Issue 44
Oil News
- Capacity Expansion Required Both Upstream And Downstream
- WTI Tops $55/B Before Sliding On US Crude Stockbuild And Chinese Interest Rate Hike
- Lord Browne Sees $30/B Crude Price Support Level For At Least The Medium Term
- Global Trade/Financial Markets Unaffected By High Oil Prices, Say WTO/OECD
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
- Oil Industry Facing Structural Crisis, Says CGES
- IEA Underestimating China Oil Demand, Says PFC Energy
- OPEC President Asks US To Release Crude From SPR
- OPEC September Production Estimates Delayed
- Eni Announces Production Start-Up In Phases 4 And 5 Of Iran’s South Pars Gasfield
- BHP Starts Oil Production From ROD Integrated Development In Berkine Basin
- Saudi Arabia Ends 50,000 B/D Arab Light Crude Aid To Bahrain
- ONHYM’s Benkhadra Sees Strong Moroccan Oil Exploration Spending In 2004
- Cegelec Wins Mohammedia Refinery Power Generation Contract
- Saddam’s Crude Surcharge Earnings Dwarfed By $9Bn From Illegal Oil Sales, CIA Reveals
- New Saudi Aramco Oil Discovery Announced
- Hawiyah NGL Plant Contract Award In March 2005
- Luksar Selects Schlumberger For Rub'i Al-Khali Gas Survey Contract
- No Dorra Gasfield Development Ahead Of Border Deal With Iran, Says ΄Awwad
- EPC Bids Sought For PIC/Dow Olefins II Project
- NPCC Brought Under Umbrella of Abu Dhabi’s General Holding Company
- UAE’s First Wind Power Plant Opened
- Sehnawi Appointed Energy Minister In New Lebanese Cabinet
- Jordan Cabinet Reshuffle Reflects Emphasis On Reform
- BG Reports Lack Of Progress In Talks On Barca Power Project
- Russia’s Upper House Ratifies Kyoto Protocol
Financial & Banking News
- Egypt Pushes Ahead With Reform
- KPMG Publishes Second DFI Audit Report Covering First Half 2004
- BMA Licenses BankMuscat International In Bahrain
- First Leasing Bank Launched in Bahrain
- Preliminary Study For GCC Railway Network Approved
- Egypt’s OCI Wins $78Mn Contract In Qatar
- Air Arabia To Launch IPO After Turning Profitable
- SAMA Annual Report Estimates GDP Growth At 13.7% In 2003
- Morocco’s 2004 Budget Deficit Swells To 4.1% Of GDP
- Labor Market Pressure Makes Reform Essential, Says Asad’s Adviser
- OPEC Fund Commits $268Mn In 2003