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Saudi Government Unveils Record Expansion-ary Budget
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIII No 52 27-Dec-2010 SAUDI ARABIA Saudi Government Unveils Record Expansion-ary Budget Sustained high crude oil prices this year have provided Saudi Arabia with the impetus to hike 2011 budgeted expenditure 7.4% to a record SR580bn ($15...
Volume: 53Issue: 52Published at Mon, 27 Dec 2010 -
New Iraqi Cabinet Emerges, But Oil Uncertainties Remain
...bari and Deputy Prime Minister Roz Shaways. The Kurds have not accepted any new positions, in the hope of forcing a breakthrough on an oil deal, MEES understands. On 18 December, Kurdish deputies walked out of a parliamentary session to approve the 2011 budget after a clause was inserted – sources say by...
Volume: 53Issue: 52Published at Mon, 27 Dec 2010 -
Cyprus And Israel Sign Accord To Delimit East Mediterranean Waters
...tween October 2011 and October 2013 (MEES, 8 November) and depending on the results at Leviathan, Cypriot officials have said that date could be moved forward (MEES, 13 December). Also, the Delek Group has an option to join Noble in Block 12, which it has yet to exercise. Noble Energy was awarded th...
Volume: 53Issue: 52Published at Mon, 27 Dec 2010 -
Iran Casts Wary Eye On Shared Field As Qatar Celebrates LNG Success
...lks stalled because of a combination of tough terms and growing concerns over sanctions against Iran. According to FGE: Phases 9-10: NIOC targets the start of production by late January 2011. It announced in October 2010 that offshore development progress in these phases is more than 99% co...
Volume: 53Issue: 51Published at Mon, 20 Dec 2010 -
Mubadala GE Capital Deploys $2Bn In Its First Year
...pital’s main thrust will be to provide financing to the private sector in the Middle East and Africa, with an initial focus on the GCC and particularly the UAE in 2011. “We see significant future demand for commercial financing opportunities – initially here in the UAE, our home market, then across th...
Volume: 53Issue: 51Published at Mon, 20 Dec 2010 -
OPEC Avoids Rocking The Boat With Seventh Straight Rollover
...onomic growth and oil demand growth as slowing in 2011, but it revised economic projections up both this year and next. Economic “growth for 2010 was revised up to 4.3% from 4.1% on better than expected growth in the manufacturing sector. Growth in 2011 has also been revised higher to 3.8% from 3.6%,” th...
Volume: 53Issue: 51Published at Mon, 20 Dec 2010 -
Shuweihat S3 Power Deal Suggests Dip In Financing Costs
...untry Starting Margins (bps)* Tenor (years) Date Completed Shuweihat S3 UAE 175 23 Closing early 2011 Barka-3/Sohar-2 Oman 220 15 Sept 2010 PP11 Saudi Ar...
Volume: 53Issue: 51Published at Mon, 20 Dec 2010 -
Zubair And Rumaila Lead Iraqi Capacity Charge
...esentation given to contractors in Istanbul. Worley Parsons and the UK’s AMEC are the favorites to win this contract, a source from a rival engineering firm tells MEES. BP is targeting over 50 wells to be drilled in Rumaila next year. The project’s 2011 work program involves “delineating the main re...
Volume: 53Issue: 50Published at Mon, 13 Dec 2010 -
Saudi Arabian Project Financing Activity To Step Up In 2011
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIII No 50 13-Dec-2010 SAUDI ARABIA Saudi Arabian Project Financing Activity To Step Up In 2011 Projects are expected to secure funds, as domestic banks st...
Volume: 53Issue: 50Published at Mon, 13 Dec 2010 -
Syria’s 2011 Draft Budget Targets Lower Deficit
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIII No 50 13-Dec-2010 SYRIA Syria’s 2011 Draft Budget Targets Lower Deficit Syria’s draft budget for 2011 projects a 5.3% reduction in the budget deficit to S£167bn ($3.59bn) from S£176.4bn ($3.79bn) in 2010, with a 15.7% rise in re...
