggle to meet even a modest sales commitment (especially from 2021) based on current reserves and development plans. The recent ‘Karish North’ discovery takes total recoverable reserves to around 3tcf (MEES, 19 April). Ho...
Volume: 62Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2019 -
Tensions Flare As Turkey Drills Off Cyprus
...ach any sort of compromise, with the most recent summit in Switzerland in 2017, the last concerted efforts, failing to reach any sort of deal. Turkey has warned Cyprus about its own drilling activities to the south of the island and has been threatening since 2011, when Noble Energy discovered the 4....
Volume: 62Issue: 19Published at Fri, 10 May 2019 -
Syria: Oil Products Shortage Heightens Damascus ‘Post-War’ Challenges
...tbreak of war in 2011, and even with hostilities now at a relatively low ebb, economic hardships are continuing to take a massive toll. In particular, a shortage of oil products –gasoline, diesel, LPG and fuel oil – has triggered a nationwide crisis and the government in Damascus is scrambling to save fa...
Volume: 62Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2019 -
South Sudan Looks Beyond Total For Block B
...uthern part of Sudan under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. As the July 2011 independence of South Sudan approached, negotiations began to find a partner to replace US firm Marathon Oil, which had a 20% stake in block B until it withdrew in 2008 under the pressure of sanctions. Interest shown in...
Volume: 60Issue: 18Published at Fri, 05 May 2017 -
Tunisia Gas Slump
...mpany adding that it did not envisage a near-term resolution to the shut-in which began 10 January. The company, previously known as Winstar, has been repeatedly hit by industrial unrest since Tunisia’s 2011 revolution (MEES, 28 May 2012). UK service firm Petrofac’s 30mn cfd-capacity Chergui field ha...
Volume: 60Issue: 18Published at Fri, 05 May 2017 -
Yemen Conflict Sees Gulf States Test Their Military Prowess
...March 2011, 1,000 Saudi troops and 500 from the UAE intervened to crush a popular uprising in Bahrain. But this is the first time that GCC nations have carried out a concerted air and ground campaign beyond their borders. “Supplying combat units on the ground and sustaining them is much more in...
Volume: 59Issue: 19Published at Fri, 13 May 2016 -
Mideast Military Spending By The Numbers
...ader with over 16%; Saudi Arabia spends 14% and Iraq 9%. The share of GDP spent on the military by the Middle East as a whole has increased in each of the past five years, to 5.8% in 2015 from around 4% in 2011, although this is below 1995’s record 6.4%, according to SIPRI. Aside from the severe se...
Volume: 59Issue: 19Published at Fri, 13 May 2016 -
Global Military Spending Up In 2015, Saudi Arabia In Third Position
...litary operations have until recently not been a major focus for armed military forces in the Middle East region,” says James Hackett, senior fellow for defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. “But since 2011, there has been a tendency for some re...
Volume: 59Issue: 18Published at Fri, 06 May 2016 -
Saudi Mosque Bombings Shatter Illusion Of Security
...stern Province since the 2011 so-called Arab Spring revolutions. Riyadh has in the past blamed Iran for what it says is an attempt to foment strife amongst the Shia minority. It also blames Tehran for supporting the Houthi rebellion in Yemen, which prompted King Salman to order air strikes against the Ye...
Volume: 58Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2015 -
South Sudan: Remaining Oil Output Under Threat
...velopment (IGAD) going nowhere, and the crisis showing few signs of abating, the focus has once again turned to South Sudan’s oil fields, the country’s main revenue earner. Oil production is down from around 245,000 b/d pre-conflict, and 347,500 b/d in the second half of 2011, immediately after the So...
Volume: 58Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2015 -
US Tries To Soothe Gulf Arab Fears Over Iran At Camp David Summit
...nations sharing common interests. The GCC has been weakened by internecine disputes since the start of the so-called Arab Spring revolutions of 2011, often finding some of their members on opposite sides of the struggle against rising extremism in the region. The metastatic spread of Iranian in...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015