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Confusion Reigns As Iran Denies Russia Oil Deal Reports
...ssian state companies Gazprom and Zarubezhneft have also been keeping a close eye on proceedings, with the latter having a significant presence at Iran’s 2014 Oil and Gas Show in Tehran in May. Zarubezhneft became the first Russian oil company to be awarded a permit to operate in Iran in September last ye...
Volume: 56Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2014 -
Jazan Development: Saudi Aramco Sprints To The Rescue
...0 Satorp 62.5 Total 400 Total Current Domestic 2,505 Yasref (2014) 62.5 Si...
Volume: 57Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2014 -
Iraq Deploys Drones To Protect Southern Fields
...panded to 3mn b/d, he adds. “All foreign investors operating Iraqi oil fields in the south are operating as normal and have not withdrawn staff,” he adds. Iraqi Crude Exports 2014* (Mn B/D) Clear Skies Mr Laibi says he has met foreign oil companies operating in southern Iraq and assured th...
Volume: 57Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2014 -
US And Saudi Arabia Back Egypt’s New President
...cond half of 2013. And in the first four months of 2014 Saudi Arabia and the UAE granted Egypt $2.6bn in shipments of fuel oil, diesel, and LPG, according to the chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) Tarek El Molla. Gulf shipments of much-needed LNG will not be forthcoming, as Eg...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Petroleum Ministry Owed $22bn
...move them gradually over a five-year period. According to the budget for the 2014-15 financial year (beginning 1 July), energy subsidies are projected to fall by 22% to E£104.5bn or $14.6bn (MEES, 6 June). The draft budget, which was prepared by the interim government installed after Mr Mursi ou...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Yemen Oil Minister Replaced As Fuel Crisis Deepens
...mage. Latest figures from the Ministry of Oil and Minerals suggest attacks on the pipeline have cost the country in the region of $400mn in lost oil export revenues in the first quarter of 2014. The situation is expected to improve in the immediate term at least with Yemen’s National Oil Company th...
Volume: 57Issue: 25Published at Fri, 20 Jun 2014 -
Syrian President Asad Shows Staying Power
...rdish forces aren’t strictly pro- or anti-regime. Recently, Kurdish militias have engaged radical jihadist groups in eastern Syria. Additionally, rebel groups have been busy fighting each other since the start of 2014 when the Islamic State of Iraq and greater Syria (ISIS), fixed on gaining and co...
Volume: 57Issue: 23Published at Fri, 06 Jun 2014 -
Cost Of Conflict Rises To $144bn
...producing fields and facilities by rebel groups, especially in the Deir Ez-Zor areas, in eastern Syria. Oil production in the regime-controlled areas in the first quarter of 2014 had fallen to around 13,000 b/d, or 3.4% of 385,000 b/d production at the beginning of the upheaval (MEES, 9 May). Al...
Volume: 57Issue: 23Published at Fri, 06 Jun 2014 -
Yemen Mired In Fuel Subsidy Dilemma
...eds to cover the subsidies for the first quarter of 2014, and has also fallen behind on payments from the fourth quarter of last year, Ms Tairy said, amounting to around YR7bn ($40mn). The Ministry of Finance is also behind on payments to Yemen’s Ministry of Electricity to the tune of YR6-7bn ($34...
Volume: 57Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2014 -
Iraqi Elections: Months Of Haggling Beckon As Maliki Looks To Cling On
...tablished the Governing Council in July 2003 on a sectarian basis. The 2014 election, however, has revealed a new phenomenon in current Iraqi politics: The country is not only divided along sectarian and ethnic identities, but is concurrently undergoing splits within each community. Exit polls indicate th...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Libya’s New PM Faces Old Problems
...y from the roughly 1.5mn b/d pumped prior to the outbreaks of strikes last July, and puts Tripoli under severe budgetary pressures. The government lost billions in forgone oil revenues last year, and has failed to sign a budget for 2014. Without the funds to invest in the country’s dilapidated in...
Volume: 57Issue: 19Published at Fri, 09 May 2014 -
MENA Countries Hike Defense Spending For 2013
...gional power status, the powerful role of the military, the threat of terrorism and the ready availability of oil funds, SIPRI says. Algeria’s 2014 budget envisages defense spending of $12bn, up 10% on 2013 (MEES, 28 March). This follows the January 2013 terrorist attack on Algeria’s In Amenas gas pl...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
Fragile Iraq Goes To The Polls
...e start of 2014 has also included battles with local tribes. Thousands of civilians have fled north seeking safe refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan, making it difficult for Anbar’s two million inhabitants to vote. The Sunni-Shi’a split in Iraq mirrors a wider Middle Eastern conflict, represented by the gr...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
Iran Nuclear Talks Threatened By Us, Russia Posturing Over Oil Deal
...al, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) on 11 April putting global imports of Iranian crude and condensate at close to 1.37mn b/d for the first three months of 2014. Still, US officials insist they are not worried by these figures, dismissing them as nothing more than short-term fl...
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
Middle East Peace Process: Another Failed Attempt
...lestinians demanded it. The Palestinians have refused Israel’s demand to be recognized as a “Jewish state”. This position was also formally adopted in the Arab summit held in Kuwait in 2014. Israel, asserting that its future security might be threatened, is demanding that it keeps its armed forces wi...
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
Algerian Elections: Political Stagnation Persists
...versification. In an effort to boost the economy and placate the electorate, Algiers has boosted its budget for 2014, raising expenditure by 11.3% to AD7,656bn ($95.7bn), after reigning in spending in 2013. ...
Volume: 57Issue: 14Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014 -
Politics Continue To Delay Lebanon’s Bid Round
...oceeds. And it appears unlikely that the new government will address the decrees anytime soon. Indeed, they may well not be signed before Lebanon’s 25 May election deadline, which means the bidding deadline may be pushed back well into the second half of 2014, or even later. When former Energy Mi...
Volume: 57Issue: 13Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014 -
Algeria’s Optimism Over In Amenas Tempered
...geria is a member. Statoil sent its staff back to some sites in the country during the course of last year. “At the end of October 2013, Statoil approved the return of personnel to ordinary rotation at the operations base in Hassi Messaoud. In January 2014, Statoil approved the resumption of or...
Volume: 57Issue: 13Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014 -
Iran Nuclear Talks Resume In Shadow Of Rising Crude Exports
...% from 2.53mn b/d in 2011. Asian Domination Since Western sanctions on Iranian crude oil sales came into effect, the Asian quartet of China, India, Japan and South Korea have together accounted for around 85% of the Islamic Republic’s crude and condensate sales. In the first two months of 2014...
Volume: 57Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014 -
Iran Ends Year On Gloomy Economic Note
...IRAN Iran Ends Year On Gloomy Economic Note As the curtain comes down on the Iranian year 1392 on 20 March 2014 negative economic indicators continued to emerge. Tehran hopes to end the year with “good news” of zero growth, Iran’s Finance Minister Ali Tayebnia says, fo...
Volume: 57Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014