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Saudi Power Sector Needs $130bn Over 10 Years, Efficiency Targeted
...vel. Mr Husain told a conference in Riyadh this week that Saudi electricity demand reached a new high of 62.26GW in summer 2015, which was 10% up on 56.55GW recorded in 2014. While a 45% demand hike over eight years is high in global terms, it is still modest compared with a 64% increase over 2008-15 (se...
Volume: 59Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2016 -
Global Oil Overhang To Persist Throughout 2016
...17, down 1.17mn b/d from the Q2 2015 peak of 9.50mn b/d, but still level with 1H 2014 volumes. Opec has left its global demand projections unchanged in its latest monthly oil market report (10 February) and has revised up its forecast for the fall in non-Opec supply in 2016 by 50,000 b/d to 71...
Volume: 59Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2016 -
Algeria Reaches Critical Crossroads
...meframe remains vague, perhaps reflecting the government’s cautiousness. Protests for social issues have taken place in past years – although localized and relatively small in size – and the effect of last year’s anti-shale protests that started in December 2014 were largely unexpected. These events re...
Volume: 59Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2016 -
Iraq: Baghdad, Erbil, Struggle To Correct Economic Course
...pointed him as acting CBI governor just before leaving office in September 2014. Since then, he has worked closely with Mr Abadi, who has appointed several of his relatives to key positions. His brother, Mahdi al-Allaq, plays a vital role in executive administration, currently heading both Mr Abadi’s own of...
Volume: 59Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2016 -
Morocco: QP Boost
...major’s share to 45%. Moroccan state Onhym retains 25%. Chevron signed up to explore the three virgin blocks in early 2013 (MEES, 1 February 2013). It undertook 2D seismic in 2014 and 3D last year. Chevron’s entry – the first major in the Moroccan offshore – was followed by BP (MEES, 18 Oc...
Volume: 59Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2016 -
Egypt: Is Gulf Cash Enough To Counter Gas Collapse?
...ough since the first half of last year, standing at $1.1bn, with $900mn overdue at the end of 2015. The number has risen since the end of 2014, when it stood at $920mn. Total receivables were $3bn at end-2015, according to official Egyptian figures, up from $2.7bn at the end of October. The firm ha...
Volume: 59Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2016 -
The $100bn-Plus Cost Of Syria’s Civil War
...bn. This is almost as large as Syria’s pre-war GDP, the Bank notes in its latest Mena Quarterly Economic Brief. In addition, damage caused by the war to the “capital stock” in Syria between 2011 and 2014 was estimated at $72bn, the World Bank said, quoting a report by the local Syria Center for Po...
Volume: 59Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2016 -
Saudi Deficit Financing ‘Straightforward,’ For Now
...x). Indeed, if SAMA’s reserves continue to be drawn down at the $120bn rate they were in 2014 they will be exhausted by the end of 2020. According to the 2016 budget decree, foreign borrowing options are also considered in order to avoid crowding out credit to the private sector. The in...
Volume: 59Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2016 -
East Asian Importers Take Less LNG In 2015; Little Sign Of An Upturn In 2016
...ticeable change, albeit largely anticipated. Japan imported a record amount from Malaysia in 2015, or 15.57mn tons, helping it overtake Qatar as the second largest supplier in 2014 (behind Australia at the time). LNG shipments from Qatar to Japan fell by 9.6% annually to 14.64mn tons (see graph 3). In...
Volume: 59Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2016 -
Kuwait Refining Earnings Undermined By Weak Product Export Prices
...eraged 277,000 b/d for Q1-3 2015, up 55% on 2014’s 178,000 b/d. KNPC’s earnings from domestic sales are fixed at heavily subsidized prices. With pressure rising on Kuwait to cut subsidies, Mr Mutairi tells official news agency KUNA that the cost of refining oil in KNPC’s refineries is in the range $4-...
