Issue 02
Oil News
- Saudi Arabia And Kuwait Initiate Processes Leading Eventually To Upstream Contracts With IOCs
- Security Council And Iraq In Continuing Low-Level Confrontation Over Surcharges
- OPEC Reaches Consensus On Need To Cut Output At 17 January Extraordinary Meeting
- Chavez Names Silva As Venezuela’s New Oil Minister As Rodriguez Assumes OPEC Post
- Bush Nominates Abraham As His Energy Secretary
- More Big Contracts Readied Or In Prospect For Major Gas/Oil Development Projects In Saudi Arabia
- NOC Issues Another Denial Over Ireland’s Bula Oil
- US Renews Sanctions Against Libya
- NOC Reports Gas Find South Of Brega
- Crude Prices Creep Up On Expectation Of OPEC Production Cut
- Saudi Aramco Reduces Most Crude Prices And Narrows Differentials For February
- Saudi Aramco And KPC Maintain Propane Price But Reduce Butane By $15/Ton For January
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
- Iran’s Parliament Approves $2.8Bn Azadegan Outlay Next Year
- NIOC’s Post Restructuring Organization
- Shell Awards Soroush Early Production System Contract To UK’s Expro
- Chevron Returns Tender Documents For Iran’s South Pars Phases 9-12
- Iran’s NPC Awards Methanol Plant Contract To Germany’s Lurgi And Local Firm PIDEC
- Turkish Government Submits Energy Liberalization Bill To National Assembly
- Bids Invited For Construction And Operation Of New Oil Refinery
- DKBR Sees Significant Boost In Russian Crude Production And Exports In 2000 And 2001
- Dragon Oil Spuds First Well In Turkmenistan’s Cheleken Block
- Japan’s Mitsui To Refurbish Azerbaijan Power Plant
- US Refuses Norway’s Invitation To Reopen Hague Climate Talks
- Isramco Acquires Stake In BG’s Offshore Permits As Government Grants Additional Licenses
- Spanish Firms Win Contracts To Supply Electricity
- CERA To Hold 20th Annual Conference In Houston In February
Financial & Banking News
- Oil Producers Adopt Budgeted Oil Price Assumptions For FY2001 Averaging $20.5/B
- GCC Agrees To Common Currency Denominator But To Little Else
- Syria To Launch Industrial Reforms And Lower Customs Duties
- Qatar Records Reduced Budget Deficit In FY1999-2000
- Internet Banking In The GCC Is Growing, But Slowly
- Jordan Records Positive Growth Despite Political Turmoil
- Vivendi Purchases 35% Stake In Maroc Telecom
- EIB Lends Morocco €30Mn For Gold Mining Project