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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03ABUJA380 |
NIGERIA COMPLETES FINANCING PACT FOR BILLION [...] (U) On January 23, Nigeria LNG (NLNG) held a signing ceremony for the six Nigerian banks providing $160 million of the $1.06 billion financing for Nigeria's fourth and fifth liquefied natural gas production trains. State-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) holds 49 percent of [...] |
2003-02-21 13:16:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EINV OPEC |
| 03ABUJA385 |
NIGERIA PROPOSES NEW OPEC QUOTA SCHEME [...] (C) Summary: Special Assistant on Petroleum Issues Kupolokun told the Ambassador on February 14 that Nigeria had made a thinly-veiled threat to withdraw from OPEC while proposing to other members a new quota allocation scheme based on production capacity and socioeconomic indicators rather tha [...] |
2003-02-21 15:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL NI OPEC |
| 04ABUDHABI3380 |
INFORMING UAE OFFICIALS REGARDING USE OF SPR [...] (U) On September 24, Ambassador telephoned MFA Undersecretary Abdullah Rashid Al-Noaimi and reviewed with him Ref B talking points regarding the need for the U.S. Department of Energy to enter into negotiations to make available a limited quantity of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve [...] |
2004-09-27 11:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET OPEC ECON PREL TC |
| 05MADRID659 |
SPANISH DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON CANDIDACY FOR UN COMMISSION ON [...] (U) The following is an Embassy translation of a diplomatic note that we received from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 15 regarding Spain's candidacy for reelection to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation presents its comp [...] |
2005-02-22 08:10:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SNAR UN OPEC |
| 06KUWAIT308 |
ENERGY MINISTER: NO OPEC PRODUCTION CUTS NEEDED [...] On the January 29 departure of Kuwait's OPEC delegation to Vienna, immediate past OPEC President and Kuwait Energy Minister Shaykh Ahmad Fahd Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah called on OPEC to not cut production at the Vienna meeting. "There is a large surplus of crude oil in the markets," he said, "but be [...] |
2006-01-30 06:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET KU OPEC OIL SECTOR |
| 07ALGIERS1140 |
AHMADINEJAD VISITS ALGIERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad's August 6-7 visit to Algiers generated significant noise, but apparently little of substance. The press, responding to a pre-visit public relations effort by the Iranian embassy here, obligingly described the Ahmadinejad visit as part the "r [...] |
2007-08-13 08:17:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER OPEC ENRG ETRD KISL KNNP IR AG |
| 07STATE155044 |
SAUDI INVITATION TO EVENTS ON THE MARGINS OF OPEC [...] (SBU) The Department does not object to the Ambassador accepting the Saudi Deputy Petroleum Minister's invitation to participate in representational events on the margins of the November 17-18 OPEC summit in Riyadh. We understand from ref A that the Ambassador has been invited to two dinners [...] |
2007-11-09 23:35:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET PREL ENRG ECON SA OPEC |
| 09MUNICH213 |
MUNICH COURT CONVICTS FORMER NAZI (90) OF WAR CRIMES; [...] (U) On August 11, a Munich court sentenced Josef Scheungraber, a 90-year-old former Nazi officer, to life in prison for his part in ordering the massacre of ten Italian men and women in 1944 in Falzano di Cortona. The prosecutor, Hans-Joachim Lutz, was the same Munich prosecutor who will lead [...] |
2009-08-13 14:22:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPEC PREL GM |
| 09RIYADH1068 |
SAUDI OIL MINISTER REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO OIL [...] (C) In an August 12 meeting with Charge, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi underlined the key role his government played within OPEC moderating the positions of less responsible members wanting to maximize the price of oil at the expense of the international economy. He said the Kingdom welcome [...] |
2009-08-17 16:33:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET ENRG PREL ECON KAUST OPEC SA |
| 09RIYADH903 |
SAUDI OPEC GOVERNOR PROVIDES CODEL TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) met OPEC governor for Saudi Arabia Dr. Majid Al-Moneef with DCM June 29. Moneef provided an unusually detailed tour d'horizon of his views on the oil business and OPEC. He expressed satisfaction that the price of oil was moving back [...] |
2009-07-10 13:52:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL OVIP OPEC SA |