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Libya’s NOC Forced To Shut In Key El Sharara Field
...vel given the seemingly unending instability rocking the country since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. With national output at five-year high levels, El Sharara operator Repsol as of early November, was eying a Q4 rebound from the Q3 average of 280,000 b/d (MEES, 9 November), which was do...
Volume: 61Issue: 50Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2018 -
Qatar Shines Spotlight On OPEC Divisions As It Ends 57-Year Membership
...tween 2009 and 2011 while maintaining its Opec membership. Yes, the benefits of continued Opec membership for Qatar are limited, but this has held true for years. Why opt to leave now? Because the GCC rift has eroded Qatar’s voice within Opec and therefore the benefits that it derives from me...
Volume: 61Issue: 49Published at Fri, 07 Dec 2018 -
Iran’s Oil Export Prognosis: Is The Market Too Blasé?
...5,000 b/d volumes were at their highest level since 2011 putting Spain second only to Italy among European buyers. But volumes had already fallen to 100,900 b/d for September as sanctions loomed. But, unlike number one EU buyer Italy or number four Greece, Spain neither applied for nor was granted a ‘wa...
Volume: 61Issue: 46Published at Fri, 16 Nov 2018 -
Qatar Petroleum Chief Consolidates Energy Sector Grip With Cabinet Seat
...nounced a cabinet reshuffle on 4 November in which QP CEO Saad Sherida al-Kaabi was appointed Minister of State for Energy Affairs. Mr Kaabi has replaced Minister of Energy and Industry Muhammad al-Sada who had held the post since January 2011 (MEES, 24 January 2011). As minister, he will have “overall re...
Volume: 61Issue: 45Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2018 -
Syria: Gas Output At 75% Pre-War Levels, Oil Recovery Lags
...ll. In this way, the country’s modest yet domestically important oil and gas sector is increasingly crucial to Syria’s political landscape. Before 2011’s descent into chaos, hydrocarbons were a cornerstone of the Syrian economy. Oil production, though steadily on the decline from a record 61...
Volume: 61Issue: 42Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2018 -
Iraqi Government Formation Gathers Pace
...suffered a major stroke in December 2012. Mr Salih is not as formidable an operator as Mr Talabani – who passed away last year – but he is cut from the same cloth as his former mentor. He served as prime minister of the Kurdistan Region from 2009 to 2011. Mr Salih was put forward as a ca...
Volume: 61Issue: 40Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2018 -
Noble, Delek Advance Israel-To-Egypt Gas Hopes With $518mn Pipeline Deal
...s shortfalls in Egypt made the continued supply of gas to Israel increasingly contentious. Egypt tore up the deal and put the minister who inked it, Sameh Fahmy, on trial in the wake of the February 2011 revolution (MEES, 14 March 2011). This led to damages claims from both the EMG’s then sh...
Volume: 61Issue: 39Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2018 -
Egypt Sees End To Water Tension With Ethiopia: Is It In Denial?
...ue Nile as a key source of power were taken by Egypt as a threat to what the country has seen as its birthright since the time of the Pharaohs. Construction began in 2011, leading then Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi to say in 2013 that “Egypt’s water security cannot be violated in any way.” He ad...
Volume: 61Issue: 38Published at Fri, 21 Sep 2018 -
Sinai Insecurity: Sisi’s Achilles’ Heel
...cade intended to flush out Sinai-based militants. ‘Operation Eagle’ was launched in August 2011 and ‘Operation Sinai’ a year later but neither have effectively rid the region of militants. The main focus of COS has been around the towns of Arish, Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah, the region in the northeast of...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Oman’s Duqm Development: Dustbowl Or ‘Dubai’?
...ptember opening of a new passenger terminal: it remains to be seen if more flights will materialize. DUQM SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE (PLANNED) ALL ABOUT THE REFINERY The Special Economic Zone of Duqm (SEZAD) was established in 2011 to “diversify the national economy.” But recent mo...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Libya Power Expansion Going Nowhere, Blackouts Continue
...e 2011 revolution, capacity was 7.1GW, according to IEA estimates. Things have also been far from plain sailing at Libya’s key ongoing power project, the 640MW Ubari plant in Libya’s remote southwest. As with a planned plant in Tobruk (awarded to Greek firm Mytilineos), this is designed to use ga...
