1. Libya’s 2017 Energy Fortunes: Good-Ish News On Oil, Less So On Gas As Instability Continues

    ...CRUDE OUTPUT HAS REBOUNDED TO A 4-YEAR HIGH, AVERAGING 950,000 B/D SINCE JULY (‘000 B/D)...   ...THOUGH AN END-YEAR DIP WITH AN ATTACK ON A KEY PIPELINE* IS INDICATIVE OF CONTINUED INSTABILITY   GAS EXPORTS^ FELL TO THE LOWEST LEVEL SINCE THE REVOLUTIONARY YEAR OF 2011...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 01
    Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2018
  2. Saudi Foreign Reserves*

    ...ARE ON TRACK FOR A $45bn (8.4%) 2017 DRAWDOWN...   ...BUT, HAVING FALLEN BELOW $500BN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2011 IN MAY, THEY HAVE SINCE STABILIZED AT JUST SHY OF THIS LEVEL ($bn) *SAMA NET FOREIGN ASSETS ($BN, END PERIOD). ^FORECAST BASED ON DATA TO END-NOV. SOURCE: SA...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 01
    Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2018
  3. Oman Plans Cut To 2018 Spending In Bid To Trim Deficit

    ...18 budget projects a $1.3bn fall in the country’s deficit. But at $7.8bn, almost 13% of GDP, this is hardly something to crow about. Particularly worrying is that the country will have recorded a deficit for 10 straight years – through the $100/B boom years of 2011-14 as well as recent, more co...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 01
    Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2018