1. Kais Saied’s Tunisia: Where Is It Headed?

    ...ndemic (MEES, 24 July 2020).  Finances appear to be on the verge of collapse. Public debt has soared since the 2011 revolution (see chart 1), but Tunisia has little to show for it (MEES, 18 December 2020). Interest payments alone will eat up some 11% of projected government revenues this year, ac...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 29 Oct 2021
  2. Libya Oil Revenues Soar But Still Short Of Central Bank Target

    ...VENUES* AT $11.6BN IN THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 2021 ARE ALREADY DOUBLE THE FULL YEAR 2020 FIGURE OF $5.9BN *CBL 'OIL REVENUE' NUMBERS USED BETWEEN 2011 AND 2017 DUE TO ABSENCE OF NOC DATA. ^INCLUDES GAS EXPORT REVENUE, PRODUCTS SALES. ^^INCLUDES SMALL VOLUMES OF CONDENSATE.  SOURCE: OPEC ASB, CB...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 34
    Published at Fri, 27 Aug 2021
  3. Libya’s Forex Reserves Fall 21% In 2020

    ...e inaccessible to Libya due to strict UN sanctions that have been in place since 2011.The idea is that sanctions will be removed once Libya has an accountable government. But the country is still deeply divided. Libyan actors are still squabbling over the legal basis for elections that are sc...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 34
    Published at Fri, 27 Aug 2021
  4. Egypt Raises Power Prices, Waiting on Fuel Prices

    ...vels (see chart 1). For March, household electricity use was 4.62TWh, the lowest March use since 2013 while the previous month’s 4.33TWh was the lowest February figure since 2011. Egypt power demand typically peaks in the sweltering summer months. 1: EGYPT HOUSEHOLD POWER USE FELL TO A MULTI-YEAR LO...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 27
    Published at Fri, 09 Jul 2021
  5. Adnoc Ready To Roll Out Murban Futures Contract

    ...mand in Fujairah. It can go from Fujairah to Asia, it can go to Africa, it can go to Europe.” With Fujairah emerging as the largest bunkering hub in the Middle East, storage capacity has expanded rapidly “from 3.2mn m³ [20.2mn barrels] in 2011 to more than 10mn m³ in 2018," according to Salem al-Ha...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 26 Mar 2021
  6. Qatar Export Revenues Fall 30% In 2020

    ...s current level of 77mn t/y in 2011. The figure is considerably lower than at the height of the collapse precipitated by the oil price slump from late 2014. Then annual revenues bottomed out at $57.3bn in 2016 (see chart 1). However, Qatar has had considerable success in reducing its import tab in...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2021
  7. Qatar Keeps Crown As Largest LNG Exporter For 2020

    ...art 3). India emerged as Qatar’s largest LNG client last year (see chart 4), taking 10.8mn t/y as it outstripped No.2 South Korea for the first time since 2011. Four of Qatar’s top five buyers last year were from Asia. The UK grabbed the fifth spot, but according to Kpler, Qatar’s most recent shipment th...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 02
    Published at Fri, 15 Jan 2021
  8. Oman Fiscal Dilemma Shows No Signs Of Abating In 2021

    ...ntered on government spending, this requires significant investment just as debt-fueled expenditure becomes increasingly costly. Oman’s 2021 budget released last week epitomizes this dilemma. Muscat plans to spend just $28.3bn, its lowest annual spend since the pre-Arab Spring days of 2011. The cuts ar...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 01
    Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2021