The Middle East Energy

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While many members of the GCC have announced high-profile renewable energy projects in recent years, Kuwait has taken comparatively little action to diversify its energy base so far. Its domestic reserves of oil and natural gas could in theory power the country for the next several hundred years. Existing renewable energy technologies are expensive...

For years the availability of cheap and abundant oil has meant that the development of the country’s natural gas reserves has only recently come to the fore. However, growing demand for power and water generation, environmental concerns, advances in technology and the rising price of oil have combined to make the extraction and processing of this...

Nearly two-thirds of the investment spending identified in the country’s five-year development plan, some KD20bn ($72.1bn), has been earmarked for the oil sector. The expenditure of these funds is largely geared towards expanding production capacity from around 3.15m barrels per day (bpd) to 3.5m bpd by 2015 and 4m bpd by 2020. This investment could...

Over the past decade, Turkey has experienced a number of important transitions that have led to demographic, economic and cultural transformation. These changes have made contemporary Turkey a regional focal point that many Turks regard as an extension of its influence in Ottoman times. Following a devastating banking crisis and economic...

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