Texas has barred state entities,…
U.S. shale oil production could…
According to the Kremlin, the…
Georgia’s security services have thwarted an attempt by terrorists to blow up a pipeline that supplies natural gas from Russia to Armenia in an area outside Georgia’s capital…
Syria’s Army has hit major gatherings of ISIS in an oil-rich area in Homs, east of the ancient city of Palmyra, inflicting a heavy death toll to the…
The Niger Delta Avengers have agreed to cease their attacks on oil production and transportation infrastructure after prolonged negotiations with the federal government of Nigeria. The ceasefire, however,…
Iraq has reached an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government to resume crude oil exports from three fields in the Kirkuk region, which will add some 150,000…
Investor Wilbur Ross, famous for his big appetite for distressed debt, has spent several hundred million on buying debt in the oil and gas industry, the Wall Street Journal
Researchers from Exxon Mobil and the Georgia Institute of Technology unveiled a new form of plastics making that could reduce manufacturing costs and emissions. The new system, which…
Three natural gas pipelines were damaged overnight by artillery fire in Ukraine’s self-proclaimed eastern republic of Donetsk, Russian media reported on Friday, citing gas supplying company Donbassgas.…
Citing national interest concerns, Australia officially banned on Friday the sale of a majority stake of its largest power distribution grid to foreign investors, drawing a warning…
The federal auditing court of Brazil, TCU, has ordered the seizure of assets worth the equivalent of US$655 million from Latin America’s largest engineering group Odebrecht and…
Three bomb attacks this week in Turkey have led to 11 fatalities and 300 people getting injured, local media report. The attacks, all in the eastern part…
The oil infrastructure of ISIS, on which the terrorist group depends for its survival, took another blow yesterday, this time from the U.S.-led coalition forces, which struck a convoy…
The city of Stuttgart, Germany, home of the automaker Daimler AG, has announced that it plans to divest itself from companies that are not environmentally compliant. Stuttgart…
Attacks by militant have caused a drop in the oil output from Nigeria. Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu stated while in Lagos that production had fallen to 1.56 million…
Boosted by asset acquisitions and weaker sterling after the Brexit vote, the UK’s biggest independent oil producer Premier Oil reported on Thursday a return to profit in…
The Argentine government has gone back on a promise to cut crude oil prices, after last week it emerged it had reached an unofficial agreement with oil…
The government of South Sudan is determined to ramp up crude oil production by November, so it can start exporting fuels to neighboring Ethiopia, Petroleum Minister Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth
The Canadian province of Alberta has been hurt by the low price of oil that has fallen from at least US$105 per barrel in mid-2014 to current…
A millionaire oil trader at Geneva-based Trafigura—the world's third-largest private oil and metals trader—is jumping for a medal in the Rio Olympics, competing for Argentina in an equestrian…
The planned sale of a majority stake in state-owned oil company Bashneft has been postponed until 2017. Among the reasons cited for the decision was the unfavorable…
Louisiana’s shrinking coastline is causing headaches for the oil industry in that state, as an eroding coast and rising sea waters are threatening oil infrastructure. The coastline…