Tagged With UAE
4 December 2023
Oil and gas companies look to defy cynics and play pivotal role in decarbonisation as the UAE hosts COP28
11 October 2023
OPEC’s calls for higher prices to lure investment stand at odds with consumer nations’ difficulties with inflation and high energy costs
21 July 2023
Saudi Arabia and its allies delivered a strong message with a collective voice at the OPEC seminar in Vienna, but just as important was what was left unsaid
1 June 2023
The appointment of the UAE’s Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber as Cop president has drawn criticism from some quarters, but progress on the energy transition will require cooperation, not conflict
2 March 2023
The second part of this deep-dive analysis looks at liquefaction and regasification developments in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific
2 February 2023
The region’s producers have their own specific goals and face drastically different challenges
26 October 2022
Opec+ cut agreement suggests Moscow’s Middle Eastern stock remains high
26 September 2022
Appetite to replace Russian energy imports is providing a major fillip to the Emirati firm’s upstream development plans
9 August 2022
The cartel is happy to wait for further developments before committing to more drastic action
3 August 2022
The Emirati heavyweight is racing to bring on new gas production to exploit rampant global thirst for the resource
19 July 2022
Aramco and Adnoc are channelling windfall oil revenues into furthering their government owners’ domestic economic development drives
10 June 2022
The Emirati firm continues to reap the benefits of recent licensing rounds, adding reserves as it works to increase production capacity
26 May 2022
Flows of Urals crude to Asian importers—in particular India—have spiked since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to price reporting agency GX
11 May 2022
The Emirati oil heavyweight’s downstream strategy takes firmer shape
19 April 2022
The market upswing is driving investment in untapped reserves and field redevelopments previously considered commercially unviable
14 April 2022
Rising oil and gas prices and Europe’s pivot away from Russian imports add impetus to state-owned Adnoc’s gas development drive
29 March 2022
Western countries want Mideast Gulf producers to boost output, but the options are limited
25 February 2022
Opec’s top producers are unlikely to deviate from an agreement that has brought market stability and buoyed prices
4 January 2022
New medium-term investment programme remains heavily focused on exploiting additional hydrocarbons
20 December 2021
The world has no lack of recoverable oil and gas resources. But where they will come from in the future will change
7 December 2021
Self-sufficiency targets and opportunities to shift to renewables are driving big upsurge in gas production
22 November 2021
Global decarbonisation pressures notwithstanding, the Emirati giant is determined to extract maximum residual value from its crude oil endowment
26 October 2021
The NOC must decarbonise rapidly if the UAE is to meet its emissions pledge
19 August 2021
The hydrocarbons producer could look to unlock certain benefits by being in the regional low-carbon vanguard
3 August 2021
An understanding that the Opec partners are better working together appears likely to keep the peace
2 August 2021
The organisation may have smoothed over the cracks this time. But the UAE’s very public dissent may be just the first sign of things to come
6 July 2021
The Kingdom has a radically divergent perspective on both the short- and long-term oil market. And that could mean the cracks in the cartel only getting wider
27 May 2021
There are many reasons to be cheerful across the Mena oil and gas patch
6 May 2021
There will be no immediate promotion into the super league of global crude benchmarks for the Middle East’s latest challenger
30 March 2021
Pivot towards Asia paves the way for a new crude futures contract, offering an attractive alternative to long-established grades
28 January 2021
Greater GCC harmony might offer an opportunity to untangle some of the Middle East’s notoriously illogical gas dynamics, but LNG looks more promising than pipelines
15 December 2020
Abu Dhabi may have fallen into line for now, but tensions could re-emerge next month
11 December 2020
International attention may have focused on their Opec+ oil market stabilisation role. But the region’s NOCs have had concerns closer to home
30 November 2020
Renewables, desalination and hydrogen are all attracting official support and investment
13 November 2020
As Gulf states progress bypass projects, time runs down on Iran’s sabre-rattling
5 November 2020
The Emirati NOC continues to expand its competencies and monetise assets
24 September 2020
Auctioning minority stakes in NOCs’ assets may fill short-term budget holes, but they are no guarantee of long-term change
19 August 2020
The received wisdom that gas would be the region’s main growth fuel for generation is being challenged
21 July 2020
The current oil market slump validates the increasing focus of the Gulf’s main upstream producers on petrochemicals
8 July 2020
From boosting oil production to throttling it back and with challenging oil and gas dynamics in both the short and longer-term, the region’s producers have their hands full
6 March 2020
State-controlled Mid-East Gulf oil and gas firms are evolving in a changing world
9 August 2019
Individual GCC states have settled on convoluted ways of distributing natural gas due to a lack of cooperation
2 July 2019
The UAE's ambitious plans to sustain its petrodollars while evolving as a green pioneer will not come cheap. Is the capital available?
2 April 2019
The GCC will struggle in 2019 to resolve the many issues that divide it and threaten its survival
31 January 2019
Intra-GCC tensions will continue under the cloud of Saudi-Iran hostility
17 December 2018
Refining expansions were focused East of Suez, as the likes of China and India ramped up processing capacity and rubber-stamped new projects
15 November 2018
The UAE’s energy plans are well-braced to help sustain investor confidence in the face of political and economic winds
27 September 2018
Gulf refiners wonder how to cope with new green standards for shipping and aviation fuel
22 June 2018
The group is seeking to return compliance to 100%, implying a sharp immediate rise in output. But the details are vague