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Aramco Separates Non-Oil From Core Oil Assets Ahead Of IPO

Aramco Separates Non-Oil From Core Oil Assets Ahead Of IPO

Jun 04, 2018 at 13:03 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Saudi Aramco is restructuring its non-oil businesses into subsidiaries and possible spin-offs as it aims to streamline operations and achieve a higher valuation for its profitable core oil business ahead…

Tesla Won’t Offer Leasing Options For Model 3 Yet

Tesla Won’t Offer Leasing Options For Model 3 Yet

Jun 04, 2018 at 11:11 | Irina Slav

Tesla won’t start offering leasing options for the Model 3 for another six to nine months, CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter in response to a question from a fellow…

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The G7 Spends $100 Billion On Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Jun 04, 2018 at 09:17 | Irina Slav

The world’s richest economies still subsidize their oil, gas, and coal use, investing more than US$100 billion annually in subsidies, a report from the Overseas development Institute has revealed.…

Saudis May Hike July Oil Prices To Asia To More Than 4-Year-High

Saudis May Hike July Oil Prices To Asia To More Than 4-Year-High

Jun 01, 2018 at 16:56 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Saudi Arabia may raise again its official selling prices (OSPs) for oil bound for Asia in July, and the price of its flagship Arab Light crude could reach its highest…

Total CEO: Chances Of Iran Sanctions Waiver Are ‘Very Slim’

Total CEO: Chances Of Iran Sanctions Waiver Are ‘Very Slim’

Jun 01, 2018 at 16:34 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The chances of France’s Total obtaining a U.S. waiver from the returning sanctions on Iran are not good, Total’s chief executive Patrick Pouyanné told the shareholders’ meeting on Friday. “The…

Pope Francis To Discuss Climate Change With Big Oil

Pope Francis To Discuss Climate Change With Big Oil

Jun 01, 2018 at 16:33 | Tsvetana Paraskova

At a time when investors are piling pressure on Big Oil to take climate change seriously, top executives from some of the major global oil companies will be discussing climate…

Rosneft Challenges Gazprom On International Gas Markets

Rosneft Challenges Gazprom On International Gas Markets

Jun 01, 2018 at 16:21 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft is increasingly challenging the biggest Russian gas producer and exclusive gas exporter Gazprom on gas markets outside Russia, Reuters reported on Friday, citing five…

Shell Launches Clean Gas Marketing Experiment

Shell Launches Clean Gas Marketing Experiment

Jun 01, 2018 at 13:41 | Irina Slav

Shell has decided to try marketing natural gas as a clean fuel by bundling it with certificates for carbon-reduction projects, Bloomberg reports, quoting Shell Energy Europe boss David Wells.…

Suncor Refinery Maintenance Creates Fuel Shortage In Canada

Suncor Refinery Maintenance Creates Fuel Shortage In Canada

Jun 01, 2018 at 12:59 | Irina Slav

Seasonal maintenance at Suncor’s refinery in Edmonton has created shortages of gasoline at Petro-Canada stations around Alberta, CBC reports. This has led drivers to start worrying that Petro-Canada’s competitors…

Venezuela Stops Oil Project Payment To Indian Firm, Owes $444M

Venezuela Stops Oil Project Payment To Indian Firm, Owes $444M

Jun 01, 2018 at 12:55 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Crisis-hit cash-strapped Venezuela has stopped payments due to the overseas arm of India’s top oil explorer for a joint Venezuelan project, which has resulted in the Latin American country piling…

Oil Price Jump Chases Bond Investors Out Of India

Oil Price Jump Chases Bond Investors Out Of India

Jun 01, 2018 at 10:00 | Irina Slav

Rising oil prices have weighed down the Indian rupee, making it the worst currency performer in Asia. As a result, bond investors, bond holders are dumping Indian debt at record…

Shell Starts Deepwater Gulf Of Mexico Oil Project Ahead Of Schedule

Shell Starts Deepwater Gulf Of Mexico Oil Project Ahead Of Schedule

May 31, 2018 at 17:23 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Shell said on Thursday that it had started early production at a deepwater subsea development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico a year ahead of schedule and at a…

Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Boasts Major Renewable Push

Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Boasts Major Renewable Push

May 31, 2018 at 12:35 | Irina Slav

MidAmerican Energy, a company of Berkshire Hathaway, is on track to become the first investor-owned utility in the United States whose electricity production from renewable source is equal to the…

Brazil’s Oil Cargo Tender Falls Through With No Bids

Brazil’s Oil Cargo Tender Falls Through With No Bids

May 31, 2018 at 12:23 | Irina Slav

Brazil received no bids in the first tender for a total 1.63 million barrels of crude extracted from the prolific pre-salt zone, Reuters reports. The state received the oil…

B.C. Wants Its Piece Of Trans Mountain Despite Opposition

B.C. Wants Its Piece Of Trans Mountain Despite Opposition

May 31, 2018 at 09:33 | Irina Slav

British Columbia’s government still wants a US$780-million (C$1-billion) payment pledge to it by Kinder Morgan for the expansion of the Trans Mountain crude oil pipeline, despite its staunch opposition to…

New Private Chinese Refinery In Talks For Long-Term Saudi Oil Supplies

New Private Chinese Refinery In Talks For Long-Term Saudi Oil Supplies

May 30, 2018 at 17:53 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Hengli Petrochemical, a unit of private Chinese chemical giant Hengli Group, is in talks with Saudi Aramco for long-term crude oil supplies for its new 400,000-bpd refinery, while it is…

Japan To Seek U.S. Opinion On Keeping Oil Imports From Iran

Japan To Seek U.S. Opinion On Keeping Oil Imports From Iran

May 30, 2018 at 17:41 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Japan could seek some kind of exemption from the returning U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports, as its companies don’t want to abruptly stop importing Iranian crude, an official at…

Oil Prices Steady After API Reports Crude Build, Gasoline Draw

Oil Prices Steady After API Reports Crude Build, Gasoline Draw

May 30, 2018 at 16:04 | Julianne Geiger

With Brent Crude falling from its $80 height of last week, the American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a build of 1.001 million barrels of United States crude oil inventories for…

Cheaper U.S. Crude Oil Beats West Africa Crude Shipments To Asia

Cheaper U.S. Crude Oil Beats West Africa Crude Shipments To Asia

May 30, 2018 at 13:23 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The huge discount of WTI Crude to Brent Crude has been supporting cheaper U.S. crude barrels bound for Asia, while West African cargoes, priced off dated Brent, have grown difficult…

Iran: Total Has 60 Days To Seek U.S. Sanctions Waiver

Iran: Total Has 60 Days To Seek U.S. Sanctions Waiver

May 30, 2018 at 11:38 | Tsvetana Paraskova

France’s Total has 60 days to secure a waiver from the returning U.S. sanctions on Iran in order to stay in the multi-billion-dollar South Pars gas development project, Iran’s Oil…

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