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Second Oil Spill Reported in Kuwait’s Ras Al-Zour Waters

Second Oil Spill Reported in Kuwait’s Ras Al-Zour Waters

Aug 15, 2017 at 14:12 | Zainab Calcuttawala

A new oil slick off of Kuwait’s southern shores is spreading in the Persian Gulf and will add on the impact of a recent 35,000-barrel spill in the same water…

Libyan Oil Liberator Aims To Boost Russian Ties

Libyan Oil Liberator Aims To Boost Russian Ties

Aug 15, 2017 at 13:19 | Tsvetana Paraskova

In a sign that Libya’s powerful military is moving closer to Russia, Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar—the man responsible for recapturing the country’s oil ports and essentially restarting…

Australia Takes On Qatar For Top LNG Producer Status

Australia Takes On Qatar For Top LNG Producer Status

Aug 15, 2017 at 10:35 | Irina Slav

Australia this week moved a step closer to becoming a real problem for Qatar on the LNG market, after the second floating production, storage, and offloading vessel for the Ichthys…

Iran Boosts S. Korea Oil Market Share While Saudis Cut

Iran Boosts S. Korea Oil Market Share While Saudis Cut

Aug 15, 2017 at 09:32 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Iran continues to raise market share in Asia, with crude sales to South Korea increasing by 26.5 percent on the year in July, while Saudi Arabia’s oil sales to Seoul…

EIA Predicts US Shale Output Up By 117,000 BPD In September

EIA Predicts US Shale Output Up By 117,000 BPD In September

Aug 14, 2017 at 16:56 | Zainab Calcuttawala

New Energy Information Administration (EIA) data puts U.S. shale output up 117,000 barrels per day in September compared to August. Production in the Permian Basin is expected to see…

Sierra Club Sues DOE For Sources Used In Electric Grid Study

Sierra Club Sues DOE For Sources Used In Electric Grid Study

Aug 14, 2017 at 16:03 | Zainab Calcuttawala

The U.S. Energy Department’s newly commissioned study on the national electric grid hit a new legal road block this week when a green group filed a lawsuit against the agency…

Hedge Funds Bullish On Crude For The 3rd Time This Year

Hedge Funds Bullish On Crude For The 3rd Time This Year

Aug 14, 2017 at 14:29 | Zainab Calcuttawala

For the third time this year, hedge fund managers have become bullish on crude oil prices, raising their long position by 705 million barrels in the week ending on August…

China’s Refinery Run Rates At 10-Month Low

China’s Refinery Run Rates At 10-Month Low

Aug 14, 2017 at 13:33 | Tsvetana Paraskova

At 10.71 million bpd, China’s crude refineries saw in July their lowest daily throughput rate since September last year as state firms and independent refineries, both swimming in inventory, continue…

Aramco IPO Value May Be Much Lower Than Expected

Aramco IPO Value May Be Much Lower Than Expected

Aug 14, 2017 at 12:58 | Tsvetana Paraskova

While most international analysts have already said that the value of Saudi Aramco in next year’s IPO would not be close to the Saudi target and claim of US$2 trillion,…

OPEC Reference Basket Oil Price Drops By $1.33 In One Day

OPEC Reference Basket Oil Price Drops By $1.33 In One Day

Aug 14, 2017 at 10:31 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The price of the OPEC basket of 14 crude varieties of its members dropped to US$49.37 a barrel on Friday from US$50.70 the previous day, OPEC said on Monday,…

Mexico Becomes Increasingly Important For U.S. Energy Exports

Mexico Becomes Increasingly Important For U.S. Energy Exports

Aug 14, 2017 at 10:21 | Tsvetana Paraskova

U.S. energy sales account for more than 50 percent of Mexico’s current energy imports as Mexican energy reforms open the market and as the country is switching to natural gas-fired…

35,000-Barrel Oil Spill Prompts Urgent Cleanup In Kuwait

35,000-Barrel Oil Spill Prompts Urgent Cleanup In Kuwait

Aug 14, 2017 at 09:28 | Irina Slav

An oil spill into Kuwaiti waters prompted an emergency cleanup over the weekend, with media reports saying it all will be over this week. While some sources attributed…

Brazil Plans for $17 Billion In New Investments By 2017 End

Brazil Plans for $17 Billion In New Investments By 2017 End

Aug 11, 2017 at 17:22 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras forecasts $17 billion in investments and $8 billion in asset liquidation over the course of 2017, according to a new corporate financial presentation posted online. The…

PDVSA Refineries Look Towards Canadian Crude To Meet Demand

PDVSA Refineries Look Towards Canadian Crude To Meet Demand

Aug 11, 2017 at 15:24 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Caracas’ state-owned refineries in the United States have begun to inquire about importing oil from Canada instead of Venezuela due to the latter country’s oil production crisis, according to a…

Nigerian Protesters Storm Shell Crude Oil Flow Station

Nigerian Protesters Storm Shell Crude Oil Flow Station

Aug 11, 2017 at 13:35 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Hundreds of Nigerians stormed on Friday a Shell-owned crude flow station that feeds the Bonny export terminal, protesting against lack of jobs and demanding infrastructure development, according to a

OPEC/Non-OPEC Overproduce 470,000 Bpd Above Commitment

OPEC/Non-OPEC Overproduce 470,000 Bpd Above Commitment

Aug 11, 2017 at 12:44 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Stronger-than-expected oil demand growth may be tilting the market to rebalancing, but confidence in any sustained rebalancing is suppressed on the back of OPEC and non-OPEC producers’ signals of weakening…

Saudi Crown Prince Favors New York Over London For Aramco IPO

Saudi Crown Prince Favors New York Over London For Aramco IPO

Aug 11, 2017 at 11:55 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Even though Saudi Arabia’s advisors are favoring London over New York for the foreign venue to list Aramco shares, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and the Saudi government are…

Indian Refiners Plan To Splash $35B On Petrochemicals

Indian Refiners Plan To Splash $35B On Petrochemicals

Aug 11, 2017 at 10:32 | Irina Slav

Indian state-owned refiners are planning to spend US$35 billion on expanding their petrochemicals output in anticipation of a boom in demand for products ranging from plastics to paints, Reuters

B.C. Seeks To Block Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Extension

B.C. Seeks To Block Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Extension

Aug 11, 2017 at 10:14 | Irina Slav

The new government of British Columbia has announced that it stands firmly against the extension of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline and will seek ways to block its construction…

Natural Gas To Take Over For Solar Capacity During  Eclipse

Natural Gas To Take Over For Solar Capacity During Eclipse

Aug 10, 2017 at 17:21 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Natural gas turbines will replace solar power capacity during the August 21st solar eclipse, highlighting the carbon-light fossil fuel’s emerging role as a gateway “green” energy in the coming…

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