OPEC unlikely to act at Cairo meeting - Khelil Nov 19, 2008
El Khabar newspaper quoted Khelil as saying more time will be needed to gather data on members' compliance with a previous decision to reduce oil supplies, and so its meeting in Oran, Algeria, on Dec. 17 would be the most important ... The next meeting of Oran will be the most important because we will have all the data ... They will then meet on Dec. 17 in Oran, western Algeria. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
OPEC head: oil production cuts unlikely this month Nov 17, 2008
Such a move is more likely on Dec. 17 when OPEC holds its summit in the Algerian city of Oran. In Oran, we'll have all necessary information to make the right decision, he said. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
Oil prices mixed amid demand woes Nov 15, 2008
The cartel, which will also meet as scheduled in Oran, Algeria on December 17, has made it clear it would consider another output reduction if the oil price remains below $US70 a barrel. 2008. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Oil eases as demand ebbs Nov 15, 2008
Oil eases to $57 as demand ebbs. Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Official: OPEC to meet in special session Nov. 29 Nov 14, 2008
It comes just weeks ahead of a previously set Dec. 17 gathering in Oran, Algeria. OPEC cut output by a daily 1. (FOX23 News, NY)
OPEC plans to hold emergency meeting Nov 14, 2008
The officials said the group will convene in Cairo on the sidelines of a previously planned meeting of Arab members of the group just weeks ahead of a previously set Dec. 17 gathering in Oran, Algeria. OPEC cut output by a daily 1. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Oil falls to $60 as China spending optimism wanes Nov 11, 2008
Many analysts are expecting another cut by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which will hold an extraordinary meeting on Dec. 17 in Oran, Algeria. The prime minister of Qatar said Tuesday that "fair" oil prices of between $70 to $90 per barrel would ensure that expensive oil exploration could continue, avoiding price spikes in the future. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
OPEC president: Oil cuts likely if no price rally Nov 10, 2008
The minister is preparing to host OPEC's yearly summit, due in the western Algerian town of Oran on Dec. 17. Price stability is crucial to countries like Algeria, where more than 95 percent of revenue comes from hydrocarbon exports. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
A soldier's story Nov 6, 2008
After the Sicilian Campaign, we were informed we were going to England and in due time we were loaded on an Australian ship, H.M.S. Aorangi along with 4,000 other troops, and set sail in convoy ... Sure enough the next day we sailed into the harbor in Oran, Algeria ... I'm sure the Captain of the H.M.S. Aorangi had a lot to do with all the arrangements. (Ogden Reporter, IA)
Nigeria: Oil Price Plunges Despite Production Cut Oct 26, 2008
"It however said the decision would be reviewed at its Extraordinary Meeting scheduled to be convened in Oran, Algeria on December 17.Defending the decision to cut prices, Nigeria's Energy Minister, Odein Ajumogobia told a news agency that OPEC decided to slash production in order to restore the supply/demand balance in the market, "and cannot affect the impact of other non-fundamental factors on the price. "Meanwhile, world oil prices continued to fall yesterday notwithstanding the output cuts... (allAfrica.com)
OPEC agrees output cut, oil slide goes on Oct 24, 2008
They also said they could take further action if necessary before the next scheduled meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in December in Oran, Algeria. "If a further decision has to be made, it will be made and we will not necessarily wait for the Oran meeting," said OPEC President Chakib Khelil who will host the Algeria meeting. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
OPEC members pushing for huge production cuts Oct 24, 2008
OPEC could make a large-scale output cut in two stages as a compromise one on Friday and a second if necessary when the group meets Dec. 17 in Oran, Algeria. Touching on that possibility, Al-Shahristani of Iraq said OPEC ministers will see what the demand is going to be by December to consider any other further cuts. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
OPEC on Defensive as Crude Prices Spiral Oct 23, 2008
One possible compromise scenario is a large-scale output cut in two stages one on Friday and a second, if necessary, when the group meets Dec. 17 in Oran, Algeria. If OPEC does implement substantial output reductions, "I still think that the price will remain weak but at least it will stabilize," says London-based analyst John Hall. (Fox News)
OPEC expected to cut daily output by 1 million barrels Oct 22, 2008
Members left Vienna with an agreement to next gather on Dec. 17 in Oran, Algeria. The group moved the meeting forward twice this month because of falling prices. (Boston Globe)
Platts Survey: Sept. OPEC Oil Output down 340,000 b/d to 32.47 million b/d Oct 11, 2008
The group had not been scheduled to meet until December 17 in Oran, western Algeria. Indonesia will leave OPEC at the end of the year. (PR Newswire)
Iran says oil under $100 is 'unsuitable' Oct 5, 2008
He also said that the cartel is not planning any other meeting except the one scheduled for December 17 in Oran, Algeria. - AFP. (Business Report, South Africa)
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Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 10/03/08 08:46:36 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 75% Barometer: 29. (Florida Today)
Exploring Algeria with a sense of humor Aug 10, 2008
The picturesque city of about 600,000 people, the third largest after Algiers and Oran, is dubbed the "city of suspension bridges" thanks to the famous bridges crossing the great river that runs through the city. Sitting on a plateau 640 meters above sea level, Constantine offers breathtaking scenery. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Weather: Partly cloudy, afternoon storms likely Jul 30, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32940 Last Updated: 07/30/08 08:45:41 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 97% Barometer: 30. (Florida Today)
Earthquake in Algeria injures 15 Jun 7, 2008
Oran, the largest city in the region, received most of the impact of the quake ... Oran, the largest city in the region, received most of the impact of the quake, which had an epicenter about 30 km (18. (CNN -- World)
