Issue 51
Top Stories
- OPEC Ministers Defer Decision On Output Until 31 January
- Saudi Government Finances Strengthened By Record $148Bn Revenues, 2006 Surplus Forecast
- Oil Producers Hike Budget Oil Price Assumptions, But Forecasts Remain Conservative
- Tehran Conference Debates Producers’ Problems In Meeting Growing Demand
- Vaziri-Hamaneh Approved As Iran’s Petroleum Minister, Pledges Buybacks Review
Energy Fundamentals
- Crude Prices Lifted By OPEC Decision To Review Supplies Before 2Q06
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
- IEA Trims Demand Outlook In Response To Weak 2H05 Consumption
- PFC Energy Predicts End To Oil Market’s Bull Run
News by Country
- Statoil Says Seismic Program In Hassi Mouina Under Way
- Board Of Oil And Gas Authority Named
- Bahrain Names Preferred Bidder For Al-Hidd Power/Water Plant
- Ahli United Bank Acquires 49% Stake in Commercial Bank of Iraq
- United Stainless Steel, ABC Sign $153Mn Senior Debt Facility
- BP Azerbaijan Reports 2005 Costs And Production Exceeding Projections
- Shell-Led Consortium To Explore Kazakhstan’s Offshore Zhemchuzhina Block
- Kazakhstan And China Inaugurate Crude Oil Pipeline
- IMF Projects 6% GDP Growth For Iran In 2005-06
- Shell Admits $100Mn Cost Overrun On Soroush/Nowruz Development
- Pedco Prepares To Drill In Hengam Field
- Aghazadeh Gives Further Details Of Planned Khuzestan Nuclear Plant
- Esfahan Steel Company Secures $70Mn Morabaha Facility
- Bahr Al-'Ulum Sets Sights On 3Mn B/D Oil Output By End 2006
- Citigroup Secures Jordan Refinery Expansion Financial Advisory
- Project Kuwait Debate Shifted To 23 January
- Tender To Renovate Iraq-Kuwait Gas Pipeline Awaited
- Technip To Construct Ethylene Plant At Olefins-2 Project In Shuʹaiba
- Boubyan Petrochemical Buys Omani PVC Pipe Company
- Kuwait Completes GlobalSantaFe Shares Sale, Cuts Stake In BP
- Libya-Oasis Group Talks On Return To Waha Oilfield Hit Impasse Over License Extension
- More IOCs Formalize Upstream Deals For Libyan Blocks
- Sohar Aluminium Signs Financing Agreement, Appoints Sub-Underwriters
- Diversification, Public Investment Help Oman Meet Challenge Of Oil Decline, Says IMF
- ConocoPhillips Acquires Burlington Resources For $35.6Bn
- OAPEC Approves $5.8Mn Budget For 2006
- Saudi Aramco 2006 Operating Plan Will Double Rig Fleet, Increase Development Wells
- SAGIA, Swicorp Launch $5Bn Consortium To Invest In Energy Sector
- Sudan Inaugurates Khartoum–Port Sudan Products Pipeline
- Tunisia Launches Tender For New Shkira Refinery
- NPCC To Construct Offshore Infrastructure For India’s ONGC
- Yemen Extends Deadline For 3rd International Bid Round
- Yemen And China Signal Desire For Greater Oil Cooperation