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Another Bomb Goes Off At The Trans Forcados Pipeline In Nigeria

Another Bomb Goes Off At The Trans Forcados Pipeline In Nigeria

Nov 08, 2016 at 11:09 | Irina Slav

The Trans Forcados pipeline, which feeds crude from the Niger Delta to the Shell-operated export terminal of the same name, was again bombed in the early hours of Tuesday.…

Iran’s Navy to Escort All Tankers Leaving Coast

Iran’s Navy to Escort All Tankers Leaving Coast

Nov 08, 2016 at 10:42 | Irina Slav

Iran’s Navy will escort all tankers and other commercial vessels leaving the coast of the country to ensure their safe passage through risky waters. This is what Rear Admiral Habibollah…

DONG Quits Oil, Gas, Stays With Wind Power

DONG Quits Oil, Gas, Stays With Wind Power

Nov 08, 2016 at 09:09 | Irina Slav

Danish energy firm DONG Energy has decided to drop its oil and gas operations in order to focus exclusively on offshore windfarm construction and operation. The company had

Chinese Scoop Up Stake Russian Rosneft Subsidiary For $1.1Bn

Chinese Scoop Up Stake Russian Rosneft Subsidiary For $1.1Bn

Nov 07, 2016 at 17:07 | Charles Kennedy

China’s Beijing Gas Group Company has reportedly acquired a 20-percent stake in a subsidiary of Russian Rosneft, giving the Russians help in developing resources in eastern Siberia and access to…

Feeling The Oil Crunch: Saudi Arabia Cancels $266 Billion In Projects

Feeling The Oil Crunch: Saudi Arabia Cancels $266 Billion In Projects

Nov 07, 2016 at 16:56 | Julianne Geiger

Saudi Arabia’s governing economic body called the Council of Economic and Development Affairs (CEDA) has cancelled $266.7 billion in projects, the Saudi Press Agency said, and announced it would be…

PDVSA Pipeline Spill Affects Drinking Water

PDVSA Pipeline Spill Affects Drinking Water

Nov 07, 2016 at 16:46 | Julianne Geiger

An oil spill in Venezuela’s Anzoategui State has affected drinking water across a 31-mile radius, PDVSA confirmed on Monday. Anzoategui State is known for its beautiful coastline that makes up…

Another Setback For DAPL As Norwegian Bank Rethinks Funding

Another Setback For DAPL As Norwegian Bank Rethinks Funding

Nov 07, 2016 at 13:55 | Julianne Geiger

As if the Dakota Access Pipeline project didn’t already have enough problems, Norwegian bank DNB, is rethinking its earlier decision to doll out $342.36 million in loans to construct the…

Oil Major Chief Calls Upon Non-OPEC Producers To Join Cuts

Oil Major Chief Calls Upon Non-OPEC Producers To Join Cuts

Nov 07, 2016 at 12:32 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The chief executive of Italy’s oil major Eni SpA (NYSE:E), Claudio Descalzi, thinks that OPEC-only output cuts is not enough to lift crude oil prices, and that there should…

Aramco Stops Oil Product Shipments To Egypt

Aramco Stops Oil Product Shipments To Egypt

Nov 07, 2016 at 10:17 | Irina Slav

Saudi Aramco has suspended all shipments of fuels to Egypt indefinitely, according to a spokesman for Egypt’s Oil Minister Tarek El Molla. The shipments were part of a US$23-billion…

Magnitude-5 Quake Shakes Oil Territory In Cushing, Oklahoma

Magnitude-5 Quake Shakes Oil Territory In Cushing, Oklahoma

Nov 07, 2016 at 08:55 | Irina Slav

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 on the Richter scale shook Cushing, Oklahoma, the home of U.S. crude oil reserves at 7:44 pm last night. Initial reports said…

Brazil Oil And Gas Production Reach Record Highs In September

Brazil Oil And Gas Production Reach Record Highs In September

Nov 04, 2016 at 18:19 | Erwin Cifuentes

The Brazilian government on Friday reported that its oil and gas production rose to record levels in September with a total oil equivalent of 3.36 million barrels per day (bpd).…

Kurdistan Dismisses $1 Billion Per Month Oil Revenue Claims

Kurdistan Dismisses $1 Billion Per Month Oil Revenue Claims

Nov 04, 2016 at 16:28 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) denied on Thursday a report by news outlet NRT that the autonomous region in northern Iraq is selling…

Big Oil Promises $1 Billion In Climate Change Fight

Big Oil Promises $1 Billion In Climate Change Fight

Nov 04, 2016 at 16:15 | Irina Slav

A host of oil supermajors announced on Friday that they would allocate US$1 billion for fighting climate change over the next ten years. The effort, called the Oil and…

Libyan Car Blast Injures Leader Who Brokered Oil Ports Takeover

Libyan Car Blast Injures Leader Who Brokered Oil Ports Takeover

Nov 04, 2016 at 14:07 | Tsvetana Paraskova

A car blast in Libya’s city of Benghazi injured on Friday a tribal leader who had helped the Libyan National Army take control over the eastern oil export…

Oil Industry Needs To Slash Another $370B In Costs

Oil Industry Needs To Slash Another $370B In Costs

Nov 04, 2016 at 12:08 | Irina Slav

A report by Wood Mackenzie has suggested international oil majors would have to hack off some US$370 billion from their total costs this year and in 2017. This will…

Venezuelan Crude Exports To U.S. Nosedive By 23 Percent

Venezuelan Crude Exports To U.S. Nosedive By 23 Percent

Nov 03, 2016 at 18:20 | Erwin Cifuentes

Export of crude oil from Venezuela to the United States (US) plummeted by 23 percent in October, according to Thomson Reuters trade flows data published on Thursday. The US,…

Wood Mackenzie Sees Oil Markets Recovering In H2 2017

Wood Mackenzie Sees Oil Markets Recovering In H2 2017

Nov 03, 2016 at 17:32 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Regardless of whether OPEC manages to pull off a real deal on curbing production, the oil market is bound to recover in the second half next year, Ann-Louise Hittle, head…

Transocean Q3 Earnings Drop Annually, But Beat Estimates

Transocean Q3 Earnings Drop Annually, But Beat Estimates

Nov 03, 2016 at 15:43 | Tsvetana Paraskova

In a sign that the oil price bust continues to weigh on drilling activity, offshore rig operator Transocean Ltd (NYSE:RIG) reported on Wednesday third-quarter earnings down from the…

Nigerian Senate Starts Work On Much-Awaited Oil Industry Overhaul

Nigerian Senate Starts Work On Much-Awaited Oil Industry Overhaul

Nov 03, 2016 at 13:34 | Irina Slav

The upper house of Nigeria’s parliament, the Senate, has approved the second reading of an oil industry overhaul bill that has been stagnate for ten years, sparking a tiny…

UAE Approves ADNOC Plan To Raise Oil Output To 3.5M Bpd By 2018

UAE Approves ADNOC Plan To Raise Oil Output To 3.5M Bpd By 2018

Nov 03, 2016 at 13:18 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Abu Dhabi’s Supreme Petroleum Council has given the go-ahead to the five-year business plan of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), which envisages the company ramping up its oil production…

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