Issue 47
Top Stories
- OPEC Sounds ‘Demand Destruction’ Alert
- Algeria Seeks International Partnerships To Confront Upstream Challenges
- Sonatrach’s Refining Plans Show Signs Of Progress, Even As Timing Slips
- Bureaucracy Hampers Iraqi Oil Rehabilitation Efforts
- Stock Market Rout Continues
- Clinton Joins NBK Chief In Proposing Gulf Project Spending To Fight Crisis
- Speculation Remains An Oil Market Factor, Even When Prices Slide
Energy Fundamentals
- WTI Crude Slips Below $50/B As Market Hopes To Find Floor
- ‘Real Cuts’ In OPEC Production Required Before Prices Change Direction, Says CGES
- Newedge Outlines Five Reasons For Likely ‘Demand Destruction’
- Lukoil VP Says Russia Ready For Closer Cooperation With OPEC
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
News by Country
- S&P Confirms Bahrain’s ‘A’ Rating On Continued Reforms
- OMV Starts Nabucco Gas Supply Talks With Shah Deniz Consortium
- KMG And Socar Finalize Trans-Caspian Oil Export Agreement
- Egyptian Court Orders Suspension Of Gas Exports To Israel
- Turkey And Iran Sign Gas Production And Exports MOUs
- Iran Needs Extra $4-5Bn To Cover Fuel Imports
- Gas Troika LNG Reports Refuted By Nozari
- US Senator Calls For Block On Vitol Terminal Over Iran Links
- Baghdad Aims for 11GW Power Expansion
- KGOC’s Khashti Details $3.7Bn Neutral Zone Plan
- Gulf Bank Audit Reveals $1.4Bn Loss
- Petrofac Wins $538Mn Kuwait Pipeline Contract
- IMF Approves $38Mn EPCA Funds To Lebanon
- Wintershall Wins Fresh Qatar E&D Block
- Downstream Progress In Qatar Despite Global Economic Concerns
- Need For Gulf Securitization Growing, Says Moody’s
- Somali Pirates Capture Saudi VLCC, Heightening Fears For Regional Tanker Traffic
- Russian Energy Ministry Looks For GECF Charter To Be Signed In December
- IMF Sees Limited Impact On Maghreb Of Financial Crisis
- Gulfsands Discovers Heavy Oil At Yousefieh
- Tanganyika Oil Announces Output Increase From Oudeh And Tishrine
- IPRMEL To Start Drilling In Syria’s Block 24 Soon
- Syrian Parliament Ratifies Extension Agreements With Shell And Total
- Oil Minister Rules Out Reduction In Syrian Product Prices
- Masdar Awards Carbon Capture FEED Contract To Mustang Engineering
- First Gas Arrives At Landmark Yemen LNG Project