Volume: 59Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2016 -
Iran And Saudi Arabia Drive Opec Output Rise As Indonesia Returns
...2mn b/d to 3.5mn b/d by 2017, Iran looks set to pull away. Kuwait has fallen behind since October 2014, when a dispute with Saudi Arabia over management of the Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ) led to production falling there, and halting altogether in 2015. Chevron said in its Q4 2015 conference call on 29 Ja...
Volume: 59Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2016 -
More Trouble For Algeria As Hess Walks Away
...2000 to 50,000 b/d in 2005 with completion of Phase 1 water injection, but plans to raise this further with miscible gas flooding were never finalized. Output subsequently tanked, bottoming out at just over 10,000 b/d (5,000 b/d net to Hess) in 2013. Hess’ net figure rose to 7,000 b/d for 2014 (9,...
Volume: 59Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2016 -
Oxy Sees Yemen Exit Looming, Continues To Streamline MENA Operations
...perience in Yemen.” Given the exodus of firms from Yemen since 2014 following the outbreak of conflict between Houthi rebels and the Saudi-backed government, this looks highly optimistic, unless it sells to a state-owned company. Oxy is less optimistic that its efforts to pull out of the similarly-co...
Volume: 59Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2016 -
DEA Appoints New Egypt Chief
...dwitz was previously managing director of DEA’s Suez Oil Company (SUCO) JV with Egypt’s state oil firm EGPC from 2006 to 2008. Between 2008 and 2014 he headed DEA’s Libya operations before a brief stint in Turkmenistan and the UK. The firm’s most recent success story is the 200mn cfd Disouq field in th...
Volume: 59Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2016 -
Kuwait’s Budget Deficit Set To Soar As Spending Continues Despite Subsidy Cuts
...venue (KD740mn for 2016-17) which is allocated to Kuwait’s ‘Reserve Fund for Future Generations’. For the 2014-15 fiscal year Kuwait posted a deficit of KD2.31bn, the first deficit since 1999-2000. Mr Salih says that as Kuwait has large financial reserves it has yet to feel the full force of the co...
Volume: 59Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2016 -
GCC: More Debt Planned
...With oil prices 70% down on their 2014 peak, GCC member states Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are reported to be considering tapping global markets to make up for loss of oil revenue. Saudi Arabia, which currently enjoys adequate fiscal buffers, is not in a great hurry to hit the bond market. Th...
Volume: 59Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2016 -
Post-Sanctions Iran Courts Admirers
...lling to just 1.1mn b/d in 2014, prospects for a major resumption of Iranian imports look slim. However, Mr Rohani met with Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi in Rome on 26 January, and discussions will doubtless have covered resuming purchases of Iranian crude. Eni figures show that the company purchased $74...
Volume: 59Issue: 04Published at Fri, 29 Jan 2016 -
Iran Gas Production Set To Rise While Exports Remain Low
...an’s producing oil fields have decline rates of between 5-8%. Iran therefore needs to utilise enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques involving reinjecting natural gas to achieve its oil production targets. Iran injected 31.75 bcm of gas into oil reserves in 2014, down from 35.37 bcm in 2012 and well be...
Volume: 59Issue: 04Published at Fri, 29 Jan 2016 -
Suez Canal Oil Transit Hits 2015 Peak But Revenues Fall
...sult of last years’ low oil prices compared with 2014, which improved refining margins and encouraged European refiners to export to Asia. Hence gasoline transit leapt 66.2% to a record 9.86mn tons (230,000 b/d) and naphtha rose 18.7% to a record 18.25mn tons (410,000 b/d). Southbound LNG transit am...
Volume: 59Issue: 04Published at Fri, 29 Jan 2016 -
Can Climate Change Catalyze Middle East Economic Reform?
...otovoltaic (PV) and wind technologies have become a greater incentive for investors. According to IRENA, onshore wind costs have been declining over the past years, with the best projects delivering electricity at $0.05cents/kWh without financial support. The price of solar PV modules fell by around 75% in 2014...
Volume: 59Issue: 04Published at Fri, 29 Jan 2016