* Famed French couturier Yves Saint Laurent dies Jun 3, 2008
Saint Laurent was born on Aug. 1, 1936, in Oran, Algeria. This story has been viewed 319 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Brilliant designer Yves Saint Laurent dies Jun 3, 2008
Mr. Saint Laurent, the son of a shipping executive, was born Aug. 1, 1936, in Oran, Algeria. He first came to notice at the age of 17, winning the top prize in a contest sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat for a cocktail dress design. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Yves Saint Laurent: obituary Jun 2, 2008
He was born in Oran on August 1 1936, when Algiers was still a department of France, the son of a businessman who also managed a chain of cinemas. The boy began advising the family's chic women on how to dress, cutting miniature garments from his mother's old clothes and staging plays, which he also designed. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
World War II veteran spent over 500 days in a combat zone May 26, 2008
On Jan. 4, 1943, the remainder of the 34th and 109th landed at Oran, Algeria, on the shore of the Mediterrian Sea, and immediately made preparation to move inland to Tunisia. The units arrived in Tunisia the first week of February. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Hour-by-hour forecast Jan 3, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 01/03/08 07:15:48 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 55% Visability: 10 miles (16 km). (Florida Today)
* Questions surround the health and political plans of Algeria's president Dec 23, 2007
"The big uncertainty here now is not a third mandate but who would take over after" Bouteflika, said Robert Parks, director of the research center in the western city of Oran for the American Institute for Maghreb Studies. "He's brought stability, he has diminished terrorism, he has reinserted Algeria into the international diplomatic arena," Parks said by telephone. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Complete weather forecast Dec 7, 2007
Jackson, MS 39201 Last Updated: 12/07/07 07:45:24 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 74% Barometer: 30. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Total S.A. UK Regulatory Announcement: Re Contract Dec 5, 2007
Christophe de Margerie, Chief Executive Officer of Total, and Mohamed Meziane, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sonatrach, today signed a framework agreement to build a petrochemical complex in Arzew, near Oran. The agreement follows on from the Memorandum of Understanding signed this summer by the two companies to jointly develop a petrochemical complex equipped with an ethane cracker and three product lines. (BusinessWire)
Algeria floods claim 10 lives Nov 30, 2007
The latest victims were three women in the town of El-Hamri, near the northern coastal city of Oran, who were trapped in a house that caved in Wednesday, Algeria's civil defense authorities said. advertisement. (MSNBC -- International)
Two New Projects Worth a Total of EUR 300 Million Alstom to Supply Citadis Tramways to the Cities of Oran and Constantine in Algeria Nov 13, 2007
Alstom to Supply Citadis Tramways to the Cities of Oran and Constantine in Algeria ... tro d Alger) to supply turnkey tramway systems for the cities of Oran and Constantine ... The project for the city of Oran calls for an 18 kilometre-long line, serving 32 stations. (BusinessWire)
The artist Affif Cherfaoui stays true to his vision of Algeria Nov 13, 2007
e National Zabana in Oran on Oct. 31 ... cole des Beaux Arts in Oran in October 1962, just four months after Algeria declared its independence from France ... At the time of independence, Oran was the most Europeanized city in Algeria; within the next year more than a million people fled the country, including most of the art school faculty. (International Herald Tribune)
WEATHER: Thunderstorms possible Aug 28, 2007
Weather - 7-day Forecast Summaries. Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 08/28/07 09:30:35 EDT. (Florida Today)
City honors our soldiers, past and present May 29, 2007
The one memory he recalls most often at these times is a day several months after the war ended and he took shore leave in Oran, Algeria ... They, too, were amazed to find a Woonsocket resident there in Oran and asked him if he wanted to join them. (Woonsocket Call, RI)
Book on Algerian War recalls stories of outsiders May 12, 2007
In a Peste (he Plague ) the bubonic plague attacks only the pied noirs of Oran. The person that L'Etranger (he Stranger ) kills on the beach is obviously a Muslim but that is not significant in the book. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Algerians see hope for their future in glory of the past May 7, 2007
(05-06) 04:00 PDT Oran, Algeria -- An Ottoman-era bathhouse is an unlikely symbol of Algeria's future, yet that is how the young people who have spent four painstaking years restoring the old building's intricate brickwork regard it ... "Our young people do not receive an Algerian education. In school they learn about Arab history. On television they watch Western films," said Kamel Bereksi, head of Sante Sidi el Houri, a nongovernmental organization that is working to restore heritage sites in... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Fluent in the musical language of his time Mar 30, 2007
Bensusan was born in 1957 in Oran in French Algeria. It was a time when France was decolonizing its empire, and when Bensusan was a small child, his family moved to Paris. (Mail Tribune, OR)
In Our Pages Feb 7, 2007
Five persons were killed, including one Moslem, along the heavily traveled road between Oran and Mostaganem, in Western Algeria. Rebels blocked a railway crossing and killed two trainmen in the hut of the crossing watchman. (International Herald Tribune)
Teaching the tatse of Algeria Jan 10, 2007
As he skims the fat from the tagine's red-orange surface, he slyly says, "This is the French chef in me. In Algeria, they probably wouldn't skim it." ... "When I went to Oran in western Algeria , they told me I'm more French than Algerian," he recalls with a pitying look ... Right now he's demonstrating some of his dishes: the tagine; a carrot-fennel salad; a blood orange, fennel and onion salad; a roast-chicken brik (a savory filled pastry); various condiments; and, for dessert, a sweet,... (Los Angeles Times)
