Issue 49
Oil News
- Crude Prices Plunge On US Stocks Data
- Sharp Price Falls Temper Expectations For OPEC Quota Rollover In Cairo
- Saudi Oil Capacity Expansion Plans Driven By Demand Forecasts, Says Naimi
- IOCs See Signs Of Movement On Project Kuwait
- Saudi LPG Prices Reduced By $46/Ton After Demand Falters
- High Oil Prices Hit Personal Income But Industrial Economies To Grow Above Trend, Says OECD
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
- Ghadhban Appoints Three Deputy Ministers
- Shell Eyes Brega LNG Rejuvenation Deal After Libya Re-Entry
- EGAS Postpones Closing Date Of Bid Round To 17 January
- Tanganyika Starts West Gharib Drilling Program
- Jordanian Second Stage Of AGP 30% Complete, On Schedule For Mid-2005 Completion
- Bechtel Wins OGD-3 EPC Contract
- Dolphin Awards EPC Contract To Technip/Al Jaber Energy Consortium
- ENOC Seeks New Investment Partner To Replace China Aviation In Singapore Project
- KOC Awards $79Mn Contract To SNC-Lavalin For Crude Gathering Center Upgrade
- Mina al-Ahmadi’s ARDs Shut For Routine Maintenance
- Turkish High Court Annuls Tupras Sale
- NPC Annual Report Shows Iran Produced 14Mn Tons Of Petrochemicals In 2003
- Iran Agrees Conditional Suspension Of Uranium Upgrading
- Construction Of Iran-Armenia Gas Pipeline Begins, Electrical Power Exchange
- Pakistan Decision On Gas Pipeline Imports Close; LNG Bids Sought
- EU Prioritizes Mediterranean Gas, Power Interconnection Projects
- Nexen Announces First Oil From Yemen Block 51
- Vintage To Spend $26Mn On Yemen’s Block S-1 In 2005
- Tanganyika Signs PSAs For Tishrin, Shaikh Mansur Oilfields
- Total Announces Natural Gas Find In Timimoun Permit
- SOCO International Sells Tunisian Assets
Financial & Banking News
- QPIC IPO: MEES Outlines Structure And Finance Details
- Lebanon Raises $1.375Bn In New Eurobond Issue
- MENA Defense Spending Hits $55Bn In 2003, IISS Says
- Shamil Bank Hikes Murabaha Facility To $60Mn
- KIPCO Arranges $60Mn Three-Year Syndicated Term Loan
- Foreigners To Own 25% Shares Of Qatari Companies
- Emaar And Al Oula Set Up Real Estate Company
- ADB Grants Tunisia €165Mn Loan For Road Development
- Moody’s And S&P Rate Jordan Armed Forces Bond
- Moody’s Assigns Baa1 Rating to GIC Senior Unsecured Notes
- Fitch Affirms NBAD Ratings