Issue 34

Oil & Gas

• Aramco Advances Gas Development Agenda As IPO Plans Fade Further
• Chevron’s Basra Deal
• Libya: Fractured Institutions Fail To Distribute Oil Revenue Gains
• Libya’s Ongoing Institutional Splits

Corporate

• Sonatrach: Can Shake-Up Haul Lumbering Behemoth Into The 21st Century?

OPEC

• Key Opec Countries 1h18 Crude Exports: MEES Analysis

Geopolitical Risk

• Syria: Upcoming Idlib Campaign Disturbs Power Balance

Refining & Petrochemicals

• Aramco JV Takes Saudi Petchems To ‘Next Era’ With Bigger Projects Planned

Power & Water

• Gulf Crude Burn Down Sharply In 2018, But Fuel Oil Is The Key Replacement Fuel

News In Brief

• Oman LNG Taps New Markets
• Yemen: Japan Takes Omv Cargo
• Iraq To Seek Iran Waiver
• Total Exits Iran’s South Pars
• Kuwait Eyes Border Fields Deals
• Norway LNG Returns To Kuwait
• Oryx Boosts KRG Output
• EBRD Mulls $281mn Loan To Jordan
• Cyprus: Makeover For Aphrodite

Economics & Finance

• Record Products Sales And VAT Bolster Saudi Economy

Selected Data

• Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
• Taiwan LNG Imports: Volumes Up But Qatar Losing Out To Rival Suppliers