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A recent suggestion to ward off a US attack on Iraq and provide a safe exile for Saddam Hussa in may not have received the backing of the Arab League. [...]

Pedco, the drilling arm of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), and Romanian rig operator Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) have been at loggerheads recently In mid-August, drilling activities at Iran's Hengam [...]

Risk and reward are equally balanced in the oil and gas industry--and no-one knows it better than seismic surveyors. 'We can only give indicators and deliver the best information,' says [...]

It has not been an easy relationship. For more than 30 years, the national oil companies (NOCs) of the Middle East have jealously guarded their territory, home to nearly two-thirds [...]

In the past few years, oil producers have been united on one issue: high oil prices are not due to a scarcity of barrels of crude. Instead, they argue, the [...]

The 30-year-old trade in liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Middle East is about to see some major changes. While LNG trade has traditionally been conducted on a long-term contractual [...]

It started with a bang, but the construction boom could end with a whimper. In late July, Peter Voser, chief financial officer (CFO) of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, publicly admitted [...]

The first flush of Qatari gas is due to land at Taweelah in Abu Dhabi emirate next year. The arrival of Dolphin gas will be a seminal moment for the [...]

Ali Naimi had a cryptic message for delegates to a February oil industry conference in Houston. 'Whoever travels without a guide, will need 200 years for a two-day journey,' he [...]

Steady progress has been at the heart of Abu Dhabi's oil policy in recent years. Despite sitting on almost 10 per cent of world oil reserves, the emirate has maintained [...]

Abu Dhabi energy officials could have been forgiven for feeling stunned when, in late January, they opened the commercial bids for two key packages on the onshore gas development (OGD) [...]

It has taken a long time but it seems the peculiarly American practice of employing a project manager (PM) to run large-scale civil construction works has taken root in the [...]

Saudi Aramco has several weapons in its arsenal which it employs to retain its over-riding position as the world's largest oil company and OPEC's unchallenged leader. In the past two [...]

OPEC has had its fair share of crises. In the winter of 1975, the Venezuelan mercenary Ilich Ramirez Sanchez--better known as Carlos the Jackal--raided the organisation's headquarters in Vienna and [...]

The tables seem to be turning for Abu Dhabi's petrochemicals sector. After keeping a low profile in recent years, some $7,500 million is planned for investment at Ruwais to build [...]

In the mid-1980s, Latif Sharif al-Rayes visited insurers in the region seeking their cooperation to establish an Arab oil pool. He was then an energy underwriter with the Bahrain-based Arab [...]

To lose one oil installation may be regarded as a misfortune. But to lose two looks like carelessness. Kuwait's oil and gas industry has acquired an unwanted reputation over the [...]