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Lebanon Approves Cyprus Maritime Border, Syria Next
...11, but Syria – not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) – rejected this in 2014. Since the end of its civil war in 1990, Lebanon has oscillated between Iran-Syria and western influence. But with Hezbollah out of government in Lebanon and Syria now moving to...
Volume: 68Issue: 44Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2025 -
Tunisia’s Presidential Election: Strongman Saied Set For Re-election
...tober, observers say President Kais Saied is poised for re-election, with most of his critics and other candidates behind bars. Tunisia, which has long prided itself as the birthplace of the Arab Spring, was briefly touted as the only successful democracy in the region (MEES, 24 October 2014). But th...
Volume: 67Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2024 -
Egyptians Wary Rushed Elections Spell Tougher Times Ahead
...e National Elections Authority (NEA) is set to announce the results of the first – and likely only – round on 18 December, but Sisi is already widely expected to win, with virtually no real competition (MEES, 19 April 2019). The 68-year-old former general won both the 2014 and 2018 elections wi...
Volume: 66Issue: 43Published at Fri, 27 Oct 2023 -
Israel Halts Tamar & EMG Flows As Fight With Hamas Continues
...wer in 2014, the pipeline has remained intact. REVERBERATING RAMIFICATIONS The ongoing war is also likely to impact future energy-related decisions, not only related to Israel but also Lebanon, as well Gaza itself: development of its 1tcf Gaza Marine field is sure to be kicked into the long gr...
Volume: 66Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2023 -
Houthi Terminal Attacks Risk Regional Escalation
...rlier this year. Marking the 8th anniversary of capturing former capital San’a (MEES, 19 December 2014), Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi launched on 21 September an attack on “foreign companies” that “plunder national wealth” in collusion with “the coalition of aggressors [Saudi Arabia and UA...
Volume: 65Issue: 43Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2022 -
Iraq Braces For Government Formation: Sadr Wins Most Seats, Maliki Close Behind
...e outgoing parliament (see table). Sadr now has the largest bloc in parliament but he is tailed by the country’s longest serving post-2003 prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki who was in office from 2006 to 2014. Maliki’s ‘State of Law’ alliance added 10 seats for a provisional total of 35. But Mr Ma...
Volume: 64Issue: 41Published at Fri, 15 Oct 2021 -
Petrofac Hopes To Turn Page After UK Bribery Conviction
...yments in 2013 and 2014 (MEES, 19 March). Being shut out of what were three key markets – and also the three (alongside Qatar) Mena markets with the largest suite of upcoming energy investments (MEES, 30 April) – has left Petrofac casting round for work in what were formerly marginal areas such as Li...
Volume: 64Issue: 40Published at Fri, 08 Oct 2021 -
Oman Sees Economic Weaknesses Play A Geopolitical Role
...l revenues. But it never fully recovered from 2014’s oil price crash. Coupled with a post-Arab Spring spending spree, this saw its debt balloon from $4bn in 2013 to $50bn just seven years later. This year’s collapse in oil prices added insult to injury. Revenues fell from $14.3bn in 1H 2019 to $12...
Volume: 63Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2020 -
Turkey’s East Med Drilling Campaign: Politics By Other Means
...In the scramble for the East Med, Turkey has been mixing guns with energy. A prolific politics-first drilling campaign has so far failed to result in an ‘economic’ discovery. But will Turkey’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ mentality see it strike gas? When in 2014 your correspondent asked the now-Tu...
Volume: 63Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2020 -
Five Years On From Khafji Shut-In, Is The Neutral Zone Poised For Restart?
...wait Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ) burst to the surface with the shut-in of the offshore Khafji field in October 2014 (MEES, 24 October 2014). And in just six months’ time, it will be half a decade since the 500,000 b/d capacity PNZ last produced a drop of oil (MEES, 15 May 2015). There is growing op...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
Syria: Gas Output At 75% Pre-War Levels, Oil Recovery Lags
...agnation but also the exodus of some seven million Syrians abroad. OIL: FROM BAD TO WORSE Syria’s oil outlook was precarious even before the conflict broke out, and then government-controlled output fell to 9,000 b/d by 2014. Natural declines had nearly halved output and poor contract conditions al...
