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Rystad Upbeat About Oilfield Service Providers

Rystad Upbeat About Oilfield Service Providers

Apr 24, 2018 at 09:35 | Irina Slav

Rystad Energy expects a strong performance from the oilfield service sector based on the first-quarter reports of the top three players in this field, which featured an average increase…

Two Chevron Employees Could Face Treason Charges

Two Chevron Employees Could Face Treason Charges

Apr 23, 2018 at 16:35 | Julianne Geiger

Two Chevron Corp. workers arrested in Venezuela last week could face treason charges, according to sources quoted by Reuters on Monday. The draft charges that used the word treason, seen…

CenterPoint Energy To Buy Indiana-Based Vectren For $6B

CenterPoint Energy To Buy Indiana-Based Vectren For $6B

Apr 23, 2018 at 16:28 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Houston-based CenterPoint Energy and Indiana-based Vectren said on Monday that they had agreed to merge in a US$6-billion transaction to become a leading U.S. energy delivery, infrastructure, and…

U.S. Oil Looks To Conquer European Market

U.S. Oil Looks To Conquer European Market

Apr 23, 2018 at 15:14 | Tsvetana Paraskova

U.S. crude oil and condensate exports to Europe are expected to hit an all-time high of around 550,000 bpd in April, according to shipping programs, and traders expect the record…

Kuwait Plans Massive Oil Tanker Expansion

Kuwait Plans Massive Oil Tanker Expansion

Apr 23, 2018 at 12:08 | Irina Slav

Despite the ongoing oil production cuts across OPEC, Kuwait has announced plans to expand its oil and oil product tanker fleet twofold over the next 20 years to 60 vessels,…

Halliburton Returns To Q1 Profit On Strong North America Business

Halliburton Returns To Q1 Profit On Strong North America Business

Apr 23, 2018 at 10:28 | Tsvetana Paraskova

On Monday, Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) reported a net income for the first quarter, compared to a net loss for the same period last year, as the oilfield service group’s revenue…

Michael Bloomberg To Personally Fund U.S. Paris Agreement Commitment

Michael Bloomberg To Personally Fund U.S. Paris Agreement Commitment

Apr 23, 2018 at 09:15 | Irina Slav

Michael Bloomberg will pay US$4.5 million to the UN Climate Change Secretariat in a bid to make sure that the United States upholds its commitment to the Paris Agreement…

Shell’s Profits Soar From Strong Asian Demand

Shell’s Profits Soar From Strong Asian Demand

Apr 20, 2018 at 16:55 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Oil major Shell has snapped up over 8 million barrels of June-loading crude oil grades from the Middle East and Russia and has resold some of the cargoes in Asia,…

Private Chinese Chemical Giant Gets Largest-Ever Oil Import Quota

Private Chinese Chemical Giant Gets Largest-Ever Oil Import Quota

Apr 20, 2018 at 16:50 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Hengli Petrochemical, a unit of private Chinese chemical giant Hengli Group, has obtained state approval to import 400,000 bpd of crude oil—the largest quota ever handed to a private…

Is Alberta Suffering From The Oil Curse?

Is Alberta Suffering From The Oil Curse?

Apr 20, 2018 at 14:04 | Irina Slav

Alberta needs long-term fiscal planning to avoid the adverse effects of oil price swings on the contents of its coffers, outgoing auditor general Merwan Saher said in his final…

EPA Set To Unveil More Flexible Rules For Oil And Gas Industry

EPA Set To Unveil More Flexible Rules For Oil And Gas Industry

Apr 20, 2018 at 13:01 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce on Friday a new policy that could help avoid costly legal battles over companies violating pollution standards in the oil…

Russia And Iran Hit Back At The Petrodollar

Russia And Iran Hit Back At The Petrodollar

Apr 20, 2018 at 09:54 | Irina Slav

Russia and Iran have launched an oil-for-goods exchange program seeking to eliminate bilateral payments in U.S. dollars and plan to keep it going for five years, RT reports citing…

TransCanada Offers Higher Payments To Keystone XL Landowners

TransCanada Offers Higher Payments To Keystone XL Landowners

Apr 20, 2018 at 09:00 | Irina Slav

TransCanada will offer landowners along the route of the Nebraska section of its Keystone XL pipeline “incentive payments” in a bid to secure their quick agreement to the right-of-way…

French Total Willing To Tough It Out in Venezuela

French Total Willing To Tough It Out in Venezuela

Apr 19, 2018 at 17:24 | Julianne Geiger

French Total is sticking it out in Venezuela despite a near-economic collapse in the Latin American company, Total’s Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne said at an oil summit in Paris…

Gazprom And Saudi Aramco Boost Gas Cooperation

Gazprom And Saudi Aramco Boost Gas Cooperation

Apr 19, 2018 at 17:23 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russia’s state-controlled gas giant Gazprom and Saudi Aramco have agreed to boost their cooperation in the gas sector, widening the possible areas of collaboration in the industry. The chairman…

Trudeau Gives The Trans Mountain Pipeline Hope

Trudeau Gives The Trans Mountain Pipeline Hope

Apr 19, 2018 at 17:16 | Julianne Geiger

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline will be built, according to Reuters. “I have asked the finance minister to engage in discussions, financial discussions,…

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…

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