Oil Pollution And Its Environmental Impact In The Arabian Gulf Region
Situated within the richest oil area in the world, the Arabian Gulf represents a stressed ecosystem with scarce published data and environmental studies.
Situated within the richest oil area in the world, the Arabian Gulf represents a stressed ecosystem with scarce published data and environmental studies.
Lebanese parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday urged his government to begin exploring offshore natural gas reserves, warning that neighbouring Israel planned to lay claim to the prospective resources.
Crude oil production from Iraq’s Halfaya oilfield will hit 535,000 barrels per day (bpd) by 2016, from 3,000 bpd now, a senior executive of French oil major Total , which is associated with the field, said on Monday.
Brazilian state oil company Petrobras on Friday said it will increase oil output by around 22 percent in 2010 as it begins ramping up production in the vast deep water subsalt fields that have drawn global attention.
Iraq signed a final deal on Monday with China’s CNOOC and state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) to develop the Maysan oilfield complex, the 1lth in a series of deals that could vault Iraq into the top ranks of global producers.
Royal Dutch Shell, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) are expected to sign an exploration and production deal for Qatar Block D, a Qatari official said.
Ninth Arab Energy Conference Concluded in Doha, with the participation of Syria and large number of ministers and heads of delegations, economists and energy experts discussed the Arab countries where the key themes of interest to producing and exporting countries and consuming energy and has a constructive discussion.
With the participation of Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Sufian Allaw in the Qatari capital Doha began meetings of the Ninth Arab Energy Conference .
Algeria’s energy minister said on Wednesday he would oppose at OPEC’s next meeting in September any proposal to hike output, and he sees consensus among group members to hold output steady until then.
Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil said on Saturday he believed OPEC could do nothing at this stage to restrain rising oil prices, despite concerns the high cost of energy could hurt the economic recovery.