Issue 45
Oil News
- US Election Roils Crude Prices
- Death Announced Of Shaikh Zayid, Architect Of UAE
- NYMEX Opens Brent Trading Floor In Dublin As IPE Restricts Open Outcry Session
- Saudi LPG Prices Reach New Peak On Crude Market Strength
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices ($/B)
- OPEC Oil Output Edges Higher In October On Iraq Gains
- IEA Projects Slowing Energy Demand Growth In World Energy Outlook 2004
- “Dash For Gas” In India Faces Hurdles, Says OIES Energy Comment
- NIOC Signs MOUs With China And India For Upstream/LNG And Refinery Deals
- Khatami Breaks Ground For Second Plant Along Ethylene Pipeline Route
- Kirkuk Oil Exports Sustained At Approximately 250,000 B/D
- SNC-Lavalin/Jacobs Engineering Wins Ma΄aden Phosphate Project Engineering Contract
- Egypt Increases Gas Take From Centurion’s Nile Delta Developments
- Melrose Resources Updates South Batra Field Drilling Results
- Sumed Studies Alternative Expansion Plans
- Lukoil Commissions Pipeline To Export WEEM Oil Production To Red Sea
- Kuwait’s Refineries Return To Normal Operations After Power Failure
- Kuwait’s GC 15 Start-Up Delayed Until Late December At Earliest
- Further Kuwait Energy Sector Appointments
- First Phase Of Private Kuwait Anode Project Aims For For 2008 Start-Up
- Bids Deadline For $800Mn KOC Modernization Program Put Back
- ExxonMobil Drops Alabama Option For Terminal To Receive RasGas LNG
- McDermott Wins Further RasGas-2 Offshore Work
- Mitsubishi/Vinci Win RasGas-2 LNG Tank Contract
- Australian/Qatari JV Wins RasGas Maintenance Contract
- First Calgary Cases Ninth Successful Well On Block 405b
- Israel Chemicals Gets Approval For Dead Sea Cogeneration Plant
- Turkey’s Dogan Cancels Plans To Sell Stake In Petrol Ofisi
- Saipem Wins Kashagan $520Mn Pipeline Contract
- Dragon Well Offshore Turkmenistan Flows At 5,330 B/D
- Socar Says ExxonMobil Will Drill Second Well In Nakhchivan Block
- Halliburton Wins Three PDO Drilling Services Contracts
- Calvalley Proceeds With Yemen Block 9 2nd Exploration Period
- Iran Economic Growth Conference Rescheduled For November In London
- Euro-Mediterranean Investment Summit Scheduled For January In Marseille
Financial & Banking News
- Ettihad Etisalat 51 Times Oversubscribed
- Dubai Airport Expansion Bond Issue Increased To $1Bn Amid Strong Investor Interest
- Gulf Single Currency Needs Political Vision, Says Report
- Algeria Investigating 33 Illegal Banking Transactions
- Saudi Cabinet Approves Al-Bilad Bank
- First Islamic Takes Over $262Mn Water Utility
- First Islamic Announces $300Mn Residential Joint Venture With BIGCC
- Samba and Saudi Hollandi Bank Sign Agreement To Finance Jubail Petrochemicals Project
- Gulf Advanced Chemical Industries Secures $47Mn Loan
- UAE Reopens Insurance Sector To Foreign Firms
- Emaar Awards $735Mn Dubai Mall Contract
- World Bank Lends Iran $220Mn For Earthquake Reconstruction
- EIB Lends €60Mn To Egyptian Private Sector