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Exxon Doubles Q1 Earnings, Good Omen For Oil Industry

Exxon Doubles Q1 Earnings, Good Omen For Oil Industry

Apr 28, 2017 at 10:28 | Tsvetana Paraskova

ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) reported on Friday earnings of US$0.95 per diluted share for the first quarter—beating analyst expectations as higher commodity prices and cost cuts boosted profits. Exxon’s first-quarter…

Low Oil Prices May Threaten Safety And Security At The 2022 FIFA World Cup

Low Oil Prices May Threaten Safety And Security At The 2022 FIFA World Cup

Apr 27, 2017 at 17:07 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Low oil prices are prompting Qatar to fire a quarter of the employees for the watchdog that it had created to oversee the organization of the upcoming 2020 FIFA…

BP Says Seismic Breakthrough Helped It Find More Oil In Gulf Of Mexico

BP Says Seismic Breakthrough Helped It Find More Oil In Gulf Of Mexico

Apr 27, 2017 at 16:35 | Tsvetana Paraskova

BP has identified more than 200 million barrels of additional resources at its Atlantis field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico by using a new seismic imaging approach, the UK’s…

Colombia’s Second-Biggest Pipeline Attacked, Again

Colombia’s Second-Biggest Pipeline Attacked, Again

Apr 27, 2017 at 16:14 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Colombia’s second-largest pipeline, Cano-Limon Covenas with a 210,000-bpd capacity, was attacked early on Thursday, as a result of which oil was spilled and the flow of crude along the pipeline…

Russia’s Power Plant Plans In Crimea Hit Sanction Snag

Russia’s Power Plant Plans In Crimea Hit Sanction Snag

Apr 27, 2017 at 15:48 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russia’s plans to build two electricity plants in Crimea to provide power to the annexed peninsula are being derailed by the sanctions that the EU and the U.S. have imposed…

China To Stop Receiving Refiners’ Oil Import Requests

China To Stop Receiving Refiners’ Oil Import Requests

Apr 27, 2017 at 14:37 | Tsvetana Paraskova

In order to address concerns over refinery overcapacity at home, China will stop accepting applications by refiners to import crude oil beginning May 5th, the Chinese state planning commission…

French Total Considers Stake In Aramco IPO

French Total Considers Stake In Aramco IPO

Apr 27, 2017 at 13:27 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Taking part in the much-anticipated IPO of Saudi Aramco is not off the table for oil major Total SA because it could be a good investment, the French group’s…

U.S. And Allies Hit Oil-Related ISIS Targets In Syria And Iraq

U.S. And Allies Hit Oil-Related ISIS Targets In Syria And Iraq

Apr 27, 2017 at 12:04 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Twenty-nine new strikes by the United States and coalition forces have hit targets—including oil infrastructure—in Iraq and Syria, according to officials from Operation Inherent Resolve. "Near Dayr Az Zawr, six…

Anadarko Shuts 3,000 Wells in Colorado After Explosions

Anadarko Shuts 3,000 Wells in Colorado After Explosions

Apr 27, 2017 at 09:59 | Irina Slav

Following a home blast near a vertical well operated by Anadarko (NYSE:APC) , the company said it will shut all its vertical wells in northwestern Colorado while it investigates the…

BHP Billiton May Try To Sell U.S. Fayetteville Shale Asset Again

BHP Billiton May Try To Sell U.S. Fayetteville Shale Asset Again

Apr 26, 2017 at 14:25 | Tsvetana Paraskova

BHP Billiton said on Wednesday that it is proceeding with a divestment of non-core U.S. acreage for value, and is considering all options for its Fayetteville shale gas asset in…

Bakken Light Reaches Asia For the First Time

Bakken Light Reaches Asia For the First Time

Apr 26, 2017 at 14:18 | Zainab Calcuttawala

The first ever batch of North Dakota Bakken crude will reach Asia in the next few days as a result of Mercuria Energy Trading’s latest export deal, according to Reuters,…

New Kirkuk-Ceyhan Pipeline Explosion Disrupts Kurdish Production

New Kirkuk-Ceyhan Pipeline Explosion Disrupts Kurdish Production

Apr 26, 2017 at 14:02 | Zainab Calcuttawala

A pipeline explosion in Kirkuk caused a disruption in oil production on Wednesday, according to government sources who confirmed the source of the commotion. "An explosion occurred in Kirkuk,…

Saudis, Russia To Discuss Oil Cuts Extension Within Two Weeks

Saudis, Russia To Discuss Oil Cuts Extension Within Two Weeks

Apr 26, 2017 at 13:32 | Tsvetana Paraskova

As OPEC and non-OPEC producers seem to move closer to a consensus over extending the output cut deal beyond June, Saudi Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih will talk a possible extension…

Pemex Hedges Oil For First Time In 11 Years

Pemex Hedges Oil For First Time In 11 Years

Apr 26, 2017 at 12:08 | Irina Slav

Mexico’s state oil major has decided to hedge its oil output until the end of the year for the first time since 2006, spending $133.5 million on the maneuver.…

Shell Signs Oil Exploration Cooperation Deal In Oman

Shell Signs Oil Exploration Cooperation Deal In Oman

Apr 26, 2017 at 09:58 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Royal Dutch Shell and Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production (OOCEP) have signed a Heads of Agreement for cooperation in resource exploration in an oil and gas block in Oman,…

Nigeria’s Budget Benefits From Higher Oil Prices In March

Nigeria’s Budget Benefits From Higher Oil Prices In March

Apr 26, 2017 at 09:40 | Irina Slav

Nigeria received distributable revenues of $1.53 billion (467.81 billion naira) in March thanks to higher royalty income from the oil industry and better international prices. At the same time,…

Oil Markets Whipsawed As API Reports Unexpected Crude Build

Oil Markets Whipsawed As API Reports Unexpected Crude Build

Apr 25, 2017 at 16:04 | Julianne Geiger

The American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a build of 897,000 barrels in United States crude oil inventories, compared to analyst expectations that markets would see a bit of relief…

Foreign Companies Continue Pulling Expat Workers From Venezuela Amidst Unrest

Foreign Companies Continue Pulling Expat Workers From Venezuela Amidst Unrest

Apr 25, 2017 at 15:44 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Statoil and Repsol have pulled out more of the companies’ expatriate workers based in Venezuela due to the unrest in the South American country, according to a new report by…

Pro-Russian Rebels In the Dark As Ukraine Turns Lights Off

Pro-Russian Rebels In the Dark As Ukraine Turns Lights Off

Apr 25, 2017 at 14:53 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Moscow announced on Tuesday that it would begin supplying electricity to pro-Russian rebels in the eastern parts of Ukraine, which has suffered from a blackout induced by Kiev due to…

Nigeria To Fight Pipeline Attacks With Incentives For Illegal Refiners

Nigeria To Fight Pipeline Attacks With Incentives For Illegal Refiners

Apr 25, 2017 at 12:22 | Tsvetana Paraskova

In a bid to clamp down on pipeline attacks and oil thefts, Nigeria’s oil minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu is advancing plans to include illegal refineries in the Niger Delta in…

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