Issue 21
Oil News
- OPEC Mulls Production Levels For 3Q
- Saudi Arabia Announces Consortium Members For Core Ventures In Gas InitiativeV
- Bush Energy Policy Focuses On Increased Domestic Production To Meet Rising Demand
- SOMO Planning Full June Loading Program Despite UK’s Sanctions Proposal
- Deputies Favor Separate Legislation For All Upstream Oil/Gas Contracts With IOCs
- KNPC Commissions New Jet Fuel Unit At Mina Al-Ahmadi Refinery
- Gasco Takes Over Atheer Management But Operations Remain Separate; More Mergers Likely
- Dolphin Project Invites Prequalification For Five Survey/FEED Contracts
- UAE To Form Federal Electricity Grid Company
- Star Energy Announces Early Completion Of Jebel Ali Oil Storage Expansion Project
- UAE Intercepts Two Vessels Off Fujairah Coast
- Iran Awards Methanol 4 Contract To Germany’s Lurgi And Arak Cracker Revamp To TechnipIran Awards Methanol 4 Contract To Germany’s Lurgi And Arak Cracker Revamp To Technip
- NIOC In Talks Over New Partners For LNG Study And South Pars Phases 6, 7 and 8
- BTC Basic Study Complete, Decision On Detailed Engineering Due 10 June
- Azerbaijan Parliament Ratifies Shah Deniz Gas Deal With Turkey V
- Kazakstan Defends URS
- Turkmenistan Signs New Gas Deal With Ukraine
- IEA Blames Sixth Successive Demand Growth Forecast Cut On High Prices And Economic SlowdownV
- Japan Looks To Rebalance Strategic Crude Stocks
- Seventeen Firms To Form Electronic Exchange For Japanese Products Swaps
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices ($/B)
- Repsol Announces Third Discovery In Block NC-186
- Gazprom Official Says Blue Stream Will Be Delayed V
- Sultan Qaboos Announces Limited Cabinet ReshuffleV
- PDO Announces Second Gas Discovery This Year
- Lebanon And Syria Sign Agreement For Gas Pipeline Project
- Egypt To Establish Natural Gas Holding Company; Alexandria Gas Export Company Formed
- Statutes Of Privatized Egyptian Electricity Company ApprovedV
- Australia’s Woodside Announces Oil Discovery Offshore Mauritania
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Financial & Banking News
- Solidere Attributes First Ever Loss To Legislative And Bureaucratic Hurdles
- Syria’s Ba'th Party Finalizes New Law To Corporatize Public Sector EntitiesV
- GIC Sells GIB To GCC
- Nourbakhsh Optimistic About Prospects For Iranian Economy
- Offshore Centers Gain Possible US Reprieve From OECD Sanctions Threat
- JBIC Approves $254Mn Buyer’s Credit To Algeria
- Algeria’s Foreign Reserves Rise To $14.5Bn
- Saudi Arabia Moves To End Telecoms Monopoly
- Moody’s Adjusts Some Saudi Bank Ratings
- AFESD Lends KD11Mn To Tunisia