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We retain a cautious stance on the Venezuelan oil and gas sector. While a flurry of new loans and deals may improve the financial position of PdVSA over the short term, the threat that badly needed funds will diverted from investment into the oil and gas sector to fund social programmes remains as real as ever. Moreover, although our long-term forecasts call for growth as projects in the Orinoco belt ramp up, we expect Venezuela to continue its underperformance given the scale of challenges - which range from political interference to chronic underinvestment. Similarly, despite abundant gas reserves, we expect Venezuela to remain a net importer of gas over the course of our forecast period.

Singapore's regional dominance in the downstream will be challenged by refining capacity expansion in the region and high crude oil prices that are eroding margins. However, the future of Singapore's place in the global oil and gas industry could lie in its likely emergence as the preferred hub for growing gas trade in the Asia Pacific region.

Locally based propane delivery and service company, Affordable Propane, has launched a new generation website that invites prospects and customers to a higher level of interaction.

BMI View: Although the start of a number of small fields and continued interest in West Africa's deepwater are positive trends for Equatorial Guinea's oil and gas se ctor, t he temporary recovery in oil production will g i ve way to gradual downtrend, placing the country's heavily oil - dependent economy at risk. While new discoveries could support an expansion of the country's LNG export capacity, uncertainty over the market and infrastructure has rendered investment decisions repeatedly delayed. Notwithstanding the possibility of new discoveries, we expect oil production to gradually head lower over the course of the decade.

BMI View: Ecuador faces considerable above-ground challenges in r amping up its crude production, such that we forecast growth will remain moderate over the coming years. In the short term, we expect increased output from state-owned Petroamazonas, though with production from acreage owned by the pr ivate sector likely to stagnate this will temper gains. Over the longer term, the government's decision to open Yasuni National Park to drilling, and potential for an uptick in output from the Pungarayacu heavy oil field pose significant upside risk to our 20 19 -2023 production forecast . However, we have not factored this in given fierce local opposition and an uncertain production timeline.

BMI View: ExxonMobil will imminently move forward with its appraisal of the Domino-1 discovery in the Black Sea discovery, signalling a positive turn in Romania's upstream outlook. Further exploration efforts in the Black Sea from international oil companies (IOCs) are providing upside risk to the country's outlook. The growing presence of IOCs is a necessary step to take advantage of Romania's increasingly expensive and technically challenging oil and gas developments. The most prospective areas remain offshore in the Black sea and the onshore basins which could support shale gas . Chevron is restarting shale gas exploration after suspending operations since October 2013 due to protests .

Political risk in Egypt has peaked, and we expect a slight moderation over the coming months. The interim government has brought a semblance of stability to Egypt's political scene and a degree of policy continuity that has not been present in Egypt for much of 2013. Nevertheless, we believe that operational risk and lack of policy certainty will affect the country's oil and gas output for the coming months and possibly years. That said, we stress that the country's below-ground potential remains extensive, as exemplified by a series of recent discoveries in onshore and offshore concessions. This leads us to believe that Egypt still holds large upside potential, but this will only be monetised over the long term as current woes are alleviated.

Malaysia's upstream segment could see better days ahead in the short-to-medium term as the completion of both greenfield and brownfield developments brings new volumes of oil and gas online. New gas supplies will underpin continued expansion in the country's liquefied natural gas production based in Sarawak. Consumption growth will limit some of the export gains to be made from growing output, though a reduction of oil and gas subsidies would see a slowdown in the rate of this. The expansion of its downstream capacity could be more challenging, as it would face fierce competition from neighbouring Singapore.

BMI View: Taiwan is almost entirely dependent on imports to meet energy demand and is likely to stay in this state for the foreseeable future. A growing appetite for imported gas has created a need for fresh liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies. This creates opportunities for potential LNG sellers, though US supplies are likely to be favoured for their lower prices.

