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Thai junta will defer changes to oil and gas laws

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THAILAND

Prospects for regulatory change in the oil and gas sector.

Iraqi premier’s post-poll chances depend on Sadrists

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IRAQ

This comes as local press report that powerful Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr might be prepared to lift his election boycott, on certain conditions. Sadrist backing was crucial to…

Iraq may move toward a federal-Kurdish grand bargain

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IRAQ

The latest federal budget, which had also been blocked because of disputes between Baghdad and Erbil, was simultaneously finalised and passed to parliament. The long…

Somali oil and gas potential faces institutional gaps

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SOMALIA

Somalia's oil ambitions.

Tensions may surface over Kenya’s early oil production

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KENYA

President Uhuru Kenyatta on June 3 inaugurated Kenya’s Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS), waving off the trucks on their journey from Turkana County to Mombasa. The launch follows a…

Somalia and Turkey may struggle to realise oil deal

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SOMALIA/TURKEY

The deal builds on the recent ten-year agreement on maritime defence cooperation. Somalia is believed to have significant onshore and offshore oil and gas potential. However…

Iraq-Turkey pipeline oil flows will be delayed

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TURKEY/IRAQ

Ankara's statement was a gambit in a complex game, where the resumption is still complicated by legal issues between Turkey and Iraq relating to the arbitration case that first…

Oil losses could bankrupt the Iraqi Kurds

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IRAQ

The border crossing is close to the vital oil pipeline tie-in at Fish-Khabur, where the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) oil export pipeline meets the federal pipeline…

Oil rush may destabilise Somali politics

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SOMALIA

Although production is not expected for another decade or so, initial signing bonuses and speculative futures are already influencing domestic political processes as foreign and…

No clear endgame for Kyrgyz war with gold miner

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KYRGYZSTAN

Although tensions around revenue-sharing from the mine have recurred over many years, the government's move to deprive Canada's Centerra Gold of control of KGC (which it owns) and…