Issue 25
Oil News
- Talks On Saudi CV3 Continue On Upstream-Only Basis
- Iraq Rehabilitation The Central Issue At CERA Conference
- SOMO To Export First Cargo After Regime Change, Regular Exports Await Term Talks
- US Considering Plan To Mortgage Iraqi Oil Revenue For Reconstruction, Says WSJ
- Umm Qasr Port Opened To Commercial Traffic
- AMEC/Fluor Joint Venture To Bid For Oil Industry Reconstruction Contracts
- OPEC Oil Production Down Slightly In May
- Moneef To Replace Herbish As OPEC Governor For Saudi Arabia
- IEA Keeps 2003 Demand Growth Forecast At 1Mn B/D, Revises Stocks Upward By 78.8Mn Barrels
- CGES Sees Record US Crude Imports Barely Affecting Inventories
- Global Growth Of Green Trading Requires Uniform Standards, Says ICEED Report
- Crude Prices Driven Lower By Stockbuilds
- Qadhafi Calls For Oil/Industrial Sector Privatization, Shukri Ghanem New PM
- IAEA Debates Iran’s Nuclear Program At Extended Board Meeting
- Record Revenue For ADC In 2002 Despite Rig Activity Decline
- Turkey Plans Privatization Of Power Assets
- Calls For Kuwaiti Government/Ruling Family Reform In Election Campaign
- BG Announces New Gas Find In Offshore Rosetta Concession
- Larnaca Refinery Upgrade Scrapped In Favor Of Fuel Depot Plan
- Sonatrach Signs Long-Term Gas Sales Agreement With Italian Firm
- First Calgary Petroleums Spuds MLE-3 Well On Algeria’s Block 405b
- September Deadline For 2003 Oman Licensing Round
- Former Mobil Executive Admits Evading Taxes With Money Acquired Through Kazak Oil Deal
- Morocco’s OCP To Build New Fertilizer Plant, Boost DAP Output By 50%
- Dubai Shipping Company To Buy Two Products Tankers From Hyundai
- Tankers Collide In UAE Waters, Four Killed
- DEL/Qatar University In Dolphin Environmental Survey
Financial & Banking News
- Challenging 2002 Brings Mixed Results For Bahraini Banking Sector
- Perle Advocates Forgiveness Of Iraq’s Commercial Debt As Lesson In “Moral Hazard”
- US Invites Proposals For Iraq Economic Plan, Pushes Privatization
- Iraq CPA Issues Tender For GSM Mobile Phone Network
- Bahrain Announces 2003-04 Budget With A Deficit Of $1.975Bn
- Saudi Arabia Approves Long-Awaited Stock Exchange Law
- Emirates Signs $19Bn Deal For 71 Aircraft
- Moody’s Upgrades Saudi Arabia Ratings
- CI Upgrades Bahrain Sovereign Rating