Issue 17
Top Stories
- Dolphin Gas Financing Lures 23 Banks, Despite Financial Crisis
- Overseas Operations Push SABIC Into The Red
- Syria Set To Launch Upstream Bid Rounds, Iraq Pipeline Discussions Progress
Energy Fundamentals
- Crude Oil Prices Hover Around $50/B, Despite Continuing US Stockbuild
- OPEC Concerned Over Compliance
- IEA Demand Forecast Too Pessimistic, Says ESAI
News by Country
- Fifteen Firms Seeking To Bid For Tiaret Refinery Project
- RWE Dea Secures Exploration Block Offshore Turkmenistan
- ONGC/Mittal Cleared To Undertake Satpayev E&P
- KMG And CNPC To Acquire MangistauMunaiGas
- Bulgaria And Qatar Discuss Aegean LNG Terminal
- KEC Makes Its First Oil Discoveries In Egypt
- NPC And Petkim Sign MOU For Polyethylene/Methanol Joint Venture
- Iran’s Unemployment Rate Rises To 12.5%
- Iraq Starts Work On Safwan Border Field
- Genel Consolidates KRG Position as Heritage Hits With Miran West-1
- NRA And Aqaba Petroleum Sign MOU For Oil Shale Development
- Porosity Completes Drilling Of Second Dead Sea Dry Well
- Jordan Raises Product Prices
- Kuwait Has Actual Budget Surplus Of $13.6Bn In 2008-09
- IMF Says Lebanon So Far Unaffected By Global Financial Crisis
- Repsol-YPF Confirms Its First Offshore Discovery In Libya
- PGNiG Signs LNG Deal With Qatargas
- NBK Expects Continuing Strong Growth In Qatar Over the Medium Term
- Middle East Economies Hit By Plummeting Commodities Prices, Says IMF
- New $10bn Islamic Bank To Be Launched By End-2009
- Completion Expected “Within Weeks” On 250,000 B/D Shaybah Expansion
- PETRORabigh Phase II MOU Signed By Saudi Aramco And Sumitomo
- Ma'aden Maintains 2010 Start-up Target
- Al-Maktoum Says That UAE On The Path To Recovery
- Moody’s Downgrades Shuaa Rating by Two Notches