Issue 50

Oil & Gas

• Libya: Another False Dawn?
• No Turning Back For Kurdistan As It Demands Oil For Blood
• KRG: Oryx Hits Big In KRG, Plans Wasit Development
• Oman-BP Tight Gas Deal Expected By End-2013
• Oman Upstream Survey: Indies Boost Output To New Highs
• Total, Petrogas Bag Blocks In Busy Month For Oman

Transportation

• Total Firm On Yemen Despite Attack To LNG Plant
• Lebanon LNG Tender

Refining & Petrochemicals

• Kuwait Plans Big Downstream Strides, But Takes Small Steps
• Egypt: Styrene Plant Go-Ahead

Power & Water

• DEWA Plans $1.9Bn 2014 Projects Spend, Eyes Coal And Solar

OPEC

• OPEC Gets Through The Year But Oversupply Threat Looms
• Shale Oil And Gas: The Talk Of The Town

Geopolitical Risk

• Al-Qa’ida And The Syrian War: More Than Just The Overthrow Of Asad
• Jordan, Palestine, Israel Ink Water Deal

Corporate

• APICORP Sees Opportunity Amid Unrest
• Sipchem-Sahara Merger MoU

Economics & Finance

• Iran Slashes Budget; $100/B Crude, 1.1Mn b/d Exports
• GCC Union Postponed
• IMF: Kuwait Growth Slumps

Op-Ed & Documents

• Falling Commodity Prices Won’t Mean Fewer Company-Government Disputes

Selected Data

• Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
• OPEC And Saudi Arabia Crude Oil Production (Mn B/D)