Issue 48

Oil & Gas

• Kuwait Seeks Silver Lining In Price Downturn
• Kufpec Charged With Bringing Technology Back Home
• KNPC To Close Shuaiba In 2017
• Libya: Could ‘Peace Deal’ Double Oil Output To 800,000 B/D?
• Repsol On Libya: Bad News Only
• Aramco To Upgrade Indonesia Refinery
• Egypt Looks Beyond Current Storms To Gas-Fueled Upland
• Edison Hopes For More Zohr
• New Loans For Egypt
• Gas Exporters: Friends Or Rivals?

Transportation

• A New Vision: Kurdistan, A Major Gas Province?
• Qatar Raises $1.5bn Through Shell/BG Sell-Off
• Iraq Oil Minister Reopens Jordan Pipeline Talks

Refining & Petrochemicals

• Oman Invites Bids For Building Duqm Refinery, Awards Liwa Cracker

Power & Water

• Egypt Joins MENA Nuclear Club Through 4.8gw Deal With Russia

OPEC

• Opec’s 4 December Meeting: Can Output Policy Deal Be Preserved?
• Venezuelan Oil In Four Charts

Geopolitical Risk

• Russia, Iran Talk Geopolitics At Tehran Forum

Corporate

• Iraq Reform Efforts Sputter, Budget Battle Heats Up
• BG Deal Brings Cyprus, Israel Gas A Step Closer To Egypt

Economics & Finance

• Algeria Faces Record $14bn Trade Deficit
• Algeria: Present Bad, IEA Figures Indicate Future May Be Worse

Selected Data

• Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
• World Primary Energy Use (2015 IEA WEO*, BN Tons Of Oil Equivalent)