Qatar’s Mesaieed Recommends Annual Dividend

The company said that it will pay a dividend of QAR1.1 riyals ($0.30) per share for 2014.

Qatar’s GIS Says Business Unaffected By Lower Oil Prices

The company said that its contracts were based on fixed rates which had an average life of between three and five years.

Brent Crude Oil Drops Below $50 For First Time Since May 2009

Crude oil prices have plunged more than 55 per cent since June, when benchmark Brent traded above $115 a barrel and U.S. crude above $107.

UAE Oil Minister Says Oversupply May Last Months Or Years

Suhail bin Mohammed al-Mazrouei also said that the UAE would not panic over low prices and the market would eventually stabilise itself.

Brent Falls More, Saudi Arabian King Speaks

Brent crude fell as low as $51.23 a barrel on Tuesday, its lowest level since May 2009.

King Says Saudi Arabia To Deal With Weak Oil Challenge With ‘Firm Will’

King Abdullah said that lower prices were primarily caused by weakness in the global economy.

Oil Hits Five-Year Low Under $55 On Supply Glut

Additional supply from Iraq and Russia have entered the market, offsetting the lack of exports from Libya, experts say.

Revamped US Oil Hedges May Test OPEC’s Patience

Many US firms are racing to revamp their policies, cashing in well-placed hedges to increase the number of future barrels hedged, according to industry consultants.

UAE’s Tabreed Confirms Dhs2.6bn Loan Agreement

The new long-term facility was arranged by Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, First Gulf Bank and Mashreq , the firm said in a statement to the Dubai bourse

UAE’s Dana Gas Says Receives $60m From Egyptian Government

Egypt has delayed payments to oil and gas firms as its economy has been hammered by almost four years of instability.

Saudi Aramco Halts Ras Tanura Clean Fuels Project

The energy project appears to be one of the first suspended in Saudi Arabia in response to the halving of the oil price in the last six months.

Oil Ends On A Low After Halving In 2014 As OPEC Stands Aside

Oil prices have collapsed this year as the OPEC opted to maintain the same level of output despite a supply glut.

Fire At Libyan Oil Port Destroys Up To 1.8m Barrels Of Crude

The Es Sider terminal and nearby Ras Lanuf stopped working three weeks ago when fighting broke out between rebel groups and government forces.

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OPEC Oil Output Hits Six-Month Low In December On Libya

Supply from OPEC averaged 29.98 million bpd in December, down from a revised 30.25 million bpd in November, according to a survey.

ENOC Continues To Slash Diesel Price As Oil Drops

The fuel retailer has slashed the price of diesel by an additional 20 fils to Dhs3.10 per litre as of December 30.

Saudi Sipchem Starts Testing $40m Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate Plant

The start-up phase will involve testing equipment at the plant, which has annual production capacity of 4,000 tonnes, a statement said.

Libyan Oil Output Shrinks More As Oil Tanks Blaze

Libya is surviving on a mere 128,000 barrels per day from fields connected to the eastern port of Hariga, an oil official said.

Sipchem’s New Chemicals Plant To Start Operating In First Quarter

The facility is located in Saudi Arabia’s Jubail Industrial City.

Libya Managing Scant Oil Output As Fighting Shuts Major Ports

Output from Libya remains at a fraction of the 1.6 million barrels a day it produced prior to the 2011 ouster of leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Iraq Says OPEC Will Need To Step In If Oil Prices Keep Falling

Iraq’s oil minister Adel Abdul Mahdi did not specify the form of intervention that OPEC should adopt.

Arab OPEC Sources See Oil Back Above $70 By End-2015

The delegates said they may not see – and some may not even welcome now – a return to $100 per barrel any time soon, a price that was previously considered ideal.

Oil Slides As Saudi Naimi Tells Market To Forget OPEC Cuts

Naimi also said the Saudis might boost output instead to grow their market share and that oil “may not” trade at $100 again.

Saudi’s Naimi Says OPEC Will Not Cut Output However Far Oil Falls

OPEC met on November 27 and declined to cut production despite a slide in prices, marking a shift in strategy towards defending market share rather than supporting prices.

Oil Rebounds Above $62, Tracking Broader Markets

Brent crude is down 46 per cent from the year’s peak in June above $115 per barrel.

Saudi Oil Minister Says Ready To Raise Output If New Clients Emerge

The remark was one of the strongest signals yet that the world’s top oil exporter has no intention of cutting output in the face of sliding oil prices.

OPEC’s Badri Says Hopes For Oil Price Revival By End H2 2015

Badri said that it is hard to tell the impact of low oil prices on the market yet.

Kuwait Oil Minister Says OPEC Does Not Need To Cut Output

The official also ruled out a possibility of an emergency meeting in June.

Saudi Says Won’t Cut Oil Output Even If Non-OPEC Nations Do

Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi insisted that oil prices would improve, although it was unclear when.

Bahrain Energy Projects Not Affected By Oil Slide – Minister

Fitch Ratings downgraded Bahrain’s credit outlook last week to negative, saying the fall in oil exacerbated an already challenging fiscal situation.

UAE Urges World’s Oil Producers Not To Raise Output In 2015

OPEC’s decision last month to leave its output ceiling unchanged, was followed by a fresh plunge of oil prices.