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Rosneft’s $3 Billion Indian Oil Plan May Hit US Sanctions Snag

Rosneft’s $3 Billion Indian Oil Plan May Hit US Sanctions Snag

Aug 26, 2016 at 12:57 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The planned sale of 49 percent in India’s Essar Oil to Russian giant Rosneft may have run afoul of the U.S., which has Rosneft on the list of…

Blackstone Snatches Up Permian Oil Assets

Blackstone Snatches Up Permian Oil Assets

Aug 26, 2016 at 12:00 | Irina Slav

Blackstone Group LP is partnering with two energy companies to buy assets in the Permian, one of the few shale plays in the U.S. where production is still…

Petroleum Facilities Guard Shuts Down Oil Field in Libya

Petroleum Facilities Guard Shuts Down Oil Field in Libya

Aug 26, 2016 at 11:08 | Irina Slav

As Libya continues its descent into chaos with three rival ‘governments’ vying for control of the country’s oil wealth, the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG), has reportedly shut down…

Anti-Trust Regulators Approve Tesla’s Solar City Acquisition

Anti-Trust Regulators Approve Tesla’s Solar City Acquisition

Aug 26, 2016 at 08:59 | Irina Slav

Tesla has gotten the approval of the Federal Trade Commission to acquire solar panel maker SolarCity. The anti-trust regulator said that approval was quick, because the two…

Layoffs In Oil & Gas See These Industries Hit Their Bottom Lines

Layoffs In Oil & Gas See These Industries Hit Their Bottom Lines

Aug 25, 2016 at 17:32 | Charles Kennedy

Layoffs in the oil industry are setting jewelry stores and many fast food restaurant chains back on their bottom lines, according to a new report by Business…

Biden Reveals U.S. Opposition to Nord Stream 2 Pipeline

Biden Reveals U.S. Opposition to Nord Stream 2 Pipeline

Aug 25, 2016 at 17:16 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Comments made by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday indicate that the United States believed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would have connected Europe to Russia…

Move Over Coal – U.K. Now Gets Half Of Its Power From Nat Gas

Move Over Coal – U.K. Now Gets Half Of Its Power From Nat Gas

Aug 25, 2016 at 16:37 | Lincoln Brown

According to statistics released by the United Kingdom’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, in the second quarter of this year, natural gas was the source…

New Tax Regimes Emerge Worldwide Due to Low Oil Prices, EY

New Tax Regimes Emerge Worldwide Due to Low Oil Prices, EY

Aug 25, 2016 at 16:20 | Tsvetana Paraskova

More and more governments across the world are reconsidering their oil and gas tax regimes in order to cope with the “lower for longer” crude prices and remain…

Russian Experts Say Country’s Oil Output to Hit All-Time High in 2016

Russian Experts Say Country’s Oil Output to Hit All-Time High in 2016

Aug 25, 2016 at 14:04 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russia is on track to pump record oil volumes this year, with production expected to rise by 1.5-1.6 percent annually to 539 million-540 million tons, experts at local…

New Johns Hopkins Study Links Migraine to Fracking

New Johns Hopkins Study Links Migraine to Fracking

Aug 25, 2016 at 12:49 | Tsvetana Paraskova

A new study published on Thursday has found that fracking is associated with migraine headache, nasal and sinus, and fatigue symptoms among residents in Pennsylvania, where more…

Iraq Recaptures The Oilfields South Of Mosul From ISIS

Iraq Recaptures The Oilfields South Of Mosul From ISIS

Aug 25, 2016 at 11:41 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the recapture of the Qayyara oil producing regions south of Mosul from forces loyal to the Islamic State on Thursday, according to…

Angola Tops Saudis And Russia In July Crude Exports To China

Angola Tops Saudis And Russia In July Crude Exports To China

Aug 25, 2016 at 11:13 | Irina Slav

In a surprising development, Angola crude oil exports to China topped both Saudi Arabia’s and Russia’s for the month of July, with the African country beating the…

North Sea Oil Companies Caught in Major Tax Avoidance Scheme

North Sea Oil Companies Caught in Major Tax Avoidance Scheme

Aug 25, 2016 at 10:26 | Irina Slav

New research from the International Workers Federation (IWF) is claiming that big oil players in the North Sea, including Chevron and China’s Nexen have avoided paying significant…

Colombian Government, FARC Insurgents Agree On Peace Deal

Colombian Government, FARC Insurgents Agree On Peace Deal

Aug 25, 2016 at 09:09 | Irina Slav

A long-awaited peace deal between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has been sealed by President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC official…

New Tests Affirm Discovery Of 25 Billion Barrel Basin In Canada

New Tests Affirm Discovery Of 25 Billion Barrel Basin In Canada

Aug 24, 2016 at 17:54 | Zainab Calcuttawala

The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador holds as many as 25.5 billion barrels of oil and 20.6 trillion cubic feet of gas, according to the results of…

Qatari Gas Money Buys Chunk of Empire State Building

Qatari Gas Money Buys Chunk of Empire State Building

Aug 24, 2016 at 17:11 | Erwin Cifuentes

The sovereign wealth fund of Qatar (the Qatar Investment Authority) purchased 9.9 percent, or approximately US$622 million, in the firm owning and operating the Empire State Building. As…

Statoil Increases Brazilian Operations Despite Analyst Warnings

Statoil Increases Brazilian Operations Despite Analyst Warnings

Aug 24, 2016 at 16:32 | Erwin Cifuentes

Norwegian oil producer Statoil is hoping to expand its operations in Brazil by entering a second phase of exploration at the Peregrino offshore oilfield. As reported by Norwegian Solutions,…

China’s Biggest Offshore Producer Posts First-Ever Half-Year Loss

China’s Biggest Offshore Producer Posts First-Ever Half-Year Loss

Aug 24, 2016 at 16:22 | Tsvetana Paraskova

China’s biggest offshore oil and gas producer Cnooc Ltd (NYSE:CEO) reported on Wednesday its first-ever net loss for a half-year, of US$1.16 billion (7.74 billion yuan),…

Banking On Brent-WTI Spread, U.S. To Hit Record Exports In September

Banking On Brent-WTI Spread, U.S. To Hit Record Exports In September

Aug 24, 2016 at 13:10 | Lincoln Brown

U.S. oil exports may hit a new record next month, as oil traders cash in on the widening gap between the price of Brent Crude and West Texas…

Turkey Ramping Up ISIS Offensive After Wedding Bombing Kills 54

Turkey Ramping Up ISIS Offensive After Wedding Bombing Kills 54

Aug 24, 2016 at 12:00 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Turkish shellfire on a string of Islamic State-affiliated targets in northern Syria since Monday has paved the way for a planned ground attack on an Islamic State held…

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