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Lebanon Signs Contract For Turkish Power Ships
...vernment subsidies, which rose to around $1.2bn in 2011. ...
Volume: 55Issue: 30Published at Mon, 23 Jul 2012 -
IMF Sees Good Growth Prospects For Libya
...BYA IMF Sees Good Growth Prospects For Libya Libya’s economic activity is recovering rapidly with the restoration of hydrocarbon production, the IMF said on 11 July in its concluding statement after a visit to Libya. Real GDP contracted by 60% in 2011, but is projected to rebound by twice as much (11...
Volume: 55Issue: 30Published at Mon, 23 Jul 2012 -
Oman Starts Reducing Gas Subsidies
...an Oman Starts Reducing Gas Subsidies Oman’s Ministry of Oil and Gas has started to end gas subsidies to industry – paving the way to offering BP a price that will make developing its tight gas projects viable. It is the first Arab Gulf state to do this (MEES, 7 February 2011), while others with ga...
Volume: 55Issue: 30Published at Mon, 23 Jul 2012 -
IMF Puts Up MENA 2012 Growth Forecast On Oil Production Boost
...tivity in Libya is rebounding rapidly after the unrest in 2011. For global growth, the IMF trimmed its April forecast by 0.1% and is now predicting 3.5% for 2012. It put 2013’s forecast down 0.2% to 3.9%. It said that there are downside risks looming large, reflecting delayed or insufficient po...
Volume: 55Issue: 30Published at Mon, 23 Jul 2012 -
Syria Raises Gasoil Price By 15%
...d LPG. It has recently managed to import limited quantities of these products from Venezuela and Iran (MEES, 16 July). Syria’s consumption of gasoil in 2011 stood at 7.6mn liters. US Adds New Names Of Syrian Officials To Sanctions List The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of th...
Volume: 55Issue: 30Published at Mon, 23 Jul 2012 -
Egypt’s New Budget Targets Reduction Of Petroleum Subsidies
...33.7bn ($88.1bn), up 8.8% on 2011-12. The resulting deficit in 2012-13 will rise by 4.5% to £140.3bn ($23.2bn) – 7.9% of GDP – from £E134.3bn ($22.2bn) in 2011-12 – 8.6% of GDP. A key feature of the new budget is the 26.3% fall in the petroleum subsidy to £E70bn ($11.6bn) from £E95bn ($15.7bn) in 2011-12. Th...
Volume: 55Issue: 29Published at Mon, 16 Jul 2012 -
Apache Takes Long Term View On Egypt
...ice ($/B) $79.45 $107.14 $123.55 Source: Apache, MEES calculations. Although Apache forecasts 1% annual average growth in its Egyptian production over 2011-16 (on a barrels of oil equivalent [boe] basis) th...
Volume: 55Issue: 29Published at Mon, 16 Jul 2012 -
TransGlobe Completes South Alamein Purchase, Looks To Bid Round Awards
...rmer Egyptian assets of US independent El Paso, including the other 50% of South Alamein. TransGlobe expects the Cepsa deal to be finalized late this month. Both deals are somewhat convoluted. TransGlobe originally agreed to buy Cepsa’s 50% South Alamein stake for $3mn in June 2011. However, wi...
Volume: 55Issue: 29Published at Mon, 16 Jul 2012 -
RasGas Successfully Navigating US Gas Market Weakness, Says Fitch
...sGas’s contracts are fully divertible, allowing spot and short term sales. These reached a record level of 26% of cargoes in 2011 from 21% in 2010. High oil prices and strong global demand for natural gas currently mitigates any potential risk stemming from a weaker offtake structure, commented Fitch. Ra...
Volume: 55Issue: 29Published at Mon, 16 Jul 2012 -
Yemen Government Accuses Military Of Marib Pipeline Sabotage
...nsecutive attacks (MEES, 24 October 2011). The country’s economy has been hit hard as a consequence, with the attacks cutting off crude supply to the 150,000 b/d refinery in Aden, forcing its closure. This in turn led to serious fuel shortages in Yemen, which has since depended on Saudi Arabia to make up fo...
