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East Med Gas Development: Pipeline Politics Drive Floating Solutions
...cosia. Mindful of the geopolitics, Eni (80%) and its partner Kogas (20%) have indicated that they would favor floating LNG (FLNG) for any discovery: the same partnership is already well advanced in pushing FLNG as a solution offshore Mozambique. For Cyprus’ only existing discovery – the 5 tcf 2011 Ap...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
Suez Canal September revenue Dips Following Record august
...rth ‘000t % ‘000t % 2014 2013 2013 2012 2011 2010 Petroleum To...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
IOCS In Tunisia Look To Bureaucratic Debottlenecking
...tput since 2010. The aftermath of the 2011 revolution that toppled Ben Ali, saw substantial political instability, as a first government had to make way to a caretaker administration. As a result, exploration rights were not granted, and exploration and production permits not renewed, a serious bl...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
Russia Denies Syria $1bn
...plemented by Russian companies. Russia has provided Syria with economic and military aid, as well as political support, since the beginning of the uprising in Syria in early 2011. In particular, together with Syria’s other strategic ally, Iran, it has provided Syria with oil products. Russian credit to...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
GCC Countries Face Up To Falling Oil Prices
...porters: Fiscal Breakeven Oil Price ($/B, IMF Estimates) 2011 2012 2013 2014* 2015* Algeria 109.7 12...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
GCC Ramps Up Aid
...ve been hard hit by the ongoing economic malaise in the EU, traditionally both the largest source of investment and their key export market. Lebanon and Jordan have been hit by spillovers from the war since 2011 in neighboring Syria. Though overall official external aid to these countries has mo...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
Saudi Arabia: More Refining, More Burn, Less Exports (% Share Of Crude Production)
...cond 400,000 b/d plant, Yasref, starting up in late September. > Increased domestic refining has cut into the crude volumes available for export: crude exports at 6.66mn b/d were the lowest since March 2011. > Direct crude burning fell by 130,000 b/d to 770,000 b/d in August. But year-to-date vo...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...12 2011 WTI 81.12 81.76 82.96 93.13 95.95 97.25 103.00 98.03 94...
Volume: 57Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2014 -
China Seeks Bigger Role In Oil Pricing
...formation Agency (EIA) said in a March 2014 report that China overtook the US to become the largest net importer of crude oil and other liquids in the world in September 2013. It also pointed out the 31% rise in US indigenous oil production, mainly from tight oil plays, between 2011 and 2014, compared with ex...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Financing Constraints Hamper Leviathan Development
...a the EMG pipeline are exposed to the risk of insurgent attack. The subsea pipeline runs from Ashkelon in Israel to Arish in Egypt, which is connected by an onshore pipeline to the west of the country. The infrastructure was used to pipe Egyptian gas to Israel. In the aftermath of the 2011 re...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Bahrain Refinery Revamp To Boost Heavy Oil Upgrading
...mpletion in 2019 (MEES, 19 September). More Modest The current plan is more modest than an earlier incarnation, which envisaged Sitra capacity being expanded to 450,000 b/d. CLG completed a FEED study for this scenario in 2011. Around 45,000 b/d of the crude currently processed at Sitra comes fr...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Neutral Zone: Saudi Arabia Steamrolls Kuwait, Cuts Oil Output
...udi Arabian oil exports have already fallen to their lowest in three years, while August exports of 6.683mn b/d were at their lowest since March 2011, according to the latest data published by the Joint Oil Data Initiative (JODI). Crucial Test Riyadh’s action may yet prove to be a crucial test fo...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Tunisia: Election Time In The Arab Spring’s Sole Survivor
...TUNISIA Tunisia: Election Time In The Arab Spring’s Sole Survivor Regime change in Tunisia set off a series of revolutions across the Middle East in 2011. The achievements of these protest movements have largely been reversed elsewhere, but parliamentary elections held in Tunisia over th...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Egypt Announces Ambitious Macroeconomic Policy Targets
...om political turmoil following the overthrow of the Husni Mubarak regime in early 2011 and is only now beginning to show signs of recovery. There is however a growing recognition in the west of Egypt’s pivotal role in the Middle East as a relative island of stability in what is currently a sea of un...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Lebanese Economy Resilient Despite External Shocks
...LEBANON Lebanese Economy Resilient Despite External Shocks Despite domestic and external political shocks, and depressed economic conditions resulting from the ongoing civil war in neighboring Syria since 2011, Lebanon’s economy is proving resilient, ratings agency Standard and Po...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Saudi Arabia Official Crude & Products Output, Consumption And Trade Figures, August 2014 (‘000 B/D)
...D14 vsYTD13 vsYTD12 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 Crude Production 9,597 -408 -59...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...13 2012 2011 WTI 82.09 82.96 87.62 93.13 95.95 97.25 103.00 98...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
US Shale A Threat To Mideast Condensate, Despite Oil Price Slide
...duce the firm’s exposure to political instability. Japan’s Gulf^ Condensate Imports (‘000 B/D) 2011 2012 2013 *2014 Qatar 15...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
UAE Sees Balanced 2015 Budget Despite Oil Price Fall
...tensifies. The budget is part of a three-year federal spending plan of Dh140bn ($38.1bn) for 2014-16. The three-year budget first introduced in 2011 intended to achieve sustained growth. Announcing the new budget, Shaikh Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktum, UAE Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, said health, ed...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Saudi Speciality Petchems Transformation Focuses On Aromatics
...e key components of Aramco’s refining expansion and push into petrochemicals under its Accelerated Transformation Program launched in 2011 to turn Aramco into “a fully integrated global energy enterprise.” Aramco CEO Khalid al-Falih says the program will “not only significantly expand our existing ca...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014