Bahrain's $1.5b bond sale, last week, is a bad sign that Gulf borrowers will have to pay a lot more to issue debt in coming months because of low oil prices and less enthusiastic investors.
His Excellency Tarek El-Molla, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, will attended the Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation’s (APICORP) Energy Forum held today in Bahrain.
Higher E&P expenditure, financial durability of the companies and customers are likely to drive the oilfields services (OFS) market in the Middle East to record revenues worth $13.4b by 2019.
The Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) announced today that Oman’s Ministry of Oil and Gas has become the first customer of its recently launched ‘DME Auctions’ platform.
Saudi Arabia will begin privatizing its airports and related services in the first quarter of 2016, the country’s General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) said on Sunday
International oil companies could boost production in Iraq beyond current targets if production contracts were changed to give more incentives for investment, according to BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
"The UAE played a key role in the political stability of this region and the UAE will play ... a key role in the stability of the market," the UAE oil minister Suhail al-Mazrouei was quoted as saying.