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Gabon Enlists Military To Retake Oil Facilities Shut Down By Protestors

Gabon Enlists Military To Retake Oil Facilities Shut Down By Protestors

Feb 24, 2017 at 15:36 | Zainab Calcuttawala

The Gabonese government sent the military to recapture oilfield control centers from protestors on Friday in an effort to resume partial production as an industry-wide workers’ strike carries on.…

UK’s 2016 Oil Production Rises For Second Consecutive Year

UK’s 2016 Oil Production Rises For Second Consecutive Year

Feb 24, 2017 at 12:31 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The UK production of crude oil and natural gas liquids increased by 4.8 percent on the year in 2016, the second annual rise in a row, the UK Department for…

Saudis, Angola Overtake Russia In January Exports To China

Saudis, Angola Overtake Russia In January Exports To China

Feb 24, 2017 at 10:53 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Saudi Arabia is not ceding ground in its important markets in Asia amid the OPEC cuts, and has regained its position as top oil supplier to China in January, overtaking…

The Drawdown Begins: Traders Sell Oil Stored In Tankers Off Asia

The Drawdown Begins: Traders Sell Oil Stored In Tankers Off Asia

Feb 24, 2017 at 10:08 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Oil traders have already sold more than 10 million barrels of crude stored in tankers off the coasts of Asia in what could be seen as the start of the…

Nigeria Cuts Oil Producing Cost To $27 Per Barrel

Nigeria Cuts Oil Producing Cost To $27 Per Barrel

Feb 24, 2017 at 09:40 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Nigeria has reduced the unit technical cost (UTC) for producing oil to US$27 per barrel as of end-2016 from US$70 per barrel in 2014, Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director of…

Norwegian Oil Majors Revise 2017 Oil And Gas Investment Forecast Upwards

Norwegian Oil Majors Revise 2017 Oil And Gas Investment Forecast Upwards

Feb 23, 2017 at 17:02 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Optimistic about the near-term future of the oil industry, Norwegian oil companies have upped their investment plans for 2017 over the past three months, according to a survey conducted…

Russia Heralds In End Of Syrian Civil War In Favor Of Moscow

Russia Heralds In End Of Syrian Civil War In Favor Of Moscow

Feb 23, 2017 at 16:43 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, celebrated the lasting reign of Syrian President, Bashar Al Assad, during a speech to parliament on Wednesday, according to INTERFAX. “The collapse of the…

Kazakh Ups Oil Output Forecast for 2017

Kazakh Ups Oil Output Forecast for 2017

Feb 23, 2017 at 15:13 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Kazakhstan’s oil output forecast for 2017 jumped up to 81 million tons on Thursday after the Economy Ministry revised its yearly forecast based on 2016 outcomes. The ministry’s earlier…

Giant Leviathan Gas Field Gets $3.75B Development Investment

Giant Leviathan Gas Field Gets $3.75B Development Investment

Feb 23, 2017 at 13:54 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The partners in the giant Leviathan natural gas field offshore Israel ratified on Thursday the final investment decision for the first phase of development which entails gross capital investment of…

Kurdistan Stops Shaikan Crude Exports Via Ceyhan Pipeline

Kurdistan Stops Shaikan Crude Exports Via Ceyhan Pipeline

Feb 23, 2017 at 11:30 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is temporarily halting exports of heavy crude from the Shaikan field via the Kirkuk-Ceyhan export pipeline, the operator of the Shaikan field, Gulf Keystone Petroleum,…

India’s ONGC Plans $1.1B Investment To Ramp Up Oil, Gas Output

India’s ONGC Plans $1.1B Investment To Ramp Up Oil, Gas Output

Feb 23, 2017 at 10:36 | Tsvetana Paraskova

India’s top oil and gas explorer, state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), approved on Thursday investments of US$1.1 billion (73.27 billion rupees) to develop five oil and gas…

Exxon Slashes Proved Oil Reserves By 3.3 Billion Barrels

Exxon Slashes Proved Oil Reserves By 3.3 Billion Barrels

Feb 23, 2017 at 09:05 | Irina Slav

The world’s largest public oil company, ExxonMobil, has slashed its proved reserves of crude oil by 3.3 billion barrels. The figure represents 19 percent of the total reserves, which…

API Reports Draw In U.S. Crude Inventories After 6-Week Build Streak

API Reports Draw In U.S. Crude Inventories After 6-Week Build Streak

Feb 22, 2017 at 16:35 | Zainab Calcuttawala

This week, the American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a surprise draw of 884,000 in United States crude inventories against expert predictions that domestic supplies would see a 3.3 million-barrel…

Zhenhua Oil In Early Accord To Buy Chevron’s $2B Gas Assets In Bangladesh

Zhenhua Oil In Early Accord To Buy Chevron’s $2B Gas Assets In Bangladesh

Feb 22, 2017 at 15:52 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Chinese state-held company Zhenhua Oil has signed a preliminary agreement to buy Chevron’s natural gas fields in Bangladesh estimated to be worth around US$2 billion, Reuters reported on Wednesday,…

Rosneft’s Profit Drops 49%, Gazprom Neft Boosts Income 82.5%

Rosneft’s Profit Drops 49%, Gazprom Neft Boosts Income 82.5%

Feb 22, 2017 at 15:15 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Two of Russia’s major oil producers - Rosneft and Gazprom Neft - reported Wednesday their respective 2016 financials which showed that the oil giant’s full-year profit tumbled 49 percent, while…

OPEC To Seek “Energy Dialogue” With U.S. As Shale Output Rises

OPEC To Seek “Energy Dialogue” With U.S. As Shale Output Rises

Feb 22, 2017 at 14:04 | Zainab Calcuttawala

OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo dismissed speculation that the United States’ increase in shale oil production was counteracting the effects of the bloc’s less-than-two-month-old output reduction strategy, according to comments made…

Chevron’s Future Investment In Angola Depends On Revised Tax Terms

Chevron’s Future Investment In Angola Depends On Revised Tax Terms

Feb 22, 2017 at 13:28 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Chevron is discussing revised and more attractive tax rules for investment in Angola with the local government and state-run oil company Sonangol—talks that will determine Chevron’s future investment in the…

Saudi Aramco Picks Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan For IPO Roles

Saudi Aramco Picks Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan For IPO Roles

Feb 22, 2017 at 12:10 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Saudi Aramco has picked JPMorgan Chase & Co and Morgan Stanley to help it in the world’s largest initial public offering next year, and is also…

Pruitt Delivers Emails For Oil Industry Links Investigation

Pruitt Delivers Emails For Oil Industry Links Investigation

Feb 22, 2017 at 10:00 | Irina Slav

The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, has delivered a number of emails to the Center for Media and Democracy, a watchdog NPO that has been looking…

Dakota Access Protest Backfires For Standing Rock

Dakota Access Protest Backfires For Standing Rock

Feb 22, 2017 at 09:46 | Irina Slav

The months-long protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline project has seriously hurt the revenues of a casino operated by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe – the tribe that initiated…

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