Iran has suspended, by at least four months, its plan to issue $10 billion in bonds for the finance of energy projects.

Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was seized by CIA agents and taken to the United States after Turkey deported him to Jordan this month, a Turkish newspaper reported on Thursday.

Injured Spartak Moscow striker Emmanuel Emenike has been left out of Nigeria’s squad for the World Cup qualifier against Kenya on March 23.

Hydro-Québec has signed a two-year agreement with Russia’s largest independent power company, Irkutskenergo, to co-operate on hydro power generation and transmission research and development projects.

INFRASTRUCTURAL development is one of the major components of economic growth of a developing nation.

Saudi Arabia’s National Commercial Bank has projected a 400,000 barrels a day decline in the country’s average crude oil production by 2013.

Democratic Republic of Congo is considering a law that will allow oil companies to drill inside its national parks.

Statoil has put on hold its planned drilling of oil in the Alaskan Artic until 2020, according to Bill Maloney, the company’s Head of North America operations.

Lukoil, Russia’s Number two oil producer, has reached an agreement with Total for a joint bid on tenders for offshore hydrocarbon projects in Lebanon.

AFTER three days of intense debates and contributions on the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, northern Senators were Thursday caged by their Southern colleagues and the bill unanimously scaled the second reading.