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Oil Prices: Uncertainties, Confusion And Conspiracy
...REGIONAL/SAUDI ARABIA Oil Prices: Uncertainties, Confusion And Conspiracy OPEC’s ‘need’ to maintain $100/B-plus sowed the seeds of recent oil price falls. What happens next? By-Paul Stevens* Oil prices have been falling. From 2011 to June 2014 the OPEC basket consistently av...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
China Consolidates Its Position In The Iraqi Oil Sector
...d is now on the verge of involvement in a fourth. The Ahdab oilfield was its first success story, where in 2008 CNPC agreed to convert the production sharing contract signed in 1997 into a long-term service contract. Work on Ahdab started in March 2009, and by June 2011 its output reached 60...
Volume: 56Issue: 48Published at Fri, 29 Nov 2013 -
Towards An Efficient LNG Market In The Asia-Pacific
...ntribute to that dialogue by discussing the Asian LNG market and its prospects for increased integration, efficiency and growth. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has spoken of a golden age of gas (MEES, 13 June 2011), and for good reason. We see a growing and positive contribution of gas to global en...
Volume: 56Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013 -
Electric Vehicles On Their Way To Mainstream Use?
...chnology/china-to-boost-electric-car-industry_55452.html “Energy Dept Says US on Track for 1M Electric Cars by 2015,” Apr 14, 2011, reuters.com, available at http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/idUS89057392520110414 “Battle of the Batteries: Comparing Electric Car Range, Charge Ti...
Volume: 55Issue: 48Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2012 -
Sanctions Raise Questions About Iran’s Export Capacity
...d by 2015. According to the BP Statistical Review of the World Energy (June 2012), Iran consumed 153.3 bcm of natural gas in 2011, while its production was 151.8 bcm, meaning that at the moment it has no extra capacity for export. Nonetheless, it has continued to try to implement its ag...
Volume: 55Issue: 46Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2012 -
The Threats To Oil Market Stability
...not solved yet. The economic data released in the United States is not promising. US Federal Reserve officials now expect the US economy to grow by a tepid 2.5-2.9% next year, down from the rosier 3.3-3.7% which was expected in June 2011. They see the unemployment rate going no lower than 8....
Volume: 54Issue: 48Published at Mon, 28 Nov 2011 -
Iraq’s Challenges On Its Path Toward A World Class Gas Industry
...mpany and the Ministry of Oil. He retired in early 2011 and is now an independent oil and gas advisor. Historic Background Of Iraq’s Gas Sector No attempts were made by foreign companies to utilize associated gas when oil production started in Kirkuk in the 1930s, and then in Basra in the early 19...
Volume: 54Issue: 47Published at Mon, 21 Nov 2011 -
JODI And Oil Price Determination
...n refer to the Saudi Arabian decision to step up output in order to fill the supply gap that was created due to the stoppage of Libyan production – the standpoint of Saudi Arabia at the 159th meeting of OPEC in June 2011. This was complemented two weeks later by the IEA’s plan for release of 60...
Volume: 54Issue: 46Published at Mon, 14 Nov 2011 -
Global And MENA Energy M&A: An Investment Of Choice Or Of Last Resort?
...rporation (APICORP) dated November 2011. The authors are respectively Deputy General Manager and Senior Consultant at APICORP. The views expressed are theirs only. Comments and feedback may be sent to aaissaoui@apicorp-arabia.com. The recent wave of large-scale mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in North Am...
Volume: 54Issue: 45Published at Mon, 07 Nov 2011 -
Iraq And The Security Of Energy Supplies For Europe
...rridor and Iraq could become an energy bridge between the Middle East, the East Mediterranean and the EU. Finally, the first ever Joint Strategy Paper (JSP) for Iraq is a medium term plan covering 2011-13. The ‘Concept Note’ presents an outline of the JSP main guidelines, and the general focus of EU su...
Volume: 53Issue: 48Published at Mon, 29 Nov 2010 -
Sanctioning The Islamic Republic: A New Global Wave
...early 2011. In addition to the verbal assaults and defiant posture, Tehran has also been quietly moving to meet all eventualities. Anticipating new US and Western sanctions, the groundwork has been laid to resist such punishments, or deflect their influence through: (1) stockpiling of ga...
Volume: 53Issue: 44Published at Mon, 01 Nov 2010 -
Iraq’s Technical Service Contracts – A Good Deal For Iraq?
...uthern Iraq just to service the projects awarded so far (Rumaila, West Qurna 1 and Zubair) will be a major effort and likely to be much slower than the published aggressive development plans require. These will require several hundred drilling rigs to be operating by 2011. Apart from this challenge, the re...
Volume: 52Issue: 47Published at Mon, 23 Nov 2009 -
The Rush For Oil: Iraq’s Oil Capacity Potential And Regional Geopolitics
...oduction increments would come from the improved production rates in the producing field and the first commercial production in the green fields in 2011 and considerable capacity additions would be achieved by 2013. However, by 2016 and 2017 all fields will be hitting their production plateau target. The th...
Volume: 52Issue: 45Published at Mon, 09 Nov 2009 -
Power Generation In The Middle East: Can The Boom Continue?
...timated that the Arab countries are expected to build 48gw of new capacity over that period, thus raising the power generation capacity from 138gw in 2006 to 186gw in 2011, ie by 35% in five years, an average of 6.2% annually. This is the same high rate that has persisted on average over the last two de...
Volume: 50Issue: 46Published at Mon, 12 Nov 2007 -
Monetizing Gas Resources: Iran’s Options
...e gas network to many major cities around the country. This trend is not likely to continue in the coming decades as gas has reached all the major centres of population by now.The future average yearly growth of gas in this study has been put at 8% between 2001-10, 6% between 2011-20 and 4% between 20...
Volume: 44Issue: 48Published at Mon, 26 Nov 2001