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Enterprise' Permian Pipeline To Start Easing Bottlenecks In February

Enterprise' Permian Pipeline To Start Easing Bottlenecks In February

Jan 31, 2019 at 15:20 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. said on Thursday that a pipeline it is converting from shipping natural gas liquids (NGL) to crude oil will begin in February limited operations to…

Canada’s Supreme Court: Bankrupt Oil, Gas Firms Can’t Abandon Orphan Wells

Canada’s Supreme Court: Bankrupt Oil, Gas Firms Can’t Abandon Orphan Wells

Jan 31, 2019 at 13:53 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday that bankrupt oil and gas companies must first clean up their old inactive wells before selling active profitable wells to repay…

Europe Sets Up Payment Vehicle For Iran Trade To Sidestep U.S. Sanctions

Europe Sets Up Payment Vehicle For Iran Trade To Sidestep U.S. Sanctions

Jan 31, 2019 at 13:38 | Tsvetana Paraskova

After months of deliberations, European countries have set up the special payment channel to handle trade with Iran that would allow transactions with Iran, including oil, as the European Union…

PetroChina To Dump Venezuela’s PDVSA As Partner In $10B Refinery Project

PetroChina To Dump Venezuela’s PDVSA As Partner In $10B Refinery Project

Jan 31, 2019 at 13:19 | Tsvetana Paraskova

PetroChina is looking to drop Venezuela’s state-owned oil firm PDVSA as an equity partner in a planned and long-delayed US$10-billion oil refinery and petrochemical complex in southern China, Reuters

Iran Oil Exports To Asia Slump To 3-Year Low

Iran Oil Exports To Asia Slump To 3-Year Low

Jan 31, 2019 at 12:43 | Irina Slav

Crude oil exports from Iran to its four largest buyers in Asia fell to a three-year low last year because of the reinstatement of U.S. sanctions against Tehran in November,…

Iraq To Boost Majnoon Field Production To 450,000 Bpd

Iraq To Boost Majnoon Field Production To 450,000 Bpd

Jan 31, 2019 at 12:06 | Irina Slav

Basra Oil Co,. the state-owned operator of the huge Majnoon field in Iraq, plans to boost production from it to 450,000 bpd by 2021 by drilling 40 new wells, Reuters…

Alberta Premier Looks To Ease Oil Production Cuts

Alberta Premier Looks To Ease Oil Production Cuts

Jan 31, 2019 at 10:51 | Irina Slav

Rachel Notley, Alberta’s Premier, said prices of Canadian crude are high enough for producers to start gradually ramping up production again, the Canadian Press reports. Notley ordered a production cut…

India’s Top Refiner Explores Annual Term Contract To Buy U.S. Oil

India’s Top Refiner Explores Annual Term Contract To Buy U.S. Oil

Jan 31, 2019 at 09:33 | Tsvetana Paraskova

India’s top refiner, Indian Oil Corporation, is exploring opportunities to sign an annual term deal to buy U.S. crude oil, Indian Oil’s chairman Sanjiv Singh said on Wednesday, as…

Gazprom Unable To Get Chinese Loan For Huge Gas Processing Plant

Gazprom Unable To Get Chinese Loan For Huge Gas Processing Plant

Jan 30, 2019 at 16:46 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Gazprom has not been able to obtain a loan from the China Development Bank for part of the US$14 billion financing the Russian gas giant aims to raise for the…

More Than Half Of U.S. Coal Mines Have Closed Since 2008

More Than Half Of U.S. Coal Mines Have Closed Since 2008

Jan 30, 2019 at 16:36 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Declining coal demand in the U.S. and rising demand for natural gas and renewables have hit coal production and the number of active coal mines in the United States has…

Exxon, Plains All American, Lotus To Build 1-Million-Bpd Permian Pipeline

Exxon, Plains All American, Lotus To Build 1-Million-Bpd Permian Pipeline

Jan 30, 2019 at 16:31 | Tsvetana Paraskova

ExxonMobil, Plains All American Pipeline, and Lotus Midstream will build a pipeline capable of transporting more than 1 million barrels per day of crude oil and condensate from the Permian…

Floating LNG Projects May Have Peaked: Wood Mackenzie

Floating LNG Projects May Have Peaked: Wood Mackenzie

Jan 30, 2019 at 14:59 | Irina Slav

Floating LNG projects may have peaked already amid intensifying competition in the liquefied natural gas space, a new report from Wood Mackenzie has suggested. After the oil price collapse…

Maduro Signals Readiness To Negotiate With Venezuela Opposition

Maduro Signals Readiness To Negotiate With Venezuela Opposition

Jan 30, 2019 at 14:41 | Tsvetana Paraskova

A week after opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself interim president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro signaled that he was willing to negotiate with the opposition. “I’m willing to sit down…

IEA Yet To Assess Impact Of U.S. Sanctions On Venezuela’s Oil

IEA Yet To Assess Impact Of U.S. Sanctions On Venezuela’s Oil

Jan 30, 2019 at 14:36 | Tsvetana Paraskova

It is too early to quantify the impact of the latest U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry and exports, Fatih Birol, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA),…

Report: Grave Warning For US Energy Infrastructure

Report: Grave Warning For US Energy Infrastructure

Jan 30, 2019 at 11:39 | Julianne Geiger

The United States’ energy infrastructure are susceptible to cyberthreats from Russia and China, a new report shows from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI),

Iran’s Asian Oil Clients Restart Imports At Low Rates

Iran’s Asian Oil Clients Restart Imports At Low Rates

Jan 30, 2019 at 11:23 | Irina Slav

Japan, South Korea, India, and China are all buying Iranian crude once again, but at much lower rates than they did before November when U.S. sanctions kicked in, S&P Global…

South Korea To Boost U.S. Oil Buys Further This Year

South Korea To Boost U.S. Oil Buys Further This Year

Jan 30, 2019 at 09:23 | Irina Slav

South Korea has been buying increasing amounts of U.S. crude oil and will continue to do so this year, Reuters reports, citing data from its service Eikon. This will…

API Reports Smaller Crude Oil Build Than Expected

API Reports Smaller Crude Oil Build Than Expected

Jan 29, 2019 at 16:17 | Julianne Geiger

The American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a crude oil inventory build of 2.098 million barrels for the week ending Jan 25, compared to analyst expectations that we would…

Russia Vows To Defend Its Venezuelan Oil Assets

Russia Vows To Defend Its Venezuelan Oil Assets

Jan 29, 2019 at 13:34 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russia, which stands by Nicolas Maduro in the ongoing Venezuelan political crisis, will use “all available legal mechanisms” to defend its interests in the Latin American country, in which Russian…

Brazil Looks To Sell Petrobras Units As Part Of $20B Privatization Plan

Brazil Looks To Sell Petrobras Units As Part Of $20B Privatization Plan

Jan 29, 2019 at 12:50 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Brazil is pushing for major state-owned companies to privatize some subsidiaries as the Brazilian government of new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro looks to raise US$20 billion in state asset…

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