Trade Arabia cited a Bank of America Merrill report, “Global Energy Weekly”, warning Saudi Arabia that the drain on its foreign exchange (FX) reserves could accelerate to $18b per month if Brent crude oil prices avera...
Kuwait’s government is studying whether to raise fees for its services, Finance Minister Anas al-Saleh told the local press, reported Reuters. Saleh explained that this move was part of a project to rationalise ...
Reuters reported that 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....
Iraq may increase oil output further in 2016, reported Reuters, as the country prepares to sell some crude grades for as little as $30 a barrel. The International Energy Agency (IEA) calculates that Iraq is the world&...
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, reported Egypt Oil & Gas. Leadin...
UAE-based Dana Gas announced a $7.6m loss in the third quarter of 2015. The company operates mostly in Egypt and Iraq. In the same period last year, the company recorded a profit of $37.7m, reported Bloomberg. The com...
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, said Trade Arabia, ci...
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, reported the Omani Oil and Gas Review. The Omani ...
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, reported the Saudi Gazette. King Khaled Int...
The UAE’s Dana Gas reported third quarter gross revenue of $93m as compared to $174m and an overall net loss of $9m, reported Gulf News. This is versus a net profit of $38m in the third quarter 2014, principally due t...