Issue 04
Top Stories
- Saudi Arabia Further Revises Project Schedule
- Gulf Stocks Slump On 4Q Earnings Downturn
- Egypt Hails Edison Gas Deal, As Upstream Continues To Attract IOCs
- Construction Of Citadel’s Egypt Refinery Delayed By Financial Crisis
- Abu Dhabi Launches $15Bn Renewable Energy Drive
- Oil Price Drivers Shift To Low Gear For 2009, As Economic Gloom Dominates
Energy Fundamentals
- Crude Prices Rangebound As Traders Weigh OPEC Supply Cuts Against US Inventories
- IEA Forecasts First Two-Year Demand Contraction Since Early 1980s
- Obama Addresses Energy Policy, US Relations With Muslim World
- China’s December Crude Imports Totaled 14.37Mn Tons
- Crude Oil Formulas/Posted Prices
News by Country
- Algeria Signs Four Exploration Contracts Worth A Total $272Mn
- Bahrain, Saudi Arabia Plan To Build Oil Pipeline By 2011
- Funding Launched For Al Dur IWPP
- Nabucco Summit Overshadowed By “Political Blackmail”
- Russia-Ukraine Compromise Enables Gas Flows To Resume
- Kazakhstan May Trim 2009 Oil Production
- IMF Commends Egypt’s Performance Since 2005 But Warns Of Challenges Ahead
- Iran’s Inflation Rate Falls To 26.4% In December
- Iran Stops Gas Exports To Turkey For Pipeline Maintenance
- Fattah Says Iran’s Power Generation Capacity Nearing 50GW
- Tamar Gas Discovery Offers Hope To Israel’s Energy Sector
- Jordan Announces Ninth Reduction In Product Prices
- Politics Frustrate Arab Economic Summit Objectives
- Oil Producers Continue To Revise Price Assumptions Downwards For 2009 Budgets
- Dolphin Energy Reducing Gas Exports To UAE For Planned Maintenance
- SABIC 4Q Profit Down 95% To $83Mn
- Petrodar Consortium Set To Hike Sudan’s Oil Output From Two New Fields
- Sudan Peace Deal Increasingly At Risk, Report Warns
- Syrian Finance Minister Warns That Financial Crisis Could Affect Local Economy
- Gulfsands Petroleum Spuds Yousefieh-2 Appraisal Well
- Syria Lines Up New Loans Totaling $600Mn
- CORRECTION: IPRMEL To Start Drilling In Syria’s Block 24 Soon