Whether or not the U.S.…
Ursula von der Leyen, a…
Chinese purchases of LNG, coal,…
I wrote last week about the looming problems in South Africa’s platinum sector, with tough contract negotiations with unions coming up for mining companies in the world’s…
A total of 21 companies, including the Who’s Who of Big Oil, have registered to take part in Mexico’s deepwater oil auction to be held in December. Shell,…
In an early Wednesday attack, Niger Delta militants have blown up two Chevron oil wells in Warri, leading a shut down in the wells and promising further output…
As Venezuela drowns in debt and takes its state-run oil company, PDVSA, down with it, Reuters is reporting that BP has over 2 million barrels of oil…
French oil supermajor Total SA (NYSE:TOT) has acquired oil and gas installations in east Africa for an undisclosed amount, covering assets in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The major…
French oil services company Technip has signed a preliminary deal worth US$500 million to refurbish a key Libyan offshore oil platform in partnership with Libya’s National Oil…
U.S.-based Continental Resources is seeking to sell Bakken crude oil to South Korea in a move being described as a major coup in the aftermath of the lifting…
Only a day after a deal was reached to allow the stalled development of Israel’s giant offshore Leviathan natural gas field, the project’s American and Israeli partners have…
An oil guard militia loyal to Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) says it has captured the strategic towns of Ben Jawad and Nawfiliyah from Islamic…
France is facing complete transportation chaos as public transport system workers join mass protests, adding to the desperation already caused by nationwide fuel shortages and refinery shutdowns. The…
As Middle Eastern countries make concerted moves to increase market share, Iraq says it will export an additional 5 million barrels of crude oil in June, setting…
Brunei is notorious for its oil riches, which are disproportionately huge for its tiny size of 2,200 square miles (and a population of less than half a million),…
The Denver-Julesburg basin in Colorado hosts the most commercial, or low-cost, fraclog in the United States, according to a study by Rystad Energy. The costs per barrel…
The United Kingdom’s net revenues from taxes levied on oil and gas companies operating on or near the North Sea turned negative “for the first time since records…
Genel Energy, the largest oil producer in Iraqi Kurdistan said it received an US$11 million payment from the Kurdistan Regional Government on Thursday as compensation for…
Media outlet Sputnik International has cited unnamed sources as saying that Indonesian Energy Minister Sudirman Said is expected to be elected the next secretary-general of OPEC, at…
As oil investment in Norway is projected to drop again in 2017 for the third year in a row as low oil prices hammer the industry, the specter…
In two simultaneous attacks late on Thursday, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDV) have targeted a state-run crude pipeline near the Batan oilfield. The oil and gas pipeline is…
South Sudan’s transitional government has announced it will resume oil production by July after a halt of more than two years during a bloody civil war for…
The man who stole explosives from firms working in North Dakota’s oil patch and stashed them in his home also possessed prohibited guns, over 1,100 rounds of…