Yesar Al-Maleki
Gulf Editor at MEES - Weekly Oil & Gas News Analysis
Energy, Climate & MENA Economics | Gulf Analyst @MeesEnergy | PhDc @ExeterIAIS, Non Res Scholar @MiddleEastInst, R. Fellow @IRISmideast | ♥️=🔖
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2 weeks ago |
mees.com | Yesar Al-Maleki
Sitting down with MEES in London on 3 June, Iraq’s oil minister Hayan Abdulghani sounded conciliatory about the dispute that has kept the oil export pipeline to Turkey shut for more than two years. “Talks are ongoing with our brothers in the region and the key element behind the [Federal budget’s] amendment is sustaining production from Kurdistan,” he said. Kurdish crude oil output collapsed from 450,000 b/d in March 2023 when the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline (ITP) was closed.
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2 weeks ago |
mees.com | Yesar Al-Maleki
Turkey is emerging as Iraq’s largest foreign supplier of electricity as Baghdad has turned to its northern neighbor to help replace lost energy supplies from Iran this summer. Iraq’s electricity ministry signed a new “electricity exchange contract” with Turkish trader Alfirin Enerji Ticaret on 4 June to double imports to 600MW. On the same day, the cabinet approved plans to contract 650MW of floating power plant capacity from Turkish firm Karpowership.
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mees.com | Jamie Ingram |Kate Dourian |Yesar Al-Maleki
Israeli military strikes against Iran’s nuclear program have long been held up as a worst-case scenario for geopolitical risk in the Middle East, and on 13 June that scenario materialized as Israeli military jets struck the Natanz uranium enrichment facility among other sites across the country. Reports indicate Iranian nuclear scientists were targeted as well.
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mees.com | Yesar Al-Maleki
Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said on 10 June it is paying out $1mn in total to “more than 60,000 households…as part of the KRG’s 24-hour Runaki [Light] initiative.” The demand-management program was launched last year aiming to bring 24/7 electricity supply to consumers by streamlining heavily-subsidized consumption tranches and raising tariffs. Kurdistan suffers acute electricity shortages in winter and summer.
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2 weeks ago |
mees.com | Yesar Al-Maleki
13 Jun 2025 Issue: 68 / 24 By: Yesar Al-Maleki Iraq’s oil minister Hayan Abdulghani told MEES last week that his country aims “to stop gasoline imports by the end of this year,” and that the ministry’s South Refineries Company (SRC) was “preparing to start commissioning its Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC) complex” at the 280,000 b/d Basrah refinery.
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In the run up to #Israel's retaliation to #Iran's second ever direct attack in Oct 2024, @MeesEnergy analysed vulnerabilities and possible targets. Despite Iran’s large area, its #oil and #gas infrastructure is limited to a relatively narrow corridor along the Gulf coast, in
#Iran #oil ministry press outlet Shana denies any interruption to operations at Tehran refinery. Says fire - likely due to #Israel attack - at storage tank outside the facility's battery limit.
پالایشگاه تهران در سلامت کامل به سر میبرد/ فعالیت بدون وقفه ادامه دارد در پی انتشار برخی اخبار نادرست در فضای مجازی مبنی بر حمله رژیم صهیونیستی به پالایشگاه تهران، اعلام میشود که هیچگونه حملهای به این مجموعه صورت نگرفته و پالایشگاه در سلامت کامل به فعالیت خود ادامه میدهد. https://t.co/zTABxWDL4a
#Iran's #SouthPars Phase-14 processing facility attacked by #Israel earlier today was started up in early-2023 after commissioning in stages since 2022. Iran claimed 70% of equipment were locally made. If majorly damaged, will take years to rebuild. https://t.co/CkAUEM2k2l