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Shell Looks To Expand Mars Crude Pipeline System

Shell Looks To Expand Mars Crude Pipeline System

Feb 20, 2020 at 16:01 | Julianne Geiger

Shell Midstream Partners LP (NYSE: SHLX) announced that it is considering expanding its 163-mile-long Mars crude oil pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said in a Thursday earnings…

Petrobras Books Record Net Profit In 2019

Petrobras Books Record Net Profit In 2019

Feb 20, 2020 at 13:50 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Brazil’s state-run oil firm Petrobras (NYSE: PBR) reported on Thursday a record net profit for 2019, thanks to asset sales under its strategy to divest non-core operations and…

Russia, OPEC Will Not Move Forward Their Next Meeting

Russia, OPEC Will Not Move Forward Their Next Meeting

Feb 20, 2020 at 11:31 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Despite the uncertainty on the oil market amid the coronavirus outbreak, there is a common understanding among the OPEC+ coalition that ministers do not need to move forward their meeting…

Venezuela Declares An Energy Emergency

Venezuela Declares An Energy Emergency

Feb 20, 2020 at 11:29 | Irina Slav

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has declared emergency for the country’s oil industry, calling for measures to ensure Venezuela’s energy security, Sputnik reports, quoting a tweet by the presidential…

Suncor Gets Alberta Approval for 40,000-Bpd Oil Sands Project

Suncor Gets Alberta Approval for 40,000-Bpd Oil Sands Project

Feb 20, 2020 at 09:30 | Irina Slav

Suncor has received the approval of the Alberta government for its Meadow Creek West oil sands project that will produce 40,000 bpd of crude, Canadian media report. Meadow Creek…

Larger Than Expected Crude Build Threatens This Week’s Oil Rally

Larger Than Expected Crude Build Threatens This Week’s Oil Rally

Feb 19, 2020 at 15:45 | Julianne Geiger

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated on Wednesday a larger than anticipated crude oil inventory build of 4.16-million barrels for the week ending February 14, compared to analyst expectations of…

Trafigura To Shun Rosneft Trading Due To New Round Of Sanctions

Trafigura To Shun Rosneft Trading Due To New Round Of Sanctions

Feb 19, 2020 at 15:32 | Julianne Geiger

Just one day after the United States slapped sanctions on Rosneft’s subsidiary Rosneft Trading, oil trader Trafigura has announced that it will disentangle itself from the sanctioned company by mid-May…

Indian Buyers Of Venezuela Oil Vow Compliance As US Sanctions Hit Rosneft

Indian Buyers Of Venezuela Oil Vow Compliance As US Sanctions Hit Rosneft

Feb 19, 2020 at 15:18 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries is studying the impact of the newly imposed U.S. sanctions on a unit of Russia’s Rosneft over trade of Venezuelan crude oil, and will make…

Canada’s Inflation Jumps 2.4% On Higher Gasoline Prices

Canada’s Inflation Jumps 2.4% On Higher Gasoline Prices

Feb 19, 2020 at 13:13 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Canada’s consumer prices jumped by 2.4 percent year on year in January, exceeding analyst expectations, on the back of an 11-percent surge in gasoline prices tracking higher oil prices…

Turkish Media Claim Kurds, US Smuggle Syrian Oil

Turkish Media Claim Kurds, US Smuggle Syrian Oil

Feb 19, 2020 at 12:33 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Kurdish fighters in Syria are smuggling oil out of the war-torn country in partnership with the U.S., Turkish language daily Yeni ?afak reports, quoting fighters of the Kurdish YPG…

Rosneft Boosts 2019 Profit Despite OPEC+ Cuts, Tainted Oil Crisis

Rosneft Boosts 2019 Profit Despite OPEC+ Cuts, Tainted Oil Crisis

Feb 19, 2020 at 09:52 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russia’s biggest oil producer and largest taxpayer, Rosneft, reported on Wednesday a net income for 2019 that was 29 percent higher on the year, despite market uncertainties and negative…

Guyana Reports 35,600 Bpd In Oil Production For December

Guyana Reports 35,600 Bpd In Oil Production For December

Feb 19, 2020 at 09:25 | Irina Slav

Guyana produced 35,607 barrels of oil daily in December, the country’s Finance Ministry said, as quoted by Reuters, which added the government’s royalty on that production would be 2…

Haftar’s Forces Attack Libya Sea Port, Almost Blow Up LPG Tanker

Haftar’s Forces Attack Libya Sea Port, Almost Blow Up LPG Tanker

Feb 18, 2020 at 17:44 | Julianne Geiger

Offloading operations for fuel vessels in a port in Tripoli have been halted, Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Tuesday, according to Reuters, as military forces led by Khalifa…

Washington Slaps Sanctions On Rosneft Subsidiary For Supporting Maduro

Washington Slaps Sanctions On Rosneft Subsidiary For Supporting Maduro

Feb 18, 2020 at 17:37 | Julianne Geiger

Washington levied sanctions Tuesday on a Rosneft subsidiary—Rosneft Trading, in the latest round of The United States’ maximum pressure campaign on the Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela, according to senior…

Kuwait Looks To Nationalize All Senior Oil Jobs By 2021

Kuwait Looks To Nationalize All Senior Oil Jobs By 2021

Feb 18, 2020 at 16:56 | Tsvetana Paraskova

OPEC producer Kuwait aims to have 100 percent of the executive, technical, and supervisory jobs in its oil sector held by Kuwaiti nationals by early 2021, Middle East Monitor

Israel Stops Issuing New Licenses For Oil Shale Exploration

Israel Stops Issuing New Licenses For Oil Shale Exploration

Feb 18, 2020 at 12:33 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Israel’s energy and environment ministries have agreed that the minister of energy will not grant new licenses to companies to explore for and mine oil shale in the country, due…

Dutch Court Orders Russia To Pay $50B To Ex-Yukos Shareholders

Dutch Court Orders Russia To Pay $50B To Ex-Yukos Shareholders

Feb 18, 2020 at 11:27 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russia lost an appeal in the case versus the former shareholders of Yukos, the Hague Court of Appeal said on Tuesday, overturning a lower court’s verdict and reinstating an…

China Could Grant Tariff Exemptions On U.S. Oil And LNG

China Could Grant Tariff Exemptions On U.S. Oil And LNG

Feb 18, 2020 at 10:55 | Irina Slav

China has opened for applications for tariff exemptions on a number of U.S. products and commodities including crude oil and liquefied natural gas, Reuters reported today. Tariffs were blamed…

Eni Strikes Oil Offshore Mexico

Eni Strikes Oil Offshore Mexico

Feb 18, 2020 at 10:13 | Irina Slav

Italy’s Eni has announced a new oil discovery offshore Mexico, in the Sureste Basin, saying it could contain between 200 and 300 million barrels of crude. Eni is the…

IMF Slashes Nigeria GDP Outlook On Coronavirus Impact

IMF Slashes Nigeria GDP Outlook On Coronavirus Impact

Feb 18, 2020 at 09:35 | Irina Slav

The International Monetary Fund cut Nigeria’s economic growth outlook, citing the effect that the Chinese coronavirus outbreak has had on global oil demand. The revision follows a…

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