Issue 28

Oil & Gas

• Political Turmoil Throws Egypt LNG Import Plans Into Disarray
• Blast Shuts Egypt-Jordan Pipeline
• Iran Condemns Mounting Western Oil Sanctions
• Libya: Outages Continue
• MENA Active Drilling Rigs JUNE 2013
• Juba Looks To Develop Oil Sector As Khartoum Revokes Oil Threat

Transportation

• Oman Oil Marketing Plans Duqm Bunkering.
• RasGas Launches World’s Largest Helium Plant

Refining & Petrochemicals

• Saudi Firms Award Butanol And Polyacetal Plant Contracts
• KNPC Awards Daelim FCC Deal

Power & Water

• Sadara Desalination Joins Growing List Of Regional Water Projects
• Egypt Electricity Supply/Demand Precarious

OPEC

• OPEC Sees Fall In 2014 Call on Its Crude

Geopolitical Risk

• Law Change Hands Power, Oil Revenues To Iraq’s Provinces
• Turkey Protests Drag On
• Egypt’s Challenge To Political Islam
• Syrian Politics Shake-Up

Corporate

• Oman LNG Posts 10% Revenue Growth For 2012
• TAQA Touts Green Credentials

Economics & Finance

• Gulf States Finalize Rescue Package For Egypt
• IMF Positive On Tunisia
• Syria Crisis Drags Down Whole Levant Economy
• Iran Slashes Rial’s Official Value In Bid To Unify Exchange Rates

Op-Ed & Documents

• Iran: New President’s Priorities

Selected Data

• Benchmark Crude Prices
• World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ Rankings, 2013: MENA And Selected Other Countries