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• What’s Behind The Cobalt Price Crash?

  Published 04 March 2019 | viewed 60,946 times

  If you want to teach someone the boom-bust nature of the mineral commodity industry, the story of cobalt over the last few years would be…

• Lower Buying Appetite May Jeopardize New LNG Projects

  Published 04 March 2019 | viewed 13,922 times

  A lower buying appetite among LNG importers in Asia may cast a shadow over the survival chances of planned LNG projects as fewer buyers are…

• Enbridge Delays Restart Of Line 3

  Published 04 March 2019 | viewed 14,523 times

  The Line 3 pipeline that operator Enbridge had scheduled to be replaced by the end of this year, will return to operation more than six…

• Oil Rises Amid Nigerian Oil Terminal Shutdown

  Published 04 March 2019 | viewed 20,815 times

  Oil prices rose nearly 2 percent on Monday morning, on trade deal hopes and OPEC supply outages. One of the largest OPEC outages at the…

• OPEC Chief: U.S. Shale Helped Avert Total Chaos In Oil Markets

  Published 03 March 2019 | viewed 21,985 times

  The U.S. shale revolution helped avert a “major, major energy chaos” in the world, OPEC’s Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo said in a somewhat puzzling interview…

• Brent Dips Below Sour Crude As Heavy Supply Tightens

  Published 01 March 2019 | viewed 52,326 times

  The price of the Brent international crude oil benchmark dipped below two Middle Eastern benchmarks that represent heavier, sour grades, Reuters reports, citing industry sources.…

• Shell Faces Trial In The Netherlands Over Nigeria Oil Block Deal

  Published 01 March 2019 | viewed 11,902 times

  Shell is facing prosecution from the Dutch authorities over its acquisition of an offshore oil and gas block in Nigeria a few years ago, Reuters…

• Alberta Further Relaxes Oil Production Cut

  Published 01 March 2019 | viewed 14,756 times

  With Canadian crude oil prices climbing higher, the Alberta government loosened the production cut imposed at the beginning of January by 100,000 bpd and has…

• Oil Prices Rise On Imminent Trade Deal

  Published 01 March 2019 | viewed 18,359 times

  Crude oil started the day with gains on reports from Washington that a U.S.-Chinese trade deal is imminent, S&P Global Platts reports, noting Treasury Secretary…

• Petrobras Trader Enters Guilty Plea Deal for Money Laundering

  Published 28 February 2019 | viewed 6,991 times

  In the latest installment of long-running corruption investigation Operation Car Wash, an ex-oil trader for Brazil’s state energy giant Petrobras has agreed to plead guilty…

• Are Semi-Solid State Batteries A Gamechanger?

  Published 28 February 2019 | viewed 24,934 times

  The EV battery race intensified this week with the announcement that a startup financially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy had released a lithium…

• Saudi Arabia Oil Exports To U.S. Nosedive

  Published 28 February 2019 | viewed 31,900 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 23,372 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 9,319 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 10,963 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 34,915 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 11,153 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 6,669 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…