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Nama Chemicals gets $56m loanSaudi-based Nama Chemicals said it has received a $56m loan from the Saudi Industrial Development Fund to expand production at its plant. The financing will be used to double epoxy output to 120,000 tons a year, the company said in a statement.





Aramco raises official priceSaudi Aramco, the world's largest state-owned oil company, raised the official selling prices for shipments of 'heavy crude' grades for February as demand rises, Bloomberg reported. The company said it has increased the prices for all of its grades to the US. The cost of Saudi's Heavy crude exports to the U.S. increased the most, climbing $4.45 to a discount of $5.30 a barrel to the West Texas Intermediate benchmark. Medium crude exports increased $3.55 a barrel to a discount of $4.20.



Saudi Arabia finds new oil, gas fieldsSaudi Arabia said it has discovered five new oilfields and three gasfields in the Eastern Province, the state news agency SPA reported. Four of the oilfields were on land and one was offshore, Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said in a statement. He named as the wells as Jaouf-11, Ramthan-9, Nayashen-1, Jarid-11, Jarid-101 and Khursaniya-114. In test drilling the biggest producing wells were Jaouf-11 at 2,551 barrels a day and Nayashen-1 at 2,076 bpd.





Oil price rises to $48Oil prices rose sharply Monday as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict heightened and Iran said OPEC would hold a special meeting next month. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for February, jumped $2.47 to close at %48.81 a barrel.



Aramco announces price hikeSaudi state oil firm Aramco has announced that the country will raise its official selling price for light crude oil in February. This will affect customers in the US and Asia. Buyers of Saudi oil had expected the price to rise as the kingdom cuts supply under an agreement with Opec.





Saudi Kayan secures SR2bn loanSaudi Kayan Petrochemical Company has secured a SR2bn loan from the Saudi Industrial Development Fund, which will complete funding for a portion of the company's new petrochemical complex in Jubail. Saudi Kayan is an affiliate of Sabic.



Chinese engineers start Iraqi field workFollowing the signing of a $3bn contract, Chinese oil engineers have begun work on developing a major Iraqi oil field. The project revives a contract signed in 1997 that granted China exploration rights to the Al-Ahdab oilfield. The contract allows China National Petroleum Corp and another Chinese company, Zhenhua Oil, to develop the Al-Ahdab oil field in the province of Wasit.





Oil price drops to $44US light, sweet crude fell $0.40 to $44.20 a barrel on Friday, reversing part of Wednesday's $5.57 a barrel gains, while hitting low at $41.05 on Thursday, Reuters has reported.



Opec's cuts may boost pricesAnalysts surveyed by Bloomberg say oil futures may rebound from their worst year to average $60 a barrel next year as Opec makes record production cuts to counter the deepest economic slump since World War II. The forecast, the median of 33 analysts, represents a 50% gain from Monday's $40.02 closing price.





Iraq to offer 10 fields for licencingIraq says it will offer 10 undeveloped or underdeveloped gas and oil fields in its second postwar licensing round due to begin Wednesday, AP has reported. The country's oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani said the fields would include the southern fields of Majnoon and West Qurna Phase 2, which hold reserves of roughly 12 billion barrels of crude each. The two fields currently produce far below their individual output potential of 600,000 barrel per day.



Dana Gas makes new gas discovery in EgyptSharjah-based Dana Gas said it has made a significant gas discovery at its El Basant-2 well in the Nile Delta Concession in Egypt. The company said it found the new gas site after drilling 3,050 metres below the well's surface. This latest find is one of several discoveries made by the company this year, and it plans to continue with further drilling in this concession, said Dr Hany Elsharkawi, Dana Gas' country director in Egypt.





Dubai retailers cut diesel pricesDubai oil retailers are to slash the price of diesel at the pumps by Dhs1 a gallon effective from today. This will be their 13th straight price cut since last July. The three oil retailers - Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC), Emirates Petroleum Products Company (Eppco) and Emarat buy diesel at international prices and adjust the local prices, based on the landed price of the oil product.



