Issue 42
Oil News
- Gastech 2002: LNG Markets Set For Steady Change As Atlantic Basin Demand Grows
- Bush Doctrine: New National Security Strategy And Its Implications For Mid East States
- IEA Estimates Of OPEC Members’ Liquids Reserves Significantly Lower Than OPEC’s Own
- Venezuela Braces For General Strike As Chavez Refuses To Resign Or Call New Elections
- Crude Prices Remain Firm Despite OPEC Reassurances On Supplies
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices ($/B)
- IEA Reduces Oil Demand Growth Forecast, Blaming High Prices And Slow Economic Recovery
- SOMO Programs Exports of 1.6Mn B/D In October
- BG Signs Sale And Purchase Agreement For First Train Of ELNG
- Growing Egyptian Petroleum Products Demand Set To Force Policy Changes, Says Report
- Naimi Stresses Non-Associated Gas Development As Priority In Hydrocarbon Strategy
- New Industrial Cities Planned For Jubail And Yanbu'
- Riyad Bank/Australia And New Zealand Banking Group To Oversee Ma'aden Bauxite Study
- Preem Sells Poland Gas Stations To Statoil
- Two Executives Of Korean Refiner S-Oil Jailed For Financial Irregularities
- Zanganeh Puts Hosseini Back In Charge Of Buyback Negotiations
- Zanganeh Says Statoil Close To South Pars Phases 6, 7 And 8 Deal as Shell Negotiates Exit
- Qatargas/RasGas Sign New Mid-Term/Long-Term LNG Sales Agreements
- TotalFinaElf Plans To Push Ahead With LNG Qatargas Trains 4 And 5
- PDO Targets Return To 800,000 B/D Output By 2007
- Kalamkas Discovery Boosts Kazakstan Crude Potential
- JAOC To Spud Second Exploration Well In Yanan Tava PSA
- Yemen Acknowledges Tanker Explosion Caused By Attack
- Prime Minister And Presidential Aide Indicate Opposition To Hydrocarbon Law
- Algeria Primary Energy Production At 76.2Mn TOE In 1H 2002
- Rolls-Royce Wins $40Mn Upgrade Contract For Maghreb-Europe Pipeline
- Larsen & Toubrou Awarded Fujairah/Sharjah Power Line Contract
- BP To Sell Cyprus Retail/Inland Fuel Businesses To Hellenic Petroleum
Financial & Banking News
- GCC Banks Record Healthy Profits In 2001 But Challenges Remain
- SEC Approves Start Of Major Railway Expansion Project On BOT Basis
- NBK Gets Approval To Open Branch In Saudi Arabia
- Kuwait To Adopt Dinar-Dollar Link From 2003
- KFAED Comes Under Control of Minister Of State For Foreign Affairs
- Ghanim Reviews Recent Economic Reforms In Libya
- Bahrain Issues Decree To Foster Transparency For Government Tenders
- Tunisia Baa3 Rating Due To Progress Of Reform And EU Integration, Says Moody’s