North Africa

Just a few days of rough weather have knocked 300,000 b/d from Libya’s crude output. Scant storage capacity means port closures rapidly transmit upstream.

Algeria cut its 2018 trade deficit to $5bn with an oil products deal. With output down, exports down, and oil prices falling, this may be as good as it gets.

Algeria cut its 2018 trade deficit to $5bn with an oil products deal. With output down, exports down, and oil prices falling, this may be as good as it gets.

Libya’s modest drilling renaissance is starting to bear fruit. NOC's subsidiary Agoco is already producing from two recent wells, with Waha plotting gas riches.

Amman is seeing results from its push toward renewables and gas. But the country’s energy future remains tied to developments abroad—particularly Israel’s Leviathan. Direct Israel-to-Jordan gas sales are contentious, whilst Israel-to-Egypt plans could scupper Jordan's ambition to tap Egypt's gas.

Pipeline constraints in Israel’s natural gas network have the partners in a deal to sell Israeli gas to Egypt scrambling for a solution. MEES learns further pipeline issues lie in wait for them if that initial hurdle is eventually overcome.

Egyptian state oil firm EGPC and the Israel Electricity Company (IEC) have agreed to settle a long-running dispute over...

Libya is set to net $25.4bn in 2018 on the back of higher oil prices. Its energy sector is in need of a cash injection to maintain output, but this is far from guaranteed.

Canada’s TransGlobe has struck a combined 3,840 b/d of light oil and 2.4mn cfd of gas in two intervals...