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Iran-Aligned Militia Attacks Complicate Delicate Iraqi-US Relations
...w system to importers and banks as opposed to black market dollars. Mr Sudani’s decision in January to reinstate Ali al-‘Alak as CBI Governor proved useful, given his long working relationship with his US peers between 2014 and 2020. But the recovery remains erratic and suboptimal, with li...
Volume: 66Issue: 50Published at Fri, 15 Dec 2023 -
Libya’s Legal Battle To Recover Billions In Overseas Assets
...bya (MEES, 13 October). Since 2014, the country has had two administrations, each with its own legislative and executive bodies. One is the internationally recognized Government of National Unity (GNU), based in the western capital of Tripoli and led by Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibeh (MEES, 12 Ma...
Volume: 66Issue: 50Published at Fri, 15 Dec 2023 -
Kuwait’s Cabinet Looks Ahead To A Troublesome 2024
...ght consecutive budget deficits between 2014/15 and 2021/22 (see chart), but since September 2017 the government has been unable to raise debt to finance these deficits as parliament has repeatedly blocked the passage of a debt law to allow state borrowing. In September, Fitch affirmed Kuwait’s ‘AA-’ ra...
Volume: 66Issue: 50Published at Fri, 15 Dec 2023 -
Yemen’s Breakthrough Truce Threatened By Houthi Military Attacks
...mbined cycle power plant. Yemen’s oil and gas sector had been declining since long before the onset of civil war. Production peaked in 2002 at 457,000 b/d with exports remaining above 100,000 b/d until 2014 (MEES, 15 September 2017). However, since the start of the conflict and the Saudi-led in...
Volume: 66Issue: 48Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2023 -
Egyptians Wary Rushed Elections Spell Tougher Times Ahead
...e National Elections Authority (NEA) is set to announce the results of the first – and likely only – round on 18 December, but Sisi is already widely expected to win, with virtually no real competition (MEES, 19 April 2019). The 68-year-old former general won both the 2014 and 2018 elections wi...
Volume: 66Issue: 43Published at Fri, 27 Oct 2023 -
Israel Halts Tamar & EMG Flows As Fight With Hamas Continues
...wer in 2014, the pipeline has remained intact. REVERBERATING RAMIFICATIONS The ongoing war is also likely to impact future energy-related decisions, not only related to Israel but also Lebanon, as well Gaza itself: development of its 1tcf Gaza Marine field is sure to be kicked into the long gr...
Volume: 66Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2023 -
Iraq Touts Gas Export Ambitions Despite Severe Shortages
...rectly supply IOC-operated power plants. This is especially the case at the Eni-operated 500,000 b/d Zubair field, where a 2014-built 700MW gas-fired plant is “using gas that is rich in LPG and condensates for power” according to a source. As per article 10 of Eni’s Technical Services Contract for Zu...
Volume: 66Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2023 -
Japan’s PM Eyes Oil, Gas Cooperation From Middle East Tour
...G. The end-2021 expiry of Jera’s contract to purchase 5mn t/y of LNG from Qatar resulted in volumes plummeting. Having tussled with Australia and Malaysia to be Japan’s largest LNG supplier a decade ago, Qatari supplies have slumped from 16.14mn tons in 2014 to just 2.88mn tons for 2022 (see ch...
Volume: 66Issue: 29Published at Fri, 21 Jul 2023 -
Libya Oil Outages Highlight Continued Instability
...vel with late-2019 as the highest monthly figure since February 2014 (see chart 3). 1: LIBYA’S CRUDE OUTPUT LEVELS HAVE BEEN HIGHLY VOLATILE SINCE THE EARLY 2011 REVOLUTION (‘000 B/D)… *AS PER OPEC ASB FOR SOME YEARS (INCLUDING 2022) THIS DOES NOT TALLY WITH NOC’S BY-CONCESSION FIGURES. NA...
Volume: 66Issue: 29Published at Fri, 21 Jul 2023 -
BP & Adnoc’s Landmark NewMed Deal: Testing the Water or Troubled Waters?
