Damir Kaletovic

Latest articles from Damir

• Iraqi Protests Threaten Oil Production

  Published 16 July 2018 | viewed 12,678 times

  At least five people have been killed since the beginning of protests in southern Iraq’s oil hub earlier this month, as security forces respond with…

• Iraqi Court To Hear Oil Export Argument With Kurds In May

  Published 09 April 2018 | viewed 10,485 times

  Normalizing relations between the Iraqi central government and Iraqi Kurdistan will take a new twist beginning in May when Iraq’s top court starts hearings on…

• Exxon’s Favorable Guyana Oil Deal Won’t Happen Again

  Published 09 April 2018 | viewed 18,396 times

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is calling on the authorities of Guyana to revamp their tax laws for future oil contracts to protect themselves from…

• Barclays: Expect $51 Oil This Year

  Published 28 March 2018 | viewed 36,018 times

  As oil continues to pair Monday gains on soaring U.S. crude inventory, Barclays is calling a $51-per-barrel price on WTI by the third and fourth…

• Mexico May Have Just Held Its Last Oil Auction

  Published 28 March 2018 | viewed 12,576 times

  In what may be Mexico’s last oil auction amid a possible presidential election shakeup, the Mexican authorities on Tuesday auctioned off 35 oil and gas…

• Iraq Employs Drones To Monitor Oil Pipelines

  Published 18 December 2017 | viewed 7,894 times

  The Iraqi government announced plans to use drones to monitor and protect its export and production pipelines in the first quarter of next year. Reuters…

• Nigerian Oil Union Calls Off Strike

  Published 18 December 2017 | viewed 5,592 times

  On Monday, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (Pengassan) started an indefinite strike to protest the firing of its employees and unfair…

• The Battle For Libyan Oil Is Heating Up

  Published 18 December 2017 | viewed 16,544 times

  Just as oil watchers wonder whether Libya’s ambitious oil production targets could undermine the OPEC deal, Libya’s General Haftar—the man largely responsible for freeing up…

• Iraq And Kurdistan To Collaborate On Oil Production

  Published 26 October 2017 | viewed 13,198 times

  Iraqi government-owned North Oil Co. and Kurdish Kar Group are cooperating on pumping the oil from two fields that halted operations following the government military action…

• Trump Passes Iran Nuclear Deal Back to Congress

  Published 13 October 2017 | viewed 21,140 times

  U.S. President Donald Trump is officially withdrawing his certification of Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal, in what is being billed as part of a…

• Europe Braces For End Of Iran Nuclear Deal

  Published 13 October 2017 | viewed 14,159 times

  Europe is scrambling to come up with a contingency plan in the face of a U.S. threat to end the nuclear deal with Iran—a move…

• Europe’s Largest Refinery To Shutter For Two Months

  Published 04 October 2017 | viewed 11,939 times

  Royal Dutch Shell announced today plans of major maintenance involving 12 units at the Pernis oil refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to be conducted during this month…

• Shallow-Water Oil Auctions Fall Flat for Mexico

  Published 04 October 2017 | viewed 9,103 times

  More bad news for Mexico’s state-run Pemex as the live auction for its shallow-water Ayin-Batsil oil play in the Gulf of Mexico failed to attract…

• Aramco IPO Could End OPEC Status Quo

  Published 29 September 2017 | viewed 11,650 times

  Sources have told Reuters that the Saudi drive to get OPEC on board with production cuts last year—threatening to quit the bloc if members disagreed—was…

• Canada’s Prolific Montney Shale Drives Pipeline Expansion

  Published 28 September 2017 | viewed 8,254 times

  With oil and gas output still on the upward swing in Canada’s most prolific shale play, despite depressed oil prices, one of the biggest benefactors…

• EIA: Coal Is Dying As Renewables Rise

  Published 14 September 2017 | viewed 9,822 times

  World energy consumption is forecast to grow 28 percent by 2040, with China and India leading the growth spurt, and demand set to rise for…

• Iran, Syria Sign Energy Agreement

  Published 14 September 2017 | viewed 9,237 times

  Iranian and Syrian media have reported the signing, by officials from the two countries, of several agreements that would allow Iran to improve the production…

• Malaysian Coast Guard Seizes Oil Tanker From Pirates

  Published 07 September 2017 | viewed 7,403 times

  The Malaysian coast guard has apprehended 10 pirates who seized an oil tanker carrying $1.7 million in diesel, in the fourth attack by pirates in…

• U.S. Sanctions Chinese, Russian Companies Aiding N. Korea

  Published 22 August 2017 | viewed 7,882 times

  As tensions rise over North Korea, the U.S. Treasury this morning said it was slapping new sanctions on Chinese and Russian entities conducting oil, coal…

• Sempra Steals Oncor Utility Deal From Buffett With Higher Bid

  Published 22 August 2017 | viewed 4,998 times

  Just days after Warren Buffett said he wouldn’t go higher than $9 billion to take over bankrupt Texas utility Oncor, Sempra Energy has upped the…