The escalation of violence in South Sudan has led to severe disruptions to the country's oil output. Heavy fighting in Upper Nile and Unity States has led to the shut-in of production at the Thar Jath, Mala and Unity oil fields and reduced output from Palogue, Fal and Adar Yale. The fighting has derailed the country's fragile production recovery, adding further downside pressure to its bearish long-term production outlook. With the government claiming loose control of the major oil fields, output could start to revive within the quarter. However, given the fractured and volatile nature of the conflict and the heavy rebel presence in the oil-producing states, we anticipate more lasting production outages.

While shale gas exploration has thus far presented a mixed picture, there have been positive below and above-ground developments in recent months. However, while Poland could see its first commercial flow rates in 2014-2015, we remain cautiously optimistic with regard to the country's shale gas production. At the moment, the need for additional exploration, the fact that most companies will likely wait until new regulations are passed before taking final investment decisions on shale gas projects, and assuming that projects take three years to be developed, we have only factored in significant shale gas production into our forecast from 2018-2019 onwards. We note that risks lie to the downside, depending on the industry reception of the new regulations and below-ground results.

Azerbaijan is set to move ahead with the expansion of petrochemicals capacities in 2014, which should boost the country's non-oil sector over the medium term, according to BMI's latest Azerbaijan Petrochemicals Report.

BMI View: Russia is pumping post-Soviet record levels of oil but a high level of investment will be required to maintain this. It also faces pressure to diversify its gas markets, in view of an increasingly challenging core market in Europe and growing competition from other global gas suppliers. The most immediate threat to the sustenance of existing production and export volumes is the prospect of energy and financial sanctions on Russia by the West from Russia ' s perceived aggression in e astern Ukraine.

The market grew by a CAGR of 9% over 2007-2012 to reach a value of SR1.6 billion at the end of the period. The industry is concentrated with the largest company, National Gas & Industrialization Co, representing more than half of total production. Most gas production centres are located in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia. The industry is expected to grow by a CAGR of 8% over the forecast period, driven by industrialisation efforts and the development of the aluminium industry in the country.

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While China is increasingly dependent on energy imports - particularly gas - owing to rapid growth in its energy demand, there are considerable investment opportunities in its upstream segment. Concerted efforts by the government to improve the economics of gas production and conditions for private investment have allowed for some opening for greater private and foreign involvement. However, expansion opportunities in the downstream look to be increasingly limited as the government restricts new short-term investments to battle both the problems of a potential overcapacity in the market, and the country's environmental problems.

Interest in West Africa's deepwater potential remains strong, underscored by Total's recent subsalt discovery and the recent award of a number of offshore blocks to an impressive roster of companies. Although the uptick in exploration activity offshore Gabon is encouraging, the country's business environment remains a serious concern with the potential to slow or deter the rebound in interest. Notwithstanding the upside, we retain our view that oil production in Gabon is set to plateau from middecade and gradually decline. The start of some small new fields or redevelopment will fail to offset falling volumes from mature fields elsewhere.

Cameroon is on the cusp of a significant, but possibly temporary, upswing in production led primarily by a big increase in gas. Yet it is still a country that is overlooked because the top line numbers - declining oil production, flat gas reserves and low risk and reward ratings - tend to mean investors look for greener pastures. However, mid-rank independents are having some success and the offshore has had some encouraging exploration results since 2012. We forecast production of 79,900 barrels per day (b/d) in crude in 2014, representing a gain of nearly 30% over 2013. However, peak oil is just six years away in 2020, and then the decline sets in. The gas picture is also encouraging. New projects coming on stream in 2014 will boost gas volumes 40% to 0.7bn cubic metres (bcm). Then a string of previous discoveries becoming monetised in 2015 and 2016 will mean natural gas production will soar to 2.8bcm by 2016 and keep climbing through the next decade. The cautionary note is a shortage of other discoveries in inventory to maintain momentum and replace depleting reserves. However GDF Suez is bullish on an LNG export terminal by the end of the decade and that may pique upstream interest.

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