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Tullow Strikes More Oil In Kenya

Tullow Strikes More Oil In Kenya

May 17, 2017 at 09:31 | Irina Slav

Tullow Oil has announced a find in the Emekuya-1 oil well in the South Lokichar basin in the northwestern part of the country. The exploration well was drilled in the…

Oil Prices Slip After U.S. API Reports Build In Crude Stocks

Oil Prices Slip After U.S. API Reports Build In Crude Stocks

May 16, 2017 at 16:02 | Julianne Geiger

The American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a build of 882,000 barrels in United States crude oil inventories, compared to analyst expectations that markets would see a draw of

Global Oil Supplies Inch Down In April: IEA

Global Oil Supplies Inch Down In April: IEA

May 16, 2017 at 13:55 | Irina Slav

Global crude oil supply inched down by 140,000 barrels daily last month, to 96.17 million bpd, the International Energy Agency said in the latest edition of its Oil Market Report.…

OPEC Export Revenues Down 15% In 2016

OPEC Export Revenues Down 15% In 2016

May 16, 2017 at 12:10 | Irina Slav

The Energy Information Administration has estimated that the oil export revenues of OPEC members last year declined by 15 percent on 2015 to US$433 billion, on an unadjusted basis. According…

Nigerian Strike At Exxon Spills Over To Chevron, Shell, Eni

Nigerian Strike At Exxon Spills Over To Chevron, Shell, Eni

May 16, 2017 at 11:57 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, Pengassan, started on Monday a three-day nationwide strike at Chevron, Shell, and Eni’s unit Agip in a solidarity…

Saudi Aramco, Norinco Set To Build $10B Refinery Complex In China

Saudi Aramco, Norinco Set To Build $10B Refinery Complex In China

May 16, 2017 at 10:46 | Tsvetana Paraskova

China North Industries Corporation, a defense conglomerate also invested in the petroleum industry, has signed a deal with Saudi Aramco to build a refinery and a chemicals plant in northeast…

Russian Oil Companies Won’t Receive Compensation For Cut Extension

Russian Oil Companies Won’t Receive Compensation For Cut Extension

May 16, 2017 at 09:17 | Irina Slav

Russia’s oil companies that are taking part in the OPEC-led production cut effort will not receive any compensation for the reduced output, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said. A preliminary…

US Shale To Increase 122,000 BPD Next Month

US Shale To Increase 122,000 BPD Next Month

May 15, 2017 at 16:57 | Zainab Calcuttawala

American shale output will continue its rise in June, the Energy Information Administration said on Monday in a forecast likely to further rouse the irritation of members of the Organization…

Nigeria’s Next Hurdle To Restoring Oil Output

Nigeria’s Next Hurdle To Restoring Oil Output

May 15, 2017 at 16:51 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, Pengassan, has told its members to withdraw their services from production facilities and offices of international oil companies operating in…

UAE A Model For New Oil Market Realities

UAE A Model For New Oil Market Realities

May 15, 2017 at 16:39 | Zainab Calcuttawala

The United Arab Emirates’ fiscal machine has adapted to the status quo of global oil markets, according to a new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday. The…

NNPC Plots Exploration Of Chad Basin As Boko Haram Threat Fades

NNPC Plots Exploration Of Chad Basin As Boko Haram Threat Fades

May 15, 2017 at 14:42 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Progress in Nigeria’s fight against Boko Haram will allow the country to continue exploration for oil in the Chad Basin – a formation recently freed from the grips of the…

Higher Prices Raise Norway’s Oil Export Value By 30% Y/Y In April

Higher Prices Raise Norway’s Oil Export Value By 30% Y/Y In April

May 15, 2017 at 13:36 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Norway’s crude oil exports were basically flat in volume last month compared to April 2016, but the higher oil prices led to a 30-percent rise in crude oil export revenues…

Vietnam’s Second Oil Refinery Start-Up Postponed Until 2018

Vietnam’s Second Oil Refinery Start-Up Postponed Until 2018

May 15, 2017 at 11:58 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Setbacks with test runs at Vietnam’s second oil refinery will delay its commercial start-up until 2018, compared to the expected launch in the third quarter this year, Reuters reported on…

Libyan Oil Output Tops 800,000 Bpd

Libyan Oil Output Tops 800,000 Bpd

May 15, 2017 at 10:35 | Irina Slav

Ahead of the OPEC meeting on May 25 when the cartel will officially announce an output cut extension into 2018, Libya reported its daily crude oil production had reached over…

Power Of Siberia Pipeline Ahead Of Schedule

Power Of Siberia Pipeline Ahead Of Schedule

May 15, 2017 at 09:19 | Irina Slav

The Power of Siberia gas pipeline that will carry Russian natural gas to China is moving ahead of schedule, with 720 km of the 3,000-km structure already built, Gazprom’s…

$2B Oil Lawsuit Has Investors Worried About Angola

$2B Oil Lawsuit Has Investors Worried About Angola

May 12, 2017 at 15:41 | Zainab Calcuttawala

U.S.-based oil company Cobalt filed for arbitration for a $2-billion suit against Angola’s state-run Sonangol oil giant this week, according to court documents found by Reuters. The two parties…

Nigeria’s Forcados Terminal Set To Make Two 950,000-Barrel Shipments In May

Nigeria’s Forcados Terminal Set To Make Two 950,000-Barrel Shipments In May

May 12, 2017 at 15:35 | Zainab Calcuttawala

At least two 950,000-barrel cargoes of Nigeria’s Forcados crude will ship from the pipeline’s main terminal in May, for the first time since November, according to trading sources who spoke…

Cyprus Hopes Giant Egypt Gas Find Extends Into Cypriot Waters

Cyprus Hopes Giant Egypt Gas Find Extends Into Cypriot Waters

May 12, 2017 at 15:30 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Following the giant Zohr gas discovery offshore Egypt in 2015, Cyprus has boosted efforts to award drilling licenses and hopes that the geology of Zohr extends into Cyprus’s exclusive economic…

Caspian Pipeline To Boost Oil Exports In 2017

Caspian Pipeline To Boost Oil Exports In 2017

May 12, 2017 at 14:42 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The Caspian Pipeline—which runs from the giant Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan to a sea terminal near Novorossiysk in Russia—plans to increase its exports to the world markets to…

India’s Oil Demand Ticks Up In April, Reverses 3-Month Drop

India’s Oil Demand Ticks Up In April, Reverses 3-Month Drop

May 12, 2017 at 13:41 | Tsvetana Paraskova

India’s oil demand returned to growth in April, following three months of declines amid a cash crunch caused by the government’s demonetization move to tackle corruption, Bloomberg reported on Friday,…

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