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Egypt Water Security Concerns Rise As Ethiopia Inaugurates Nile Dam
...hiopia began work on the $5bn megaproject in 2011. It hopes that the 5.15GW hydroelectric dam will supply power to the 65 million (over 50% of the population) who currently lack access to any form of electricity. It will double the country’s electricity generation capacity and turn Ethiopia into Africa’s la...
Volume: 68Issue: 37Published at Fri, 12 Sep 2025 -
Tunisia: Southern Output Dries Up
...nisia’s oil and gas sector has been in almost continuous decline since the 2011 revolution. On 2 September, Tunisia inaugurated its 12th government in nine years. New energy minister Saloua Sghaier faces the daunting task of somehow rescuing a sector on its knees. But how long will she have? THE SL...
Volume: 63Issue: 38Published at Fri, 18 Sep 2020 -
Noble, Delek Advance Israel-To-Egypt Gas Hopes With $518mn Pipeline Deal
...s shortfalls in Egypt made the continued supply of gas to Israel increasingly contentious. Egypt tore up the deal and put the minister who inked it, Sameh Fahmy, on trial in the wake of the February 2011 revolution (MEES, 14 March 2011). This led to damages claims from both the EMG’s then sh...
Volume: 61Issue: 39Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2018 -
Egypt Sees End To Water Tension With Ethiopia: Is It In Denial?
...ue Nile as a key source of power were taken by Egypt as a threat to what the country has seen as its birthright since the time of the Pharaohs. Construction began in 2011, leading then Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi to say in 2013 that “Egypt’s water security cannot be violated in any way.” He ad...
Volume: 61Issue: 38Published at Fri, 21 Sep 2018 -
Assad Looks To Rebuild As Syria War Enters Final Act
...ntroled output fell to 7,700 b/d in early 2016, from 387,000 b/d in Q1 2011, just before the outbreak of war. Given that oil exports accounted for 30% of revenues ($4.1bn) in 2010 and bolstered foreign currency reserves, linking fields in the east with downstream infrastructure in the west has re...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
Algeria To Step On The Gas: Max Revenue For Minimal Spend Amid Opec Constraints
...R project by Sonatrach and its then-partner BP, output from REB dropped to about 20,000 b/d in 2011, compared to a peak of about 85,000 b/d in early 2000. BP withdrew from the project in 2012 (MEES, 12 March 2012). Diversion of gas from REB would free up about 12mn m³/d (425mn cfd or 4.4bcm/y) ac...
Volume: 60Issue: 37Published at Fri, 15 Sep 2017 -
Libya Faces Further Output Fall, Degraded Capacity With Chronic Under-Investment
...oduction potential of many of these fields has dropped substantially, particularly in the short term. Prior to 2011, the Sarir field had capacity of between 200,000-220,000 b/d, and the Mesla field about 100,000 b/d. Mr Sanalla acknowledged in the NOC statement that “we have a very long to-do list once st...
Volume: 59Issue: 36Published at Fri, 09 Sep 2016 -
North Africa Security Special Report: Too Late To Roll Back Islamic State?
...ficials, it was the only country in the Middle East and North Africa region not to suffer from terrorism in 2014. The most recent major attack in the kingdom was in April 2011, when 17 people were killed and 25 injured in an explosion at a restaurant on Djema el-Fna, the main square in Morocco’s tourist hu...
Volume: 58Issue: 38Published at Fri, 18 Sep 2015 -
Syrian Oil: ‘$48Bn Losses’
...SYRIA Syrian Oil: ‘$48Bn Losses’ Damascus says “direct and indirect loss” to the oil and gas sector in Syria since the March 2011 start of the country’s civil war have reached $48bn. Oil minister Sulaiman al-‘Abbas, tells local daily al-Watan that since then “terrorist groups” ha...
Volume: 58Issue: 37Published at Fri, 11 Sep 2015 -
Libya Oil Revival Cut Short By Sharara Outage
...litical crises and strikes left oil production fluctuating since the ouster of Muammar al-Qadhafi in 2011. Libya’s production increases in recent months had defied an escalating conflict between militia supporting opposing political factions. Output rebounded after the Political Bureau of Cyrenaica (PB...
Volume: 57Issue: 38Published at Fri, 19 Sep 2014 -
Iraqi Oil Sector Faces Years Of Instability
...ghdad Tension Remains But northern Iraq is likely to remain divided for some time. The current cooperation between Erbil and Baghdad is likely to revert to the status quo ante, with flashpoints along the so-called “Trigger Line”, without (as has been the case since late 2011) the calming influence of...
Volume: 57Issue: 36Published at Fri, 05 Sep 2014 -
GCC Saga Continues
...fering citizenship – and its perks – to Sunni Bahrainis, a highly sensitive demographic issue for Manama, which has faced several rounds of Shia-led protests since 2011. However, it remains unclear if Doha is prepared to agree to accept a scaled-back role in regional affairs. Libya Attacks Sa...
Volume: 57Issue: 36Published at Fri, 05 Sep 2014 -
Egypt Receives Gulf Aid But Qatar Backs Off
...fered Egypt following the 3 July coup (see table). Regional Aid To Egypt Since 2011 Revolution ($Bn)* Mursi Rule (2012-13) 12.75 Qatar 6** Saudi Ar...
Volume: 56Issue: 39Published at Fri, 27 Sep 2013 -
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 -
Baghdad-Ankara Relationship At Crossroads
...rkey in 2011. Turkey is aiming to break into the list of the world’s top ten economies by 2023, and Ankara is targeting Iraq in general and the KRG in particular, as strategic fuel sources for this planned economic expansion (MEES, 28 May). Turkey’s economic boom since the late-1990s has be...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012 -
Kuwait Political Stalemate Seen Continuing After Electoral Law Upheld
...e parliamentary finance committee and the oil ministry started probes into Shell’s Enhanced Technical Services Agreement (ETSA). Being conducted for state-owned upstream firm Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), the ETSA is to help develop northern Jurassic gas projects (MEES, 8 August 2011). The enquiry looks at...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012 -
NIOC Hit With US Sanctions As EU Looks At Further Measures
...th Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was a basis for the decision. The US drew attention to the appointment in July 2011 of Rostam Qasemi as Iran’s Petroleum Minister – he was a former IRGC Brigadier General. The US Treasury also said that evidence of the NIOC-IRGC link was an in...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012 -
Sudans Hopeful Of Border Dispute Resolution Ahead Of Ethiopia Summit
...aring of oil revenues, the position of the 1,800km border, and the division of national debt (MEES, 11 July 2011). News of the summit surfaced on the back of some comments by a Western official in which he suggested the two sides had made significant progress towards a more complete agreement to...
Volume: 55Issue: 39Published at Fri, 21 Sep 2012 -
New EU Sanctions Aimed At Iran’s Gas Industry
...ports. Washington is also set to renew (India) or grant (South Korea) waivers because these major Asian buyers have also limited their year-on-year crude imports from Iran by at least 20%. The steepest decline recorded so far is from Japan which has cut them by almost 40% from 2011 levels. Only China has so...
Volume: 55Issue: 39Published at Fri, 21 Sep 2012 -
India’s Caspian Move Counters Lost Iranian Crude Imports
...oduction in 2011 and would help the Indian company reach its medium-term goal to increase output from 8.75mn tons of oil equivalent (toe) in 2011 to 20mn toe in 2018. It would also expand ONGC’s reserves by 9%. Quid Pro Quo ONGC said the purchase “bears significant strategic importance to In...
Volume: 55Issue: 39Published at Fri, 21 Sep 2012