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Baghdad-KRG Payment Woes
...aq’s International Chamber of Commerce arbitration with Turkey over of the KRG’s use of the Turkish section of the former Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline (MEES, 20 May 2014). Mr Allawi says he “hears that Iraq’s position is strong” and that the decision might be “favorable.” Iraq claims $26bn in losses, cl...
Volume: 64Issue: 33Published at Fri, 20 Aug 2021 -
Morocco’s Disputes With Algeria & Spain Heat Up As Pipeline Deadline Looms
...me again in line with average 2014-18 Algeria-Spain volumes of 18bcm/y without recourse to GME. Algeria’s liquefaction facilities typically operate at below 50% of their combined 25.5mn t/y capacity, with the latter equating to around 30bcm/y of gas (MEES, 25 June: Algeria’s smaller Skikda plant re...
Volume: 64Issue: 29Published at Fri, 23 Jul 2021 -
Algerians Boycott President Tebboune’s ‘New Algeria’
...ak oil prices since 2014 have resulted in steep fiscal and current account deficits. And the country’s lethargic state-led economic model has been unable to compensate. The planned solution, as ever, is to pursue diversification and a private-sector led growth model. But words have not been backed up by...
Volume: 64Issue: 25Published at Fri, 25 Jun 2021 -
Israel: New Government, New Challenges
...ighbors, most notably the UAE (MEES, 7 May). Prior to that Mr Steinitz faced the aftermath of a late 2014 antitrust case against its two key players, US firm Noble (now Chevron) and Israel firm Delek (MEES, 2 January 2015). A gas outline agreement was signed in 2016 which allowed Noble and Delek to re...
Volume: 64Issue: 24Published at Fri, 18 Jun 2021 -
Gulfsands Bullish On Syria Return As Key Russian Investor Consolidates Position
...nserving cash for potential Syria re-entry. Whilst Gulfsands says it has had no control over and received no revenue from its Syria assets since 2011, it was informed by Syrian state firm GPC that the Block 26 fields, having produced intermittently since 2014, “returned to regular production in January 20...
Volume: 64Issue: 23Published at Fri, 11 Jun 2021 -
Russia’s Gazprom Seeks North Africa Expansion
...sin known as ‘Area 64’ (see map). ALGERIA PLANS In neighboring Algeria, Gazprom says it plans to make a decision in 2021 on the “commercial attractiveness” of its 2010 Rhourde Sayah (RSH) and 2014 Rhourde Sayah North (RSHN) discoveries on the El Assel license (236b). The two fields ar...
Volume: 64Issue: 21Published at Fri, 28 May 2021 -
Tunisia Oil & Gas: Major Exodus Looms
...er. There have been no major exploration campaigns or projects of late. And if it wasn’t for the need to see Nawara, on which it took FID in 2014, through to start up, there is little reason to believe OMV would still be in Tunisia. Instead, would it not be better to have smaller but more en...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
Marib Conflict Threatens Yemen’s Struggling Oil Sector
...ipments for both crude feedstock and products output. Since Yemen’s civil war broke out in 2014 the damage inflicted on the country’s already long-suffering population has been severe. In 2015, Saudi Arabia entered the fray concerned that Houthi gains could essentially give rise to a Yemeni Hezbollah on...
Volume: 64Issue: 12Published at Fri, 26 Mar 2021 -
China’s Imports of Iranian Oil Jump: Will Biden Act?
...uld be the highest monthly figure since April 2019 according to Kpler. For what it’s worth the highest ever crude figure in the official Chinese import stats was 798,000 b/d set back in April 2014; April 2019 was just below this at 787,000 b/d. But whilst the official figures – which presumably re...
Volume: 64Issue: 11Published at Fri, 19 Mar 2021 -
Repsol & Shell Leave Morocco; Repsol Quits Iraqi Kurdistan
...iting pending official ratification.” Repsol has since 2014 held 75% of Ghrab Offshore Sud, a deepwater ‘Atlantic margin’ block some 100km northwest of Rabat (state firm ONHYM has 25%) and further offshore from the firm’s 2009 'sub-commercial' Anchois discovery. The sole activity here in recent years ha...
