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• Pemex No Longer Interested In Deepwater Oil Projects

  Published 21 June 2019 | viewed 26,062 times

  Pemex will avoid investing in deepwater offshore projects, instead focusing on areas where it has experience, including the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico…

• Exxon’s Huge Iraqi Oil Deal Under Threat

  Published 21 June 2019 | viewed 9,096 times

  Contractual disagreements and the deteriorating security situation in the Middle East have threatened Exxon’s US$53-billion deal with the Iraqi government, Reuters reported today, citing sources…

• Trillion Dollar Fund To Remove Exxon from ESG Funds

  Published 21 June 2019 | viewed 11,392 times

  The asset management arm of UK’s insurer Legal & General will remove ExxonMobil from its Future World Funds as these are focused on clients with…

• Is This The Beginning Of The End For Tesla’s Solar Business?

  Published 20 June 2019 | viewed 34,571 times

  Tesla held just a 6.3-percent share of the residential solar installations market in the first quarter of this year, falling to the third place for…

• Iran Claims It Shot Down U.S. Drone

  Published 20 June 2019 | viewed 10,696 times

  Iran has said its Revolutionary Guard had shot down a U.S. drone flying over Iranian territory, days after the U.S. accused Iran of shooting down…

• A $1 Trillion Energy Opportunity The U.S. Can’t Afford To Miss

  Published 20 June 2019 | viewed 14,199 times

  India is the fastest-growing energy market in the world as demand for energy on the subcontinent booms. On this, analysts are unanimous. They are also…

• Global Oil Market Surprisingly Oversupplied

  Published 19 June 2019 | viewed 20,103 times

  Despite OPEC oil production cuts and Venezuela and Iran sanctions, the world seems to be oversupplied with crude oil, with the excess amounting to some…

• Ottawa Approves Critical Trans Mountain Expansion

  Published 19 June 2019 | viewed 6,568 times

  The federal government of Canada has approved the controversial Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project that it bought from Kinder Morgan last year. The project…

• Bullish EIA Data Pushes Oil Prices Higher

  Published 19 June 2019 | viewed 38,935 times

  After two consecutive weeks of crude oil inventory builds, this week the Energy Information Administration offered some respite for prices with a draw, of 3.1…

• Air Strike Hits NOC Warehouse In Libya

  Published 19 June 2019 | viewed 14,188 times

  In what is the first confirmed strike against a foreign-owned oil asset, Libya’s National Oil Corporation said a warehouse in Tripoli that it owns jointly…

• Is Big Oil’s Plastic Bet Going Sour?

  Published 18 June 2019 | viewed 12,037 times

  While Greenpeace activists were busy planning their occupation of a BP drilling rig, Exxon and Sabic sealed a US$10-billion deal for what is going to…

• Struggling PDVSA Plans To Restart Curacao Refinery

  Published 18 June 2019 | viewed 13,665 times

  Venezuela’s struggling oil company PDVSA plans to resume operations at its Isla refinery on Curacao, a company official who wished to remain unnamed told S&P…

• U.S. Will Send 1,000 Troops To Mideast As Tensions Continue To Rise

  Published 18 June 2019 | viewed 7,127 times

  The Pentagon will send 1,000 additional U.S. troops to the Middle East on request from the Central Command for additional forces, Newsweek reports, citing a…

• OPEC Aims For $60-$70 Oil

  Published 18 June 2019 | viewed 25,613 times

  OPEC members are happy with crude oil prices between US$60 and US$70 per barrel, Equatorial Guinea’s oil minister Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima told S&P Global…

• A Major Existential Threat Is Arising For Natural Gas

  Published 17 June 2019 | viewed 22,224 times

  Two recent explosions at hydrogen fueling stations may have soured the fuel’s reputation, but there is increasingly optimistic sentiment for it, with two reports last…

• Saudi Crown Prince: Aramco Going Ahead As Planned

  Published 17 June 2019 | viewed 13,668 times

  It has been a while since the last assurance from a senior Saudi official that the initial public offering of oil giant Aramco is going…

• Tesla Gigafactory 3 Is Being Built At ‘Incredible Speed’

  Published 17 June 2019 | viewed 13,466 times

  Tesla’s third Gigafactory, one that will provide it with a way around Chinese tariffs on U.S. goods, is being built “at an incredible speed,” writes…

• Pompeo Makes Hard Claim: Strait Of Hormuz Will Remain Open

  Published 17 June 2019 | viewed 10,589 times

  The Strait of Hormuz will remain open for all vessels, the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CBS in an interview this Sunday, adding…

• Canada Government Set to Approve Trans Mountain Expansion

  Published 17 June 2019 | viewed 11,576 times

  The federal government of Canada is set to approve the highly controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project this week, unnamed sources have told Reuters. The…

• Why The Oklahoma Shale Boom Isn’t Taking Off

  Published 16 June 2019 | viewed 46,125 times

  Just three years ago it was the new hot spot in U.S. shale, the “Permian Jr.”, and the place where many pinned their hopes for…