Tesla is laying off over…
Gold has outperformed the S&P…
Oil prices have settled around…
Riyadh plans to purposely reduce exports to the United States to force a reduction in the latter’s sizeable inventories, which are preventing a greater rise in global oil prices,…
Chinese independent refiners, the so-called ‘teapots’, are expected to import less crude at least until August, as high inventories, changing import quota policies, and stricter tax scrutiny are squeezing their…
Technological advances and deflationary pressure from the downturn have resulted in an 8-percent drop in global average unit production cost to US$30 per barrel of oil equivalent in 2016, which…
Iran expects around US$50 billion worth of oil contracts to launch their operational phases next year, according to Fardad Daliri, director of investment at the Industrial Development and Renovation Organization…
Kinder Morgan is ready to go ahead with its expansion project for the Trans Mountain crude oil pipeline, the company said in a press release. To fund the project,…
A new article in Science magazine suggests that the nuclear industry’s lobbying activities in Washington have resulted in the disapproval of a measure that would have protected Americans’ from the…
If India backs out of the Farzad-B natural gas block deal, Russian companies could be stepping in to fill the vacuum, according to remarks by Iranian Oil Minister Bijan…
Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest bank by market capitalization, has started the process to syndicate the US$5.8 billion (5.2 billion euro) loan it had extended to Glencore and the Qatar Investment…
The oil exports of Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan are not subject to the extension of OPEC’s production cuts, Iraq’s Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi told Kurdish media network Rudaw during…
“Texas shale producers forced OPEC this morning to extend its oil production cuts for 9 months,” Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton said on Twitter on Thursday, shortly after OPEC agreed…
Equatorial Guinea has become the 14th member of OPEC on the day the cartel announced a nine-month extension of its November 2016 crude oil production cut. The addition, as
Libya has insisted that it remains exempt from the oil output reduction deal that OPEC today decided to extend by another nine months, to March 2018. According to Libya’s ambassador…
Kuwait wants the OPEC deal extension to span a whole year,, as opposed to six months or nine, according to comments by the nation’s oil minister at the bloc’s…
Top Iraqi oil marketer Falah Al Amri suggested that Iraq is interested in creating an oil price hedging program that would lock in prices for future trades well in…
The CEO of Nigerian oil company Oando says the worst of the west African country’s output disruptions are over as the twice-attacked Forcados pipeline returns to full capacity by the…
The number of people working in the renewable energy industry globally could rise to 24 million by 2030, compared to 9.8 million in 2016, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)…
Iran has discovered a new gas field close to the giant offshore field South Pars in the Persian Gulf, Iranian media reported on Wednesday, quoting an unnamed official with the…
Although it is now a foregone conclusion that OPEC will extend the production cuts for at least some period, the cartel members are still debating how long the extension would…
The great majority of oil workers in Norway, or 87 percent,, have agreed on wages for this year with the companies that employ them. The workers are represented by…
China’s biggest oil and gas state company, CNPC, is willing to spend US$2 billion on the development of Block 58 in southern Peru. The news was reported by…