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Iran Cuts Spending Again For 2015-16, But Is It Enough?
...IRAN Iran Cuts Spending Again For 2015-16, But Is It Enough? Iran’s freshly-released draft 2015-16 budget cuts spending by 14% in real terms in the face of oil prices that are down by $48/B since June. This comes on top of a 20% cut for 2014-15. The latest budget is based on $72/B cr...
Volume: 57Issue: 50Published at Fri, 12 Dec 2014 -
Iran: Planning A New Mirage
...IRAN Iran: Planning A New Mirage By-Jahangir Amuzegar* In early December 2014, the Rohani government announced the decision to reinstate the Management and Planning Organization – the agency in charge of economic development planning since 1948 – which President Ahmadinejad had ab...
Volume: 57Issue: 50Published at Fri, 12 Dec 2014 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B) 11-Dec 1-5 Dec 24-28 Nov Nov-14 Oct-14 Q3 2014 Q2 2014 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 50Published at Fri, 12 Dec 2014 -
Baghdad, KRG: Peace In Our Time?
...eak-even oil price of $105/B to balance its 2014 budget. The draft 2015 budget, expected to show a deficit, is being revised to include a lower price assumption nearer $70/B, Iraqi politicians say. Iraq’s federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) ended years of discord over re...
Volume: 57Issue: 49Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014 -
Iran’s Upstream Opening Stalls On Nuclear Extension
...r our colleagues at the Foreign Ministry to deal with,” he added, referring to Tehran’s nuclear negotiating team, led by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, and his deputy Abbas Araqchi. $100bn Pause Iran, the ministry said in early 2014, is looking to attract upwards of $100bn in oil se...
Volume: 57Issue: 49Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014 -
Turkey Advances First Nuclear Plant, Eyes New 4.4GW Project
...nd 2014 Kavakli 52 Wind 2014 Bakras* 23 Wind 2014 Samsun 600 Ga...
Volume: 57Issue: 49Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014 -
Lower Oil Prices: Making The World A Better Place?
...low 2014 levels. At $70/B they believe, all other producers can do is stand still if natural decline is factored in. For Russia, the pain is more acute since lower oil prices are proving more damaging than international sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, sending the ruble tumbling against the US do...
Volume: 57Issue: 49Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014 -
Egypt Secures Funding For Further IOC Payments
...vember). Egypt first reduced a debt pile that had been growing steadily since the 2011 revolution with a $1.5bn tranche last December, and repaid a further $1.5bn in October. Throughout 2014, the government has also been able to promptly pay producers for current output, according to Petroleum Minister Sh...
Volume: 57Issue: 49Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014 -
Iran Eyes Balanced Budget Despite Gloomy Outlook
...tal of $7bn of its frozen assets: $4.2bn in phase one, between November 2013 and July 2014; and a further $2.8bn in phase two, between July 2014 and November 2014. This arrangement will continue under the latest extension of the deal through July 2015 – during which Iran will receive $700mn/month in fr...
Volume: 57Issue: 49Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014 -
Dollar Strength Lessens Impact Of Oil Price Slide
...11 and July 2014, a period flagged up by the World Bank and other observers as one of “remarkable stability.” (With an uncanny degree of prescience, BP chief economist Christof Rühl, speaking at the mid-June market peak, said that with the US delivering “one of the biggest annual oil production in...
Volume: 57Issue: 49Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B) 4-Dec 24-28 Nov 17-21 Nov Nov-14 Oct-14 Q3 2014 Q2 2014 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 49Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014 -
Egypt Closing In On Debt Repayment And New Bid Round, Minister Says
...used rolling blackouts over the summer and brought exports to a virtual standstill, leaving two LNG export facilities idled. Output slumped to 4.8bn cfd for the first seven months of 2014 (and a 10-year low of 4.55bn cfd for July – the most recent available data), over 700mn cfd down on estimated de...
Volume: 57Issue: 48Published at Fri, 28 Nov 2014 -
Stocks Special: Saudi Strong, Chinese A Bit Less Reserved
....7mn barrels (620,000 b/d) in September with “extra cargoes [imported] from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq and Oman,” the IEA says in its November Oil Market Report. According to IEA calculations, China added 105mn barrels to its stocks during the first nine months of 2014. This comes on top of an 89mn ba...
Volume: 57Issue: 48Published at Fri, 28 Nov 2014 -
Iran Oil Exports To Rise In 2015 Despite Nuclear ‘No-Deal’
...wn, averaging less than 1.3mn b/d for the first ten months of 2014 (including condensate), versus 2.53mn b/d in 2011 (see graphs). Condensate Boost Speaking in Vienna this week, Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said that despite the sanctions, Iran is still targeting an increase in exports ov...
Volume: 57Issue: 48Published at Fri, 28 Nov 2014 -
Oman Set To Cut Spending For 2015 As Revenues Slide
...nsideration but there are no plans for salary cuts, he adds. The minister reiterated plans, announced last month, to cut its energy subsidies for 2015, with the currently “ineffective” system to be better targeted on the needy sections of society. Oman’s 2014 budget projects spending on energy su...
Volume: 57Issue: 48Published at Fri, 28 Nov 2014 -
Qatar Looks Resilient To Lower Oil Prices
...tting money aside in the years of plenty. While prices for most of its key LNG exports are oil-linked, costly Australian projects will be harder hit. Qatar posted a surplus of some 31% of GDP in 2013. This will only shrink modestly in 2014: the country benefitted from high oil and LNG prices for mu...
Volume: 57Issue: 48Published at Fri, 28 Nov 2014 -
Egypt: IMF Praise
...turn in confidence, are starting to produce a turnaround in economic activity and investment, Mr Jarvis observes, with growth projected at 3.8% in fiscal 2014-15. In a seeming reference to $8.4bn ‘Second Suez Canal’ plans, the IMF cautions “megaprojects offer prospects for jobs and growth but sh...
Volume: 57Issue: 48Published at Fri, 28 Nov 2014 -
Jordan Moves Toward Austerity In 2015
...0/B. Main Aspects Of 2015 Budget Outlining the main features of the new budget, Mr Tuqan said that the deficit (after grants) is projected to shrink by 24.5% to JD688mn ($970mn), or 2.5% of GDP, from a revised figure of JD911mn ($1,285mn) in 2014. Total revenue is estimated at JD7,408mn ($10...
Volume: 57Issue: 48Published at Fri, 28 Nov 2014 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B) 27-Nov 17-21 Nov 10-14 Nov Oct-14 Sep-14 Q3 2014 Q2 2014 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 48Published at Fri, 28 Nov 2014 -
Baghdad, Erbil Find Common Cause As Oil Price Falls
...port assumption in the 2014 draft budget. The KRG agreed to place 150,000 b/d of its crude at the disposal of the Iraqi oil marketing organization SOMO in return for the release of $500mn to pay salaries and cover other administrative costs. Iraq’s Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd, said on 19...
Volume: 57Issue: 47Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2014