1. Kazakhstan And Japan Sign 24 Uranium, Nuclear Energy Agreements

    ...peline is designed to ship up to 900,000 b/d across the Balkans from Bulgaria’s Black Sea port of Burgas to the Albanian port of Vlore on the Adriatic Sea, a distance of 900km. AMBO is to be complete by 2011. In January, officials from Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria signed an accord endorsing th...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 07 May 2007
  2. Ma'aden, Alcan Sign HOA For Proposed $7Bn Integrated Aluminum Joint Venture

    ...dustrial City at Ras al-Zour. First metal would be expected during the first quarter of 2011, and first alumina a year later. Next steps will include completing the joint venture agreement and pursuing project financing arrangements for capital costs, Alcan said....

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 19
    Published at Mon, 07 May 2007
  3. QP Launches $650Mn Eurobond

    ...osing on 26 May. The issue amount was $650mn with a maturity date of 30 May 2011. The coupon is 5.579% and the bond is priced at par, with a spread at 65bps over treasuries. The funds are to be used to refinance earlier, more expensive debt, and for general purposes. QP said earlier this year that it...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 22
    Published at Mon, 29 May 2006
  4. Total, ConocoPhillips Sign Up For JV Export Refineries in Jubail And Yanbu'

    ...ocess Arabian Heavy crude and will produce high–quality refined products that meet current and future product specifications, Saudi Aramco said. The project is scheduled to start up in 2011. The MOU lays down the key parameters of the venture, the project configuration and a broad range of the major te...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 22
    Published at Mon, 29 May 2006
  5. Paris Club Accepts Algeria’s Offer To Prepay $8Bn Debt

    ...rway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US. The debt owed to Paris Club creditors and eligible to the prepayment operations was, under the rescheduling agreements of 1994 and 1995, to be repaid between 30 November 2006 and 30 November 2011. Algeria’ offer reflects its strong financial re...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 20
    Published at Mon, 15 May 2006
  6. S&P, Moody’s Assign Rating To Qatar Petroleum’s Eurobond

    ...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. XLIX No 20 15-May-2006 QATAR S&P, Moody’s Assign Rating To Qatar Petroleum’s Eurobond Standard & Poor’s (S&P) and Moody’s have assigned ratings for Qatar Petroleum’s (QP) eurobond issue, maturing in May 2011, which was in the process of being ma...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 20
    Published at Mon, 15 May 2006
  7. Nama Plans $6Bn Jubail Private Export Refinery Venture

    ...ivate sector crude oil export refinery at Jubail with capacity of 400,000 b/d, at an estimated cost of $6bn. The facility would also produce petrochemicals. A Nama statement said the company was evaluating several potential joint venture partners. Start-up is projected for 2011. Earlier this year Na...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 20
    Published at Mon, 15 May 2006
  8. Qatar To Focus On Optimizing Existing Projects After 2010

    ...ich is provisionally due for start-up in 2011. While cost is one of the more obvious hurdles for Qatar’s decision-makers, QP’s internal debate about the longer-term strategy for gas use is also beginning to make itself felt....

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 18
    Published at Mon, 01 May 2006
  9. Sonelgaz Launches AD10Bn Bond Issue

    ...minal value of AD10,000 ($136.7) and minimum subscription is AD20,000 ($273.3) with no limit on maximum subscription. The bond’s principal amount will be fully amortized on 22 May 2011. The six-year tenor bond carries a step-up coupon rate of 3.50% during the first year, 3.75% during the second year, 4....

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 22
    Published at Mon, 30 May 2005
  10. Qatar Cautious On GTL Development Timings As EPC Costs Soar 40-50%

    ...d. An EPC is scheduled to be awarded in 2Q 2007 with commercial start-up set for 1Q 2011....

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 21
    Published at Mon, 23 May 2005
  11. ExxonMobil, QP Move Ahead On $2Bn Ras Laffan Petrochems Complex

    ...e plant coming on-stream in early 2011, he said....

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 21
    Published at Mon, 23 May 2005
  12. Qatar Delays Start Of Three Proposed GTL Projects

    ...gned 70,000 2009 140,000 ExxonMobil Heads Of Agreement 154,000 2011 154,000 QP/Sasol Chevron Statement Of Intent 130,000 De...

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 18
    Published at Mon, 02 May 2005
  13. Qatar And Iran Outline GTL Plans At London Conference

    ...milar plant due into operation in 2011 (MEES, 27 October 2003). QP and Sasol-Chevron are negotiating to develop a second project labeled ORYX 2, with similar design and capacity to the project under construction, and which may be completed before the Shell plant begins production. Additionally, Mr Em...

    Volume: 47
    Issue: 21
    Published at Mon, 24 May 2004
  14. Iran’s Power Generation Capacity Exceeds 30GW

    ...% over the year, he said, and hydropower projects currently under construction were expected to take hydro capacity to 4.466gw by the end of March 2004. By the end of 2011, after the completion of the government’s fourth economic plan, he said that hydropower capacity was intended to reach 10gw....

    Volume: 46
    Issue: 20
    Published at Mon, 19 May 2003
  15. Iranian Petrochemical Sector Weighs Effects Of Capacity Expansion

    ...pacity would be required by 2011. Currently, there is a total of 8mn t/y of polypropylene capacity scheduled to come on stream by 2006. The polyethylene and polypropylene projects under construction are mainly in the Middle East, and according to Mr Borruso much of the exports from the region will be ab...

    Volume: 45
    Issue: 21
    Published at Mon, 27 May 2002
  16. BP And Partners To Invest $8Bn Plus In AIOC And Shah Deniz Projects

    ...d that this figure will rise to $5bn/year by 2011. He said that by 2007 the two projects would be producing 50mn tons/year of oil equivalent. Figures released earlier by BP forecast production from the ACG oilfields reaching 1mn b/d – the volume required to make the BTC pipeline viable – by the end of...

    Volume: 44
    Issue: 20
    Published at Mon, 14 May 2001
  17. Looking Ahead: The Oil Market And Its Future

    ...te of at least 3.0% in the coming decades. This, along with an expanding global population, will boost annual oil demand by at least 1.5%. California might be a good example of this trend. It will need 29% more energy by 2011 than it used in 1990, even with increasing energy efficiency. However, th...

    Volume: 43
    Issue: 20
    Published at Mon, 15 May 2000