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• Saudi Arabia Oil Exports To U.S. Nosedive

  Published 28 February 2019 | viewed 31,896 times

  Saudi Arabia’s crude oil exports to U.S. are falling sharply, with shipments so far this month at just 1.6 million barrels, according to data compiled…

• Australian Authorities Approve New LNG Project In Rare Move

  Published 28 February 2019 | viewed 23,369 times

  The government of Queensland has approved the first large-scale natural gas project in almost a decade: the US$7.14-billion (A$10-billion) Surat LNG project led by a…

• Musk Changes Twitter Name After Row With SEC

  Published 28 February 2019 | viewed 8,273 times

  Tesla’s chief executive Elon Musk changed his public Twitter name from Musk to Tusk as he lashed out at the Securities and Exchange Commission, which…

• Member of Mexico Energy Watchdog Surprisingly Steps Down

  Published 28 February 2019 | viewed 9,318 times

  One of the seven members on the governing panel of Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) has stepped down citing personal reasons halfway through his term,…

• The Fully Digital Oilfield Is Almost Here

  Published 27 February 2019 | viewed 10,962 times

  When a few years ago media began calling data the new oil, it was because some pretty direct parallels could be drawn between Big Oil…

• Nigeria’s Buhari Wins Second Presidential Term

  Published 27 February 2019 | viewed 8,036 times

  Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president, has won a second term in office with a lead of over three million over opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar, who made…

• Oil Jumps On Large Crude Inventory Draw

  Published 27 February 2019 | viewed 34,912 times

  Crude oil prices inched higher today after the EIA released its latest Weekly Petroleum Status Report, in which the authority said crude oil inventories had…

• Russian Companies In Venezuela Safe: Novak

  Published 27 February 2019 | viewed 11,151 times

  Russian companies in Venezuela are not experiencing any problems resulting from the escalation in the political situation in the country and have not incurred any…

• Washington Tightens Grip On Venezuela With New Sanctions

  Published 26 February 2019 | viewed 6,666 times

  The United States announced new sanctions against Venezuelan government officials this week as the situation in the country that’s home to the world’s largest oil…

• Japanese Refiners Rush to Buy Iranian Crude

  Published 26 February 2019 | viewed 13,949 times

  Japanese refiners are in a rush to buy as much Iranian crude as they can before the sanction waiver window granted by the U.S. Treasury…

• SEC Goes After Musk For Twitter Deal Violation

  Published 26 February 2019 | viewed 8,638 times

  The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a judge to hold Elon Musk in contempt for violating a deal the regulator struck with the Tesla…

• Venezuela Fails To Sell Its Heavy Crude Amid Dwindling Supply

  Published 26 February 2019 | viewed 16,105 times

  More than eight million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil is sitting in tankers as U.S. sanctions are preventing the country from selling the commodity worth…

• Why Oil Tanker Rates Just Doubled

  Published 25 February 2019 | viewed 27,665 times

  Tanker demand and freight rates are usually a reliable metric of oil demand patterns and trends. They are also among the factors that taken together…

• Vitol Sees Higher Oil Prices As Heavy Crude Supply Shrinks

  Published 25 February 2019 | viewed 46,651 times

  Commodity trading major Vitol expects crude oil prices to rise further as U.S. sanctions on Venezuela and OPEC production cuts squeeze the global supply of…

• Reuters: Exxon Tries To Block Investor Push For Emission Reduction

  Published 25 February 2019 | viewed 7,184 times

  Exxon is trying to block an investor initiative seeking to force the supermajor to commit to a reduction in harmful emissions, two of these investors…

• UAE Light Crude Continues To Trade At A Discount

  Published 25 February 2019 | viewed 8,227 times

  The United Arab Emirates’ main export crude blend, Murban, has recorded a four-month stretch of selling at a discount to the official selling price of…

• China’s Supergrid Faces One Major Problem

  Published 24 February 2019 | viewed 12,431 times

  China’s renewable power generation capacity—including hydro—reached over 38 percent of total newly installed capacity at the end of last year. The country is clearly the…

• Gunmen Attack Anadarko LNG Project In Mozambique

  Published 22 February 2019 | viewed 19,104 times

  Militants have attacked Anadarko’s LNG project in Mozambique in what is the first attack on the oil and gas industry in the African country, Bloomberg…

• Saudi Arabia Inks Preliminary Renewables Investment Deal In China

  Published 22 February 2019 | viewed 9,155 times

  Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund PIF signed a preliminary deal for investments in China’s renewable energy sector during the visit of Crown Prince Mohammed in…

• New Oil, Gas Project Approvals To Triple This Year: Rystad

  Published 22 February 2019 | viewed 22,543 times

  The number of greenfield oil and gas projects to get their final investment decision could rise threefold on 2018, Norwegian energy consultancy Rystad Energy has…