Issue 38
Top Stories
- OPEC Leaves Oil Output Unchanged But Signals Readiness To Act If Prices Continue Lower
- Saudi Arabia Targets 12.5Mn B/D Oil Capacity By 2009, Says Naimi
- Iran Pursues Greater Flexibility In Amended Buyback Agreement
- QP Urges LNG Lenders To Accept More Risk As Pricing, Spot Sales Evolve
- Coal-Fired Power Generation Industry Revived By High Oil And Gas Prices
Energy Fundamentals
- Crude Price Slide Checked By US Threat To Push For Iran Sanctions
- IEA Reduces Oil Demand Growth Forecast To 1.1Mn B/D In 2006 And 1.5mn B/D In 2007
- EIA Trims Oil Demand Growth Forecast On Faltering OECD Consumption
- SG Sees $40/B And $60/B As Key Points In OPEC’s Preferred Price Debate
News by Country
- Algeria Repays $800Mn Of Debt To The London Club
- Sonatrach And NOC Commission Study On Cross-Border Gasfields
- Fitch Ranks Bahrain’s Banking Sector On A Par With Developed Countries
- Vaziri-Hamaneh Confirms Iran’s Reservoir Decline Amounts To 500,000 B/D Per Year
- Gas Pipeline Warning To Pakistan And India Shows Iran’s Mounting Gas Export Dilemma
- Bank Saderat Barred From Dealing With US Financial System
- Iraq Targets 4-4.5Mn B/D Oil Production Within Five Years
- Jordanian Delegation Studies Shell’s Experience With Oil Shale
- Energy Ministry Officials Suspended As Power/Water Cuts Probe Begins
- Kuwait Planning Ministry Estimates Unemployment Rate At 2.3%
- Lebanon’s Outlook Revised To Negative, Says S&P
- New Libyan Energy Committee To Expedite Decision-Making, Says Ghanem
- Morocco Ratifies Sebou Concession Agreement With Circle Oil
- Oman Gas Refinancing Signed, Sohar Refinery To Reprice
- Oryx GTL Plant Commissioning Delayed Until 4Q 2006
- Qatargas-4 Appoints 30 Mandated Lead Arrangers
- Project Finance, Retail Lending Driving Gulf Banks’ Growth, Says Dresdner Kleinwort
- Moody’s Places Selected GCC Banks On Review For Upgrade
- Saudi Arabia Tops World Bank ‘Doing Business’ Rankings For MENA Region
- Mixed Week For Gulf Stock Markets
- GPCA Launches First Annual Forum
- Jum΄ah Sees Technology Key To Boosting Global Oil In Place, Recovery
- Saudi Aramco Makes Second Gas Discovery This Year South Of Ghawar Field
- Ma΄aden And Saudi Canadian Mining Services Sign Ore Transportation Agreement
- US Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Canada’s Talisman Energy
- SPC Makes Gas Discovery At Al-Braij
- Gulfsands Petroleum Starts Drilling In Syria’s Block 26
- ADFEC Launches $250Mn Masdar Clean Tech Fund
- Qatar National Bank To Open Branch In Yemen