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Obama Pursues Diplomatic Option On Syria
...wer. The Syrian regime will say, as it did after losing the Golan Heights in 1967, that it is victorious because it survives. Since it began in March 2011, Syria’s civil war has been fought at various local, regional and global levels. Domestically, over 100,000 people have been killed and mi...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
BG Takes Further Egypt Hit; BP Upbeat On Drilling Success
...scoveries for both 2011 and 2012 were on offshore east Nile Delta acreage that BP (50% and operator) shares with Eni (50%). On North El Burg, discoveries included the Satis deep Oligocene discovery (MEES, 31 October 2011), whilst on the neighboring Ras El Bar concession BP and Eni had ramped up production to...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
Cutting GCC Oil And Gas Consumption: A Roadmap
...source exports. In this context, Chatham House worked with partner institutions, policy-makers and technical experts in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait to support practical strategies to conserve energy. Between 2011 and 2013, discussions took place at six workshops, including re...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
Benchmark Crude Prices
...12 2011 WTI 108.6 108.3 108.29 106.55 104.47 94.17 94.42 94.18 95...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
Libya Faces Economic Meltdown As Oil Industry Grinds To A Halt
...leaguered interim government. Having stunned the industry by restoring oil output to normal levels in record time after the end of the 2011 rebellion, the post-Qadhafi authorities are back to square one with output reported by NOC to have fallen to “its lowest level of 240,000 b/d.” This compares wi...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
ADNOC Plans Sharjah Terminal, Storage Expansion
...pulation and number of vehicles. It also took over the running of 74 filling stations operated by federal state-owned gasoline retailer Emarat in the UAE’s northern emirates: Sharjah, Ras al-Khaimah, ‘Ajman, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah. The move results from a fuel crisis in 2011 when Sharjah shut down Du...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
Iraq Grants Jordan $25M
...ab Gas Pipeline (AGP). Supplies from Egypt have been erratic since the downfall of former president Husni Mubarak in January 2011 because of frequent attacks on the pipeline. Most recently the pipeline was blown up on 6 July in al-‘Arish in the Sinai peninsula and to date no repairs have been ca...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
Sinopec Sidesteps Instability To Go Big On Egypt
...cident, together with other nearby disturbances, will spook shippers. So far revenues have been fairly stable post-Revolution, although takings of $1.25bn for 2Q13, were down 3% on the second quarter in 2012 and 5% down on the same period in 2011 (see graph 2). ...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
India Turns To Iranian Oil For Economic Relief
...pay entirely in rupees. India since July 2011 had been paying for its purchases of Iranian crude in both euros and rupees. 55% of its imports were paid for in euros through Turkey’s Halkbank; while the remaining 45% was remitted in rupees through the Calcutta-based UCO bank. US sanctions in...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
South Sudan Gets Stay Of Execution
...peline to all Southern crude oil (MEES, 30 August). South Sudan broke off from Sudan in July 2011, taking with it around three quarters of the former Sudan’s 450,000 b/d oil output. But the South is dependent on Sudan for exports: the pipeline to Port Sudan is South Sudan’s only link to in...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
OPEC Holds Steady Despite Libya Nightmare
...e worst disruption to the country’s oil industry since the 2011 civil war. Libyan output continued its slide last month, as armed groups, security guards and oil workers with tribal loyalties worked together to shut down a host of key pipelines and oil ports across the country. Production av...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
Egypt Draws Up IOC Payment Timetable As Debts Mount
...are of production are nothing new, but amounts owed have ballooned since Egypt’s 2011 revolution. Mr Isma’il acknowledged that the issue of arrears was a top priority for the government to ensure that IOCs would continue to invest in oil exploration and development. The minister di...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
Kuwait Budget Surplus Falls As Spending Soars
...KUWAIT Kuwait Budget Surplus Falls As Spending Soars Kuwait realized a budget surplus of KD12.70bn ($44.45bn) in 2012-13, according to the finance ministry’s closed accounts. However, the net surplus falls to KD4.7bn ($16.45bn) – less than half the 2011-12 figure – after th...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
Oman Cuts Deficit
...OR6.1bn ($15.9bn). The 2012 budget was based on an oil price assumption of $75/B and average production of 915,000 b/d. The actual price for Oman’s crude in 2012 was around $109/B whilst production was well up on 2011’s 885,000 b/d. Gas revenue was level with the projected OR1.5bn ($3....
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
Libya And Iraq: The Weakest Links In World Oil Markets
...oblems date back to October 2011, when Qadhafi was finally ousted and attempts to repair the country ravaged by dictatorship began. The revolution was not won by a single group with cohesive aims, but a collection of diverse militias. From the outset, there was a high degree of tension between se...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
Benchmark Crude Prices
...12 2011 WTI 108.37 108.3 105.5 106.55 104.47 94.17 94.42 94.18 95...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
Sudans Make Oil Export Breakthrough
...sues, and claims on land and nomadic grazing rights contribute heavily to the volatility. By way of a protocol, the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) granted the region a January 2011 referendum to decide whether it joined the South, or remain under the North’s jurisdiction. Yet with preparations fo...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012 -
Foreign Investors Look For Streamlined Algerian Oil Bureaucracy As Shell Exits
...to effect in 2006 saw a total of 36 blocks offered. All three rounds were failures to a lesser or greater extent. In 2008 only four blocks were awarded, in 2009 only three (including to Thailand’s PTT – see page 7) and only one block was awarded (to Cepsa) in the most recent 2011 bid round; Sonatrach to...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012 -
Thailand’s PTT, PetroVietnam and China’s CNOOC Expand In Algeria
...troVietnam’s Bir Seba project is set for early-2014 production. PTT has so far notched up four, albeit modest, successes among the five wells so far drilled in its nine-well late 2011 to early 2013 exploration program on the Berkine Basin’s Hassi Bir Rekaiz block. A sixth well is due to be sp...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012 -
Saudi Aramco Progressing Strategic Downstream Projects
...oducts. At the heart of the project is a dual‐feed cracker which will produce 1.5mn t/y of ethylene and 400,000 t/y of propylene. At the signing of the Sadara joint venture shareholders agreements in October 2011, Saudi Aramco CEO Khalid al-Falih said that ample and reliable supplies of fe...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012