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Iran’s Inflation Falls Further To 13.5% In December
...nual payments as per the table below: Year Debt Repayment ($Bn) 1388 (2009-10) 8.201 1389 (2010-11) 3.788 1390 (2011-12) 2.206 1391 (2012-13) 1.913 1392 (2013-14) onwards 5.467 ...
Volume: 53Issue: 03Published at Mon, 18 Jan 2010 -
Saudi Economy Will Grow By 3.9% In 2010, According To Banque Saudi Fransi
...2009 to SR203.74bn ($54.3bn). According to BSF forecasts, claims on the private sector by Saudi banks should rise 8% in 2010, from 2.1% in 2009. A fuller credit recovery is expected to unfold in 2011 as private sector appetite becomes more robust. Private sector claims next year are likely to ri...
Volume: 53Issue: 03Published at Mon, 18 Jan 2010 -
Iraq’s TSC And PSC Agreements – A Good Deal For Iraq?
...an planned to be operating in 2011. Facilities, pipelines, storage and ports are not yet developed to serve the huge planned oil production. I agree they are not the major issue, which is that the call on Iraq’s crude oil is likely to require much more modest production than the mooted development pl...
Volume: 53Issue: 03Published at Mon, 18 Jan 2010 -
Barclays Capital Sees 2010 As ‘Bridging Year’ For Oil Market
...cording to the 30 December Weekly Oil Data Review. The year will be a transition between the demand-side weakness of 2009 and the return to supply-side tightness in 2011, it said. “We expect it to be a year in which none of the key fundamentals will be dominant enough to cast all other factors aside,” Pa...
Volume: 53Issue: 02Published at Mon, 11 Jan 2010 -
ABB Wins Substation Contract For First Saudi IPP
...0km north of Jiddah, and which will be developed on a build-own-operate (BOO) basis. The plant is expected to be completed by 2011, and will supply electricity to Saudi Electric Company (SEC) to meet the region’s growing industrial and residential power demands....
Volume: 53Issue: 02Published at Mon, 11 Jan 2010 -
Shahristani Pledges ‘Acceptable’ Expansion After Fawqa Well Standoff
...en 2011 is going to increase sufficiently to disrupt the balance in the supply and demand in the world market,” Dr Shahristani said. “As for the impact on OPEC, of course we have to discuss this important issue once there is the capacity in Iraq in the coming few years and agree on criteria that are ac...
Volume: 53Issue: 01Published at Mon, 04 Jan 2010 -
Bids Submitted For Barqa 3 And Sohar 2 IPPs
...y of water. In November Singapore’s Sembcorp and Oman Investment Corporation signed a 15-year deal to supply Oman with power and water from the Salalah project. It will produce 400-430mw and 15mn gallons/day, reaching commercial operation in 2011. Project financing is being provided in a dollar tr...
Volume: 53Issue: 01Published at Mon, 04 Jan 2010 -
Oman Seeks Letters Of Interest For Duqm IWPP
...the largest and most important projects in the country and is of strategic importance to meet the Sultanate’s fast growing electricity and water demand,” said OPWP in a statement. The successful bidder will be awarded the contract in August 2011. The IWPP is one of five projects currently un...
Volume: 53Issue: 01Published at Mon, 04 Jan 2010 -
Increasing Gas Production And Export Bolster Qatar’s High Growth Rate
...sing production of LNG and associated natural gas liquids (NGL), says Samba in its latest report on the emirate’s economic outlook. Growth rate is projected to accelerate to 18% and 13% in 2010 and 2011 respectively as new LNG trains come on stream and the government’s robust counter-cyclical fi...
Volume: 53Issue: 01Published at Mon, 04 Jan 2010 -
Dubai’s Problems Persist After Latest Abu Dhabi Lifeline
...ar and in 2011. ADIA was one of a number of SWFs that supported Citi when it faced huge losses resulting from the financial crisis. Fitch Puts Five Dubai-Based Banks On Negative Watch, Moody’s Conducts Review Fitch Ratings said on 16 December it had kept the individual ratings of five Dubai-ba...
