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Confusion Reigns As Iran Denies Russia Oil Deal Reports
...ssian state companies Gazprom and Zarubezhneft have also been keeping a close eye on proceedings, with the latter having a significant presence at Iran’s 2014 Oil and Gas Show in Tehran in May. Zarubezhneft became the first Russian oil company to be awarded a permit to operate in Iran in September last ye...
Volume: 56Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2014 -
Lebanese Bid Round Hostage To Politicial Stalemate
...fore IOCs are sure what they are bidding for and under what specific terms – all subject to the approval of a future government. With no grand compromise in sight, it may be well into 2014 before Mr Salam is able to form a new government. It is therefore highly likely that there will be fu...
Volume: 56Issue: 48Published at Fri, 29 Nov 2013 -
Civil War And Partition Threaten Iraq
...nd a modus vivendi. The current instability coincides with plans to raise the export capacity of Iraq’s southern oil ports to 4mn b/d by the end of the first quarter of 2014. Crude oil storage capacity throughout the country has been increased to over 7mn barrels. According to Deputy Prime Mi...
Volume: 56Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013 -
Border Impasse
...nister of Energy Gebran Bassils early October announcement that the ministry had extended the deadline for IOCs to submit their bids. Originally set for September, the deadline has gradually been pushed back to 10 January 2014. In all likelihood, this is a moving target. Caretaker Prime Minister Na...
Volume: 56Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013 -
Saudi-US Tension Goes Public Over Iran
...position in any transitional government, and whether Mr Asad will be allowed to run in the 2014 presidential elections....
Volume: 56Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2013 -
2014 Presidential Elections Dominate Algerian Politics
...ALGERIA 2014 Presidential Elections Dominate Algerian Politics Three issues are dominating the present Algerian political scene: A power struggle between the supporters of Algeria’s president and the heads of the Algerian State Intelligence Service (DRS); the growing th...
Volume: 56Issue: 42Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2013 -
Challenges To KRG Political Stability
...ections in the spring of 2014. A negative Kurdish response will mean an indefinite postponement of the federal elections. A second matter requiring Mr Barzani’s attention is the question of relations with Kurds in the neighboring states of Syria, Turkey and Iran and whether the time has come to ca...
Volume: 56Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013 -
IOCs Mull Algeria Safety
...ckenzie. Unconventional Plans Originally scheduled for this year the bid round will now likely be held in 2014. It will not only be a bellwether for conventional resources, but will also test the appetite for the country’s shale gas reserves, estimated to be the world’s third biggest by the US Energy In...
Volume: 56Issue: 39Published at Fri, 27 Sep 2013 -
Iraq: A Failed State?
...dicate that part of the violence is also due to a power struggle between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Da’wa Party, Sadrist militias and Ammar al-Hakim’s Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, all pro-Iranian groups maneuvering for the 2014 parliamentary elections. The lack of security and the go...
Volume: 56Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2013 -
Syria: US-Russia Deal
...apons and filling munitions must also be destroyed by November. There is to be “complete elimination of all chemical weapons material and equipment in the first half of 2014,” the framework says. On the one side, some EU states have called for Mr Asad’s use of sarin gas in an attack on a Da...
Volume: 56Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2013 -
Law Change Hands Power, Oil Revenues To Iraq’s Provinces
...,000 b/d by end 2014. Babil province’s West Kifl field, and Karbala’s Kifl and Merjan fields have been a particular area of interest. In January 2010, UK independent San Leon announced it had signed a deal with Karbala governorate for the blocks, offered in Iraq’s December 2009 second upstream bi...
Volume: 56Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2013 -
Election Result: Rohani Stresses ‘Moderate’ Message
...ould remain in power until at least the 2014 Syrian presidential election and that foreign troops should be withdrawn from Syria. Since the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps are active participants in the Syrian civil war, as is Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hizbollah, if Mr Rohani is demanding the withdrawal of...
Volume: 56Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2013 -
Iraqi Politics: Sinking Into The Morass?
...shkhabour pumping station near the Turkish border. The construction of the Kurdish line inside Iraq is scheduled to be completed by year-end, with commercial throughput expected during early 2014. However, under the constitution, only Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) is allowed to export Iraqi oi...
Volume: 56Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2013 -
MENA Security Deterioration Sounds Oil Investment Alarm
...dley, said on 30 April. “We don’t expect significant production from [the newly-developed] In Saleh southern fields in 2014,” he added. ...
Volume: 56Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2013 -
Iraqi Provincial Elections: Prelude To A New Balance Of Power
...mpaigning to unseat Mr Maliki before January 2014 parliamentary elections, but has so far failed. The provincial election is a test of strength for both camps. MEES learns from senior Iraqi opposition sources that Iran has informed them of its continued support for Mr Maliki and that Tehran does not want hi...
Volume: 56Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2013 -
Egypt: Fraying At The Seams
...andard $2.65/mn BTU state firm EGPC pays foreign operators. BG in February sanctioned the latest phase, ‘9b,’ of its giant West Delta Deep Marine project, which it hopes will boost output from 2014, having said that go-ahead was linked to receiving guarantees from EGPC on LNG export volumes. Of...
Volume: 56Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2013 -
China & GCC Widen Energy Ties
...ey had gathered in New York for a UN General Assembly meeting. Outgoing Prime Minister of China, Wen Jiabao, visited Abu Dhabi in January 2012 as Chinese oil companies were chasing onshore concessions ahead of their January 2014 expiration. As Vice President in 2008, Mr Xi held extensive me...
Volume: 56Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2013 -
Iraq Ten Years Later: A Country On The Brink Of Disintegration
...nister following the January 2014 elections, Sunni and Kurdish parties will be left with little choice but to refuse to participate in any future government. On the other hand, if Mr Maliki is not allowed to run for a third term, or if his coalition fails to win a majority, the 2003 political process wi...
Volume: 56Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2013 -
North African Energy Producers Face Growing Challenges
...d is focusing on the 2014 presidential elections, and particularly on the question of which candidates will run against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Nonetheless, however hard the Algerian energy authorities try to put the In Amenas attack behind them, the incident has tarnished the co...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
Difficult Days Ahead For Iraq
...wnfall by calling a parliamentary vote of no confidence. Failing that, their next chance to change the government will come with the spring 2013 district and provincial elections and the January 2014 parliamentary elections. However, even if they are successful and Mr Maliki fails to serve fo...
Volume: 56Issue: 04Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013