The Supreme Administrative Court in Egypt, requiring the government to stop the export of gas to Israel, confirmed an earlier step in this case.

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Iraqi oil Ministry put forward 11 oil and gas fields to foreign companies in the second round of auctions for service contracts for the development of long-term, it is expected to double the country’s oil production in a few years.

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KUNA Kuwaiti State news agency said that the Kuwaiti Aref Energy had announced that its joint venture in Texas discovered natural gas reserves are recoverable amount to 4.75 trillion cubic feet.

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Syria was ranked tenth among the 20 Arab nation in per capita consumption of total energy, accordingto report data on Arab oil resources in Arab countries, the per capita of total energy consumption in Syria in 2001 amounted to about 6.7 barrels of equivalent oil per year.

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Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nodhiri and his Qatari counterpart  Abdullah al-Attiyah and general manager of the Russian  gas company Gazprom Alexei Miller agreed on the formation of a joint organization of gas exporting countries similar to (OPEC).

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Algerian Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil expected that his country to reach the proceeds from oil exports this year to 80 billion dollars, a figure unprecedented.

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First shipment of Iraqi oil reached Jordan Tuesday under the agreement signed in 2006.
The Jordanian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khaldoun Qutaishat said that 16 trucks loaded with oil arrived in Jordanian-Iraqi border of the total amount that had been charged from the Baiji power plant in Iraq over the past three days, amounting to 18.5 thousand barrels.

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Resources said that Iraqi oil exports have increased by more than 500 thousand barrels per day with the resumption of pumping oil from a pipeline damaged by a bomb explosion and the resumption of exports from the main port of Basra, after the hurricane “AEK” .

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The Libyan National Oil Corporation announced a discovery of new oil in the Sirte Basin of Libya by German group for public utilities (R W I.). This is the fourth disclosure of the group since April last year.

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Iraqi official statement stressed that Baghdad had expressed the desire to re-operate the pipeline between the oil fields in Kirkuk and the port of Banias on the Syrian coast.

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