Volume: 52Issue: 51/52Published at Mon, 28 Dec 2009 -
Gulf Project Finance Activity Gathering Momentum
...velopment Fund (SIDF). Launching a bond remains a possibility, MEES understands, although this would break new ground for a Saudi refinery project. The massive Ras Tanura project sponsored by Saudi Aramco and US firm Dow Chemical is not expected to seek funding until 2011, although this petrochemical ci...
Volume: 52Issue: 51/52Published at Mon, 28 Dec 2009 -
Dragon Oil Shareholders Reject Takeover Offer By ENOC
...pital for the indebted emirate. In a statement posted on the Dragon Oil website on 2 December, ENOC expressed its commitment as a long-term majority shareholder to the company, stating that it would not sell shares in Dragon Oil until 31 December 2011 (MEES, 7 December). A statement issued by Dr...
Volume: 52Issue: 51/52Published at Mon, 28 Dec 2009 -
Qatari Banking System Remains Sound And Profitable, Says Samba
...portunities for sustained credit expansion through 2011. In addition, growing domestic liquidity and improving access to wholesale funding and capital markets should raise deposits and bring the loans to deposit ratio back down towards the central bank limit of 90%. Broad money (cash and bank deposits) gr...
Volume: 52Issue: 51/52Published at Mon, 28 Dec 2009 -
Africa Oil Extends Puntland Exploration Period
...dified terms for production sharing agreements (PSAs) for the Dharoor and Nugaal exploration areas. The amended agreements extend the initial exploration periods of both blocks from 36 months to 48 months, with an expiry date of 17 January 2011. Under the revised terms Africa Oil, which holds a 60% in...
Volume: 52Issue: 51/52Published at Mon, 28 Dec 2009 -
Iraqi Capacity Expansion Relative To World Oil Market Trends
...her OPEC countries. In other words, the world would have to live with a combined OPEC additional capacity of over 14mn b/d. Table 1: Production Capacity Estimates According To Contract Timelines (Mn B/D) 2011 2013* 20...
Volume: 52Issue: 51/52Published at Mon, 28 Dec 2009 -
Doha Rules Out New Gas Export Projects Post-Moratorium
...esented challenges. Excess water may have been an issue with Train 4, MEES understands. Qatari sources reject suggestions that any geological factor has changed policy, such as the extension to the moratorium, which was to have been lifted in 2011. “There has been no change,” said Mr Kaʹabi. “The mo...
Volume: 52Issue: 50Published at Mon, 14 Dec 2009 -
EBRD Encourages Kazakhstan To Diversify Away From Hydrocarbons
...Energy and Mineral Resources of Kazakhstan, extending the contract until 10 March 2011. This allows for further testing of the AKD01 exploration well, which has been drilled to a depth of 3,414ms and encountered two hydrocarbon zones....
Volume: 52Issue: 50Published at Mon, 14 Dec 2009 -
Iran’s MAPNA Wins Syrian Contract For Power Plant
...th a capacity of 450mw, which will raise generation capacity at the Jandal Power Plant near Homs. The contract for €280mn will be financed by Syria and the project is scheduled for completion by the end of 2011. This is MAPNA’s second contract in Syria, the first being the extension of the Tishreen po...
Volume: 52Issue: 50Published at Mon, 14 Dec 2009 -
Debt Crisis Threatens To Undermine Dubai’s Independence
...bn in 2011, MEES understands. Also, Dubai typically runs a big current account deficit, which at the first six months of this year was around Dh8bn ($2.1bn). The information released in October this year with a Dubai sukuk offering suggested that the cash based nature of Dubai’s public finances re...
Volume: 52Issue: 49Published at Mon, 07 Dec 2009 -
OPEC Output Hits Post-Oran High Amid Tepid Demand, Buoyant Prices
...stem and revenue streams. Towards the end of next year, new production from Iraq will start to come on stream. Significant increments are also due from Angola and Nigeria in 2011. OPEC will need to start working in 2010 on these issues and Luanda might prove the place to start. Should prices slip sh...
Volume: 52Issue: 49Published at Mon, 07 Dec 2009