Despite Congress passing new sanctions…
Analysts from Standard Chartered have…
''Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won’t come again.'' Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan must have been an…
The oil bust, today’s volatile market and relentless OPEC chatter, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that the oil market—even at current valuations—is somewhere near the $1.7 trillion…
Russia could boost its already record-high crude oil production by another 4 million barrels daily, said Rosneft’s head Igor Sechin. Sechin, speaking at the 5th Eurasian forum in Verona,…
With oil prices potentially set to stay low for years to come, the future of deepwater drilling is very much up in the air. The world’s top oil executives have…
“Many countries” outside OPEC are willing to join the negotiations on a crude oil production reduction initiated by the cartel last month. That’s what Saudi Arabia’s oil minister Khalid al-Falih…
As we reported last week, just as OPEC announced a new monthly production record, with total output rising by 220kbpd to a record 33.4mmbpd...
Saudi Arabia pumped a daily average of 10.63 million barrels of crude in August, a 400,000 bpd decline on peak production in July, prompted by seasonally high demand. Exports…
It has been ten months since the international community lifted sanctions against Iran’s oil and gas sector, paving the way for the country to rebuild its lost production capacity and…
Offshore exploration has been a rare bright spot for the global oil and gas industry lately. Some of the movement in the offshore sector is coming as governments get more…
Oil prices fell back to $50 on Friday afternoon, after the U.S. rig count hit eight year highs.
Despite OPEC’s best efforts, shale boomers are still alive and kicking—at least some of them. More precisely, those that came first, chose the best acreage, and had the farsightedness needed…
The Energy Information Administration tipped markets towards bear territory when it reported that U.S. crude oil inventories had jumped by 4.9 million barrels in the week to October 7.…
The latest 3D seismic surveys suggest that there may be billions of barrels of undiscovered oil in the Barents Sea, according to a geology and geophysics expert in an…
In the 1990s, the California-based Unocal Corporation invited a delegation from the Afghan Taliban to their headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, to discuss prospects for constructing a 1700-kilometer Peace Pipeline,…
Around the world, governments continue to loosen their hold on oil and gas reserves. Just look at a slew of developments this week. Such as Russia finalizing a privatization…
Just as oil prices really started to pick up steam, the IEA had to spoil the party. The Paris-based energy agency said on Tuesday that the oil market will remain…
Due to the slump in oil prices, OPEC producers have lost more than US$1 trillion in revenues over the past three years, OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo has told…
What do you do when everyone is bugging you to do something, but you don't want to do it? The simple answer is that you make it look like you…
U.S. crude oil storage is filling up with unaccounted-for oil. There is a lot more oil in storage than the amount that can be accounted for by domestic production and…
The oil industry is about to see a huge benefit from the change of government in Brazil earlier this year. The Brazilian Congress just voted to open up the country’s…