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Ballooning Egypt Gas Deficit Met By Record Q3 Gas/LNG Imports
...s it slightly higher at 4.20bn cfd. This is the first time in the Jodi database, stretching back to 2011, that gas-for-power consumption has exceeded production. Despite the modest sequential increase, production is well below year-ago levels, having dropped by 490mn cfd since 3Q 2024. In order to...
Volume: 68Issue: 47Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2025 -
Syria Accelerates Its Upstream Ambitions
...banon unilaterally claimed its EEZ in a letter to the United Nations in 2011, but Syria – not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) – rejected this in 2014. Last month, Lebanon’s cabinet finally approved its maritime border with Cyprus, 18 years after Beirut and Ni...
Volume: 68Issue: 47Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2025 -
Mauritania’s Banda Integrated Gas Project Progresses
...ergy needs. UK based Tullow took Banda in 2011 from Malaysia’s Petronas and announced commerciality a year later (MEES, 22 February 2013) before having to cut back on investments when prices began to drop in 2014. Development plans only recovered recently when Banda and the nearby 0.9tcf Tevet fi...
Volume: 68Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2025 -
Dana Gas Signs Up To Syrian Gas Development Plan
...e fields that make up the South Middle Area Gas Project. There are a number of other nearby gas fields that could also be included in the agreement, with Syria having announced the discovery of the 47bn m³ (1.66tcf) Qara field in 2011 shortly after it started producing 0.6mn m³ (21mn cfd ) from the Sa...
Volume: 68Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2025 -
‘The Great Fuel Heist’: Libya’s ‘Kleptocrats’ Blamed For Smuggling Crisis
...gures between 2022 and 2024 confirm the surge under Mr Bengdara. According to data intelligence firm Kpler, Libya’s fuel imports peaked in September 2024 at 307,000 b/d, the highest monthly figure since the 2011 revolution (see chart 1). This is more than double the 147,000 b/d figure from September 20...
Volume: 68Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2025 -
Libya Crude Exports Surge As Officials Hail ‘Golden Opportunity’ For Investors
...e highest quarterly figure since the country’s 2011 revolution. In the first nine months of the year, exports averaged a record 1.19mn b/d, up 24% from 965,000 b/d in 9M 2024 (see chart 1). Meanwhile, output figures continue to hit record highs, averaging 1.38mn b/d for the first nine months of...
Volume: 68Issue: 45Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2025 -
Will Iraq Be Caught In The Crossfire Of Trump’s Iran Policy?
...litary withdrawal in 2011. The already precarious balancing act facing the Iraqi government has become yet more difficult over the last year due to the involvement of Iraqi Shia militias in Iran’s coordinated ‘axis of resistance’ attacks on Israel. The US has also grown wary of Iran’s interlocking ec...
Volume: 67Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 -
Ethiopia Completes Nile Dam
...Construction of the giant Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is “100% complete,” Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced last week during a parliament session in Addis Ababa. Since 2011, the construction and filling of the GERD have strained relations between Ethiopia and do...
Volume: 67Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2024 -
Libya Exploration Reboot As Eni/BP & OMV Kick Off Drilling
...Libya’s upstream has got a long-awaited boost with Eni/BP and OMV both kicking off exploration campaigns on ice since the country’s 2011 revolution. With Italian PM Georgia Meloni in town, Eni may be set to sign the controversial NC-7 deal. Eni and BP, as well as Austria’s OMV, have ki...
Volume: 67Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2024 -
Ethiopia-Egypt Dam Agreement Remains Elusive Despite Renewed Talks
...th water conflicts, urging the three parties to “negotiate in good faith towards a mutually beneficial agreement.” The three parties have been embroiled in the dispute since Ethiopia broke ground on the $5bn project in 2011, with several mediation attempts by the US, World Bank, and the African Un...
