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Ethiopia Completes Nile Dam
...Construction of the giant Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is “100% complete,” Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced last week during a parliament session in Addis Ababa. Since 2011, the construction and filling of the GERD have strained relations between Ethiopia and do...
Volume: 67Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2024 -
Oman To Offer New Blocks
...offer. The ministry did not respond to MEES questions for further details. Block 18 was last operated by India’s Reliance Industries which abandoned it in 2011 after a failed drilling campaign (MEES, 9 November 2012). ...
Volume: 67Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2024 -
Libya-Italy Gas Slump
...te, 2024 is on pace for the lowest full-year figure since the start-up of the 8bcm/y (around 775mn cfd)-capacity Greenstream pipeline in 2004, lower than 2023’s 12-year low of 244mn cfd (MEES, 8 March) and the 215mn cfd seen in 2011 when Libya was wracked by revolutionary instability. In a de...
Volume: 67Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2024 -
Iraq: China’s Jereh Inks Mansuriya Contract
...pex is pegged at $992mn for the first three years of the contract. The signing is intended to turn a page on the long-delayed development of Mansuriya. Originally awarded in 2011 to a consortium led by Turkey’s TPAO, Baghdad relinquished the license after commercial terms disagreements following th...
Volume: 67Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2024 -
Iraq Approves Mansuriya Gas Award
...riod. Mansuriya was originally awarded in 2011 to a consortium led by Turkey’s TPAO. Development was halted following attacks by the Islamic State across the province in 2014. Disagreement on commercial terms subsequently pushed Baghdad to take over the field in 2018 (MEES, 3 August 2018). Chinese state fi...
Volume: 67Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2024 -
Libya Ups Drilling Efforts
...oduced at 95,000 b/d prior to Libya’s 2011 revolution. Effective capacity has been perhaps half this in recent years but leading US-based services firm SLB has been working with Eni and NOC on a campaign to re-enter long-producing wells with its latest stimulation technology. SLB last month said that th...
Volume: 67Issue: 08Published at Fri, 23 Feb 2024 -
Kuwait Appoints New Pm
...reign affairs minister in 2011 due to his concerns with government corruption. That corruption scandal prompted the infamous ‘storming’ of parliament by protestors and the resignation of prime minister Nasser Mohammed Al Sabah (MEES, 5 December 2011). The new PM is the first of Al Salem branch of th...
Volume: 67Issue: 01Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2024