Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 40

3-October-2005

MEES Agenda

Impact Of High Oil Prices Casts Shadow Over WPC

More than 2,500 delegates and 300 journalists converged on Johannesburg for the five-day World Petroleum Congress in late September one of the largest industry events of its kind. But with multiple plenary sessions, roundtables and technical briefings on every petroleum topic, from new upstream technologies to refinery design, the specter of high oil prices and their negative...