Issue 05
Oil News
- Kuwait’s Parliament Begins Lengthy Discussion Of Project Kuwait
- Iraqi Oil Exports Increase As SOMO Reduces Surcharges
- Crude Prices Decline On Positive US Stocks Data And Resumption Of Iraqi Exports
- OPEC Producers Confirm Details Of Supply Cuts
- IEA Expects US Economic Slowdown To Curb Oil Demand In 2001
- Committee Prepares For Establishment Of International Energy Forum Secretariat In Riyadh
- McConnel Dowell Wins $6.6Mn Gas Supply Project For Riyadh’s Second Industrial City
- Sonatrach Signs $2Bn Upstream Gas Marketing Agreement With Petronas And Gaz de France
- Sonatrach Awards ABB Lummus Global Contract To Increase Capacity Of Nezla Pipeline
- Apache Acquires Repsol YPF’s Western Desert Oil And Gas Concession Interests For $410Mn
- UN Panel Attributes Global Warming To Burning Of Fossil Fuels
- Environmental Concerns Will Raise Gas Demand For Power Generation, Says IEA’s Appert
- US Firms Reduce 1999 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Says EIA Report
- NIOC Board Membership Following Restructuring
- Iranian Crude Exports Average 2.47Mn B/D In December
- US State Department Reviews China’s Iranian Refinery And Exploration Projects
- Iran Reports First Phase Of Neka-Tehran Pipeline Completed
- Iranian Parliament Agrees 10% Rise In Prices Of Oil Products, Gas And Electric Power
- Former Head Of General People’s Committee And Chairman Of NOC Muntasir Dies
- TotalFinaElf Launches Development Of Offshore Block NC-137
- Turkish Minister Escapes Parliamentary Censure Over Energy Scandal
- Summit Planned On Legal Status Of Caspian Sea
- Nexen’s Expenditure In Yemen To Reach $216Mn In 2001, MOU Signed For Block 59
- Svenska Farms Into Chevron’s Offshore Bahrain Concessions
- IBC To Hold Iranian Investment Conference In February
Financial & Banking News
- Egyptian Pound Strengthens But Analysts See Only Short-Term Appreciation
- HSBC Appointed Financial Adviser On Sohar Fertilizer Project
- Syria Approves Banking Amendments And Ends Artificial Exchange Rates
- NBK Announces Record 2000 Profit Of $330Mn
- Tunisian President Appoints New Central Bank Governor
- TAIB Announces Record Profits Of $15.5Mn
- Reduction Of Nearly 50% In OECD Economies’ Oil Intensity Mitigates Oil Price Sho
- Lebanon Loses Revenue From Customs Duties, Government Raises Spending To Boost Growth
- Kuwait And Bahrain Announce Oil Price Assumptions Of $15-18/B For FY2001-02
- Saudia Privatization Study To Be Completed After Five Months
- Moody’s Highlights Management And Economic Structure Challenges To Kuwaiti Banking
- Arab Funds Offer Financial Support To Lebanese Water Projects And Currency