Issue 27
Oil News
- Al-Ahmadi Refinery Explosion Causes Extensive Damage, Huge Blow To Kuwait’s Oil Industry
- Sweet Crude Demand And Kuwait Refinery Closure Keep Oil Markets Tight Despite Extra OPEC Exports
- Iraq Decides Not To Sign Any More Upstream Agreements Unless Companies Are Ready To Start Implementation Immediately
- Clinton Says OPEC Did Not Raise Production “As Much As We Would Like”
- Norway Lifts Restraints On Oil Production
- Non-OPEC Production Slated To Rise 5Mn B/D By 2010
- US Department Of Energy Reports Decline In OECD Imports From Gulf Producers In 1999
- Tight East Of Suez Products Market Limits Options For Middle Eastern Refiners
- Saudi Arabia And Kuwait Raise LPG Prices For July: Buyers Await Volume Information From KPC
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
- Saudi Arabia And Yemen Ratify Border Treaty
- SIPC Appoints Fluor Daniel To Manage $800Mn Petrochemicals Complex
- QAFCO To Go Ahead With $550Mn QAFCO-4 Project
- First Calgary Petroleums Awarded PSA For Block 406a In Berkine Basin
- Middle East And North Africa Key To TotalFinaElf Expansion Plans Following Merger
- Khalda Petroleum Announces New Oil Discovery In Western Desert
- Hurricane Begins Test Shipments Of Kazak Crude To China
- Dragon Oil Reschedules Turkmenistan Drilling
- Tractebel Agrees To Terms Of Kazak Gas Assets Transfer
- Parity, Infobank And E24plc Form Oil And Gas Trading Community
- Tehran To Host Middle East/Caspian Oil Conference In November
Financial & Banking News
- Saudi Arabia: A Continuously Evolving Economy...
- Qatar Launches Second Sovereign Bond Worth $1.4Bn
- Emaar Approves 20% Foreign Share Holding
- Egypt Plans To Sell 51% Of Cairo Oil And Soap Company, Denies Plans To Privatize NBE
- Morocco’s ONA Group To Raise Stake In Canada’s Semafo
- ABC Expands In Tunisia And Is Ranked Fifth In Middle East Forex Survey
- Arab Financial Services Announces New Board
- Lebanon’s Budget Deficit Widens To 45.1% Of Spending In First Five Months Of 2000
- Italy And Jordan Sign Deal To Convert Debt To Development Schemes
- Egypt’s Orascom Telecom Plans Capital Increase Of $329Mn
- Swedish Ericsson Awarded $50Mn Tunisie Telecom Contract
- Moody’s Assigns Baa3/P-3 Long And Short Term Ratings To National Bank Of Ras Al-Khaimah
- Abu Dhabi Development Fund Grants Jordan $20Mn Loan
- EU And Germany To Grant Loans To Morocco For Water And Agriculture Development