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Gatwick Oil Estimates Too Good To Be True

Gatwick Oil Estimates Too Good To Be True

Feb 23, 2016 at 14:41 | Euan Mearns

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…

Chechen Oil Takeover May Be The Start Of Russian Power Devolution

Chechen Oil Takeover May Be The Start Of Russian Power Devolution

Feb 23, 2016 at 13:39 | The Jamestown Foundation

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…

Billions In Debt Fall Due Soon For Shale Drillers

Billions In Debt Fall Due Soon For Shale Drillers

Feb 22, 2016 at 13:58 | James Burgess

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…

Iran, Russia And Azerbaijan Face Off Over Georgian Gas Supply

Iran, Russia And Azerbaijan Face Off Over Georgian Gas Supply

Feb 22, 2016 at 13:55 | Eurasianet

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…

Reports Say Brazil’s New Oil Tax Dead in Water

Reports Say Brazil’s New Oil Tax Dead in Water

Feb 19, 2016 at 15:28 | Charles Kennedy

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,…

API Focuses on Jump in January Petroleum Demand

API Focuses on Jump in January Petroleum Demand

Feb 19, 2016 at 15:10 | James Burgess

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…

U.S. Oil Rig Count Drops Another 27 Rigs

U.S. Oil Rig Count Drops Another 27 Rigs

Feb 19, 2016 at 14:52 | Charles Kennedy

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.…

Chevron Speeds Up Sale of Shallow Gulf of Mexico Assets

Chevron Speeds Up Sale of Shallow Gulf of Mexico Assets

Feb 19, 2016 at 14:48 | James Burgess

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 Delays Sale of New Heavy Oil Grade

Iran Delays Sale of New Heavy Oil Grade

Feb 19, 2016 at 14:43 | Charles Kennedy

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 Dumped Chesapeake, Chevron Follows Buffet On Kinder Morgan

Soros Dumped Chesapeake, Chevron Follows Buffet On Kinder Morgan

Feb 19, 2016 at 14:27 | James Burgess

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 New Pipeline Regulations Mean Costly Delays

Enbridge Says New Pipeline Regulations Mean Costly Delays

Feb 19, 2016 at 13:27 | Charles Kennedy

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…

Tullow To Add 80,000 bpd To Global Production In Ghana

Tullow To Add 80,000 bpd To Global Production In Ghana

Feb 19, 2016 at 12:03 | James Burgess

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. Launches Airstrikes on ISIS Positions in Libya

U.S. Launches Airstrikes on ISIS Positions in Libya

Feb 19, 2016 at 10:57 | Charles Kennedy

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…

Oil Prices Spiral Down as OPEC Rhetoric Pales

Oil Prices Spiral Down as OPEC Rhetoric Pales

Feb 19, 2016 at 10:00 | James Burgess

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…

Oil Slump Bypasses Kenya As It Waits To Turn On The Taps

Oil Slump Bypasses Kenya As It Waits To Turn On The Taps

Feb 18, 2016 at 16:33 | Charles Kennedy

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…

PKK Attacks Turkey-KRG Oil Pipeline

PKK Attacks Turkey-KRG Oil Pipeline

Feb 18, 2016 at 16:21 | James Burgess

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…

Oil Crisis Prompts Venezuela To Hike Fuel Price, Devalue Currency

Oil Crisis Prompts Venezuela To Hike Fuel Price, Devalue Currency

Feb 18, 2016 at 16:06 | James Burgess

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…

45 Million Acres Of Oil And Gas Leases Under The Hammer Here

45 Million Acres Of Oil And Gas Leases Under The Hammer Here

Feb 18, 2016 at 15:52 | Charles Kennedy

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 Total Lands Exploration Deal With Sri Lanka

French Total Lands Exploration Deal With Sri Lanka

Feb 18, 2016 at 15:39 | James Burgess

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.…

Turkey Blames Syrian Kurds for Ankara Attack

Turkey Blames Syrian Kurds for Ankara Attack

Feb 18, 2016 at 13:49 | Charles Kennedy

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…

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