Issue 07
Top Stories
- Yemen Offers Seven Blocks For Tender In Second International Bids Round
- IOCs See Limited MENA Reserves Options, As China/India Move In
Energy Fundamentals
- Crude Price Slide Halted By US Stockdraw And IEA Forecast Of Tight Market
- IEA Raises 2005 Oil Demand Growth Forecast To 1.52Mn B/D
- EIA Highlights Demand Growth As Key Factor For Oil Markets In 2005
- Saudi Crude Prices Mainly Raised For March Deliveries
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
- G7 Ministers Welcome Improving Oil Data Provision
- Middle East Products Market Spurred By High Crude Prices, Says FACTS
- Indonesia Studying OPEC Exit
News by Country
- Algeria’s 2004 Oil Production Averaged 1.27Mn B/D
- UGB Profits Reach $43.3Mn In 2004
- Socar Awards Refinery Upgrade Contract To UOP
- Shell Aims For NEMED Gas Production Start-Up In 2010
- Iran And Pakistan Threaten To Build Gas Pipeline Without India
- NPC Starts Up Kermanshah LAB Plant
- NPC And Lurgi Sign Agreement For Methanol-To-Propylene Plant
- Iran Will Develop Full Nuclear Fuel Cycle Despite Resumption Of Talks With EU
- Iraq’s Oil Sector Lost $6Bn Through Sabotage In 2004, Attacks Continue
- Significant Improvement In Iraq’s Electricity Supply By Summer, Says Minister
- Shaikh Ahmad Satisfied After First Parliament Meeting On Project Kuwait
- Shu΄aiba Refinery Cracker To Shut For Routine Maintenance
- Syrian Gas Deliveries To Lebanon Scheduled To Start By Mid-2005
- Lebanese Economy Picks Up But Debt And Politics Cloud The Horizon, Says Moody’s
- Total Signs Two PSAs For Onshore Ta7 And Ta8 Blocks
- Hardman Secures $100Mn From ANZ For Chinguetti Development
- IFC Launches MD1Bn Bond Issue In Morocco
- PDO Shortlists Companies For Harweel Enhanced Recovery Project
- Novus Oman In Proposed Deal With Rakgas On West Bukha Purchase
- Four More LNG Vessels On Order For Qatargas-2’s UK Supply Deal
- Statoil Opens Office In Doha
- Qatar Opens Stock Market To Foreigners
- Gulf Banks Vulnerable To Real Estate And Capital Market Shocks, Says S&P
- Saudi British Bank To Launch Kingdom’s First Eurobond
- SABIC Awards SHARQ EPC Contract To Foster Wheeler
- Sipchem Plans Second Methanol Plant
- Saudi Arabia’s HTIG Offers $2Bn Refinery To Bangladesh
- Saudi-German Group Bid Highest For Pakistan Utility
- India’s ONGC Videsh Considers Sudan Refinery Project
- Continued Darfur Fighting Would Wreck North/South Peace Deal, Says UN Envoy
- Taweelah B Financing Agreement Set For Signing In March
- Dubal Acquires Alstom Steam Turbine As Part Of Upgrade
- Dewa Plans Investment Of $1.9Bn During 2005, $5.4Bn By 2010
- National Drilling Company Boosts Revenues Amid Planned Fleet Expansion
- Dolphin Energy Awards $62Mn EPC Contract To Al Jaber-Technip Alliance
- Ras Al-Khaimah Oils Company Formed
- Adco Undertakes Corrosion Protection Project