Issue 43
Oil News
- OPEC Poised To Trigger Price Control Mechanism
- Middle East Gas Conference Focuses On Options For LNG Exports And GTL Developments
- US Energy Department Estimates OPEC Spare Production Capacity At 2Mn B/D
- President Chavez Tightens Up Venezuela’s PDVSA With Military Appointments
- Cabinet Formalizes Supreme Petroleum Council’s Takeover Of Saudi Aramco’s Supreme Council
- Saudi Aramco And Shell Study Implications Of Proposed Chevron-Texaco Merger
- License For Fourth Saudi Private Petrochemical Project
- SABIC Signs MOU With Japan On Plastic Technology Research
- Internet Site Created For 7th International Energy Forum In Riyadh
- International Companies Submit Bids To Develop Iran’s Bangestan Project
- Iranian Crude Exports Average 2.5Mn B/D In September
- TotalFinaElf Awards $100Mn Contract For Iran’s Balal Field Platforms
- Iran Opens Bidding For Semisubmersible Drilling Rig For Caspian Sea Operations
- Iranian Foreign Minister Flies To Baghdad
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
- Kuwait’s Political Crisis Deepens As Minister Resigns Ahead Of Parliament’s Return
- Sonatrach Records Bumper Revenues For 1H 2000, Predicts $20bn Total By End 2000
- Oman LNG Is Officially Commissioned Under Budget
- Azerbaijan, Georgia And Turkey Sign Agreement Launching BTC Pipeline Project
- OKIOC Spuds Kashagan West Well
- Canada’s Chieftain International Secures Option To Acquire 50% Of Gulfstream’s Qatar Interests
- Shell Proposes New Gas Ventures As EGPC Revises Gas Price Formula
- Israelis Refuse BG Permit To Survey Gas Prospects Offshore Gaza
- Yemen LNG Negotiating With Indigas For Sale of 3Mn T/Y Of LNG
- Vintage Drills Second Exploration Well In Yemen’s S-1 Damis Block
- Construction Of Ankara’s New Gas-Fired Power Station Begins
- Greenpeace Report Exposes Fertilizer Industry Pollution In Mediterranean
Financial & Banking News
- Algerian Bank Reform Under Way But Progress Hindered By Public Sector Legacy
- Lebanese Banks Financing Trade Between Syria And Lebanon
- HSBC Raises Stake In Egyptian British Bank
- NBK Warns Of Potential Oil Price Collapse
- Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation Hits Regional Economies
- Israel Considers Political And Economic Separation From Palestinian Authority
- National Bank Of Egypt To Purchase 4Mn Shares Of MPCC
- IFC To Invest In Moroccan Start-Up Cellular Phone Company