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Options Narrow As Libya Peace Talks Collapse
...ters to prevent the delivery of weapons to Islamic radicals, and both Libya and Egypt requested that an arms embargo imposed on Libya in 2011 be lifted. Neither request was granted. ARAB INTERVENTION FORCE? Mr Sisi has also called for the creation of a joint Arab military force, and claims that Jo...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
Qatar Looks To Adapt Amid Shifting Global LNG Landscape
...rst LNG importer in 2011, with Qatar providing most of the LNG volumes. Qatargas delivered 27 spot cargoes to the 5mn t/y Map Ta Phut LNG receiving terminal which is able to accommodate the giant Qatari Q-Flex vessels. With plans to double the facility’s capacity to 10mn t/y, it will be able to re...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
Saudi Arabia 2014 Official Crude & Oil Products Output, Trade & Balance (‘000 B/D)
...Saudi Arabia 2014 Official Crude & Oil Products Output, Trade & Balance (‘000 B/D) 2014 14vs13 2013 2012 2011 2010 De...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
MENA Nuclear Program Expanding, But Some Preliminary Schedules Sliding
...rrors the 1992 agreement under which Bushehr-1 was completed in 2011. The difference is that Iran will provide fuel rods, rather than Rosatom as in the original deal. This could prove controversial as Tehran and international governments negotiate to end sanctions, which were imposed because of concerns th...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
Warring South Sudan Factions In Last-Chance Saloon
...0,000 b/d it was producing on average over the second half of last year, but still some 30% below pre-conflict production, and around 51% less than what it was producing in the second half of 2011, immediately after independence from Sudan. And with the country’s oil fields central to the ongoing co...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
Gulf Keystone ‘For Sale’ Amid Kurdish Cash-Flow Woes
...LLIONS IN DEBT PILING UP DNO’s Executive Director Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani said in December at a London conference that the Norwegian independent alone was owed more than $1bn by the KRG while debts to Dana Gas, part of the Pearl Consortium developing the Khor Mor gas field, which began producing in 2011...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
Syria’s Economic Hardships Intensify With Fuel Shortage
...ude production from the government-controlled areas slumped to 9,325 b/d in 2014, or a mere 2.4% of 385,000 b/d output before the start of uprising in March 2011. Syria’s imports of crude oil in the first nine months of 2014 were estimated at 124,600 b/d, according to The Syria Report. The tiny oi...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
Lebanon Launches ‘Largest Ever’ $2.2Bn Eurobond
...oblems, Lebanon finds itself in the eye of the Middle East storm, as it struggles to cope with the influx of some 1.6mn Syrian refugees (both official and unofficial), who have fled their war-torn country since the start of the uprising in early 2011. Yet despite these external shocks, which slowed GD...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
Algeria: Mixed Shale Signals Highlight Deeper Economic, Political Disarray
...mands specific to the southern Algerian and Sahara regions. But this is likely to resonate among the overall population,” Ms Jacobs says. REVENUES DOWN, STABILITY THREAT In the wake of upheavals in the Arab world since 2011, Algeria has managed to maintain a certain level of social st...
Volume: 58Issue: 08Published at Fri, 20 Feb 2015 -
ENI Sanguine On Libya
...om Italian pipeline operator Snam Rete appear to support his bullishness. These show volumes of over 700mn cfd so far this month, higher than the average for 2014, or indeed any year since the 2011 ouster of Colonel Qadhafi. LIBYA GAS EXPORTS TO ITALY (MN CFD)...
Volume: 58Issue: 08Published at Fri, 20 Feb 2015 -
Cash Crunch Suffocates Iran’s Oil Sector
...r day], so the petroleum ministry will get less than $3bn. How can we run Iran’s petroleum industry with this money?” he said. Iranian oil exports – crude and condensate – stood at just 1.1mn b/d in 2014 on average, down more than 55% from 2.53mn b/d in 2011, before the latest round of sanctions on...
Volume: 58Issue: 08Published at Fri, 20 Feb 2015 -
Egypt Eyes Listing State Firms, Seeks Outside Investment
...centives for would-be investors. Also Egypt is amending and redrafting a number of economic laws to attract fresh investments and revive its economy battered by political turmoil since early 2011. The announcement this week that Egypt had signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Kuwaiti companies fo...
Volume: 58Issue: 08Published at Fri, 20 Feb 2015 -
Taiwan Crude Imports, 2014: Saudi, Kuwait Keep Top Spots But Opec Share Lowest In 10 Years
...13 2014 rank ‘000 b/d % 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 08Published at Fri, 20 Feb 2015 -
Baghdad, Erbil Face IOC Revolt As Cash-Crunch Stalls Payments
...e world had entered a new era of lower oil prices, predicting they would not recover to the $110/B level they averaged between 2011 and 2013 in the next few years. “It is very clear Iraq will not be able to deliver the quantum of production growth that is baked into people’s supply assumptions,” th...
Volume: 58Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015 -
Libya Peace Talks Begin But Economy Slides Towards Ruin
...recently as October, production was 900,000 b/d, and output before the 2011 uprising was 1.6mn b/d. Lower oil prices mean that Libya is also earning substantially less for its crude than over the course of last year. The average price of Opec’s basket of crude picked up slightly from $44/B in Ja...
Volume: 58Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015 -
Egypt: Apache Hopes Major Finds Will Stem Falling Output
...e Apollonia formation (MEES, 19 December, 2014). APACHE EGYPT* OUTPUT 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Gross Pr...
Volume: 58Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015 -
Total Takes The Long-Term View On Global Lng Markets
...me, some years ago. The aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 witnessed a shift between the Atlantic Basin and the Pacific region, especially due to an increase in Japanese imports (with a plateau at 88mn tons/year). A new wave of LNG was contracted and is under finalization in Papua Ne...
Volume: 58Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015 -
Now Or Never For Iran Oil As US Cranks Up The Rhetoric
...wn more than 55% from 2.53mn b/d in 2011, before the sanctions ramped up (MEES, 6 February). Iran and the six world powers of Britain, France, China, Russia, Germany and the US have since last February been locked in talks to turn an interim agreement reached in November 2013 into a comprehensive ac...
Volume: 58Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015 -
Mauritania Exploration: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
...negal – a likely “commercial discovery” according to Cairn CEO Simon Thornton. PETRONAS TO QUIT? Mauritania currently only has one producing field, Chinguetti, where output has declined precipitously from 75,000 b/d at February 2006 start-up to 7,400 b/d for 2011, 5,800 b/d for 2012, and 5,400 b/d fo...
Volume: 58Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015 -
Egypt’s Economy Begins To Turn The Corner
...EGYPT Egypt’s Economy Begins To Turn The Corner Egypt’s structural and monetary reforms are starting to bear fruit, following four years of political and economic slowdown since the ouster of the Husni Mubarak regime in 2011, the IMF says in its latest Article IV consultation with Eg...
Volume: 58Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015