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• Oil Jumps As Saudis Plan Further Production Cuts

  Published 12 February 2019 | viewed 14,603 times

  Saudi Arabia plans to reduce its crude oil production further, to 9.8 million bpd in March, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said in an interview for…

• Rosneft Boss Wants Russia Out Of OPEC Deal

  Published 11 February 2019 | viewed 13,978 times

  Rosneft’s chief executive Igor Sechin wants Russia to quit its production control deal with OPEC, Reuters reported last week, citing sources that have seen a…

• Government-Backed Forces Reach Libya’s Sharara Field

  Published 11 February 2019 | viewed 8,215 times

  Forces from the Petroleum Facilities Guard sent by the UN-recognized government of Libya have reached the Sharara field, which the Libyan National Army, affiliated with…

• PDVSA Directs Oil Buyers To Russian Bank Account: Report

  Published 11 February 2019 | viewed 7,415 times

  Venezuela’s troubled state oil company PDVSA is telling the buyers of oil produced by its joint ventures to deposit the money for purchases in a…

• Tesla Model 3 Tops Global EV Sales List For 2018

  Published 11 February 2019 | viewed 14,145 times

  Tesla Model 3 topped the global EV sales ranking compiled by CleanTechnica and EV Volumes for 2018. In fact, Tesla as a brand dominated the…

• Yemen Eyes Exports Of 75,000 Bpd This Year

  Published 11 February 2019 | viewed 8,243 times

  Yemen’s Saudi-backed government has plans to export crude oil at a rate of 75,000 bpd this year, according to oil minister Aws Abdullah al-Awd, who…

• U.S. LNG Exports Rising As Gas Prices Drop

  Published 09 February 2019 | viewed 16,038 times

  Natural gas flows into the three liquefaction and export plants on the U.S. Gulf Coast have begun to increase once again after a brief interruption…

• House Committee Approves Anti-OPEC Bill

  Published 08 February 2019 | viewed 17,168 times

  A committee from the House of Representatives has approved a bill aimed at making OPEC members liable to U.S. antitrust legislation, Reuters reports, adding the…

• Venezuela Mixes Heavy With Light Crude As Imports Slump

  Published 08 February 2019 | viewed 12,614 times

  Venezuela’s PDVSA has begun mixing its extra heavy crude with locally produced light oil as imported diluents from the United States are now hard to…

• Oil Seesaws On Trade Deal Worries

  Published 08 February 2019 | viewed 7,111 times

  Crude oil prices fell slightly today in Asia as traders continued with caution amid persistent worries about global economic growth and the chances of the…

• Alberta Oil Cuts To End Sooner Than Planned

  Published 07 February 2019 | viewed 18,497 times

  Canadian crude oil is already expensive enough for the production cuts to stop making sense: some producers have already started rolling them back far ahead…

• PG&E In the Hot Seat Again After San Francisco Gas Line Explosion

  Published 07 February 2019 | viewed 10,426 times

  A gas line operated by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. exploded yesterday, sending flames high into the air, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, adding that…

• Governments To Saddle B.C. Hydro Customers With $4-Billion Debt

  Published 07 February 2019 | viewed 6,200 times

  B.C. Hydro has accumulated a US$4.2-billion (C$5.5 billion) pile of so-called deferral accounts as a result of political pressure from provincial governments to keep rates…

• Venezuelan Opposition To Fund Regime Change With U.S. Oil Money

  Published 07 February 2019 | viewed 26,396 times

  Venezuela’s opposition will use oil export proceeds collected in a U.S.-based fund to finance its attempts to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro, Reuters reports,…

• OPEC Seeks More Formal Marriage With Russia

  Published 06 February 2019 | viewed 7,463 times

  OPEC is seeking closer and more formal ties with Russia in its oil market control endeavors, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources from the…

• Oil Markets React Lukewarm To Venezuela Supply Outage

  Published 06 February 2019 | viewed 14,001 times

  When Washington announced its latest sanctions against Venezuela, targeting specifically state oil company PDVSA, there was worry—and hope, depending on perspective—that this will push crude…

• Oil Heads Lower On Small Inventory Build

  Published 06 February 2019 | viewed 14,596 times

  A day after the American Petroleum Institute disappointed oil bulls by reporting an estimated inventory build across the board, the Energy Information Administration deepened the…

• Qatar, Exxon Announce $10 Billion LNG Investment

  Published 06 February 2019 | viewed 6,915 times

  Qatar and Exxon have officially announced a US$10-billion joint investment in their Golden Pass LNG project in Texas, which will turn the LNG import terminal…

• Oil And Gas In Spotlight At State Of The Union

  Published 06 February 2019 | viewed 13,224 times

  Record-breaking oil and gas production in the United States was one of the focal points of President Trump’s State of the Union Address this week,…

• Businesses Bought Record Amount Of Renewable Energy In 2018

  Published 05 February 2019 | viewed 15,181 times

  Businesses bought a record 13.4 GW of energy produced from renewables sources last year, bringing the total since 2008 to more than 32 GW, an…