Volume: 61Issue: 33Published at Fri, 17 Aug 2018 -
Turkey Plans East Med Drilling: Politics Over Geology?
...unters with either military muscle or by stepping up its own ‘plans’ for hydrocarbon exploration. This was the case back in 2011 when US firm Noble began drilling Block 12 off southeast Cyprus (MEES, 26 September 2011), and Turkey further ramped up the rhetoric after Noble’s drilling resulted in the 5tcf Ap...
Volume: 61Issue: 32Published at Fri, 10 Aug 2018 -
Lebanon’s Recurring Power Nightmare
...re actually from Egypt via the Arab Gas Pipeline (AGP) project (MEES, 26 October 2009). Per the deal’s terms, government officials estimated that if all three units at Deir Ammar were converted to run on gas it would save around $240mn a year with Brent at $75/B. Egyptian gas imports ceased in 2011...
Volume: 61Issue: 27Published at Fri, 06 Jul 2018 -
Jordan Protests Victorious As Government Nixes Imf-Backed Tax Bill
...reign aid (MEES, 13 April)—the conflict in Syria has severely stunted Jordan’s growth. Jordan averaged 6.6%/year GDP growth from 2005 to 2011 versus 2.6% since, with 2016 and 2017 the lowest yet. The World Bank expects Jordan to average 2.4% growth in 2018 —only up marginally from 2017 (see chart). Fr...
Volume: 61Issue: 23Published at Fri, 08 Jun 2018 -
Lebanon's Gas Hype: Is It All Hot Air?
...mmercial discovery is a fait accompli. But Lebanon needn’t look far for examples of the tricky realities of East Med development: after discovering the 5tcf Aphrodite field in 2011, many of the island’s “experts” and officials boasted as if Cyprus were the new Qatar (MEES, 10 April 2015). Israel’s 22tcf Le...
Volume: 61Issue: 17Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018 -
Iran Looks To Europe As Trump Fears Threaten Embattled Economy
...nctions from 2011 onwards had proven effective was that the Obama administration was able to secure the buy-in of the EU and Iran’s key customers in Asia. China, Japan, India and South Korea imported a combined 1.4mn b/d from Iran in 2011, equivalent to around 55% of total Iranian export volumes. This fe...
Volume: 61Issue: 13Published at Fri, 30 Mar 2018 -
Qatar & Sudan Deepen Ties
...lationship following Qatar’s mediation role in the Darfur conflict, which resulted in the 2011 Doha Document for Peace in Darfur. And Qatar is in need of friends having faced a regional embargo since June 2017. The main players in the Qatar dispute are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt. Khartoum ha...
Volume: 61Issue: 13Published at Fri, 30 Mar 2018 -
Sudan’s Upstream Oil & Energy Sector: Investors Sought But IOCs Remain Cautious
...ABILIZED AFTER SOUTH SUDAN’S 2011 SECESSION BUT HAS DWINDLED SINCE 2015 ('000 B/D) *TO MID-MARCH. SOURCE: IEA, BP, MEES. Last year saw the easing of wide-ranging western sanctions after 20 years. Their key legacy is that the country’s upstream (and that of South Sudan) is dominated by st...
Volume: 61Issue: 11Published at Fri, 16 Mar 2018 -
Syria’s Eastern Oil Fields: The Post-War End-Game
...nce 1996 when it neared 600,000 b/d, but natural gas output was on the rise until the war retarded its development. Key gas fields are near Palmyra in the center of the country. Output increased from 870mn cfd in 2010 to 1.05bn cfd in 1Q 2011 with the ramp up of the Hayan gas project (MEES, 14 Se...
Volume: 61Issue: 10Published at Fri, 09 Mar 2018 -
East Med Gas: Troubled Waters
...e incentives for Lebanon’s government. Whilst any sort of comprehensive peace agreement remains as far away as ever, the US has attempted to mediate a de facto agreement on their maritime boundary. In 2011 it sent diplomat Frederick Hoff to Lebanon in hopes of resolving the dispute. The so-ca...
Volume: 61Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2018