Khobar, Saudi Arabia, July 09, SPA -- The Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP) attained in the first half of this year (2008) operational profits amounting to $59 million. This is an increase of 25.5 percent compared to profits of the same period last year which totaled $47 million. The rights of APICORP's shareholders in the first half of this year jumped to $1 billion, compared to $933 million in the same period last year. The Corporation's Board of Directors recently held a meeting in Cairo under the chairmanship of the representative of the Saudi government Abdullah Al-Zaid. --MORE
