Issue 09
Top Stories
- Abu Dhabi Begins Dubai Rescue Through Bond Purchase
- Syria Issues Laws To Restructure Its Hydrocarbons Sector
- Baghdad Pursues Multi-Track Oil Development
- Focus Shifts To Restructuring As Financial Crisis Unfolds
Energy Fundamentals
- WTI Moves Back Above $45/B As EIA Reports Draw On Gasoline Stocks
- ADNOC Announces Further Cuts As OPEC Targets Greater Compliance
- CGES Says Crude Unlikely To Reach Desired OPEC Price Of $75/B In Current Climate
- Crude Oil Market Going Through Hiatus, Says Barclays Capital
- DME Plans Options Trading Linked To Oman Futures
- China’s January Crude Imports Down 10.7% On Month To 12.8Mn Tons
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
News by Country
- Sonatrach Signs Gas Sales Agreement With Orascom, Despite Supply Concerns
- Khelil Forecasts 60% Fall In Oil Revenues In 2009, After Algeria Posts Record $76.4Bn Earnings
- Lukoil Overseas Announces 20% Investment Budget Cut, Confirms Saudi Gas Find
- ACG Output Recovers To 2.9Mn Tons In January
- Russia-Ukraine Gas Truce Threatened By Naftogaz Cashflow Crisis
- Important Source Of Egyptian Income Shrinks As Suez Traffic Plummets
- Dana Announces Third Gas Discovery In The Nile Delta This Year
- World Bank And ADB To Sign $1.05Bn Loan Agreements For 'Ain Sukhna Power Plant
- Russia Completes Bushehr Nuclear Plant Work, Iran Schedules Fuel Loading
- NIOC To Cover 20% Of Feedstock Needs For Syrian JV Refinery
- Iran And Bulgaria To Study Joint Gas Projects
- UN Report Puts Iraq’s Unemployment Rate At 18%
- Jordan Energy Minister Retains His Post In Cabinet Reshuffle
- Jordan To Receive $100Mn US Grants
- Kuwait Has Received $13.3Bn In Compensation From UN For Iraqi Invasion
- Egypt And Lebanon Sign Electricity Supply Agreement
- Verenex Accepts CNPC’s $398Mn Takeover Bid
- PDO Inaugurates Kauther Gas Plant
- Stable Sovereign Credit Outlook For Oman Maintained, Says Moody’s
- Oryx GTL Financing Sees Adjustment Of Completion Conditions
- Moody’s Assigns Negative Outlook To Qatari Banks For 2009
- Ernst & Young Estimates GCC Oil Earnings By 2020 At Over $4.7 Trillion
- Declining Credit Quality And Challenges To Gulf Credit Ratings Likely In 2009
- Greater Transparency Needed From SWFs, Says CMEC
- Liquidity And Capital To Help Islamic Banks Weather Crisis, Says Moody’s
- Fujian Refinery Takes Delivery Of First Saudi Crude Shipment
- Saudi Aramco Acquires Final Strategic Storage Site
- Somaliland Launches Exploration Bid Round Offering Eight Blocks
- Juba Government Facing Serious Financial Difficulties As Oil Revenues Dwindle
- Gulfsands Plans To Drill Three Wells To Raise Capacity