Volume: 55Issue: 29Published at Mon, 16 Jul 2012 -
Absheron Discovery Declared Commercial
...scovery, announced in September 2011, on the Absheron X-2 well. The company said the well was drilled in 474ms of water to a depth of 6,874ms. One of the hydrocarbon bearing intervals tested at 960,000 cmd of non-associated gas and 2,500 b/d of 42.5° API condensate. “The well results indicate gas resources of...
Volume: 55Issue: 28Published at Mon, 09 Jul 2012 -
ENAP’s Egyptian Growth Boosted By Long-Delayed Bidding Award
...r the Sudr block. The 63 sq km block, on the Sinai coast of the Gulf of Suez, was one of seven offered in the late 2010 bidding round of General Petroleum Company (GPC, the upstream arm of state firm Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation), the award of which was delayed by 2011’s political up...
Volume: 55Issue: 28Published at Mon, 09 Jul 2012 -
Former Petroleum Minister Imprisoned For 15 Years Over Israeli Gas Deal
...about $4.50/mn BTU. Mr Fahmy served as minister under Mr Mubarak, who was recently sentenced to life in prison for his role in the deaths of protestors during the days of the revolution in January-February 2011. Mr Fahmy’s involvement in the affair remains unclear. When first arrested in...
Volume: 55Issue: 28Published at Mon, 09 Jul 2012 -
Noble Brings Gas From Small Offshore Fields To Israeli Market
...sources will expire by the end of the year. The gas from the two fields will enable Israel to reduce its purchases of diesel and fuel oil for power generation perhaps for the rest of the year. The halt in shipments of natural gas from Egypt during lengthy periods in 2011 and 2012 resulted in Israel having to...
Volume: 55Issue: 28Published at Mon, 09 Jul 2012 -
Kuwait Trade Surplus Jumps On Oil Price Climb
...,797 2011 26,689 158 853 302 555 1,867 28,556 6,972 21...
Volume: 55Issue: 28Published at Mon, 09 Jul 2012 -
Oman’s Majlis Al-Shura Uses News Powers, Questions PDO
...creased since Sultan Qabus bin Sa'id gave it new powers, following the ‘Arab Spring’ protests. The popular ruler skillfully handled the first wave of unrest in early 2011. He fired corrupt and unpopular officials, promised to create 50,000 jobs and expanded the role of Oman’s elected consultative body, wh...
Volume: 55Issue: 28Published at Mon, 09 Jul 2012 -
Qatar To Issue Sovereign Sukuk
...gion (MEES, 5 December 2011). Its last sukuk issue was 10 years ago. Bookrunners on the sukuk will comprise HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, and domestic financiers Barwa Bank and QInvest. ...
Volume: 55Issue: 28Published at Mon, 09 Jul 2012 -
Saudi Economy To Get A Boost From Mortgage Law Approval
...udis. The Saudi authorities are tackling the problem through a combination of building more affordable housing in addition to expanding financing options. They want to raise home ownership from the current rate of less than 60% to 80% by 2024 (MEES, 28 March 2011). “Widening home ownership has broader ec...
Volume: 55Issue: 28Published at Mon, 09 Jul 2012 -
Marib Pipeline To Resume Pumping After Nine-Month Closure
...work with the tribes in the volatile Marib region to repair the pipeline that has been closed since October 2011 (MEES, 4 June). “If the situation will be OK after the completion of the repairs, the first cargo will arrive at the refinery in Aden by the end of the month,” the ministry sa...
Volume: 55Issue: 28Published at Mon, 09 Jul 2012 -
Bahrain $1.5Bn Bond Oversubscribed
...ghter end of pricing guidance suggesting strong demand. It is also lower than the level seen for Bahrain’s November $750mn sovereign sukuk issue which was priced at 450 bps over mid swaps (MEES, 28 November 2011). It indicates that investor appetite has improved as the unrest which Bahrain saw last year ha...
Volume: 55Issue: 27Published at Mon, 02 Jul 2012