Issue 30
Top Stories
- NPC Ruling Opens Door For Total’s Return To Sudan
- Oman, Dow Postpone Sohar Petchem Project On Escalating Costs, Gas Concerns
- OPEC Sees Call On Its Crude Squeezed In 2008 Despite Steady Demand Growth
- Gulf Power Part 1: Rising Cost, Feedstock Scarcity Challenge GCC Expansion Plans
Energy Fundamentals
- OPEC Basket Reaches New Peak And Brent Nears All-Time High On Supply Concerns
- OPEC Oil Output Little Changed In June At 30.27Mn B/D
- IEA Predicts 2.2Mn B/D Oil Demand Rise In 2008
- ISI Group Cuts 2007 Global Oil Demand Growth Forecast By 500,000 B/D After Weak First Half
- FACTS Estimates Rising Costs Will Cut Middle East/Asia Refining/GTL Plans By 2.8Mn B/D
- CNOOC Aims To Quadruple Its Overseas Oil Output By 2010
News by Country
- Algeria Selects Joint Venture Partners For Cracker, Methanol Plant
- Diesel Price Hike Needed To Cut Imports Bill, Says Khelil
- Further Bahrain-Iran Gas Import Talks Scheduled For October
- Turkmenistan And China Reconfirm 30 BCM/Y Gas Deal
- RWE Dea Extends Gulf Of Suez Offshore Concessions
- General Electric, Techint To Expand Al-Kuriemat Power Plant
- Iran To Cut Gasoline Imports By 15% In August As Consumption Falls
- NIOC Asks Japan To Pay For Oil In Yen
- Paranj Oilfield Brought On-Stream By NISOC
- Petroleum Ministry Names 21 Subsidiary Companies To Be Privatized
- POGC Awards €182Mn Contract For Building Two Jack-Up Rigs To Iranian Firm
- Iranian Economists Reiterate Their Disapproval Of Government Policies
- IPDC Starts Up First Jahrom Power Plant Unit As BOT Program Stalls
- IAEA And Iran Agree On Work Plan And Arak Reactor Inspection
- Iraqi Experts Urge MPs To Await Constitutional Amendments Before Approving Oil Law
- Barzani Calls On Baghdad Government To Speed Up Approval Of Oil, Revenue-Sharing Laws
- Iraq Union Chief Warns Of Mutiny If MPs Approve Oil Law
- Sadr And Sunni Blocs End Parliament Boycott
- Only 3% Of Iraq Government Oil Sector Reconstruction Budget Spent, Says GAO
- Sam Zell, David Fisher Acquire 12% Stake In EMG
- Jordan Approves Plan To Build 'Aqaba-Zarqa Pipeline
- Plan To Change Top Oil Sector Leadership Delayed
- S&P Raises Kuwait Long-Term Credit Rating To AA-
- BNP Paribas To Buy 19% Stake In Sahara Bank
- Sohar/Oman Refining Company Approach Banks To Refinance Debt
- Qatar To Establish Finance Regulatory Body
- First 500,000 Barrel Cargoes Of Dolphin Condensate Available FOB Ras Laffan
- Turkey Signs MOU For Iranian Gas With Nabucco In Mind
- Gulf Capital Markets Close Mixed
- SABIC Receives Approval To Increase Sukuk Offer
- S&P Raises Saudi Arabia Ratings To AA-/A-1+
- Gulfsands/Emerald Energy Enter First Extension Of Exploration In Block 26
- Syria Suffers Power Cuts Caused By Capacity Shortage
- Shell Awarded Tunisian Exploration Permit
- Cygam Energy’s Rigo Oil Signs New Exploration Contract
- Third Refinery Complex Approved For Ceyhan
- TAQA Appoints Bowyer As Upstream Chief, Sets Output Target Of 100,000 BOE/D
- Shuweihat S1 Mulls Refinancing
- GEM Receives $55Mn Double-Hulled Tanker
- Emirates Bank International, National Bank Of Dubai Proceed With Merger
- Yemen Oil Production To Increase To 500,000 B/D By 2009, Says Bahah