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• Oilfield Service Companies May Struggle To Pay Debt

  Published 31 October 2018 | viewed 7,917 times

  The oilfield service sector has been on the path of recovery from the 2014 industry downturn, but just when the industry says things are starting…

• Petrobras Puts Brakes On Chevron Drilling Plan

  Published 31 October 2018 | viewed 14,143 times

  Brazil’s state energy giant Petrobras has decided not to go through with a drilling plan at a field operated by Chevron, effectively ruining the supermajor’s…

• Bentley Considers All-Electric Model

  Published 31 October 2018 | viewed 4,402 times

  Bentley is considering an all-electric model in a bid to reduce the carbon emission footprint of its other models, Automotive News reported this week, noting…

• Oil Prices Buoyed By Draws In Gasoline, Distillate Inventories

  Published 31 October 2018 | viewed 10,873 times

  With the snap-back of U.S. sanctions against Iran just days away, oil markets continue to be jittery, yet prices seem to be rather oblivious to…

• Greenland To Launch Onshore Oil, Gas Tender In 2021

  Published 30 October 2018 | viewed 12,555 times

  Greenland plans to auction onshore oil and gas blocks in 2021 with two Chinese state majors already expressing interest in bidding, Reuters reports, citing government…

• UK Budget Spares Oil Industry

  Published 30 October 2018 | viewed 4,963 times

  The UK government will keep oil and gas taxes at their current level to support the industry and” help the oil and gas industry continue…

• High Oil Prices Are Already Destroying Demand

  Published 30 October 2018 | viewed 19,447 times

  Crude oil prices have gone up high enough to begin hurting demand for the commodity, the chief of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, said…

• PDVSA Makes Critical Bond Payment

  Published 30 October 2018 | viewed 6,165 times

  Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA has made a US$949-million payment on a bond maturing in 2020, Argus Media reports, citing sources from the financial sector.…

• Innovations Are Rocking The Battery Industry

  Published 29 October 2018 | viewed 18,101 times

  The battery world is a fascinating place to be right now. There is so much innovation going on as the world sets course towards a…

• Iraq Expects Exemption From U.S. Sanctions Against Iran

  Published 29 October 2018 | viewed 9,901 times

  Iraq should be exempted from U.S. sanctions against Iran because of the heavy reliance of the former on the latter for gas and electricity supplies,…

• Iran Sells First 280,000 Barrels Of Crude On Exchange

  Published 29 October 2018 | viewed 13,018 times

  A little over a quarter of a one-million-barrel offering of Iranian crude on the local energy exchange found buyers in the first day of trading,…

• Rouhani Replaces Key Economic Officials Ahead Of Sanctions

  Published 29 October 2018 | viewed 5,366 times

  Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani has replaced several senior economic officials a week before U.S. sanctions against Tehran come into effect, Sputnik reports, citing a statement…

• Oil Production On Federal Lands To Hit New Record

  Published 29 October 2018 | viewed 12,971 times

  Crude oil production from onshore federal lands reached a record high over the first seven months of this year, New York Times’ Eric Lipton said…

• Is Libya's Latest Oil Production Target Too Ambitious?

  Published 28 October 2018 | viewed 9,059 times

  Libya is one of the most unreliable oil producers in OPEC and outside it. Production outages are a frequent occurrence as various armed groups vie…

• Australian Drivers Refuse To Fill Up After Gas Price Hike

  Published 26 October 2018 | viewed 17,895 times

  More than 160,000 drivers in Australia have launched a boycott of fuel stations after a sharp rise in prices at the pump to more than…

• B.C. Opposition Wants Access To LNG Canada Agreement

  Published 26 October 2018 | viewed 5,787 times

  The Liberal opposition in the British Columbia parliament have asked the NDR government to make public its agreement with the consortium that will build and…

• Beijing Warns State Companies To Avoid Gas Price Hikes

  Published 26 October 2018 | viewed 4,826 times

  The Chinese government has warned state energy companies CNPC, CNOOC, and Sinopec to be careful with price-setting for gas ahead of the winter season when…

• The Lucky Few In Canada’s Oil Patch

  Published 26 October 2018 | viewed 13,676 times

  In a fascinating twist of price trends, a barrel of Canadian heavy crude that is selling for less than US$20 a barrel in Alberta could…

• Can North Sea Oil Stay Profitable?

  Published 25 October 2018 | viewed 9,554 times

  The UK continental shelf in the North Sea has recently drawn attention with several significant asset sale deals that have seen Chevron reduce its exposure…

• BP, Eni To Start Drilling in Libya By Next March

  Published 25 October 2018 | viewed 7,510 times

  BP and Eni will begin exploratory drilling in Libya in the first quarter of next year, BP’s chief executive Bob Dudley told Reuters. BP has…