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US Slaps Sanctions On Iranian Central Bank—What’s Next?

US Slaps Sanctions On Iranian Central Bank—What’s Next?

Sep 20, 2019 at 15:33 | Julianne Geiger

The United States on Friday has taken the first step in its response to the attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure by imposing more sanctions on Iran, but the response might…

Kuwait Raises Security Alert Level Of Oil Facilities

Kuwait Raises Security Alert Level Of Oil Facilities

Sep 20, 2019 at 15:27 | Charles Kennedy

Kuwait raised the security alert level at all of its ports, affecting both commercial ports and oil facilities, according to the state-run Kuwait News Agency, quoting a statement from…

Shell, Exxon Close Deal To Build Five LNG Import Terminals

Shell, Exxon Close Deal To Build Five LNG Import Terminals

Sep 20, 2019 at 12:59 | Irina Slav

Shell and Exxon are among the companies picked by the Pakistani government to build five LNG import terminals as part of efforts to boost natural gas imports to deal with…

It's Time For Traders To Take Advantage Of High Oil Prices

It's Time For Traders To Take Advantage Of High Oil Prices

Sep 20, 2019 at 09:13 | Irina Slav

Citigroup is advising traders to sell their positions on oil and use the proceeds to hedge against a decline in equity markets, Bloomberg reports, citing a note by the…

New Mexico Deploys Robots To Tackle Methane Emissions

New Mexico Deploys Robots To Tackle Methane Emissions

Sep 20, 2019 at 09:03 | Irina Slav

New Mexico, which shares the Permian shale play with Texas, is using satellites and artificial intelligence to track methane emissions as part of plans to map these and take steps…

Guyana’s Offshore Oil Boom Faces Headwinds As Govt Breaches Constitution

Guyana’s Offshore Oil Boom Faces Headwinds As Govt Breaches Constitution

Sep 19, 2019 at 17:51 | Julianne Geiger

Guyana’s oil industry may be facing a tough road ahead, after US and European diplomats on Thursday accused the Guyana government of breaching the country’s constitution according to Reuters.…

Exxon Shuts Major Texas Refinery After Flooding

Exxon Shuts Major Texas Refinery After Flooding

Sep 19, 2019 at 17:31 | Tsvetana Paraskova

ExxonMobil started on Thursday morning to shut down its 369,024-bpd crude oil refinery at Beaumont in Texas as tropical storm Imelda brought flooding to parts of southern Texas, sources familiar…

Leaked Photos Suggest Tesla Is Already Building Model 3 In China

Leaked Photos Suggest Tesla Is Already Building Model 3 In China

Sep 19, 2019 at 16:17 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Tesla is moving ahead with pre-production at its Chinese factory, according to new leaked photos believed to have been recently taken inside the U.S. electric vehicle maker’s Gigafactory in…

EU On Edge As Russia And Ukraine Restart Gas Talks

EU On Edge As Russia And Ukraine Restart Gas Talks

Sep 19, 2019 at 13:28 | Irina Slav

Russia and Ukraine are scheduled to restart their gas transit negotiations today in Brussels, with the mediation of EU officials. The negotiations are closely watched as they concern the stability…

Why Is This Supermajor Dumping Its Aussie Assets?

Why Is This Supermajor Dumping Its Aussie Assets?

Sep 19, 2019 at 11:34 | Irina Slav

Exxon has put up for sale its assets in Australia’s Gippsland Basin as part of a $15-billion divestment program, Reuters reports, quoting a company statement. The Gippsland Basin project…

Saudi Arabia Asks Iraq For Oil

Saudi Arabia Asks Iraq For Oil

Sep 19, 2019 at 09:30 | Irina Slav

Saudi Arabia has approached Baghdad with a request to buy crude oil from OPEC’s number-two to compensate for its production outage caused by the Saturday attacks, sources who declined to…

Climate Crusaders Aren’t Buying Natural Gas Propaganda

Climate Crusaders Aren’t Buying Natural Gas Propaganda

Sep 18, 2019 at 18:14 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The much-touted conversion from coal- and oil-fired power generation to natural gas actually raises the greenhouse effect of energy consumption by around 40 percent because of alarming methane emissions from…

U.S. Sanctions Severely Cripple Venezuela’s Oil Production

U.S. Sanctions Severely Cripple Venezuela’s Oil Production

Sep 18, 2019 at 17:53 | Tsvetana Paraskova

As if Venezuela’s oil industry is not in a bad enough place already, the country sitting on top of the world’s largest oil reserves is forced to slow already low…

Saudis Join US-led Maritime Security Coalition After Attacks

Saudis Join US-led Maritime Security Coalition After Attacks

Sep 18, 2019 at 16:18 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Saudi Arabia has decided to join the U.S.-led maritime security coalition that aims to ensure freedom of navigation and safe passage through the Persian Gulf, the official Saudi Press Agency…

Following Saudi Attack Trump To Levy Paralyzing Sanctions On Iran

Following Saudi Attack Trump To Levy Paralyzing Sanctions On Iran

Sep 18, 2019 at 14:01 | Tsvetana Paraskova

“I have just instructed the Secretary of the Treasury to substantially increase Sanctions on the country of Iran!” U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted early on Wednesday, days after top…

U.S. Reveals Who Is Behind The Saudi Drone Attack

U.S. Reveals Who Is Behind The Saudi Drone Attack

Sep 18, 2019 at 11:18 | Irina Slav

The attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure that took off 5.7 million bpd from global oil production were launched from southwestern Iran, according to a U.S. government official.…

Wind And Natural Gas Are Big Winners In US Power Generation

Wind And Natural Gas Are Big Winners In US Power Generation

Sep 18, 2019 at 09:29 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Although regional trends vary, natural gas and wind will be the fastest-growing sources of electricity generation in the United States through 2020, at the expense of coal, the Energy Information…

Pro-Oil T-shirt Too Political For Canadian Parliament…Again

Pro-Oil T-shirt Too Political For Canadian Parliament…Again

Sep 17, 2019 at 16:20 | Irina Slav

Two weeks after a visitor to Canada’s House of Commons complained that a guard had made him turn his pro-oil T-shirt inside out to hide its message, a couple have…

Oil Continues To Plunge On Bearish Crude Inventory Data

Oil Continues To Plunge On Bearish Crude Inventory Data

Sep 17, 2019 at 15:50 | Julianne Geiger

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has estimated a surprise crude oil inventory build of 592,000 barrels for the week ending September 12, compared to analyst expectations of a 2.889-million…

$5 Billion Deal Creates New Oil Export Giant In US Gulf Coast

$5 Billion Deal Creates New Oil Export Giant In US Gulf Coast

Sep 17, 2019 at 13:06 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Energy Transfer LP has signed a definitive agreement to buy SemGroup Corporation in a cash and stock transaction valued at US$5 billion including SemGroup’s debt—a deal expected to boost…

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