Issue 26
Top Stories
- Crude Prices Touch $60/B As Traders Gauge Capacity Constraints
- Illusive Demand Response Seen As Sole Remedy To Rising Oil Prices
- SOMO Issues 4Mn Barrels Kirkuk Tender As Sporadic Pumping Continues
- Iran’s Petroleum Ministry Bracing For Post-Election Shake-Up
- RasGas 2/3 Expansion Costs Put At $13Bn
Energy Fundamentals
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
- OPEC Testing Oil Price Limits, Says CGES
- Refiners Barely Able To Meet Distillate Demand, Says SG
- China’s Demand Growth Outpacing Refining Capacity Expansion, Says FACTS
News by Country
- SNC-Lavalin/Black & Veatch Win PMC Contract For Skikda LNG Train
- Sonatrach Awarded Reconnaissance License On Tafassasset Perimeter
- Russia’s Stroytransgaz Wins Pipeline Construction Contract
- Algeria’s Total Energy Production Reaches 225Mn Toe In 2004
- ExxonMobil Pays $30Mn To Exit Nakhchivan PSA
- Lukoil To Drill Second Well In Yalama D-222 Concession
- Turgai And Lukoil Sue PetroKazakhstan For $220Mn
- BG Group To Purchase ELNG Shipments From Gaz De France
- IMF Praises New Direction Of Egypt’s Economic Reform Program
- Egypt’s Banks Remain Fragile Despite Reforms, Says S&P
- North Pars Gasfield Development Earmarked By NIOC For Petropars/IOC
- BNP Paribas Is Winner Of Pars LNG Advisory
- Iran’s External Debt Rose to $15.7Bn By March 2005
- Ahmad Chalabi Heads Iraq’s New Supreme Contracts Committee
- SCOP Issues Tender For 140,000 B/D Nahrain Refinery
- Jordan’s Finance Minister Resigns
- Project Kuwait Progress Faces Further Delay
- Lebanese Monetary Authorities To Cut Interest Rates On Local Currency Deposits
- Oilinvest Names Hammuda Al-Aswad As Managing Director
- Oman Signs Key Agreements For Mukhaizna Field EOR Project
- Oman LNG Refinancing Signed With 24 Mandated Lead Arrangers
- Qatargas-2 Syndication Attracts 18 Banks
- Q-Chem-2, Qatofin MLAs Show Bank Interest Continues After Qatargas-2
- QP Signs EPC Contracts For Ras Laffan Condensate Refinery
- Dolphin Second Bridge Financing Expected To Attract 17 Banks
- UAE Seeks Fundamental Amendments To Border Accord With Saudi Arabia
- Kuwait/Iran Border Dispute Like Open Wound, Says Shaikh Muhammad
- Saudi Aramco Increases Stake In Showa Shell To 15%
- Saudi-Malaysian Consortium Selected For Shu΄aiba IWPP
- Foster Wheeler Wins Process Design Contract For Al-Khafji Desalination Plant
- Saudi/US Strategic Relationship Still Appears Stable, Says IISS
- White Nile Awards Seismic Survey Contract For Block Ba
- Fighting In Northeast Sudan Unlikely To Affect Oil Production
- Syria Issues Law For Securities and Exchange Commission
- Fourth Postponement For Botas Gas Contract Tenders
- $1.1Bn Abu Dhabi Energy/Utilities Firm Established