Issue 27

Oil & Gas

• Investors Hope For Oil Sector Reform In Wake Of Cairo Coup
• Libyan Oil Sector Buckles Under Protester Pressure
• Ex-Qatar PM Leaves QIA
• South Sudan Crude Exports Resume, For Now

Transportation

• Iran-Pak Pipeline Inches Forward But Completion Unlikely Before 2017

Refining & Petrochemicals

• Iran Takes Steps Towards Planned Tripling Of Gasoline Output
• Indonesia Spikes Aramco Refinery, Knocks Back KPC

Power & Water

• Desertec Exits Desert Electricity Initiative Over ‘Irresolvable Disputes’

OPEC

• African Instability Hits June OPEC Output

Geopolitical Risk

• Bomb Hits Lukoil Basra Offices
• KRG: Barzani Ambush Sparks parliamentary fighting
• Army Moves Against Mursi
• Syria’s Cash Backers

Corporate

• Gulf Independents Upbeat On Egypt, Despite Unrest

Economics & Finance

• Egypt: Fuel Subsidies Remain Pressing Economic Issue
• WB Backs $600Mn Power Project
• Jordan Hit By Syrian Overspill, Moody’s Downgrades Two Notches
• Sadara Project Funding Finalized
• Iran: New President Faces Soaring Inflation, Other Economic Challenges

Op-Ed & Documents

• Shale Oil and Shale Gas

Selected Data

• Crude Official Selling Prices
• Benchmark Crude Prices
• Bahrain Oil And Gas Output/Bahrain Petrochemical Production