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Iraq Posts Record Revenues Amid Fast-Changing Market
...spite oil prices this year still not quite setting new records underlines the extent to which Iraq managed to increase output capacity since the previous high-price cycle ended in 2014. Iraq crude oil production averaged 3.33mn b/d in 2014, and even with Opec+ cuts remaining in force up until th...
Volume: 65Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2022 -
Opec Revenues Set For 2022 Windfall After 2021 Turnaround
...cession could take the edge off recent highs is the focus. Still, even if oil prices pull back from their recent $100-$120/B range, the group is on course for its highest revenues since 2014 when it took $901bn. If the January to May average price of each Opec member’s key export gr...
Volume: 65Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2022 -
Qatar Gas Exports Surge To Five Year High
...2022 they remain slightly down year-on-year. Even if its core gas exports have dipped slightly this year, soaring commodities prices have pushed Qatar’s export revenues up to multi-year highs of late, with Q1’s $28.51bn the highest quarterly figure since 3Q 2014 (MEES, 3 June). Revenues are up ac...
Volume: 65Issue: 25Published at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 -
Iraqi Parliament Passes $17bn Emergency Bill
...ojects. But it also registers a negative precedent by renewing the practice of ex-budgetary spending decisions as were made in 2014 and 2020. Many observes had hoped that the lack of a 2022 budget would pressure politicians to reach a deal on government formation and exit the current gridlock. Former MP Al...
Volume: 65Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2022 -
Tight LNG Market Drives $2bn Revenue Boost For Qatar
...ices work their way through the system. Already, April revenues were the highest since March 2014’s $12.46bn and were among the highest monthly figures ever (see chart 1). Hydrocarbon revenues of $10.5bn accounted for 88% of the April total, significantly above the 2021 average of 84%. High re...
Volume: 65Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2022 -
Saudi Reaps Rewards Of Oil Price Boom
...a whole. The surge in oil prices following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February has caused Saudi monthly oil export revenues to jump above $30bn for the first time since 2014. The kingdom’s flagship Arab Light crude grade averaged $113/B in March amid the fallout from the conflict, pu...
Volume: 65Issue: 21Published at Fri, 27 May 2022 -
Oman’s Finances Surge To Largest Surplus In Eight Years
...Oman recorded a $923mn budget surplus for Q1 2022, the largest surplus since 1Q 2014. Oil exporters around the region are notching up multi-year high budget surpluses, but the move into the black is especially notable for Oman which was struggling to achieve budget surpluses even in the pr...
Volume: 65Issue: 21Published at Fri, 27 May 2022 -
Saudi Arabia Pledges To Invest Oil Export Windfall In Economic Reforms
...P in the first quarter of the year growing at the fastest pace since 2011. Unsurprisingly, the surge has been driven by resurgent oil markets, as the fallout from Russia’s 24 February invasion of Ukraine has pushed oil prices above $100/B for the first time since 2014. The kingdom launched its Vi...
Volume: 65Issue: 18Published at Fri, 06 May 2022 -
Qatar Exports Top $10bn For First Time Since August 2014
...ISED TO SURGE Export revenues totaled $10.08bn in March, the highest monthly figure since August 2014. The gains came despite relatively soft figures from Qatar’s key gas exports, hinting at significant increases in the coming months as the emirate begins to reap the lagging rewards from its oil-li...
Volume: 65Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2022 -
Food & Fuel: Surging Prices Spell Mixed Fortunes In North Africa
...BYA (2018) AND ALGERIA (2017). SOURCE: WORLD BANK. 2: PRICES OF MAJOR FOOD PRODUCTS HAVE SOARED OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS* *FAO FOOD COMMODITY PRICE INDICES SHOW CHANGES IN MONTHLY INTERNATIONAL PRICES OF MAJOR FOOD COMMODITIES. 2014-2016 PRICES USED AS BASE. SOURCE: FOOD AND AG...
Volume: 65Issue: 16Published at Fri, 22 Apr 2022 -
Oman Oil Output Hits New Heights In Q1 As Revenues Soar
...allenged. Said Bader al-Kharusi, the Executive Director of the North Oil Directorate at the Shell-led, part-state owned Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) stated in late March that the “government aims to benefit from [current] oil and gas prices’ by maximizing production output.” REVENUES SOAR TO 2014 LE...
Volume: 65Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2022 -
Suez Canal Hikes Tanker Fees
...% rebate previously granted to LNG tankers. Toll rebates for LNG tankers were set at 35% in 2014 before being reduce to 25% in 2015 and finally to 15% in October last year....
Volume: 65Issue: 12Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2022 -
Opec Set For Bumper Revenues In 2022: Could It Be A Trillion?
...As volatility from the Ukraine conflict roils oil markets, the 13-member Opec group is looking ahead to its highest annual export revenues in eight years for 2022. Even if prices cool slightly from their year-to-date figure, revenues should climb to their highest level since 2014, and if they ri...
Volume: 65Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2022 -
Aramco Royalty Rate Set To Soar If Brent Tops $100
...That Saudi Arabia’s finances are benefiting from higher oil prices is a given. But Aramco’s floating royalty rate means that the government stands to profit immeasurably should Brent top $100/B for the first time since September 2014. As oil prices rise well beyond $90/B and near-term pr...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
Libya Oil Revenues Skyrocket To $30bn In 2021
...l products, MEES estimates that Libya’s total 2021 oil exports were worth $29.8bn, the highest figure since 2014. Of course, most oil exporting countries had a good year in 2021. Opec – of which Libya is a member – has seen its revenues recover to pre-covid levels on the back of a sharp recovery in...
Volume: 65Issue: 04Published at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 -
Libya Central Banks Agree Reunification Plan
...anches on 20 January agreed a four-point roadmap for reunification of the bank which has been divided on western and eastern lines since Libya split into two parallel governments in 2014. London-based auditing firm Deloitte has been hired to assist the process. The division of the bank has co...
Volume: 65Issue: 04Published at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 -
Kuwait Set For 2022-23 Budget Surplus?
...the highest Kuwait has budgeted for since the 2014-15 budget’s $75/B. It is a huge increase on the $45/B assumption that Kuwait used for its 2021-22 budget. That $45/B assumption has proven to be a hugely conservative one, with Kuwait Export Blend (KEB) averaging $73.65/B over April-December 20...
Volume: 65Issue: 04Published at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 -
Oman Approves Cautious 2022 Budget
...s first surplus since 2008 this year. Oman has seen cumulative deficits of $69.3bn for the 13 years since its last surplus. Oman’s annual deficits were at least modest until oil prices crashed in 2014. In 2013, the last full year of high oil prices, Oman’s debt stood at 4.9% of GDP, but it has si...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
Libya’s 2021 Finances Boosted By Oil Revenues, Skewed By Dinar Devaluation
...r the first time since 2014, one unified Libyan government was responsible for spending and revenues. Rival parallel administrations in the east and west of the country were replaced by a Government of National Unity (GNU) in March as part of Libya’s peace process (MEES, 12 March 2021). But a bu...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
Saudi Budgets For 2022 Surplus: First In Nine Years
...ices began to tumble in the second half of 2014 (see chart 1). Since then, the kingdom has notched up eight consecutive deficits for a cumulative $460bn, if the kingdom’s initial estimates for this year are accurate. For 2021, the government’s latest expectations are that it will accrue a $22.7bn de...
Volume: 64Issue: 50Published at Fri, 17 Dec 2021