Oil, gas, renewables and the transition across producers and importers.
The Gulf has run a shared 400-kilovolt supergrid since 2009, the Egypt-Saudi HVDC link is being commissioned around three gigawatts, and the Morocco-Spain cables carry power across the Mediterranean. How the region's wires connect.
QatarEnergy assessments reported March 19 find strikes on Ras Laffan knocking out about a sixth of the world's largest LNG export base for three to five years, with the UAE shutting gas facilities amid the escalation.
Eni's 2015 discovery was the largest ever in the Mediterranean and made Egypt a gas exporter by 2018; decline and unpaid bills have since turned Cairo into a summer LNG importer. The arc, explained.
NEOM's $8.4 billion ammonia plant took final investment decision in 2023, Oman's HYDROM auctions have allocated land to developers, Egypt signed a stack of framework deals. What is real, and what is still a signature away.
Meeting a day after the strikes on Iran opened, the eight core producers agreed a modest April increase and left the 1.65 million-barrel voluntary tranche mostly intact, balancing the war's supply loss against demand uncertainty.
After US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, Tehran declared the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely closed and fired on US Fifth Fleet facilities; Brent jumped from the low seventies toward levels last seen years ago.