Issue 09
Oil News
- UN-Iraqi Talks Confirm That Baghdad Can Only Export $3.5-4Bn Worth Of Oil Every Six Months
- Algeria's New Oil And Gas Provinces: Berkine And In Salah
- Indonesian Call For Extraordinary OPEC Meeting Stirs Little Enthusiasm
- Kuwait Oil Minister Confirms Plan For Increase Of Refining Capacity Abroad
- Odyssey Announces Acquisition Of Three Concessions In Egypt
- Samsung Engineering Wins Contract To Construct Polyethylene Plant
- Chevron Signs Production Sharing Agreement With Bahrain For Three Offshore Blocks
- Algerian Rebels Bomb Arzew Gas Pipeline
- Italy's Nuovo Pignone To Supply Turbocompressors To GR Gas Pipeline system
- Lasmo Intends To Bid In Next Iranian Buy-Back Scheme
- Iran Commissions Gas Compression Station On IGAT-2 Pipeline
- Algeria Cuts March Price Formula
- Egypt Reduces March Price Formulas By 30-35 Cents/B
- Transglobe To Farm Out A Working Interest To Vintage Petroleum In Damis Block S-1
- US Crude and Product Imports From Gulf Region Rise By More Than 8% In 1997
- Turkmenistan And Shell Sign MOU On Gas Export Pipeline
- Russian Non-CIS Crude Oil Exports Rise During 1997
- SABIC Awards Contracts For Two Petrochemical Plants
- Japanese Consortium Wins Yanbu' Transformer Contract
- Dubal Launches $724Mn Expansion Project
Financial & Banking News
- Oman's Central Bank Chief Says Banking System Protected From Securities Market
- MSM Moves To Heighten Transparency In The MSM
- Sidi Kerir Project Awarded But Financing Still To Be Decided
- Conditions For GCC Banks Opening Branches In The Gulf
- National Bank Of Dubai Looks For Merger
- Aba al-Khail And Alireza Join Investcorp Board Of Directors
- Thomson BankWatch Rates Morocco And Seven Moroccan Banks
- Oman Acts To Realign Budget On The Basis Of $13.50/B
- Nourbakhsh Warns That Iranian Budget May Have To Be Revised Because Of Weak Oil Prices
- Salamah Says Lebanon Committed To Stable Exchange Rate Policy
- Iraq And Jordan Renew 1998 Oil Agreement
- Ericsson Awarded GSM Contract By Morocco's ONPT Telecom