North Africa

Total is keen for a stake in the expansion of Qatar’s world-leading LNG facilities. With existing connections to Doha, and LNG expertize, it looks well placed to succeed. It’s also looking to bid in Abu Dhabi’s debut licencing round – if the geology is right.

While Algeria currently has a healthy cushion between peak demand and installed capacity, consumption is steadily rising. If Algiers wants to avoid a repeat of the 2012 unrest over blackouts, it must step on the gas with a number of delayed CCGT plants.

A week after increasing power prices, Cairo has hiked prices for transport fuels by 50% as it attempts to completely remove energy subsides by 2020-21.

Algeria needs more IOC capex. Will a new oil law, promised for 2019, do the trick?

The IEAs’ first oil market outlook for 2019 highlights both the uncertainties surrounding next week’s Opec meeting in Vienna and...

Egypt awarded a $1.7bn EPC deal for Midor refinery expansion. Delayed $4.3bn Cairo distillates units are set to start next year. But reforms mean project finance is picking up.

Gulf countries have barely scratched of the surface the potential to use renewables to cut oil and gas consumption, boosting export revenue.

Cairo is hiking power prices for the year from 1 July. Hikes of 20-30% for average users will hit them...

Exxon had precisely zero upstream interest in the Mediterranean and North Africa as recently as 2016. It last year bagged key deepwater exploration blocks off Cyprus and Mauritania; a Crete award looks imminent and it is eying Algeria and Egypt.