Issue 12
Oil News
- War And Limited Oil Fires Fail To Stop Crude Price Slide
- OPEC, IEA Reiterate Assurances On Oil Supply After Hostilities Commence
- Post-Saddam Iraq Could Be A Supergiant Producer, Says Fadhil Chalabi
- Limited Kirkuk Crude Exports Continue As Oil-For-Food Program Suspended
- Three Administrative Regions For US Rule In Post-Saddam Iraq
- Nigerian Violence Forces Shell And ChevronTexaco To Shut-In 266,000 B/D
- Venezuelan Production Reaches 3.1Mn B/D, Says Government
- PDVSA Compromised By Government Actions, Says Giusti
- CGES Reports OPEC Incremental Production At Sea And In Producers’ Storage
- Non-OPEC Supply To Grow By 420,000 B/D In 2003, Says JP Morgan
- Asian Demand Increasingly Price Sensitive, Says FACTS
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices ($/B)
- ADCO/JGC Sign Bab Expansion EPC Contract
- Abu Dhabi’s 1997-2001 Crude Output Steady; Dubai’s In Steady Decline
- Sogex Oman Wins O&M Contract For Fujairah Power/Water Project; Second Project Planned
- Naimi Encourages Russian Investment In Kingdom’s Energy Sector
- Kellogg Brown and Root/Fluor Daniel Win Management Consultancy Contracts
- Gas Leak And Wellhead Fire In Onshore Partitioned Zone
- Five People Killed In Oil Rig Shootings
- Shell Evacuates Soroush/Nowruz Offshore Staff
- NPC Awards €173Mn Ethylene Project To Technip-Coflexip And Nargan
- US Renews Executive Order Against Iran
- Shell To Leave Turkmenistan
- Azerbaijan And Kazakstan Working On BTC Crude Transport Agreement
- JAOC Says Offshore Azerbaijan Gas Discovery Not Commercial
- Talisman Completes Sale Of GNPOC Stake To ONGC Videsh
- Syria Enacts Gas Company Law
- Syria Signs Qubibe Field Redevelopment Project With CNPC
- Oman Oil Acquires 10% Stake In Spanish Petroleum Company
- Oman’s Domestic And Export Natural Gas Prices
- Equity Distribution In OLNG’s Third Train Under Discussion
- Libya To Award 30 Upstream Blocks By June, Says Zlitni
- ELNG Train One Company Agrees License For Conoco Phillips Optimized Cascade Technology
- Algeria, Lebanon Sign Memorandum On Energy Cooperation
- AEC Opens Technical Bids For Hamma Desalination Project
Financial & Banking News
- Citibank Temporarily Shifts Billions Of Dollars In Offshore Assets Out of Bahrain
- Egyptian Pound Continues To Slide On Black Market After Float
- HSBC Private Equity Fund For GCC Investment Attracts $118Mn
- BMA Replaces Planned Conventional Issue With Ijara Bonds
- IMF Commends UAE’s Economic Health But Warns Fiscal Deficits Threaten Outlook
- USAID Outlines Reconstruction Assistance For Iraq
- US Expected To Give Israel $9Bn In Loan Guarantees, $1Bn In Military Aid
- UNCC Approves Awards For $223Mn
- Lebanon Plans To Sell 40% Of Power Sector By June
- Kuwait Budgets $1.7Bn Emergency Funds For War
- S&P Affirms Ratings On Oman LNG Project And QGPC Finance (Cayman) Notes