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Senegal Has A Chance To Dodge The ‘Oil Curse’

Senegal Has A Chance To Dodge The ‘Oil Curse’

Apr 19, 2018 at 17:10 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Senegal is a newcomer to the oil industry, and as the international companies that ventured into the West African country and struck oil in 2014 are nearing final investment decisions…

OPEC Panel Confirms The Oil Glut Is All But Eliminated

OPEC Panel Confirms The Oil Glut Is All But Eliminated

Apr 19, 2018 at 13:19 | Tsvetana Paraskova

A meeting of the Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of the OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers part of the supply-cut pact found on Thursday that oil inventories in developed economies had…

Exxon, Iraq at Odds on Major Oil Contract

Exxon, Iraq at Odds on Major Oil Contract

Apr 19, 2018 at 11:08 | Irina Slav

An important oil industry contract between Exxon and Iraq could fall through, throwing a wrench in the works of Iraq’s oil industry expansion, Reuters reports, citing sources close to…

Will Kinder Morgan Abandon The Trans Mountain Pipeline?

Will Kinder Morgan Abandon The Trans Mountain Pipeline?

Apr 19, 2018 at 10:26 | Irina Slav

Kinder Morgan does not seem very upbeat about the prospects of its US$5.9-billion Trans Mountain pipeline project despite a pledge by the Alberta and federal Canadian government to support the…

China Sets Its Sights On First South American Refinery

China Sets Its Sights On First South American Refinery

Apr 19, 2018 at 08:37 | Irina Slav

China could be on the brink entering the refining industry in the Americas if it inks a deal with Brazil’s Petrobras that will see it invest in the Comperj refinery…

Poll Shows Most Canadians Support Trans Mountain

Poll Shows Most Canadians Support Trans Mountain

Apr 18, 2018 at 16:00 | Julianne Geiger

A bitter battle over Kinder Morgan’s US$5.8 billion Trans Mountain pipeline which has played out in the public has resulted in an increase in the amount of support the pipeline…

CNOOC Sells LNG In First Auction As China Looks To Avoid New Gas Crunch

CNOOC Sells LNG In First Auction As China Looks To Avoid New Gas Crunch

Apr 18, 2018 at 15:53 | Tsvetana Paraskova

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) sold two liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes on a local exchange for the first time, just as China emerged from severe gas shortages…

Four U.S. States Generate Over 30% Of Their Electricity From Wind

Four U.S. States Generate Over 30% Of Their Electricity From Wind

Apr 18, 2018 at 15:43 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Wind power generated a record 6.3-percent share of total U.S. electricity last year, with four states generating more than 30 percent of their electricity from wind power, the American Wind…

Oil Trader Gunvor Joins Payments Transparency Initiative

Oil Trader Gunvor Joins Payments Transparency Initiative

Apr 18, 2018 at 15:30 | Tsvetana Paraskova

One of world’s biggest independent oil traders, Gunvor, is joining the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a voluntary disclosure program for improving transparency of revenues from natural resources. Gunvor…

OPEC Oil Producer Angola Seeks IMF Help To Reform Economy

OPEC Oil Producer Angola Seeks IMF Help To Reform Economy

Apr 18, 2018 at 12:28 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Africa’s second-largest oil producer Angola is seeking non-financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help it with reforms aimed at revitalizing the economy that has suffered from…

Tesla Starts 24h Shifts In Attempt Ramp Up Model 3 Production

Tesla Starts 24h Shifts In Attempt Ramp Up Model 3 Production

Apr 18, 2018 at 11:29 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Tesla’s halt of Model 3 production is due to a comprehensive set of upgrades that will allow it to ramp up production to up to 4,000 cars per week…

Chinese City Picks New Wind Projects With Lottery

Chinese City Picks New Wind Projects With Lottery

Apr 18, 2018 at 10:22 | Irina Slav

In most parts of the world there is probably not enough wind power capacity, but in northwestern China there is too much, it seems. As a result, one city in…

Two Chevron Employees Arrested In Venezuela

Two Chevron Employees Arrested In Venezuela

Apr 18, 2018 at 09:20 | Irina Slav

Venezuelan intelligence services have arrested two local employees of Chevron, Reuters reports, citing unnamed sources. The reason for the detention has not yet been established. Neither the company, nor…

Oil Prices Head Higher After API Reports Crude Inventory Draw

Oil Prices Head Higher After API Reports Crude Inventory Draw

Apr 17, 2018 at 15:45 | Julianne Geiger

The American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a draw of 1.047 million barrels of United States crude oil inventories for the week ending April 13, largely in line with analysts who…

Shell Advises Shareholders To Reject Binding Climate Resolution

Shell Advises Shareholders To Reject Binding Climate Resolution

Apr 17, 2018 at 13:49 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Royal Dutch Shell has recommended that its shareholders vote against a climate resolution that an activist climate group wants passed at the annual general meeting next month. Dutch climate group…

Tesla May Be The Biggest Winner Of China’s New Car-Market Rules

Tesla May Be The Biggest Winner Of China’s New Car-Market Rules

Apr 17, 2018 at 13:33 | Tsvetana Paraskova

China is removing a limit on foreign ownership of carmaking joint ventures that has been in place since 1994, and that comes as welcome news for Tesla, which has…

Alberta’s New Oil Legislation Could Disrupt West Coast Fuel Deliveries

Alberta’s New Oil Legislation Could Disrupt West Coast Fuel Deliveries

Apr 17, 2018 at 12:42 | Irina Slav

Yesterday Alberta’s government launched the latest offensive against neighbor British Columbia by introducing a bill seeking the powers to prioritize oil and fuel shipments with an emphasis on crude…

Tesla Pauses Model 3 Production To Fix Bottlenecks

Tesla Pauses Model 3 Production To Fix Bottlenecks

Apr 17, 2018 at 11:57 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Tesla is not out of “production hell” yet—it is suspending Model 3 production for four to five days this week to ease bottlenecks, just days after Elon Musk said that…

Australia’s Northern Territory Scraps Fracking Ban

Australia’s Northern Territory Scraps Fracking Ban

Apr 17, 2018 at 09:16 | Irina Slav

Australia’s Northern Territory has removed a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing introduced two years ago while the state’s government assessed the potential impacts of fracking on the environment. Now, the assessment…

BP To Keep Greenhouse Gas Emissions Steady, Environmentalists Unimpressed

BP To Keep Greenhouse Gas Emissions Steady, Environmentalists Unimpressed

Apr 16, 2018 at 18:22 | Julianne Geiger

BP is making preparations for a lower carbon future, and is keeping its greenhouse gas emissions either at or below the levels it saw in 2015, according to a new…

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