Volume: 53Issue: 50Published at Mon, 13 Dec 2010 -
Qatar Delays Barzan Project Due To Domestic Gas Supply Surplus
...mes on stream. Qatar is running a 10% surplus of gas production over demand, although this will drop next year as new power capacity comes on stream, raising domestic consumption to 3bn cfd, MEES learns. Power generation capacity will rise from 7.6gw to 8.8gw in 2011. In the same time as...
Volume: 53Issue: 50Published at Mon, 13 Dec 2010 -
Battle Under Way For Control Of Iraqi Oil Portfolio
...l is vital and everyone is assuming that it will be reached. “On Tuesday [30 November], the cabinet reviewed and approved the budget,” oil ministry spokesman 'Asim Jihad tells MEES. “They have now handed it to parliament for approval. The 2011 budget will be based on an oil price of $73/B and oil ex...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Gulf Poised For 2011 Hike In Bond Issues
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIII No 49 6-Dec-2010 GCC/REGIONAL Gulf Poised For 2011 Hike In Bond Issues The MENA region and particularly the GCC saw robust debt market activity th...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
GCC Power Grid Project Nears Completion
...stem – Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar – to the Southern System – UAE and Oman. Completion is expected in 2011. The total investment of the mega-grid, launched in 2009, is about $1.6bn. The regional grid has seen some power transfers since it was launched, mainly between Bahrain, Qatar and Ku...
Volume: 53Issue: 49Published at Mon, 06 Dec 2010 -
Qatar To Keep Crude Production Capacity At 1Mn B/D
...nsultants in the way that Saudi Aramco has, nor has it developed its own workforce,” he says. Qatar’s average output in November is about 830,000 b/d due to OPEC quotas and field shutdowns. QP will partially shut in Dukhan production in the fourth quarter of 2011 for three weeks, during maintenance of...
Volume: 53Issue: 48Published at Mon, 29 Nov 2010 -
Turkmenistan Tilts Towards West, Considers Rapprochement With Azerbaijan
...PC and Turkmengaz, once the 1,000km, 30 bcm/year capacity East-West pipeline is com-pleted in 2014. On top of that, the former head of Turkmengaz noted, “as early as 2011, Turkmenistan needs a market for gas produced by the Malaysian Petronas company on an offshore block at a rate of 5 bcm/y.” Me...
Volume: 53Issue: 48Published at Mon, 29 Nov 2010 -
IEA Forecasts Significant Rise In Renewable Energy During Next 25 Years
...pects a credit shortfall in the euro area of some $150bn in 2010, with marginal improvements in 2011. In the US, the credit shortfall is expected to be of the order of $280bn in 2010, but the situation is expected to improve substantially in 2011, with the shortfall being reduced to $50bn, the WEO re...
Volume: 53Issue: 48Published at Mon, 29 Nov 2010 -
Qatar Starts Up Latest LNG Mega-Train
...targas 7 starting up next year, the two 7.8mn tons/year LNG trains will help lift Qatar’s condensate output to 720,000 b/d in 2011. Their LNG output will further weaken prices and may help disconnect gas prices from oil in Asia-Pacific. Qatargas Train 6, (state-owned Qatar Petroleum 68.5%, Co...
Volume: 53Issue: 47Published at Tue, 23 Nov 2010 -
Saudi Aramco Set To Implement Flagship Saudization Initiative
...astomers project decided to locate the venture entirely at Jubail (MEES, 19 October 2009). Meanwhile, construction tenders for the expansion of the Saudi Aramco/Sumitomo PETRORabigh petrochemical complex are expected to be launched in mid‐2011, with work to begin shortly afterwards. PETRORabigh Phase II...
Volume: 53Issue: 47Published at Tue, 23 Nov 2010 -
G20 Calls For Crackdown On $312Bn Energy Subsidy Bill
...ing experienced in the transport sector. Moreover, further analysis carried out by the IEA has shown that the phasing out of fossil fuel consumption subsidies over 2011-20 would be expected to reduce global energy related CO₂ emissions by 5.8% – equivalent to the current combined emissions of Ge...
Volume: 53Issue: 47Published at Tue, 23 Nov 2010