Issue 37

Oil & Gas

• Libya’s NOC Tries To Look Beyond Continued Chronic Instability
• Saudi To Keep Crude Output High Amid Soaring Domestic Demand
• Iran Revisits Hydrocarbon Contracts In Effort To Boost Output

Transportation

• Iraq-Jordan Pipeline Edges Forward As Basra Shuts For Upgrade

Refining & Petrochemicals

• Abu Dhabi Puts Tacaamol Back On Track With Aromatics FEED
• Oryx GTL: Sasol Cautiously Optimistic
• Bahrain Opts For 360,000 B/D Expansion
• Satorp Starts Jubail Plant

Power & Water

• Iran Plans New Nuclear Plants, But Bushehr Still Offline
• Turkey Orders Turbines

OPEC

• OPEC, IEA Say Oil Market ‘Well Supplied’ Despite Ongoing Disruptions

Geopolitical Risk

• Obama Pursues Diplomatic Option On Syria
• US Blacklists Iran Sanctions-Busters

Corporate

• BG Takes Further Egypt Hit; BP Upbeat On Drilling Success
• Total Boosts Egyptian Retail Network Through Chevron Deal
• Omani IWPP Sembcorp Salalah Launches $137Mn IPO

Economics & Finance

• Qatar Tops WEF’s MENA Competitiveness Ranking

Op-Ed & Documents

• Cutting GCC Oil And Gas Consumption: A Roadmap

Selected Data

• Crude Official Selling Prices
• Benchmark Crude Prices
• Saudi Arabia Crude Production 1990-2013 (Mn b/d)