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...Prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, a wealthy businessman, was appointed through a UN-sponsored process to organise elections in late 2021 but the vote was never held amid disputes over the rules....
...ministry in the capital Tripoli, representing one faction in a long-running conflict for control of the country and its hydrocarbon resources, warned this week that output was falling towards just 100,000 b/...
...There’s also an exhibition, Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism, a survey, in the words of France’s culture minister, Rima Abdul Malak, “of unrivalled scope”, featuring 130 works by the likes of Cézanne,...
...In recent days, protesters have blockaded oil facilities in order to pressure Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, the prime minister, to step down....
...d to 1m b/d....
...Since Mr Trump adopted the “maximum pressure” strategy against the Islamic republic, Iran’s oil exports have fallen from about 2.8m barrels a day in May 2019 to fewer than 500,000 b/d....
...Saudi Arabia, which has already cut its production by some 600,000 b/d beyond its agreed curbs, will have to do even more....
...They may also reasonably ask what will happen to the deputy crown prince when his father, King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, dies. The third problem is the oil price....
...Saudi exports have held above 7m b/d....
...“Hopefully this conflict will end now,” declares Abdul Qader Nimer, a member of the Zintan military council....
...The field, which has been producing since the 1920s and has proven reserves of 9bn barrels of oil, currently pumps about 270,000 b/d and is one of the workhorses of the Iraqi oil industry....
...Although Abdul Kareem Luaibi, the country’s oil minister, struck a defiant tone last week in Vienna, analysts say it is unlikely Iraq will hit its 2014 4m b/d production target....
...But in spite of the deteriorating security situation, Abdul Kareem Luaibi, oil minister, sought to play down fears....
...The International Energy Agency estimates Iraqi exports totalled 2.5m b/d in April....
...The country’s oil minister, Abdul Kareem Luaibi, said on Wednesday these facilities were “very, very safe”....
...Abdul-Kareen Luaibi, Iraq’s oil minister, said the new target for the Exxon-operated West Qurna 1 would be 1.6m-1.8m barrels a day, more than a third lower than the current target of 2.8m b/d....
...Even if the field returns to full capacity of about 300,000 barrels a day, Libyan production would only rise to 600,000 b/d, less than half of the 1.4m b/d Libya was pumping a year ago....
...Exhibit B: his relationship with a dominant mother (think Norman Bates, cast a spooky Vanessa Redgrave). Did he develop an obsession with Mark?...
...Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait ship about 2m b/d to the US with Venezuela adding a further 800,000 b/d and traders estimate Opec members are missing out on as much as $50m a day in revenues on those sales...
...Earlier that day gunmen attempted to kill Abdul-Rabbu al-Barasi, another leader of the movement seeking more autonomy in Libya, at his home in the eastern city of Baida....
...In April, the kingdom pumped at a five-month high of 9.3m b/d and analysts and traders believe it has raised its production this month to 9.4m b/d....
...Onyx Investments, part of the Oman Investment Fund, has made a tender offer for 35 cents on the dollar for the class B senior subordinated notes that are due in 2016, according to documentation seen by the...
...He meets the minister, Abdul Karim Luaibi, every two weeks or so. BP discovered Rumaila in 1953, but it was squeezed out when Iraq nationalised its oil industry....
...But it is already producing 1.6m b/d more than that, according to its own figures....
...At IIM B, the committee got His Excellency Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam to chat with students. I guess it does not get bigger than this. Amongst other dignitaries were Dr. Ramachandra Guha, Pt....
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