Metito wins contract on Das IslandMetito has won the engineering, procurement and construction contract on Das Island. The contract worth $21 million was awarded by Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (Adma Opco). Das Island serves as the export terminal for Adma Opco's oil and for liquefied natural gas produced by the Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Company. Both companies are part of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Adnoc.





Qatar delivers third LPG carrierQatar Gas Transport Company and Qatar Shipping Company have delivered 'Al Wukir', the third in a series of four Liquefied Petroleum Gas carriers. The LPG carrier was delivered to the Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea. The fourth vessel will be delivered in the first quarter of 2009. Nakilat will operate the 82,000 cubic metres capacity carriers.



Analysts predict further drop in oil pricesUS investment bank Merrill Lynch forecasts oil prices to average $50 a barrel in 2009, as energy demand tumbles in the face of shrinking economic growth. Deutsche Bank predicts prices to average $47.50 in 2009, cutting its previous forecast of $60. Opec blamed speculators for soaring prices, arguing that they have inflated the market, while key consumer nations cited low oil supplies as the chief cause. After a rollercoaster year, oil prices have tumbled by about 57% since the start of 2008 when they traded at about $95 per barrel.





Adnoc oil revenues fallThe official selling price of Abu Dhabi's crude oil grades averaged $101.52 a barrel between January and November, 5.05% lower than the January-October average of $106.65 a barrel, according to the latest data from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc). The average OSP of Abu Dhabi crude oil grades plunged to $50.21 a barrel in November from $68.1 a barrel in October.



Oil price jumps to $36Oil price has climbed above $36 a barrel on Friday after the United Arab Emirates has joined Saudi Arabia in curbing supply along with OPEC's biggest ever output cut announced last week, Reuters has reported. The Abu Dhabi National Oil Co has said it would cut February supplies of Murban and Upper Zakum by 15% and Lower Zakum and Umm Shaif by 10% each.





Jordan looks into nuclear powerJordan's government is looking into building a nuclear power plant near Aqaba on its Red Sea coastline. It is expected to be built within eight years and more are planned. The planned site would be able to have four individual power plants, should they go ahead. A study will look into using nuclear energy in the country over the next 18 months.



Adnoc to cut supplies to Bharat PetroleumAccording to an industry source, Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (Adnoc) may cut supplies to India's Bharat Petroleum. This follows Opec's pact to make its largest-ever output reduction to stem oil's fall.





Qatar Petroleum revenues set to soarBy 2012, Qatar Petroleum aims to generate QR560bn riyals (Dhs565bn) in total revenue. Sales in the first nine months of 2008 were almost twice the amount forecast for all of the year, after oil sold for about three times the assumed price.



Kuwait to maintain oil investment strategyAccording to Kuwait's oil minister, the country will keep its main strategy unchanged, despite the tumbling oil prices. Over the next five years, Kuwait plans to spend $55bn (Dhs202bn) on its oil sector to overhaul existing infrastructure and build new capacity.





NIDC to invest $2bn in GulfThe National Iranian Drilling Company plans to invest $2bn worth of projects in the Gulf. In addition to drilling the gas wells of phases 9 and 10 of the South Pars oil field, NIDC has also won the international tender for drilling phases 17 and 18 of the oil field's wells.



Opec revenues to hit five-year lowA new report from the US government predicts that Opec's oil export revenue will plunge more than 50% next year to a five-year low due to sharply lower crude prices and production cuts, reported The National. The report said the group's net revenue from oil exports would tumble to $444bn next year, after narrowly missing the trillion-dollar threshold this year.





GCC oil ministers to meet in QatarGCC oil ministers are meeting today in Doha, where discussions are expected to cover the current situation of the oil market and define the features of the oil strategy for the GCC. Mohammed bin Obeid Al Mazrui, Assistant Secretary General for Economic Affairs, has urged participants to make appropriate recommendations on issues submitted by technical committees.



Oman Oil ups stake in MolState-owned Oman Oil has boosted its stake in Mol Nyrt, eastern Europe's largest refiner by market value, Bloomberg reported. The Omani firm increased its interest in Mol to 15.4%, or 16.09 million shares, from 8.4%, or 8.77 million shares. No financial terms were disclosed.
 
 
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