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The joint venture between Qatar Telecom (QTel) and Tunisia’s Princesse El-Materi Holding, which is trying to buy Orascom Telecom Holding’s 50% stake in Telecom Tunisie (Tunisiana), reflects Qatar’s skill at making deals with North African ruling elites.

Government and company officials used the early November Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (Adipec) to emphasise that plans to raise crude output to 3.5m b/d by 2017 (from 2.8m b/d now) have moved forward with orders for several major onshore and offshore projects.

Another US company has signed up for exploration acreage in the Kurdistan Regional Government region, following Marathon Oil Corporation’s deal in October which made it the first publicly traded US company to operate in the KRG zone (GSN 888/10). El Dorado, Arkansas-based Murphy Oil Corporation has been awarded a 50% operating interest in the 619km2 Central Dohuk Block, near the Turkish border. The acreage is “on trend with recent exploration drilling”, chief executive David Wood told a Q3 10 earnings call.

Questions are being asked about why the Aden Container Terminal (ACT) has been left behind while Adenites watch the development of nearby ports such as Djibouti and Oman’s Salalah facility.

The Saudi authorities have convinced all four foreign ventures to continue drilling for gas in the Rub Al-Khali (Empty Quarter) until at least 2012, despite mainly disappointing results from the 26 wells drilled so far, industry publication Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW) reported.

In the wake of US and EU sanctions imposed earlier in the year, Iranian oil companies are struggling for business internationally as well as domestically, highlighted by the recent closure of the BP-Iranian Oil Company joint venture-operated Rhum natural gas field in the UK’s North Sea

Although Iraq has not had a fully legitimate government for more than seven months, the outgoing administration has pushed ahead with key oil and gas field licensing agreements in the face of considerable opposition. Shell’s much opposed agreement to

Qatar will start supplying Dubai with liquefied natural gas in 2011, once the Qatargas 4 project is completed, Qatar Petroleum (QP) gas development manager Khalid Mohammed Al-Hitmi told GSN. Qatargas 4 is a joint venture between

Allegations about Maan Al-Sanea were first made in the New York Supreme Court in a counter-claim after Ahmed Hamad Al-Gosaibi and Brothers (AHAB) was sued by the UAE-based Mashreq Bank, owned by the Al-Ghurair family, which claimed it was owed

The London Court of International Arbitration’s award of damages to former US diplomat Peter Galbraith and a Yemeni partner comes at a sensitive time in Erbil-Baghdad relations.

Nabucco keen to secure gas for Europe, Trains 6 and 7 LNG spoken for, Sabic opens new office in Cape Town

The Ministry of Oil (MoO) in Baghdad has accused provincial officials and local police of raiding an oilfield being developed by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

Chinese oil companies led by CNPC have got off to a shaky start in Iraq, alienating local communities by failing to employ Iraqi workers and deploying high-profile security measures. It will take much work on both sides to repair the relationship.

The government has proposed plans to revamp the organisational structure of Iran’s oil industry to grant the state-run National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) more autonomy.

Syria-focused Gulfsands Petroleum has announced a large rise in H1 10 profit on the back of higher energy prices, an increase in production and a profit on the sale of assets in the Gulf of Mexico.