Issue 48
Oil News
- Riyadh Energy Forum Gathering Marks Step Forward In Producer-Consumer Dialogue
- IEA Unveils New World Energy Outlook To 2020
- Libya Set To Start Signing Major Oil And Gas Agreements With IOCs By June 2001
- Iraq’s Campaign To Erode Sanctions Faces Crucial Test At UN This Week; Suspension Of Exports Expected
- Continuing High Crude Prices Prompt OPEC To Consider New Benchmark To Curb Speculation
- CGES Says Crude Market Is “Tighter Than OPEC Thinks”
- Delays To Oil And Gas Projects Likely As Iran’s Majlis Tables Debate On Buyback Contracts
- NIOC Signs Cooperation Agreement With Norway’s Statoil
- Iran Takes Delivery Of Crude Oil Tanker
- Canada’s Sheer Energy Pursues Masjed-e-Suleyman Development Project
- NIOC Testing Oil Strike In The Gulf
- MIDOR Refinery Contract Awarded To Foster Wheeler
- Turkey Faces Power Deficit Of 3.1Bn KWH In 2001
- Statoil And Turkey’s KOC Agree To Establish Natural Gas Joint Venture
- DNO-Led Consortium Begins Block 32 Production At 7,000 B/D; Yemen’s Output Reaches 456,000 B/D
- Eni To Supply Gaz de France With 2 BCM/Y Of Libyan Natural Gas
- France’s Alstom Power Wins $152Mn Ras Abu Fontas B Power/Water Expansion Project
- New Consortium Signs Up For Melut Basin Oil Exploration Deal
- Oman LNG Sends First Shipment To Japan’s Osaka Gas
- CPC Says Pipe Laying Completed
- Azerbaijan Signs PSA With Moncrief For Kemaleddin-Mishovdag Block
- Azerbaijan Halts Oil Flow To Novorossysk When Russian Gas Fails To Arrive
- First Arab Chemical Industries Congress And Exhibition To Be Held In Beirut In January
Financial & Banking News
- ECGD Outlines Export Credit Cover For The MENA Region
- Taweelah A1’s $1Bn Syndicated Loan Over-subscribed At Sub-underwriting Level
- SAIB Raises Its Capital To SR1.1Bn
- Algerian Prime Minister Calls Banking Reform Top Priority
- Egypt’s CIB Borrows $150Mn In Syndicated Loans
- Net Private Capital Flows To Arab and Emerging Markets Expected To Increase
- Egyptian Government Shortlists Five Banks For Planned $500Mn Eurobond
- Lebanon Mandates JP Morgan And Credit Suisse First Boston For Planned $300Mn Eurobond
- Bahrain’s Batelco Invests In Jordanian ISPs To Create Batelco-Jordan
- Morocco’s Lower House Of Parliament Approves State Budget For FY 2001
- OPEC Fund Commits Total Of $4.2Bn In Loans Over 25 Years
- AFESD Loans Libya $81Mn To Finance Improvements In Industrial and Service Sectors
- US Financial Aid To Egypt Estimated At $695Mn In 2001