Issue 26
Oil News
- Jury Still Out On Iraqi Smart Sanctions
- Iraq Uncertainty And Falling Prices Create Dilemma For OPEC
- Libya Prepares To Award Three Upstream Packages
- NIOC To Develop 16 Fields Including Eight Buyback Projects Rejected By Foreign Operators
- NIOC Discloses South Gashvieh Gas Discovery And Dey Reserves Estimate
- Iran Introduces Freight Adjustment To Mediterranean Crude Formula
- Petropars Secures Rig For Enterprise Drilling Program In South Pars Phases 6, 7 And 8
- Government Sets Budget Of $4.7Bn For Buybacks
- NPC Details Subsidiary Companies And Production Capacities
- US House Committee Votes To Extend ILSA For Five-Years
- World Needs More Oil From OPEC In Third Quarter Says CGES
- Middle East Producers Set To Increase Dominance of Asian Crude Market, Says FACTS
- Qatar And Japan Sign Long-Term LNG Price Agreement
- QP And ExxonMobil Sign Letter Of Intent To Study GTL Project
- UN Recommends Additional Funding For Oil Industry With Prospect Of Major Outlook Decline
- UN Reparations Body Pays $243Mn For Environment Studies On Gulf War
- AOC Opens Talks With Kuwait On Future Of Offshore Neutral Zone Concession
- Shu'ayba Refinery Restarts At Half Capacity
- Oman Signs Short-Term LNG Deals With Seven International Companies
- Korea’s Doosan Is Preferred Bidder For Fujairah Desalination/Power Plant
- Crown Prince 'Abd Allah Says Israel Is Pushing Region Towards War
- Talisman Launches $344Mn Cash Offer For Lundin Oil With Sudan Operations To Be Spun Off
- First Calgary Petroleums Farms Out Yemen Block 43 To Nexen
- BP To Move Ahead On BTC And Shah Deniz Pipelines
- TotalFinaElf Finalizes Purchase Of BP And Statoil OKIOC Shares
- Caspian Foreign Ministers Make No Headway At Baku Status Conference
- Turkmenistan Appoints US Consultants To Promote Oil And Gas Investment
- Muhammad Batayneh Takes Energy Portfolio In Cabinet Reshuffle
- Yam Thetis Faces Uphill Struggle On Mari Gasfield After Pipeline Ruling
- Israel Issues Tender For 370-490-MW BOO Dual-Fired Power Plant
- CGES Schedules Gulf Gas Conference For UK In September
Financial & Banking News
- Dolphin Selects Financial Advisor From Group Of Eleven
- QVC May Seek To Refinance $475Mn Syndicated Debt Facility
- EFG-Hermes Set To Merge With CIIC
- Bank Of Bahrain And Kuwait Close To Signing $100Mn Syndicated Facility
- Kuwaiti Banks Report Solid 2000 Performance Amid Growing Competition Pressures
- Lebanon Cancels Mobile Operators’ BOT Contracts
- Qatar To Set Up $137Mn Industrial Zone To Boost Private Sector Investment
- Venture Capital Opportunities In The Middle East Are Growing Says KIO’s CEO
- Egypt’s Lakah Group Defaults On Eurobond Payment; Downgraded By Fitch IBCA