Volume: 66Issue: 47Published at Fri, 24 Nov 2023 -
ExxonMobil Finalizes West Qurna-1 Exit As PetroChina Assumes Operatorship
...edged to increase capacity to 800,000 b/d by 2028. Exxon’s time in Iraq has been tumultuous, with the firm angering Baghdad when it signed up to six blocks in the Kurdistan Region in 2011. That gamble ultimately failed, with Exxon quitting its last Kurdistan asset in 2022 without producing a ba...
Volume: 66Issue: 46Published at Fri, 17 Nov 2023 -
No End In Sight For Sudan’s Devastating Conflict
...utes and vast mineral resources that finance the RSF’s commercial enterprise, and thus, guarantee its survival. OIL EXPORT UNCERTAINTY When South Sudan voted for secession in 2011, Sudan lost nearly 75% of its oil output to its southern neighbor (MEES, 16 March 2018). Today, oil ex...
Volume: 66Issue: 44Published at Fri, 03 Nov 2023 -
Turkey-Syria LPG Shipments & The Lebanon Link
...oking, space and water heating as well as in the industrial sector. Western sanctions on Damascus, as well as the civil war which has gripped the country since 2011, have strangled Syria’s oil and gas industry with the government claiming losses in excess of $100bn (MEES, 11 February). Despite sanctions, cr...
Volume: 65Issue: 47Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2022 -
Total’s Libya Expansion: Done & Dusted?
...ich remains split between two rival governments and several key players who eye ultimate power. The seemingly unending political chaos since the 2011 overthrow of long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi has taken its toll on Libya’s oil and gas infrastructure, with leaks frequently knocking out huge ch...
Volume: 65Issue: 46Published at Fri, 18 Nov 2022 -
Saudi Arabia Wary of Iraq’s New Iran-Backed Leader
...nure of Mr Maliki were fraught as the longest serving post-2003 PM got closer to Tehran after the US forces withdrew from Iraq in 2011. Only his ousting in the aftermath of the 2014 fall of Mosul to ISIS paved the way for active diplomacy between Baghdad and Riyadh. Mr Sudani has praised the ki...
Volume: 65Issue: 46Published at Fri, 18 Nov 2022 -
Russia’s Tatneft Returns To Libya, Again
...tneft’s on/off exploration work in Libya since the 2011 revolution set off a decade of – still ongoing – political instability. The firm last year returned to drill appraisal well ‘B2’ on Block 4, but results were not made public (MEES, 22 October). NOC says it held a meeting with Tatneft officials wh...
Volume: 65Issue: 45Published at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 -
Israel Gas Output Record As Pipeline Delay Stymies Planned 2022 Egypt Export Boost
...e first time the potential pipeline tie-in route for development of Cyprus’ 4.1tcf 2011 Aphrodite discovery (Chevron 35%op, Shell 35%, Delek 30%). This shows the potential Aphrodite pipeline skirting Israel’s exclusive economic zone before tying in to the prospective pipeline connecting Le...
Volume: 64Issue: 47Published at Fri, 26 Nov 2021 -
Kuwait’s Oil Sector Faces More Turbulence With Shake-Up Proposal
...me since any oil minister enjoyed such a tenure. Since 2011, Kuwait has had nine oil ministers. If the minister also ran KPC, such turnover would be highly disruptive. With the government resigning earlier this month (MEES, 12 November) and Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah tasked on 24 November wi...
Volume: 64Issue: 47Published at Fri, 26 Nov 2021 -
Heightened Political Tensions Threaten Libya’s Oil Ambitions
...gures. At stake is the stability of a country which has been enveloped in almost constant chaos since the 2011 revolution. For the oil sector, a return to political division, or even war, would crush hopes of boosting oil production. GADDAFI’S RETURN Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of former ru...
Volume: 64Issue: 46Published at Fri, 19 Nov 2021 -
Libya In Race Against Time To Boost Output
...ve to exploit what we have quickly and develop our country and Africa,” he told this week’s Africa Energy Week conference in Cape Town. Libya’s near-constant instability since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 has hampered efforts to rebuild the lifeline oil sector. Production is currently 1....
Volume: 64Issue: 45Published at Fri, 12 Nov 2021