- Sort by:
- Score
- Published ▼
-
Syria And Turkey Ink MOU To Expedite Integration Of Gas Networks
...ncluding a number of agreements, including a short-term sales agreement to supply Syria with 0.5-1.0bcm/year from Turkey’s gas supplies for a period of five years starting in 2011.The MOU was signed during a visit by Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz to Damascus to meet his Syrian counterpart Sufian 'Al...
Volume: 52Issue: 35Published at Mon, 31 Aug 2009 -
North Africa Forges Ahead With Refinery Upgrades, Expansions More Elusive
...amant that the project will be completed by the second quarter of 2014. However, he concedes that the global financial crisis, which caused difficulties in securing financing and procuring materials, has delayed the project and driven up the costs. It was originally due on stream in 2011 at an estimated co...
Volume: 52Issue: 34Published at Mon, 24 Aug 2009 -
Putin’s Visit To Ankara Signals Partial Shift In Russian Gas Strategy
...vember 2010. This is the second time that Russia has brought forward South Stream project deadlines. Originally work on the Black Sea routing was not intended to start before late 2011 or early 2012. Now Russia appears to be in a hurry. Ukraine, no matter what the composition of the next government in...
Volume: 52Issue: 34Published at Mon, 24 Aug 2009 -
Political Comment (24 August 2009)
...erican plans to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by August 2010 and to leave the country altogether by the end of 2011. Hamas Confronts Salafists With the Palestinian leadership already divided between the secular nationalists of Fatah in the West Bank and the Islamists of Hamas in Gaza, a fu...
Volume: 52Issue: 34Published at Mon, 24 Aug 2009 -
QAPCO Secures $200Mn Murabaha Facility From Qatar Islamic Bank
...the two companies. The LDPE-3 project is scheduled to be completed in December 2011 and will be the last in a matrix of connected plants, which includes Qatofin, and Q-Chem. The Qatofin and Q-Chem 2 projects completed their financing on 16 November 2005 (MEES, 28 November 2005). Q-Chem 2’s to...
Volume: 52Issue: 33Published at Mon, 17 Aug 2009 -
BP Plans $2Bn Investment In Algeria By 2014
...ploration wells, which it expects to drill in the next three years. Separately, Algeria’s biggest international oil producer Anadarko announced in a quarterly earnings conference call on 4 August that it expects to see first oil from its 150,000 b/d El Merk project in late 2011. The US company’s CEO Ji...
Volume: 52Issue: 32Published at Mon, 10 Aug 2009 -
GCC Power Grid Links Four Gulf Countries
...scheduled for completion in 2011, with Oman scheduled to follow shortly thereafter. The project is one of the first pan-GCC schemes to get off the ground and could provide a model for regional cooperation (MEES, 27 July). It was planned back in 1991, and construction started in 2004, with the op...
Volume: 52Issue: 31Published at Mon, 03 Aug 2009 -
SABIC Returns To Profitability In 2Q09
...d 2011, the underlying value of SIP operations would still be well below original expectations. Consequently, the intrinsic recovery prospects for bondholders are lower than previously assumed, said S&P. It acknowledged that the ongoing financial commitment of the parent company SABIC (A+/Stable/A-...
Volume: 52Issue: 31Published at Mon, 03 Aug 2009 -
SABIC Awards Samsung $300Mn Air Separation Contract
...paration process. Samsung will execute the licensing, engineering, procurement and construction of the ASU, which is scheduled for start-up in 2011. The company said that despite the global economic downturn, this contract with NIGC was the fourth it had been awarded during July, the others being the Sk...
Volume: 52Issue: 31Published at Mon, 03 Aug 2009