Issue 18
Oil News
- OPEC Firmness On Price Band Policy Triggers Crude Price Surge
- Iraqi Oil Sales: What Next?
- OPEC Must Choose Between Revenues And Market Share Says DKWR
- Court Freezes Injunction Against OPEC Pending An Appeal
- Asian Demand Key To Summer Crude Prices Says CGES
- US Foreign Relations Council Study Urges Commitment To Oil Producer-Consumer Dialogue
- Russian Crude Production Seen Reaching 6.86Mn B/D In 2001
- Fuel Cells To Power Cars Of The Future, But Pose No Challenge To Oil Yet
- Snamprogetti Wins Contract For Fractionation Plant For Ras Tanura Refinery
- KOC Inaugurates GC-28 In Minagish Field
- Snamprogetti Makes Lowest Bid For Gas Booster Station Contract
- KNPC’s Shu'ayba Refinery To Close For 40 Days For Repairs
- Onshore Neutral Zone Production Averaged 278,000 B/D In 2000
- Turkey’s Energy Minister Resigns In Wake Of White Energy Indictments
- OMV Wins Exploration Contract For Iran’s Mehr License Area
- NIOC Opens Prequalification For Kharg Island Gas Gathering Project
- NIGC Reveals Plans For Three Gas Refineries
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
- Al-Rayyan Consortium Receives Approval To Expand Output Capacity To 25,000-35,000 B/D
- Abu Dhabi And Qatar Initial Long-Term LNG Price Agreements With Japan
- Four Companies Bid For $1Bn Northern Emirates And Al-'Ain Desalination/Power Plant
- Norway’s Atlantis Drills Gas Exploration Well Offshore Umm al-Quwain
- UAE Will Confiscate Sanctions-Busting Ships
- Gulfstream Begins Gas Drilling at Block 30
- Kyoto Decision Prompts Council Of Europe To Question US Reliability As Global Partner
- Azerbaijan Creates Fuel And Energy Ministry
- OOC Spuds Exploration Well
- Suez Canal Petroleum Traffic More Than Doubles In 2000
- Sonatrach Announces Second Round of Bidding For Upstream Blocks
- Intoil Group Reports Net Profit Of $6.24Mn In 2000
Financial & Banking News
- Egypt Cuts Discount Rate 50Bps But Monetary Policy Still Threatens Growth
- Morocco Devalues Dirham For First Time In 11 Years
- Bank Of Yemen And The Gulf Inaugurated
- Iraqi Per Capita Income Declines By 97% Between 1975 And 1998
- Shaikh Hamid Bin Zayid To Head Abu Dhabi Economic Department
- Lebanon Launches $400Mn 15-Year Eurobond
- Kuwait Moves Ahead With Sale Of Government Stake In MTC
- UNCTAD Reports Downturn In Net Capital Inflows Into Middle East In 2000
- Moody’s Modifies Some Bahraini Bank Ratings