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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 -
Syria: Territorial Disintegration Looms As Conflict Enters New Stage
...r deserters and draft dodgers, apparently to boost numbers in his conscription army. According to the anti-regime British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, there are some 70,000 draft dodgers in government controlled areas alone. Since the beginning of the civil war in March 2011, the Sy...
Volume: 58Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2015 -
Libya: Oil Boost Hopes Fizzle Out Amid Hollow ‘Peace Deal’
...cretary-general’s special representative for Libya, Bernardino Leon, celebrated the deal but recognized its limitations. “This act signaled the adoption of a framework for further talks. It has brought the country one step closer to ending the conflict and fulfilling the goals of the 2011 revolution,” he to...
Volume: 58Issue: 29Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2015 -
A New Deal For South Sudan
...SOUTH SUDAN A New Deal For South Sudan As South Sudan marks the fourth anniversary since the declaration of independence on 9 July 2011, the country remains locked in a civil war that is estimated to have claimed more than 20,000 lives. Oil earnings have collapsed, and a succession of ag...
Volume: 58Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2015 -
Black Friday Attacks Highlight Extremist Threat
...lf Arab states of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar have been largely spared the upheavals wrought by the 2011 Arab revolutions that toppled their allies and enemies alike and drew them deeper into crises that they could no longer ignore. Yemen, where Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies are en...
Volume: 58Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2015 -
Syria’s Economy: Down, Down, But Not Quite Out
...LLAPSES, GAS UNDER STRAIN Oil output from fields under regime control has collapsed from 387,000 b/d in early 2011, on the eve of conflict, to under 10,000 b/d for both 2014 and the first three months of this year (see graph and MEES, 1 May). Islamic State (IS) controls oil fields with a capacity to...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Libya Dreams Of 1Mn B/D End-Year Output
...cal refineries, with the balance exported. Libya’s plans to boost refining capacity to 1mn b/d from the current (theoretical) 380,000 b/d (see table), halted by the security collapse since 2011. “We had a good plan. We had a workshop in April 2012, we invited all Libyan experts and carried out a fe...
Volume: 58Issue: 25Published at Fri, 19 Jun 2015 -
Iran Touts Gas Export Progress, Plots Key Regional Role Post-Sanctions
...ian markets, including Japan, South Korea and India. A final agreement with Oman would be a major breakthrough after years of discussions. Talks on gas trade between the two countries resumed in 2011, after the collapse of a 2005 memorandum of understanding (MOU) on oil and gas cooperation. The ea...
Volume: 58Issue: 24Published at Fri, 12 Jun 2015 -
Jordan’s Energy Supplies: Lots Of Options, None Of Them Good
...sue, which ‘Amman aims to tackle through its Electricity Master Plan. Jordan imports both crude oil for its sole refinery, the 100,000 b/d nameplate capacity Zarqa plant, and refined products, given that demand has raced ahead of domestic refining capacity since gas supplied from Egypt dwindled in 2011...
Volume: 58Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015 -
Saudi Mosque Bombings Shatter Illusion Of Security
...stern Province since the 2011 so-called Arab Spring revolutions. Riyadh has in the past blamed Iran for what it says is an attempt to foment strife amongst the Shia minority. It also blames Tehran for supporting the Houthi rebellion in Yemen, which prompted King Salman to order air strikes against the Ye...
Volume: 58Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2015 -
South Sudan: Remaining Oil Output Under Threat
...velopment (IGAD) going nowhere, and the crisis showing few signs of abating, the focus has once again turned to South Sudan’s oil fields, the country’s main revenue earner. Oil production is down from around 245,000 b/d pre-conflict, and 347,500 b/d in the second half of 2011, immediately after the So...
Volume: 58Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2015 -
US Tries To Soothe Gulf Arab Fears Over Iran At Camp David Summit
...nations sharing common interests. The GCC has been weakened by internecine disputes since the start of the so-called Arab Spring revolutions of 2011, often finding some of their members on opposite sides of the struggle against rising extremism in the region. The metastatic spread of Iranian in...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Saudi Reshuffle: Is The Stage Set For An Oil Change?
...re accused of plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador a few years back, a revelation that pushed already tense relations between the two regional powers to a new low in 2011. Should the change lead to a harder line in dealing with Iran, it would complicate Mr Naimi’s task of trying to try to hold an al...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015 -
Damascus Cash Crunch As Crude Below 10,000 B/D
...oduction of 385,000 b/d before the start of the uprising in March 2011. However, if the government figures are to be believed, output is actually up slightly on the 2014 average of 9,330 b/d, while the average for the first quarter of 2014 stood at 13,000 b/d (MEES, 9 May 2014). Gas production has fa...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015 -
Firms Face Up To Mounting Libya Write-Offs
...LIBYA Firms Face Up To Mounting Libya Write-Offs The past year has seen a significant downturn in output for oil companies operating in Libya, with several firms recording their worst year since the toppling of Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi in 2011, and others deciding to write-off expenses fr...
Volume: 58Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2015 -
Libya’s NOC Could Be Split By Baida Power Grab
...ARTUP IMMINENT The Eni-operated Bu Attifel fields on Blocks NC-100 and NC-125 in the far east of the Sirte Basin may be close to a resumption in output, according to a report in the local Libya Herald on 5 April. Prior to the 2011 unseating of Gaddafi, the field had capacity of 95,000 b/d, but this ha...
Volume: 58Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015 -
Libya: GNC Sacks PM As Oil Output Rises With Prospect Of More to Come
...e UN Security Council adopted resolution 2214, which called on the sanctions committee set up in 2011 to “consider expeditiously” the “transfer or supply of arms and related materiel” to the Libyan government for the use by its official armed forces to combat IS, Ansar al- Sharia, al-Qa’ida and th...
Volume: 58Issue: 14Published at Fri, 03 Apr 2015 -
Risk Premium Returns As Saudi Strikes Yemen Rebels, Iran Confrontation Widens
...uthis to withdraw from San’a and allow the legitimate government to return was rejected. The crisis in Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries, began in 2011 when peaceful anti-government protests led to the ouster of ‘Ali ‘Abd Allah Salih, the long-time Yemeni leader who stepped down but re...
Volume: 58Issue: 13Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2015 -
Algeria, Poland To Share Shale Tips As Protests Continue
...ssian gas. However, the country failed to live up to its promise so far – Poland’s shale gas resources were estimated by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) at 190 tcf in 2011 - with foreign companies exiting Poland in the past three years mainly due to poor exploration results and re...
Volume: 58Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2015