Algeria's Sonatrach achieved record high crude oil exports in October of 2.77m tons of oil equivalent, as opposed to the company’s usual monthly export volumes of 1.9m to 2m tons of crude oil per month.
Zanzibar President Ali Mohamed Shein signed into law the oil and gas development/management bill, which gives the island autonomy in natural resource management.
The National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) and Poland’s Ciech Trading S.A. are in talks in Tehran in order to establish a joint company for the marine transportation of crude oil, petrochemicals and liquefied gas.
Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas (TR) has won a contract in Oman to undertake the engineering and front-end engineering design (FEED) of a new grassroots bitumen refinery planned at the country's Sohar Port & Freezone.