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Iran: Planning A New Mirage
...IRAN Iran: Planning A New Mirage By-Jahangir Amuzegar* In early December 2014, the Rohani government announced the decision to reinstate the Management and Planning Organization – the agency in charge of economic development planning since 1948 – which President Ahmadinejad had ab...
Volume: 57Issue: 50Published at Fri, 12 Dec 2014 -
Baiji Refinery: What It Means For Iraq
...el oil 30-35% -Package ‘Skid mounted’ refineries (10 scattered in different locations): • Naphtha 18-20% • Kerosene 18-20% • Gasoil 18-20% • Fuel oil 40-45% Prior to the ISIS takeover of Mosul and much of northern Iraq in June 2014, Iraqi refineries’ typical total products output wa...
Volume: 57Issue: 47Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2014 -
Oil Prices: Uncertainties, Confusion And Conspiracy
...REGIONAL/SAUDI ARABIA Oil Prices: Uncertainties, Confusion And Conspiracy OPEC’s ‘need’ to maintain $100/B-plus sowed the seeds of recent oil price falls. What happens next? By-Paul Stevens* Oil prices have been falling. From 2011 to June 2014 the OPEC basket consistently av...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
OPEC In The Future: Will It Continue To Play A Pivotal Role?
...nning out of steam. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) for instance anticipates in its new International Energy Outlook (IEO, September 2014) that, in a Reference case where oil prices rise moderately, OPEC’s market share would increase from a low of 39% in 2020 to a little more than 42% in 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
The Elusive Costs And Benefits Of Saudization
...atistics and Information (CDSI, August 2014) puts Saudi Arabia’s total residents at 30 million at the end of 2013, 20.3 million of whom are Saudi citizens. These numbers indicate an expat community of 9.7 million, a figure far below that which could be inferred from MoL data on non-Saudi workers. This in...
Volume: 57Issue: 36Published at Fri, 05 Sep 2014 -
Rohani One Year On: A Glass Half Full Or Half Empty?
...IRAN By-Jahangir Amuzegar* 1 August 2014 marks the first anniversary of Hojatol-Islam Hassan Rohani’s accession to the Islamic Republic’s presidency. A mid-level Shiite cleric having an advanced degree in theology from a Scottish university, Mr Rohani defeated his five non-turbaned ri...
Volume: 57Issue: 35Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014 -
The Future Saudi Role In Global Oil Markets
...intain this position. To answer the question we have to look at the call on OPEC in the medium term. It can be seen in Table 1 that up to 2018 the call on OPEC crude will follow a downwards trend and will fall from 29.7mn b/d in 2014 to 28.9mn b/d in 2018. To compare the call on OPEC with OPEC pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 31Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2014 -
IEA World Energy Investment Outlook: Can We Still Count On The Middle East?
...e region’s domestic oil demand increases from 7 to 10mn b/d, while that of natural gas from 400 to 700 bcm/year. To meet the above demands, the study under review estimates that a cumulative global investment of $48.2 trillion (2012 dollars) is needed between 2014 and 2035, $40.2 trillion of wh...
Volume: 57Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2014 -
Palestinian Natural Gas Ambitions
...mand. In January 2014, the three Israeli companies with a share in Israel’s Leviathan field (Avner, Delek Drilling and Ratio) announced that the Palestine Power Generation Company (PPGC) had agreed to buy $1.2 bn worth of natural gas over a 20-year period when the giant field begins production. The Le...
Volume: 57Issue: 22Published at Fri, 30 May 2014 -
Iraq’s Management of its Natural Gas Potential - INES Revisited
...veloping the country’s own natural gas potential had been effectively halted. Even now, in 2014, utilization of Iraq’s natural gas, excluding Kurdistan, is around the same as it was in 2003. Since 2011 two contracts costing Iraq around $720mn have been signed to build two pipelines to import around 1.6bn cf...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
Financing MENA Energy Investment: Critical Issues And Challenges
...REGIONAL Financing MENA Energy Investment: Critical Issues And Challenges By-Ali Aissaoui* APICORP’s review of MENA energy investment for the five-year period 2014-18 has estimated total capital requirements at about $765bn. Concurrently, the review has es...
Volume: 57Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014 -
BOX: MENA Energy Investment Outlook
...REGIONAL BOX: MENA Energy Investment Outlook APICORP’s review of MENA energy investment, published in its Economic Commentary for January-February 2014, has established that despite slow global recovery, uncertain markets, and lasting regional turmoil, capital requirements fo...
Volume: 57Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014 -
Nine Approaches To Counter The Emergence Of Unconventional Oil
...d demand will continue to widen, exceeding approximately 1.5mn b/d in 2013 and 2014. Accordingly, the oil market has become a buyer’s market; customers have an advantage over sellers in price negotiations. In response to customers’ demands, oil sellers might reduce crude oil prices further in or...
Volume: 57Issue: 02Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2014 -
Iraq & Turkey: Neighbors On The Road To Prosperity?
...ab Spring” countries, who have only just started on the road to reform. Against all the odds, Iraq in 2013 is far better and stronger than it was in 2003. Some observers believe that 2014’s general election will be a game changer at all levels; I’m also hopeful that the future will positively shock th...
Volume: 57Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2014