Issue 35

Oil & Gas

• Iran Mulls Offering South Pars To IOCs As Opening Delayed
• ISIS Steps Up Attacks On Baiji Refinery, Torches Oil Fields In Retreat
• RWE Dea Boosts Egypt Gas Output, Russian Sale Advances
• EGPC Seeks $1.5bn Loan

Transportation

• The US Shale Gas Revolution: A Threat To Gulf LPG Exporters

Refining & Petrochemicals

• Israel Refineries Hit Throughput Record, Diesel Exports Boom
• GTL Back On The Radar For Mideast Downstream Planners

Power & Water

• Middle East Renewables ‘Starting To Scale Up’ From Low Base-IEA
• Oman IPP Qualifiers

OPEC

• Saudi Aramco To Invest $40bn Annually

Geopolitical Risk

• GCC ‘Spat’ Takes On New Dimension
• IDB Loans Egypt $425mn
• Libya’s Output Recovery Continues, So Far

Corporate

• Mubadala’s Star Rises As Oxy’s Middle East Asset Sale Shifts Course
• Indonesia’s Medco Returns To Tunisia As N American Firms Pull Back From MENA
• Beach: $140m Egypt Writedown

Economics & Finance

• Saudi Arabia Advances Stock Market Opening
• Suez Canal Financing

Op-Ed & Documents

• Rohani One Year On: A Glass Half Full Or Half Empty?

Selected Data

• Chinese Crude Imports, January-July 2014 (‘000 B/D)
• Kuwait Hunting For Supply Contracts In Asia
• Saudi Arabia Official Crude & Products Output, Consumption And Trade Figures, 1h 2014 (‘000 B/D)
• Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
• Saudi Arabia Directly Burnt Oil & Crude