Issue 38

Oil & Gas

• Egypt Gas Consumption Hits New High As Cairo Plots Near-Term Output Gains
• KUFPEC Expands Egypt Footprint With Shell Med Farm-In

Corporate

• Egypt Independent Cheiron Eyes Regional & Local Expansion

OPEC

• Saudi Aramco Starts Marketing Crude For Bahrain

Geopolitical Risk

• Baghdad Loans Erbil $1.6bnAs US Presses For Ceyhan Export Restart

Refining & Petrochemicals

• Oman Gas Networks: Expansion In The Pipeline
• OQGN Readies $772mn IPO

Power & Water

• Oman Starts Work On 500MW Solar In Bid To Triple Renewables Capacity By 2025
• Kuwait Struggles To Keep Pace With Record Power Demand

Economics & Finance

• Asian LNG Imports: China Drives Demand Despite Record Overland Russia Volumes
• China: Record Russian Piped Gas Imports

News In Brief

• Oman Ends Jet Fuel Surge
• Kuwait Refinery Restart
• Shell Spuds Key Mauritania Wildcat
• Maritime Borders Dominate Iraq-Kuwait NY Meeting

Selected Data

• Taqa Morocco: Coal & Renewables
• Saudi Arabia Key Oil Data: July Supply Bolstered By Rare Crude Imports, Stock Draw
• Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
• China August Crude Imports: Near-Records For Russia & ‘Malaysia’