...structive, it could potentially damage relationships and credibility with existing key partner Chevron as well as with prospective partners as BP and Adnoc. “Look at what happened in prior Delek negotiations with how close they came with [a $2.5bn, 2014 deal to sell 25% of Leviathan to Australia’s] Wo...
Volume: 66Issue: 23Published at Fri, 09 Jun 2023 -
Tatneft Libya Find
...opped to two for much of 2022 with port and field shut-ins, relative stability in recent months has seen drilling activity bounce back with Baker Hughes recording 14 active rigs for April, within three of the post-revolution high of 17 hit in early 2014....
Volume: 66Issue: 19Published at Fri, 12 May 2023 -
Baghdad & KRG Sign Landmark ‘Temporary Deal’ To Resume Exports
...t to restart. Ankara’s strict implementation of the ICC ruling which covered exports from 2014 to 2018 appears more directed at pressing Iraq not to file for additional compensation for the period of 2019 onwards and to negotiate a settlement of the approximately $1.5bn reward granted. With that be...
Volume: 66Issue: 14Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2023 -
Baghdad & Erbil Locked In Standoff As Oil Exports To Ceyhan Come To Complete Halt
...ound 500,000 b/d of crude oil from northern Iraq to its export terminal at Ceyhan following a long-awaited ruling by the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) on the case filed by Iraq in 2014 against Turkey for facilitating Iraqi Kurdistan’s independent oil exports. Turkey’s swift re...
Volume: 66Issue: 13Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2023 -
KRG-Baghdad Rapprochement To Be Tested By Budget Agreement
...ll under central government monitoring and all other similar accounts shall be closed.” These points have also been enshrined in Article 14 of the proposed 2023 budget legislation. Since the KRG began independent oil exports in 2014, revenues have been paid into an escrow account with Turkey’s Ha...
Volume: 66Issue: 12Published at Fri, 24 Mar 2023 -
Iraqi Kurdistan Unilaterally Imposes New Payment Formula On IOCs
...pacted by government diktats. Payment delays are not a new development in Kurdistan, with previous instances following the 2014/15 price collapse and the Covid-19 pandemic. But firms speaking at a SpareBank 1 conference in Norway earlier this month expressed puzzlement at the delays this time. DNO CF...
Volume: 66Issue: 10Published at Fri, 10 Mar 2023 -
Baghdad - Erbil Oil Law Deal Stuck In Limbo
...Maliki’s priority appears to be holding the SCF together given the ever-present threat of Mr Sadr. “Maliki cannot risk a Sadr comeback. The Kurds have been financially struggling since 2014 and [to Mr Maliki] it is not the end of the world if they struggle for another year” muses the KRG so...
Volume: 66Issue: 07Published at Fri, 17 Feb 2023 -
KRG’s Oil Sector Hangs By A Thread As Iraq-Turkey Arbitration Nears Closure
...mpromise on the region’s independent oil sector, or whether the KRG instead doubles down and pushes more volumes onto the grey market. WAITING ON PARIS The origin of the dispute is in 2014, when the KRG completed its own independent pipeline connecting its oilfields to the Turkish bo...
Volume: 66Issue: 05Published at Fri, 03 Feb 2023 -
Iraq’s Trembling Currency Poses Fresh Budgeting Challenge
...od and basic goods prompted Iraqis to take their dissatisfaction to the streets, and the new government is wary of further such destabilizing protests. While having no legal remit over the CBI, the PM has replaced governor Mustafa Ghalib, bringing back his predecessor Ali al-‘Alak (2014-2020) on 23...
Volume: 66Issue: 04Published at Fri, 27 Jan 2023 -
Can Iraq Use Gulf Football Tournament To Score GCC Investment Hike?
...urnament comes as the culmination of Washington-backed efforts to improve Iraq’s relations with its Arab neighbors, especially Saudi Arabia, something that is hoped to counterbalance Iran’s influence in the country. This process began in 2014 when former PM Nouri al-Maliki, an ally of Tehran, departed of...
Volume: 66Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2023