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Nadim Kawach

Reporter

Nadim Kawach is a Lebanon-based journalist who has worked for more than 30 years with several regional and global publications, including Reuters, AFP and Gulf News in the UAE, and with Alhayat daily in London

Nadim Kawach
Souq Waqif in Doha. Qatar has the world’s third largest proven gas deposits

Mena’s LNG output ‘to rise by two-thirds by 2030’

Multibillion-dollar projects under construction are expected to raise Arab countries’ liquefied natural gas output by almost 90 million tonnes per year by 2030. The Arab Energy Organisation – previously the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries – said in a report published last month that most of the increase would come from Qatar. Mena LNG […]

Gas imports from Turkmenistan will help ease Iraqi domestic shortages due to Iran halting the flow of gas supplies

Iraq turns to Turkmenistan to plug Iranian gas gap

Iraq has always considered neighbouring Iran as a stable and reliable supplier of natural gas needed to run its power facilities, but experts now believe that alternative sources and domestic Iranian needs have put this relationship in doubt. Iran’s gas exports to Iraq have fluctuated sharply and the shortage has played havoc with Iraq’s power […]

Oil workers in Iraq. The country's oil exports are increasingly headed to Asia, leading some to question the necessity of rebuilding the Syria pipeline

Assad’s fall spurs calls to revive Iraq-Syria oil pipeline

The overthrow of the former Syrian president, Bashar Al-Assad, has brought calls for the revival of the now-defunct pipeline that once carried crude oil from Iraq to a Syrian port on the Mediterranean. Several Iraqi experts have urged their government to consider rebuilding the facility as an outlet for the Opec member’s oil exports to […]

Saudi gap 2025: Construction in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 programme is contributing to its budget deficit

Saudi 2025 fiscal gap forecast could widen further

Saudi Arabia has assumed a deficit of nearly $27 billion in its 2025 budget but the actual gap is likely to widen by the end of the year, experts predict. When the world’s largest oil exporter announced the draft budget in September and then endorsed it in late November, it was expecting more oil earnings […]

Opec's oil quota for Iraq is lower than its production capacity, and it has granted new contracts such as with BP for development of Kirkuk

Iraq has a tough job to balance Opec quotas with its capacity goals

Iraq is facing some tough choices and conflicts when it comes to its national oil policy. While its oil production is expected to rise by only around 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the next two years, in line with a new supply restraint accord by Opec+, it already has plans to boost output capacity […]

Workers on a construction site near Riyadh. Saudi Arabia is spending according to actual development requirements that are needed within its Vision 2030, said one expert

Why Saudi Arabia expects public debt to rise

Saudi Arabia expects its public debt to steadily rise in the next three years, despite the massive financial reserves controlled by the central bank and the Public Investment Fund (PIF). Estimates by the Saudi Finance Ministry show that public debt will swell by around SAR375 billion ($100 billion) between the end of 2024 and the […]