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Latin America Looks Toward Oil Cargo Sitting Offshore Venezuela

Latin America Looks Toward Oil Cargo Sitting Offshore Venezuela

Sep 01, 2017 at 12:44 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Latin American countries that import U.S. fuel cargoes, mostly from the Gulf Coast, are scrambling to find alternatives to U.S. shipments after Hurricane Harvey battered Texas and Louisiana, leading to…

Rover Gas Pipeline Gets Phase 1A Approval

Rover Gas Pipeline Gets Phase 1A Approval

Sep 01, 2017 at 10:52 | Irina Slav

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has given the go-ahead to the Rover natural gas pipeline project’s Phase 1A, which will transport gas from Cadiz to the Midwest Hub,…

U.S. Coal Output Up 9.6% Year On Year

U.S. Coal Output Up 9.6% Year On Year

Sep 01, 2017 at 09:22 | Irina Slav

U.S. coal output last week stood at 16.7 million short tons, according to estimates from the Energy Information Administration. This compares to 17.025 million tons in the prior…

Trump To Block Russian Ownership Of Venezuelan Subsidiary In US

Trump To Block Russian Ownership Of Venezuelan Subsidiary In US

Aug 31, 2017 at 16:29 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Trump’s White House will block attempts by the Kremlin to acquire large portions of Venezuela’s Citgo, a U.S. subsidiary of the state-owned PDVSA. Rosneft agreed to acquire half of…

OPEC Compliance Hits 89 Percent In August

OPEC Compliance Hits 89 Percent In August

Aug 31, 2017 at 16:18 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Output from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) fell by 170,000 barrels per day this month, down from a year-long high in July, according to feedback from a new 

Libya Thwarts Suspected Oil Smugglers For Second Time This Week

Libya Thwarts Suspected Oil Smugglers For Second Time This Week

Aug 31, 2017 at 16:13 | Zainab Calcuttawala

A medium-sized oil tanker that was smuggling crude oil in the Mediterranean Sea was apprehended by the Libyan coastguard on Thursday, according to a new report by The New…

Russia To Fund Arctic Oil, Economy Development With $2.75B

Russia To Fund Arctic Oil, Economy Development With $2.75B

Aug 31, 2017 at 16:06 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russia will be financing the development of the Artic continental shelf and the economy of the local areas with more than US$2.75 billion (160 billion rubles) by 2025, Russia’s Prime…

Activists Protest Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Crude Oil Terminal

Activists Protest Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Crude Oil Terminal

Aug 31, 2017 at 15:47 | MINING.com

On a sparsely populated island off the coast of the northwestern United States, more than a hundred environmental activists gathered last weekend to practice seaborne drills to disrupt construction on…

Aramco Is Using Advanced Tech To Search For New Oil Reserves

Aramco Is Using Advanced Tech To Search For New Oil Reserves

Aug 31, 2017 at 14:45 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Saudi Aramco is deploying advanced seismic testing technology to explore again areas of the desert known as the Empty Quarter, a move that could help it to raise its…

Angola Needs Oil At $60

Angola Needs Oil At $60

Aug 31, 2017 at 14:37 | Irina Slav

Angola, Africa’s second-largest crude oil exporter, is finding it hard to make ends meet with oil prices at their current levels, according to Petroleum Minister Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos.…

Russia’s Gazprom Neft & LukOil Team Up To Develop Iranian Oil Fields

Russia’s Gazprom Neft & LukOil Team Up To Develop Iranian Oil Fields

Aug 31, 2017 at 12:30 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russian oil companies Gazprom Neft and Lukoil have filed plans to develop oil fields in Iran, the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said in two separate statements this week. Lukoil,…

Pemex Needs Partner For $10.7B Offshore Oil Project

Pemex Needs Partner For $10.7B Offshore Oil Project

Aug 31, 2017 at 09:19 | Irina Slav

Big Oil and independents will have to reach deep into their pockets if they want to win the farm-out rights to Mexico’s Nobilis-Maximino offshore field, as the cost of the…

Democratic Senator Urges Trump To Sell Oil In Strategic Reserves

Democratic Senator Urges Trump To Sell Oil In Strategic Reserves

Aug 30, 2017 at 16:33 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Federal officials should release fuel from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to prevent gas prices from rising in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Democratic Senator Edward Markey from Massachusetts told President…

U.S. Gasoline Futures Hit 25-Month High

U.S. Gasoline Futures Hit 25-Month High

Aug 30, 2017 at 16:32 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Gasoline futures spiked on Wednesday as refiners and other members of the field-to-pump supply chain began to report damages caused by Hurricane Harvey, according to a report by Reuters.…

Tokyo Seeks Tough U.N. Response To North Korean Missile Launch

Tokyo Seeks Tough U.N. Response To North Korean Missile Launch

Aug 30, 2017 at 15:40 | Zainab Calcuttawala

A day after North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan, Tokyo is pushing the United States to encourage the United Nations to levy new sanctions against Pyongyang, including choking…

Lukoil To Sell Oil Its Trading Arm Due To Russia Sanctions

Lukoil To Sell Oil Its Trading Arm Due To Russia Sanctions

Aug 30, 2017 at 13:55 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russia’s second-biggest oil producer Lukoil is studying the possible sale of its oil trading arm, Switzerland-based Litasco, fearing that the new U.S. sanctions on Russia will make it more difficult…

Russia, Qatar Vow To Boost Energy, Trade Ties

Russia, Qatar Vow To Boost Energy, Trade Ties

Aug 30, 2017 at 11:51 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russia and Qatar are reiterating their mutual interest to continue coordination in energy, in oil production, and in the gas-exporting countries forum, as well as to boost trade and economic…

Total Boosts North Sea Oil Output With New Startup

Total Boosts North Sea Oil Output With New Startup

Aug 30, 2017 at 09:50 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Total SA will be adding production capacity of up to 56,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day (boed) to its North Sea production after it started up production from the…

Oil Shipments From Louisiana Jump Ahead Of Harvey

Oil Shipments From Louisiana Jump Ahead Of Harvey

Aug 30, 2017 at 09:29 | Irina Slav

Traders are scrambling to ship as much oil and oil products from the Louisiana coast before Hurricane Harvey hits it and disrupts loadings, Reuters reports. Oil import and export…

API Reports Significant Crude Oil Draw, Small Gasoline Build

API Reports Significant Crude Oil Draw, Small Gasoline Build

Aug 29, 2017 at 15:50 | Julianne Geiger

The American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a major draw of 5.78 million barrels in United States crude oil inventories, compared to analyst expectations of a draw of 1.75 million barrels…

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