Namibia wants to join OPEC…
Suriname's oil boom hopes are…
In response to Iran's attack…
Rumors are circulating that a hundred billion barrels of oil have just been discovered at Gatwick airport. I first came across this story at WUWT who tipped their…
Chechnya is gearing up to establish control over its oil-extracting business. The procedure for handing over the Rosneft affiliate Chechenneftekhimprom to the Chechen authorities is expected…
As the oil price downturn continues unabated, producers are hedging future production in order to lengthen their lifelines as March interest payments loom large. February saw…
As the price of natural gas keeps declining, competition among Caspian Basin suppliers is picking up. Georgia, which serves as a crossroads for Caspian Basin energy…
A new oil and gas tax package introduced in late December and launching high-level disputes with foreign energy companies may be dead in the water,…
Total petroleum deliveries for January rose 0.8 percent to 19.4 million barrels per day, according to the American Petroleum Institute (API) today. Petroleum deliveries are…
Tumbling for the ninth week in a row, the oil rig count is now down by another 27 rigs, according to Baker Hughes data from today.…
As it refocuses on deepwater projects and bigger and more complex assets, Chevron Corp. is moving to speed up its sale of shallow water assets, eyeing…
Iran is reportedly delaying the sale of its new heavy oil grade by several months as the country works out a marketing plan, news agencies citied…
Soros Fund Management of billionaire philanthropist George Soros has dumped all of its shares in supermajor Chevron, Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy and Texas-based NRG Energy. The fund…
Enbridge says that new requirements expected to come out of a Minnesota environmental impact statement for work on two major U.S. pipeline projects could lead to…
Irish explorer Tullow Oil says that when it launches production this summer at its Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) fields in Ghana, it will add some 80,000 barrels per…
U.S. warplanes have carried out attacks on Islamic State militants, targeting an apparent training camp in Sabratha, some 70 kilometers west of the capital, Tripoli. The air strike wave is…
After a week-long flirtation with higher oil prices thanks to vague rhetoric and ambiguous talk from the world’s major producers about an output freeze to January levels, oil was back…
Emerging East African oil giant Kenya is sitting on about one billion barrels of reserves that its discoverers say is commercially viable even with oil at a dismal $30 per…
Militants have attacked the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik oil pipeline in the southern Turkish province of Sanliurfa, interrupting oil exports from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq to Turkey. The…
For the first time in 20 years, Venezuela has raised gas prices, and fears persist that the move could lead to dangerous riots. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday raised…
Close to 45 million acres of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico will go up for sale next month, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced today.…
French Supermajor Total S.A. (TOTF.PA) signed a deal Thursday with the government of Sri Lanka to explore potential offshore ultra-deep water blocks, according to the Sri Lanka’s Oil Ministry.…
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu today blamed Kurdish militants in Turkey and Syrian Kurdish fighters for the Ankara bombing that left some 28 people dead and 45 others wounded…