Issue 15
Oil News
- North American Oil Companies Push Ahead With Syria Operations Despite US Sanctions Threat
- Planned Iraq Oil Conference Postponed Until The Autumn
- OPEC Decision Solicits Mixed Responses From Consumers And Producers
- Oil Prices Move Higher On US Stock Falls As OPEC Cuts Seen Minimal
- Saudi Crude Prices For May Show Mainly Reductions To Western Markets, Increases To Asia
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
- Global LNG Imports Rose By 62% In 1995-2002
- India’s Gas Demand Dependent On Prices, Says FACTS
- SOMO Announces Second Open Tender For Kirkuk Crude
- Appointment Of Iraqi Oil And Planning Deputy Ministers Awaited
- SOMO Organization Completed
- Khelil Reiterates Support For Long-Term Gas Contracts
- Sonatrach Announces New Gas/Condensate Discovery North Of Gassi Touil
- Petrovietnam Farms Out Algerian Equity To PTTEP
- Work On Kazakh-China Pipeline Said Imminent, But Questions Remain Unanswered
- Further Approval Secured For Qatargas/ExxonMobil UK LNG Terminal
- Qatar’s First Private Sector Chemicals Company And Formaldehyde Project Inaugurated
- Iran Promises To Accelerate Cooperation With IAEA
- Foster Wheeler Wins Samref Diesel Oil EPC Project
- ENOC/China Aviation Oil Sign MOUs For Oil Terminals/Joint Investments
- Fahud Oilfield Services Acquires Well Testing Business From Halliburton
- ABB Withdraws From Oman Polypropylene Project
- Oman/UAE Cross-Border Gas Agreement Is First Of Kind In Gulf
- Production Starts At Vintage Petroleum/TransGlobe Block S-1 In Yemen
- DNO ASA-Led Consortium Discovers Oil/Gas In Block 43
- Jordan Hikes Petroleum Products, Electricity Prices
- Lebanon Commissions Gas Master Plan Study From Shell Global Solutions
- CGES Publishes Study On Post-Saddam Iraq
- CERA Three Seas Conference Set For Istanbul In June
- IBC Energy To Hold 4th Kazakhstan Oil & Gas Conference In London In June
- CGES To Hold 24th Executive Retreat In Surrey At End June
Financial & Banking News
- Lebanon’s Insurance Sector Must Consolidate, Says Saradar Study
- Saudi Corporate Profitability Records Strong Growth In 2003
- NBK Says Kuwaiti Dinar Characteristics Unchanged By Dollar Peg
- SAMA Continues Freezing Accounts Which Ignore Information Updating Requirements
- SEC Signs $1.6Bn Structured Term Loan Financing Agreement
- Q-Ship Signs Agreement To Receive $223Mn Loan
- Eleven Consortia Pre-Qualify For Saudi Arabia’s Second GSM License
- CPA Establishes Iraqi Communications And Media Commission
- Iraq’s Defense And Security Budget Set At $2.25Bn In 2004
- Jordan Seeks Consultant For ΄Aqaba Railway Corporation Privatization
- Capital Intelligence Raises Ratings On Gulf Bank And CBK
- World Bank Approves $335Mn Loan For Egypt Airports Development Project