OPEC, Bush, Kuwait, The Bookings Institution, and more
A nice recap of, well, China’s search for oil
Beijing-based Zhuhai Zhenrong Corp. signed a deal to buy 2.5 million metric tons of LNG a year from Iran starting in 2008. Zhenrong is allready buying 80,000 tons/month of straight-run fuel oil from National Iranian Oil Co.
The international forum of natural gas producers received a message from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stating his support for initiatives for global co-ordination of the gas market.
Iraq is aiming to lock its Kirkuk crude into long-term supply deals of some 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) — half the rate pumped by its sanctions-battered northern oilfields …
elections comming up?
A budget amendment will cancel the delivery of 53 million barrels to the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Abdullah, Osama, and more
The royal rulers of Saudi Arabia sense that their country is in crisis but don’t know how to solve it. Time is short!
read the article in the Economist
China’s state-owned Sincopec countinues to surprise in its desperate search for oil. The latest report is that Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras will sign a wide-ranging cooperation deal with Sinopec. The agreement is expected to be signed when Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visits China in May, Petrobras said in a statement on its website.
from Neftegaz.ru
Oceanic says ConocoPhillips gave East Timor’s Prime Minister $2 million. What a suprise, he DENIES it. quote from rigzone
East Timor’s Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri has denied he accepted bribes to secure the exploration interests of oil giant ConocoPhillips in the Timor Sea.
Beijing is getting oil form Russia, Sudan. LNG from Australia and Indonesia. Article quote:
Chinese oil demand will lead world demand in 2004 and beyond. It believes China
Mr. Simmons is in the news again. Quoted as saying:
“Producing from the next generation of fields will be complex and expensive,” Mr. Simmons said last week at a debate sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “If … [the new fields] work, great. If they don’t, Saudi Arabia has probably seen peak oil.”
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