Geopolitics / International

Oct 29, 2019 at 11:20 | Irina Slav

Saudi Arabia and the United States will work together to protect the world’s oil supply from threats, the energy ministers of the two countries said after a meeting in Riyadh.…

Oct 25, 2019 at 16:59 | Tsvetana Paraskova

China’s imports of crude oil from Venezuela dipped to a nearly nine-year low in September as major state-held Chinese companies back out of Venezuelan purchases, looking to avoid fallout from…

Oct 25, 2019 at 13:48 | ZeroHedge

Russia-Turkey deal establishes ‘safe zone’ along Turkish border and there will be joint Russia-Turkey military patrols. The negotiations in Sochi were long – over six hours – tense and tough.…

Oct 24, 2019 at 10:49 | The Jamestown Foundation

Russian President Vladimir Putin pried loose a couple of energy investment deals from Saudi Arabia on his latest visit to the region, on October 14 and 15 (

Oct 17, 2019 at 09:05 | Irina Slav

The Venezuelan government is readying to hand over control over state oil company PDVSA to Russia’s Rosneft, a local newspaper has reported, citing sources from the industry. Russian TASS

Oct 15, 2019 at 09:10 | Irina Slav

Iran will not leave the Friday attack on the Sabiti tanker unpunished, President Hassan Rouhani said during his first media conference in more than a year. Bloomberg reports that…

Oct 14, 2019 at 10:54 | ZeroHedge

Russia's de-dollarization efforts continue, in line with Putin's promise to lower the country's vulnerability to the ongoing threat of US sanctions, with officials eyeing energy exports next.  “We have a…

Oct 14, 2019 at 10:50 | Global Risk Insights

The Houthi rebel group in Yemen was the first to claim responsibility for what they described as a drone attack on Khurais and Abqaiq in eastern Saudi Arabia. However, fingers were…

Oct 14, 2019 at 10:44 | RFE/RL staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Saudi Arabia on October 14 amid rising tensions in the Persian Gulf and is expected to ink oil agreements, according to statements on the…

Oct 04, 2019 at 12:51 | Editorial Dept

Market Movers • Russian oil production dipped in September to 11.24 million bpd, down from 11.29 million bpd--a figure that is still above its agreed upon quota that it forged…

Oct 01, 2019 at 16:37 | Simon Watkins

Last week’s agreement by the London-based oil and gas company TechnipFMC to pay US$5.1 million to settle an Iraq-related corruption case with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) again…

Sep 20, 2019 at 16:42 | Tom Kool

Oil markets went for a wild ride this week in the aftermath of the drone strike on one of the world’s most important crude processing facilities. The attack led to…

Sep 14, 2019 at 11:28 | Michael Kern

Half of Saudi Arabia's oil production has gone offline following a surprise drone strike. Drones attacked Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia and the Khurais oil field run by Saudi Aramco…

Sep 11, 2019 at 13:37 | Irina Slav

Dominance is not a word that the Pentagon and the White House like to hear when it’s not preceded by “U.S.” Right now, amid a trade war with Beijing, it…

Aug 30, 2019 at 17:24 | Cyril Widdershoven

After a short lull in the media frenzy about the Aramco IPO, touted to be the largest listing ever on a stock exchange, steps are being taken to actually realize…

Aug 30, 2019 at 17:20 | Simon Watkins

Iran has entered the ongoing negotiations over the on-off budget disbursements-for-oil deal between the Federal Government of Iraq (FGI) in Baghdad and the government of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan…

Aug 23, 2019 at 13:41 | Cyril Widdershoven

The least known offshore oil and gas frontier in the East-Mediterranean, Lebanon is preparing itself for a possible entrance into the producer’s league. At the end of 2019,…

Aug 16, 2019 at 10:41 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The United States threatened to slap sanctions on any ports or banks or virtually anyone trying to make deals with Iranian oil tanker Grace 1—the ship that was released…

Aug 09, 2019 at 13:15 | Oxford Business Group

In June the UN estimated that 4m people had fled Venezuela as a result of the crisis. Of these, some 40,000 have arrived in T&T. Although this is far lower…

Jul 12, 2019 at 17:52 | Cyril Widdershoven

The long-awaited, and feared, delivery of Russian S-400 missile systems to Turkey has started. In spite of US and European warnings that Ankara should reconsider the Russian arms deal, to…