1. 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: 68
    Issue: 47
    Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2025
  2. 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: 68
    Issue: 47
    Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2025
  3. 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: 68
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2025
  4. 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: 68
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2025
  5. ‘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: 68
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2025
  6. 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: 68
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2025