Dragon Oil has announced the start of a US$200 million share buyback programme that it said would return cash to its shareholders

Royal Dutch Shell has confirmed it is to suspend its interests in oil and gas exploration blocks in Libya, while BP has announced that it is to recommence oil exploration in the country

US-based Dow Chemical Company has been awarded US$2.16 billion in compensation from Kuwait by an international arbitration for the cancelling of a planned joint venture in 2008

The Middle East can expect an investment of around US$530 billion in the energy industries between 2012 and 2015, of which 60 per cent will be concentrated on the GCC countries, according to Bahrains energy minister

Iraq has warned the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan that its oil export deals with Turkey must have Baghdads approval