Volume: 64Issue: 09Published at Fri, 05 Mar 2021 -
Israel & Egypt’s Blossoming Energy Relationship
...ck in 2014 signed Letters of Intent to pipe Leviathan gas to Idku (MEES, 4 July 2014) and Tamar gas to Damietta (MEES, 9 May 2014). Tying back Leviathan to one of the existing-but-underutilized Egyptian LNG plants always made sense economically. The estimated cost of $3bn, including four ad...
Volume: 64Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2021 -
Iraq Struggles To Find Developers For Mansuriya Gas Field
...%). The consortium halted development of the Diyala province field in 2014 due to Islamic State attacks across the province (MEES, 10 October 2014). Security concerns remained despite the Islamic State being pushed back, and in 2018 Baghdad announced it would develop the field itself (MEES, 3 August 20...
Volume: 64Issue: 07Published at Fri, 19 Feb 2021 -
Libya’s Power Sector In A Race Against Time
...at Libya has had rival eastern and western governments since 2014 hasn’t exactly helped matters. The parallel administration in the east has its own power authority which has complicated efforts to coordinate operations and policies. Libya’s new unity leadership which was in the process of being se...
Volume: 64Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2021 -
Yemen: 2020 Oil Exports Up, But Conflict Remains
...nflict. OIL EXPORTS RISE Given the dire situation, the slow but steady progress of the country’s oil sector remains an anomaly. Current production and exports remain at just a fraction of pre-2011 days when production averaged 300,000-400,000 b/d, and even short of the 127,000 b/d produced in 2014...
Volume: 64Issue: 02Published at Fri, 15 Jan 2021 -
Iraq’s Northern Oil Infrastructure Under Attack From Islamic State
...ll as their proximity to major assets. The small topping plant at Sainia lies just a few kilometers from the Baiji refining complex, which before its total destruction in 2014, was Iraq’s biggest producing 310,000 b/d. Rebuilding Baiji – which previously consisted of two 70,000 b/d crude distillation un...
Volume: 63Issue: 51Published at Fri, 18 Dec 2020 -
Oman Sees Economic Weaknesses Play A Geopolitical Role
...l revenues. But it never fully recovered from 2014’s oil price crash. Coupled with a post-Arab Spring spending spree, this saw its debt balloon from $4bn in 2013 to $50bn just seven years later. This year’s collapse in oil prices added insult to injury. Revenues fell from $14.3bn in 1H 2019 to $12...
Volume: 63Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2020 -
Turkey’s East Med Drilling Campaign: Politics By Other Means
...In the scramble for the East Med, Turkey has been mixing guns with energy. A prolific politics-first drilling campaign has so far failed to result in an ‘economic’ discovery. But will Turkey’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ mentality see it strike gas? When in 2014 your correspondent asked the now-Tu...
Volume: 63Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2020 -
Turkey Unites Rival East Med Players As Regional ‘Gas Forum’ Expands Ambitions
...peline plans for the photo-opportunity this affords them. Plans for an Israel-Cyprus-Greece-Italy gas pipeline have been included on a list of the EU’s ‘projects of common interest’ since 2014 (MEES, 12 December 2014), with EU energy commissioners a regular fixture at related meet-ups. Never mind the gl...
Volume: 63Issue: 39Published at Fri, 25 Sep 2020 -
Libya’s Eastern Power Cuts Force Haftar’s Hand
...A imposed a nationwide oil-blockade aiming to put pressure on the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) it seeks to overthrow (MEES, 24 January). Libya has had two rival eastern and western administrations since 2014. As a result of the blockades, the eastern terminals of Es Sider, Zu...
Volume: 63Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2020 -
Beirut Explosion Sends Lebanon Into Humanitarian, Economic Abyss\
...vestigated in Cyprus) instructed the crew to pick up heavy machinery at Beirut and deliver it to Jordan’s port of Aqaba. The poorly-maintained vessel was then embroiled in a legal dispute over fees, and the crew was stranded onboard in Beirut for 11 months. In 2014 the cargo was offloaded for ‘safety re...
Volume: 63Issue: 32Published at Fri, 07 Aug 2020