Issue 17

Oil & Gas

• Iran Targets New Buyers For Its Crude
• Abu Dhabi Onshore Awards Unlikely Before ADCO Concession Ends
• Neighbors Eye Oman’s Oil Storage Project
• Iran Owed $4Bn In Oil Sales Revenue
• Aramco Invests In Tech Company

Refining & Petrochemicals

• Total Signs $1.3bn Ras Laffan Condensate Splitter Deal; Seeks Saudi, Iraq Projects

OPEC

• Shell’s ‘New Lenses’ Offer Kaleidoscopic Vision

Corporate

• Total Sees Partnerships, Technology, Exploration Driving Growth

Selected Data

• Benchmark Crude Prices/Saudi Arabia Crude Production

Transportation

• Suez Canal: Traffic Slumps In First Quarter

Power & Water

• Egypt Rejoins MENA Nuclear Pursuit, Iran Plans Two New Bushehr Plants
• Masdar Launches Mauritania Solar Plant

Geopolitical Risk

• Iraqi Provincial Elections: Prelude To A New Balance Of Power
• IOCs Eye Lebanon Exploration, Despite Syria Conflict

Economics & Finance

• EU Eases Syria’s Oil Sanctions

Op-Ed & Documents

• International Oil Market Developments