Oil/Gas

Bloomberg Dana Gas has reached an agreement with key holders of $700 million of its Islamic bonds to restructure the securities, seeking to end a legal battle. A committee representing sukukholders, including BlackR ock Inc and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, have agreed to terms that include two options for creditors, the company said in a statement. Dana Gas and creditors ...

Bloomberg Oil had its strongest opening week for any year since 2013 as refiners and exporters whittled away at crude inventories tucked away in US storage tanks. Futures rose 1.7 percent this week in New York. The pull on oil stockpiles in the world’s biggest economy accelerated to 7.42 million barrels last week, a level last seen in early August. ...

DUBAI / Reuters The English Court of Appeal has refused an application by Dana Gas to appeal a decision allowing fund manager BlackRock to participate in English court proceedings over Dana’s $700 million of sukuk, Dana said on Monday. Dana is refusing to redeem its Islamic bonds on the grounds that they are no longer sharia-compliant and have therefore become ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The combined value of the 361 active oil and gas projects in the GCC has crossed $331.4 billion (AED1.21 trillion) in November 2017, according to latest Oil and Gas Construction Analytics report issued by BNC Network, the largest and most comprehensive project research and intelligence provider in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Hydrocarbon ...

Dubai / Reuters United Arab Emirates energy producer Dana Gas did not redeem some $700 million of its Islamic bonds when they matured on Tuesday as a dispute on the validity of the sukuk drags on in British and UAE courts, sources familiar with the matter said. Dana refuses to redeem its bonds because it claims changes in the interpretation ...

Reuters Shares of Abu Dhabi-listed Dana Gas fell sharply on Sunday after news that a London court hearing on its maturing sukuk issue would resume, while Qatar’s bourse bucked a general downtrend in the region. After several delays last week, a London High Court trial on the validity of $700 million of sukuk issued by Dana will go ahead on ...

DUBAI / Reuters Dana Gas and its consortium partners have been awarded $14 million plus interest in a dispute with Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the UAE company said on Tuesday. The case was filed with the London Court of International Arbitration in 2013 over payments for gas liquids production. The court ordered the KRG to pay $14 million along ...

SINGAPORE / Reuters Fuel oil profit margins have surged to their highest in more than five years on lower supplies and rising demand from electric power generators, which may push some refiners to increase their runs. Fuel oil, the residue left over after initial crude refining, has become scarce in Asia as refiners make their plants more complex by upgrading ...

DUBAI / Reuters United Arab Emirates energy firm Dana Gas appointed Houlihan Lokey as financial adviser and Squire Patton Boggs as legal adviser for the restructuring of its $700 million sukuk maturing in October, sources said on Sunday. The company, which has been facing a cash shortage because of missed payments from its assets in Egypt and Iraq’s Kurdistan, announced ...

BAGHDAD / Agencies OPEC and other major oil exporters which are currently taking part in output reduction have reached consensus to extend the limits of cuts until the end of the year, according to the Iraqi and Algerian oil ministers. “All members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries support an extension of the output cuts for a second six-month ...