Kuwait

State-controlled Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) has announced plans to invest US$3.6bn over five years to increase production from the Neutral Zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.... 2008-12-03

BP could be about to sign a preliminary deal with Jordan to explore the Risha tight gas field in the north-east of the country, the country's energy minister Khaldun Qteishat told... 2008-10-30

State-owned Syrian Gas Company has awarded a EUR52mn contract to Russia's Stroytransgaz for the construction of a natural gas pipeline from Syria's northern city of Aleppo (Halab)... 2008-10-15

French major Total and Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Jordan's National Resource Authority (NRA) to investigate the possibility... 2008-09-11

Saudi Arabia's cabinet has approved an agreement that extends Chevron's exploration and production (E&P) licence in the onshore Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ), an area that is... 2008-09-10

Somalia's interim president, Abdullahi Yusuf, has signed an agreement with Salmiya-based independent Kuwait Energy Company (KEC) and Indonesia's PT Medco Energi Internasional to... 2008-08-20

he head of Jordan's Natural Resources Authority (NRA), Maher Hjazin, has said that negotiations with Royal Dutch Shell over its involvement in the development of the country's oil... 2008-08-12

The weekend has seen some spectacular losses in the Gulf stock markets, in line with our bearish view. There is not much to pick between them: they all look as bad as each other,... 2008-08-11

Jordan has announced that it holds one of the world's largest reserves of oil shale. The Kingdom has estimated reserves at some 40bn tonnes and believes this figure could double in... 2008-07-11

Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation (KNPC) has announced that it will spend as much as US$30bn by 2012 in the country's refinery sector.