Volume: 61Issue: 42Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2018 -
Iraqi Government Formation Gathers Pace
...al with his counterpart Ashti Hawrami in 2014 giving Iraq access to the KRG’s 700,000 b/d export pipeline to Ceyhan, Turkey (MEES, 5 December 2014). Baghdad would have otherwise had to shut-in the bulk of its production from Kirkuk following the Islamic State’s 2014 advance in which they damaged Ir...
Volume: 61Issue: 40Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2018 -
Divergent Saudi-Emirati Aims Further Complicate Yemen Conflict
...yadh. The alliance seized Yemen’s capital San’a in September 2014. Saudi Arabia’s strategy has been to divide the Houthis and Mr Salih’s General People’s Congress (GPC) and return President ‘Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi to power; he has largely been in exile in Riyadh since 2015, returning only sp...
Volume: 60Issue: 43Published at Fri, 27 Oct 2017 -
Iraq’s Kirkuk Deployment Reshapes KRG’s Oil Sector
...rkuk in the process. Iraq capitalized on the Kurdish gamble, reclaiming areas seized by the KRG in 2014 with stunning decisiveness, and indeed pushing further into KRG territory. The KRG is now diminished territorially, politically and economically. It may yet recover, but it looks set to be a long and to...
Volume: 60Issue: 42Published at Fri, 20 Oct 2017 -
KRG: Russian Oil Firms Ensure Kremlin’s Tacit Support
...-open the Kirkuk-Ceyhan crude pipeline, out of action since IS overran large swathes of northern Iraq in 2014. The announcement looks to be bravado aimed at showcasing Iraq’s efforts to enforce sovereignty over Kurdistan: a daunting array of political and economic obstacles make it unlikely to be re...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Libya: Another ‘Historic’ Opportunity For Peace
...ris Johnson and Italian interior minister Marco Minniti. In the past, each round of talks has seen a different configuration of political and military leaders deemed central to moving Libya forward from the latest impasse – whether it be the country’s administrative split into two in September 2014...
Volume: 60Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2017 -
Iraq’s Mosul Offensive Begins Amid Patchwork Coalition
...lice personnel would enter Mosul proper. The point was to emphasize that neither Shia militias nor the Kurdish Peshmerga would be entering Sunni Arab-populated urban areas. IS has held Mosul since June 2014, when Iraqi army divisions in the north, weakened by corruption and politicization under the fo...
Volume: 59Issue: 42Published at Fri, 21 Oct 2016 -
Kuwait Dissolves Parliament Amidst Subsidy Reform Uproar
...ril). The relative détente of the past three years has provided sufficient political stability for Kuwait to award important contracts to foreign firms to develop its oil and gas sector. The impact of this is beginning to be felt, with September’s 2.86mn b/d crude output the highest since September 2014...
Volume: 59Issue: 42Published at Fri, 21 Oct 2016 -
Iraq Progresses With Giant Gas-Fired Plant, But Where’s The Fuel?
...r the current shortfall of available gas, Iraq is instead burning liquids to minimize power blackouts, including direct burn crude which averaged 223,000 b/d in July and August, a substantial hike over the average 136,000 b/d burned in 2014. Iraqi Minister of Electricity Qasim al-Fahwadi told pa...
Volume: 58Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2015 -
Iraq Attempts Fiscal Correction Amid Political Vacuum
...d “$15bn in payments owed to oil companies” due to “waste of the country’s wealth as a result of flawed policies of the former government through gifts from the necessary leader, especially during campaign seasons.” For context, Iraq had about $3bn in hand when Mr ‘Abadi took office in September 2014, al...
Volume: 58Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2015