Issue 02
Oil News
- Market Remains Tight Despite Higher OPEC Production In December
- Sudan Peace Talks Produce Agreement On Wealth Sharing
- Saudi Crude Prices For February Mainly Reduced In Response To Ample Supplies
- Saudi LPG Prices Raised For January After Strong Spot Demand
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices ($/B)
- OPEC Quota, Fiscal Uncertainty Hinder Nigeria Deepwater, Says Deutsche Bank
- Russian 2003 Production Put At 8.4Mn B/D, Exports Average 3.85Mn B/D
- EIA Forecasts Strong Demand Growth In 2004 And 2005
- Saudi Aramco To Spend $19Bn On Materials/Services Through 2007
- Toyo Wins EPC For UNITED Ethylene Glycol Project
- Six Firms To Bid For $800Mn KOC Modernization Program
- KOC Seeks EPC Bids For GC-27 Expansion Project
- Kuwait’s Cabinet Approves Bubiyan Island Port Project
- Libya’s NOC Creates New Board, Reviews Future Upstream Awards
- ADNOC To Produce An Additional 130,000 B/D Of Condensate By 2007, Says Al-Yabhouni
- UWEC Seeks Equity Partner For Fujairah Power/Water Expansion
- JGC Wins Bahrain Refinery Low Sulfur Diesel Contract
- USACE Waives Requirement For Halliburton To Provide Price Of Kuwaiti Gasoline
- Israel Starts First Gas Production As Yam Thetis Mari-B Offshore Field Comes On-Stream
- Woodside Declares Mauritania’s Chinguetti Field Commercial
- Iran’s Cheshmeh Khosh Gas Injection Project To Be Undertaken By NIOC
- Sinopec Discovers Light Oil In Iran’s Zavareh-Kashan Block
- Suez Canal Authority Leaves Transit Charges Unchanged For 2004
- Karazhanbasmunai Plans To Produce 40,000 B/D Of Crude
- Turkey And Greece Sign Pipeline Deal For Azerbaijan Gas
- IBC/IIES Organize Iran Exploration Conference In The Hague
- CWC To Hold Conference On Iraqi Electricity In London
- Caspian & Black Sea, TURKIOG Conference Scheduled For Istanbul In February
- CORRECTION
Financial & Banking News
- Iraq Reconstruction Contracts Finally Put Out for Bid But Some Work Deferred Until Interim Government Installed This Summer
- Iran’s 2004-05 Draft Budget Projects 10.5% Increase In Spending
- SAMA Fills The Gaps In Budget Allocations Figures
- Sudan Wealth-Sharing Agreement Sets Out Plan For Fiscal And Financial Systems
- Investor Interest Growing In Islamically-Structured Bonds, Says Jordinvest
- GIB To Arrange And Underwrite $100Mn Loan For Kuwaiti Company
- S&P Affirms Tunisia BBB/A-3 Foreign Currency Ratings And Stable Outlook
- S&P Assigns BankMuscat BBB-/A-3 Ratings With Stable Outlook
- JBIC Loan Commitments To Middle East And North Africa Reach $1.15Bn In 2002
- First Private Banks In Syria Open Their Doors For Business
- Saudi American Bank Renamed Samba; Citigroup Closes Oman Operations
- New Qatari Economy Minister Named