Issue 12
Oil News
- OPEC Keeps Markets Guessing About Exact Production Level Beginning April
- UN Secretary-General’s Report Paves The Way For Security Council Debate On Iraqi Sanctions
- MPGC 2000 Conference Looks At Prospects For Middle East-Asia Energy Relationship
- US Looks To Improvement Of Relations With Iran But No Dramatic Changes Expected
- Iran Brings 660,000 Tons/Year Kharg Island Methanol Project Onstream
- Iranian Crude Exports Average 2.14Mn B/D In February
- Japan’s AOC Maps Out Survival Plan
- IEA Identifies Low Refining Margins As Biggest Problem In Current Oil Market
- IEA Estimates OPEC’s Spare Oil Production Capacity At ‘A Healthy’ 5.4Mn B/D
- API Chief Tells US Congress That US Gasoline Stocks Have Not Fallen To Critical Level
- Merrill Lynch Warns Reformulated Gasoline Specs Will Cut US Output Capacity By 150,000 B/D
- Anadarko To Spend $3.5Bn And Raise Production To 515,000 B/D By 2005
- Syria Names New Cabinet
- Kvaerner Awarded EPC Contract For Dair al-Zur
- Takreer Considers Plan For $400Mn Lube Base Oil Refinery; Ruwais Condensate Splitters To Start Up
- Israel Reports Offshore Gas Discovery, Breaks Off Negotiations With Egypt
- Financing For Blue Stream Project Moves Forward
- Turkmenistan Seeks $42 Per 1,000 Cubic Meters For New Russian Deal
- Shell Acquires 25% Of Azerbaijan’s Offshore Inam Block
- 1999 Oil Statistics For Bahrain
- OIL PRICES Nigeria
- SABIC Affiliate Buys Into Online Chemical Commerce
Financial & Banking News
- Moving Towards Paperless Trade Finance In The Middle East
- Emirates Completes First Phase Financing For New Widebody Fleet
- Petrokemya Mandates Consortium To Raise $600Mn
- TAIB To Issue Bonds And Rights Shares
- UAE Belatedly Approves Year 2000 $6.3Bn Budget
- Limited Activity On Egyptian Stock Exchange In Pre-Holiday Trading
- AIG Launches Index For Main Companies On 'Amman Bourse
- More Mixed Arab Bank Results
- Arig Announces New CEO... And A Fall In Profits
- Unemployment In Arab States Estimated At Around 20%
- Moody’s Confirms Stable-To-Positive Outlook For Saudi Arabian Banks...
- Changes Outlook For Commercial Bank Of Kuwait From Stable To Positive