VOL. XLIII

No. 24

12-June-2000

OPEC

Opportunities For Upstream Investment In The Middle East By International Oil Companies

By Ian Seymour

There follows the text of a presentation by MEES Editor Emeritus Ian Seymour at the Fifth Annual Asia Oil and Gas Conference (AOGC) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 28-30 May 2000.

Recent years have witnessed a renewed opening up to investment by international oil companies (IOCs) in upstream oil and gas development in several major oil...