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• India Oil Imports Take 11% Hit In November

  Published 21 December 2018 | viewed 11,999 times

  India’s crude oil imports last month totaled 4.2 million tons daily, or 17 million tons for the whole period, which was 11.4 percent lower than…

• A Shocking Amount Of Crucial U.S. Pipelines Still Lack Cybersecurity

  Published 20 December 2018 | viewed 8,215 times

  U.S. pipeline infrastructure is more vulnerable to cyberattacks than desirable because of insufficient oversight in the cybersecurity department, a report commissioned by two members of…

• Panel Grants Go-Ahead To Line 5 Replacement In Great Lakes Area

  Published 20 December 2018 | viewed 7,419 times

  A panel set up to evaluate the environmental risks of replacing a section of Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline in Michigan has given the project…

• Saudis Announce Highest-Ever Budget Amid Price Slump

  Published 20 December 2018 | viewed 17,469 times

  Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has announced that the Kingdom will spend 7 percent more next year, at around US$295 billion (1.1 trillion riyals). This breaks…

• DoE Drops LNG Final Destination Reporting Requirement

  Published 20 December 2018 | viewed 6,914 times

  The Department of Energy has removed a requirement that says U.S. LNG exporters need to report what the final destination of the cargo is in…

• Sharara To Reopen After PM Negotiates Withdrawal Of Protesters

  Published 20 December 2018 | viewed 5,580 times

  Libya’s largest oil field Sharara will reopen after Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj negotiated with the protesters that had blockaded it and agreed to meet their…

• Aramco Fights To Protect Asian Market Share Ahead Of Cuts

  Published 20 December 2018 | viewed 8,536 times

  Aramco will ship the full volumes of crude contracted by Asian refiners in a bid to protect its market share in the biggest consuming region…

• State Dept Calls On Libya To Resolve Sharara Problem

  Published 19 December 2018 | viewed 6,668 times

  The U.S. State Department has issued a statement urging the Libyan authorities and the militants who put a blockade on the country’s biggest oil field…

• Oil Prices Rise On Small Crude Draw

  Published 19 December 2018 | viewed 15,320 times

  Amid plunging oil prices pressured by the double weight of U.S. production and global economic growth projections, the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil…

• India Finds Way To Skirt U.S. Sanctions Against Iran

  Published 19 December 2018 | viewed 15,247 times

  India will use five escrow accounts in Iranian banks to pay for deliveries of Iranian crude oil amid U.S. sanctions, Bloomberg reports, citing sources close…

• North Korean Oil Smugglers Elude U.S. Military

  Published 18 December 2018 | viewed 12,974 times

  North Korea is still receiving crude oil shipments despite the military presence of a U.S.-led coalition deployed to ensure UN sanctions against Pyongyang are being…

• Canada’s Federal Government To Extend $1.2 Billion Lifeline To Alberta

  Published 18 December 2018 | viewed 12,436 times

  Canada’s federal government will provide a US$1.2-billion (C$1.6-billion) lifeline to Alberta’s energy industry, CTV News reports, adding that most of the funds will be used…

• Libya Declares Force Majeure On Largest Oil Field

  Published 18 December 2018 | viewed 13,513 times

  After a week’s blockade by a militant group, Libya’s largest oil field, Sharara, has been shuttered by a force majeure declaration by the National Oil…

• Shell in Talks To Buy Endeavor Energy

  Published 18 December 2018 | viewed 11,451 times

  Shell is in talks to acquire Endeavor Energy Resources for US$8 billion, Bloomberg reports, citing sources close to the negotiations. Earlier, Shell was not the…

• IEA: Coal Is Not Going Anywhere

  Published 18 December 2018 | viewed 6,561 times

  Global demand for coal will remain stable over the next five years despite a lot of talk about the effects of this dirtiest of all…

• Oil Industry Faces $1 Trillion Challenge

  Published 17 December 2018 | viewed 18,898 times

  When the International Maritime Organization announced it would introduce a new, lower, sulfur emission ceiling for bunkering fuel, many in the energy industry worried that…

• Pemex Boosts 2019 Budget 14% With Focus On Producing Fields

  Published 17 December 2018 | viewed 8,639 times

  Mexico’s oil major Pemex will spend US$23 billion next year, up 14 percent on 2018, with focus on already producing fields in the shallow waters…

• Qatar To Invest Up To $20 Billion In U.S. LNG

  Published 17 December 2018 | viewed 17,674 times

  State energy major Qatar Petroleum is looking to invest as much as US$20 billion in LNG projects in the United States over the next few…

• Environment-Conscious Quebecois Buy More Gas Guzzlers

  Published 17 December 2018 | viewed 8,147 times

  A report from HEC Montreal, a business school in Quebec, has revealed that while the province publicly boasts its environmentally conscious approach to energy, the…

• Climate Change Conference Strikes Agreement On Rulebook

  Published 17 December 2018 | viewed 6,494 times

  The COP24 conference in Katowice, Poland, finally reached an agreement on parts of a rulebook aimed at facilitating the implementation of the Paris Agreement targets…