Issue 06
Oil News
- Iraq Initiates Contacts With IOCs
- OPEC Production Rollover Likely Amid Strong Demand
- Bahrain In Intensified Gas Import Talks With Qatar
- Yemen Offers Six Upstream Blocks In International Bid Round
- Crude Prices Choppy On US Refinery Outages, Dip After Stockbuild
- Saudi Crude Prices For March Show Large Reductions To US
- Saudi LPG Prices Raised Although Firm Winter Demand Tapers
- OPEC Capacity Creep An Issue For Quota Allocation, Says IEA
- Oil Demand To Increase By 1.5Mn B/D In 2004, Société Générale Forecasts
- China’s Crude Imports Reach New Peak In 2003
- Libya, US, UK Officials Set To Meet In London For Political Talks
- Finance Package For BTC Pipeline Project Signed In Baku
- KazMunaiGas, Lukoil Sign PSA For Offshore Tyub-Karagan Block
- Kazakhstan’s State Oil Company Reports Increased Profits For 2003
- Jordan Signals Plan To Raise Petroleum Products Prices In 2005
- Iraq’s LPG Imports To Continue Through 2004, Says Poten
- Chevron, Shell Most Regular Lifters Of Iraqi Oil In June-September 2003
- Iraq Plans IPPs To Boost Electricity Capacity
- Hill International Selected As PMC For Kuwait’s Bubiyan Port Project
- Kuwaiti/Egyptian Joint Venture Wins AGP Pipeline Contract
- South Pars Phase 1 On-Stream After Troubled Development
- Statoil Begins Development Drilling In Iran’s South Pars Phases 6, 7 And 8 Project
- South Pars Platforms Completed By Iran’s Sadra
- OMV, NIGEC Sign MOU On Iranian Gas Exports And Upstream Work
- SNC Lavalin Wins EPC Contract For Saudi Private Petrochemical Project
- Tanganyika Announces First Oil Production From Syria’s Oude Field
- Dubal Withdraws From Planned Joint Venture Qatar Aluminum Project With UDC
- Skikda Refinery Starts Up After Precautionary Shut Down
- Centurion Spuds Well On Tunisia Robanna Concession
- Isramco Boosts Stake In Israel’s Med Ashdod, Med Yavne Offshore Blocks
- SPE Opens Middle East Office In Dubai
- CIS Oil And Gas Summit Set For London
Financial & Banking News
- SOMO Document Reveals $1.175Bn Held In Foreign Currency Accounts Prior To Regime Change
- CBI Chooses HSBC, NBK And Standard Chartered For First Iraq Licenses…
- …And Announces Liberalization Of Interest Rates
- World Bank Authorizes Iraq Trust Fund, Endorses Interim Strategy For Iraq
- IMF Loans To Iraq Could Start In Second Half Of 2004, Says Perez
- Iraqi Planning Minister Announces End-February Meeting In UAE To Expedite Aid Disbursement
- Algerian Economy Maintains Stability, Buoyed By Strong Oil Revenues In 2003, Says IMF
- Russia’s 2004 Budget Based On $22/B Urals Price But Minister Anticipates $26/B
- Iran’s External Debt Rises
- Lebanese Government To Retender Mobile Phone Privatization
- Cautious Lending Strategy Allows Palestinian Banks To Weather Recession, Says IMF