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Canada’s Energy Watchdog Throws Bone To Oil Producers At Enbridge’s Expense

Canada’s Energy Watchdog Throws Bone To Oil Producers At Enbridge’s Expense

Aug 28, 2019 at 11:23 | Irina Slav

The Canadian Energy Regulator, formerly the National Energy Board, will delay a change proposed by Enbridge in the way it does business with oil producers that has angered these same…

Colossal Crude Oil Inventory Draw Carries Prices Higher   

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Aug 27, 2019 at 15:54 | Julianne Geiger

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has estimated a staggering crude oil inventory draw of 11.1 million barrels for the week ending Aug 22, compared to analyst expectations of a

Surrey Quakes Caused by Oil Drilling? Not True, Study Shows

Surrey Quakes Caused by Oil Drilling? Not True, Study Shows

Aug 27, 2019 at 15:03 | Julianne Geiger

It turns out that you really can’t blame the oil industry for everything. The UK oil industry has been saying for quite some time that earthquakes—even ones in the same…

Sri Lanka Aims To Join Oil Producers’ Club In 2023

Sri Lanka Aims To Join Oil Producers’ Club In 2023

Aug 27, 2019 at 13:24 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Sri Lanka, which doesn’t pump any oil at present, hopes to begin oil and natural gas production in 2023, a senior government official said on Tuesday. Vajira Dassanayake, Director…

Mexico, Midstream Firms Reach Deal In Gas Pipelines Dispute

Mexico, Midstream Firms Reach Deal In Gas Pipelines Dispute

Aug 27, 2019 at 13:06 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Mexico and several energy infrastructure companies have reached an agreement to resolve a dispute over contracts for natural gas pipelines that the previous Mexican administration had signed, Reuters reported…

Nigeria Fights To Keep Assets From Seizure In $9B Gas Project Row

Nigeria Fights To Keep Assets From Seizure In $9B Gas Project Row

Aug 27, 2019 at 12:59 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Nigeria will fight to protect government assets from the possibility of a US$9-billion court-granted seizure over a gas project dispute, the country’s Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Tuesday,…

U.S. Oil Has Solid Market In Asia Despite China’s Planned Tariff

U.S. Oil Has Solid Market In Asia Despite China’s Planned Tariff

Aug 27, 2019 at 12:05 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Even if China slaps the planned 5-percent tariff on U.S. crude oil, total American crude sales to the Asian market will not be negatively impacted because other Asian countries have…

Glencore, Aramco, CNPC Among Bidders For Petrobras Refineries

Glencore, Aramco, CNPC Among Bidders For Petrobras Refineries

Aug 27, 2019 at 11:22 | Irina Slav

The world’s top commodity traders along with several oil majors are among the bidders for eight refineries that the Brazilian government wants to privatize, Reuters reports, citing unnamed sources.…

Eni Strikes Major Gas Find In Nigeria

Eni Strikes Major Gas Find In Nigeria

Aug 27, 2019 at 10:21 | Irina Slav

Italy’s Eni made a major natural gas find in the Niger Delta, with the reservoir estimated to hold about 1 trillion cu ft of gas and 60 million barrels of…

Tariffs To Decimate China’s US Crude Oil Imports

Tariffs To Decimate China’s US Crude Oil Imports

Aug 27, 2019 at 09:50 | JLC

China is likely to stop the import of US crude, as 5% tariffs on such crude will be put into place starting from September 1, 2019 and the country has…

Plains All American Scraps Plans Let Customers Pay For Steel Tariffs

Plains All American Scraps Plans Let Customers Pay For Steel Tariffs

Aug 26, 2019 at 17:31 | Julianne Geiger

Plains All American will not be passing on its steel tariff fees to its Cactus II customers after all, after threatening to pass on the cost it will incur to…

Trade War Escalation Forces Tesla To Raise Chinese Prices Earlier

Trade War Escalation Forces Tesla To Raise Chinese Prices Earlier

Aug 26, 2019 at 16:24 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Tesla will raise the prices of the vehicles it sells in China as early as this week, in response to the latest escalation of the U.S.-China trade war in…

China’s Sinopec Seeks Tariff Waiver For US Crude Oil

China’s Sinopec Seeks Tariff Waiver For US Crude Oil

Aug 26, 2019 at 16:13 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The biggest refiner in China and in Asia, Sinopec, plans to apply for a tariff exemption with the Chinese government for its imports of U.S. crude oil, Reuters reported…

U.S. Administration Picks ConocoPhilips For Alaska North Slope Oil Project

U.S. Administration Picks ConocoPhilips For Alaska North Slope Oil Project

Aug 26, 2019 at 13:35 | Irina Slav

The U.S. federal government has selected a preferential development plan for the Willow oil project that is led by ConocoPhillips. The AP reports that the project could boost Alaska’s…

Iran Says It Sold The Oil Aboard The Tanker Gibraltar Released

Iran Says It Sold The Oil Aboard The Tanker Gibraltar Released

Aug 26, 2019 at 10:22 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Days after the U.S. warned, again, that anyone dealing with the Iranian oil tanker released by Gibraltar would face sanctions, Iran said on Monday that it had sold…

Iran Foreign Minister Surprises G7 Leaders With Visit

Iran Foreign Minister Surprises G7 Leaders With Visit

Aug 26, 2019 at 09:36 | Irina Slav

Iran’s Foreign Minister surprisingly visited the G7 summit in France this Sunday, to hold talks with world leaders that lasted three hours, according to Reuters. The official, who is…

Explosion Rocks Venezuela Oil Plant

Explosion Rocks Venezuela Oil Plant

Aug 26, 2019 at 09:16 | Irina Slav

An explosion rocked a natural gas-filling plant in the Venezuelan state of Miranda, forcing the evacuation of 6,500 local residents, Telesur reports, adding the Venezuelan government has called the…

Mexico Says No New Oil Contracts For Non-Producers

Mexico Says No New Oil Contracts For Non-Producers

Aug 23, 2019 at 16:04 | Julianne Geiger

Oil and gas companies hoping to get a piece of the action in Mexico’s oil industry will have to make good on existing contracts first, Mexico’s president Andres Manuel Lopez…

Asian Refining Margins Tumble As New Shipping Fuel Rules Loom

Asian Refining Margins Tumble As New Shipping Fuel Rules Loom

Aug 23, 2019 at 15:57 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Refining margins in Asia have slumped by more than 50 percent since the middle of July as fuel market participants have accelerated the sell-off of high-sulfur fuel oil ahead of…

Libya’s State Oil Corporation Seeks 67% Pay Rise In Energy Sector

Libya’s State Oil Corporation Seeks 67% Pay Rise In Energy Sector

Aug 23, 2019 at 15:53 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) reiterated on Friday its demand for a 67-percent pay increase for the workers in the oil and gas sector, the state oil firm said…

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