Boosted by growing sales of screw pumps in the Middle East, Leistritz Pumpen GmbH, the German manufacturer of screw pumps, has opened an office in the UAE, located in the Sharjah Airport International Free Zone (SAIF-Zone)

Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) and Pakistan State Oil Company (PSO) have finalised a gas oil supply deal for 2015

Iraq has signed a deal with the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to help the region increase its oil exports

Independent oil and gas company PetroMaroc is looking for strategic and financial alternatives with the objective of maximising shareholder value in the Kechoula structure on Sidi Moktar Exploration Licence in Morocco

Brent oil prices fell more than US$6 to US$71.25 a barrel after Saudi Arabia refused to decrease crude production at the 166th Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting in Vienna