Issue 17
Oil News
- Oman Government And PDO Partners In Concession Renewal Negotiations
- Woodward Claim Stirs Controversy As OPEC Ministers Try To Explain Price Strength
- OPEC Raises 2004 Oil Demand Forecast
- IMF Concerned About Impact Of Oil Supply Conditions On Global Economy
- OPEC Denies Report Of New Formula For Basket Oil Price
- Crude Prices Ease On US Stockbuild
- BFO Futures To Be Affected By New Crude Streams, Warns CEAG
- Goldman Sachs Sees High Oil Prices Slowing Global Growth
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
- EIA Envisages Oil Demand Growth Of 1.9% A Year To 2025
- NIOC Announces Capacity Expansion In Iran’s Abuzar Oilfield
- TNK-BP To Deliver Crude Cargoes To Iran’s Neka Terminal
- Saipem Wins Dolphin Sealines EPC Contract
- Shell’s First North Field Well For Qatar GTL Project Spudded
- Dolphin And OOC Sign MOU For Future Gas Supply Deal
- UAE Domestic Gasoline Prices Raised
- KNPC Invites Firms To Prequalify For Lube Oil Plant Privatization
- KCIC Wins Bubiyan Island Port Detailed Study Contract
- Lebanon Issues Tender To Select Developer For Gas Transmission System
- Jordan Invites Expressions Of Interest For Sale Of 51% Stake In CEGCO
- UN, Congress And IGC Investigate Oil-For-Food Program; CPA Also Being Questioned
- SOMO Awards New Kirkuk Crude Tender
- Additions To SOMO Organization Structure
- Motor Oil (Hellas) Completes Jetty At Corinth Refinery
- Harbin Power Engineering Wins Merowe Dam Second Phase Development
- KFH Plans Private Chemicals Project In Bahrain
- IEC Completes Conversion of 1,200MW Eshkol Power Plant To Gas
- Calvalley Spuds Second Al-Roidhat Appraisal Well In Yemen’s Block 9
- GCC States Well Positioned To Meet China’s Future Polyethylene Deficit, Says Mady
- Onshore Partitioned Zone Production Averaged 267,000 B/D In 2003
- IBC To Hold Lebanon Energy Conference In Beirut In June
- Sixth Iran Petrochemical Forum To Be Held On 1-2 May
Financial & Banking News
- Oman 2004 Budget Projects Increased Deficit Of $1.3Bn Despite LNG Revenues
- Yemen 2004 Budget Projects $490Mn Deficit Despite Higher Oil Revenue Projections
- Crude Oil Price Assumptions For Yemen And Azerbaijan
- Samba Revises Upwards Saudi Arabia’s 2004 Economic Forecast
- Sonatrach Signs €1.6Bn Framework Financing Deal With Six Banks
- SABIC To Pay $960Mn Dividend To Shareholders
- Impact Of Weak Dollar Has Broad Impact On Middle East
- Amiri Decree Issued To Establish Bubiyan Bank In Kuwait
- Syria-EU Association Agreement Held Up Over Chemical Weapons Clause
- Iranian President Nominates New Economy And Labor Ministers
- S&P Keeps Rating On Oman LNG Bank Facility Unchanged
- Moody’s Rates Bank Muscat’s Note Program
- World Bank Approves $130Mn Loan To Improve Tunisia’s Schools
- EU Agrees €72Mn Aid Package To Morocco