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• Saudis To Pump More Crude Oil In The Next Three Months

  Published 24 September 2018 | viewed 12,051 times

  Saudi Arabia will boost its crude oil production in the coming months as it expects stronger demand, Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih said this weekend, as…

• OPEC, Russia Dash Hopes Of Higher Oil Production

  Published 24 September 2018 | viewed 13,845 times

  OPEC and Russia have no immediate plans to increase their combined production despite last week’s call from President Trump for the cartel to start pumping…

• South Korea Has Bought No Iranian Oil In Three Months

  Published 24 September 2018 | viewed 10,742 times

  South Korea has not bought any Iranian oil since June, an official from the Iranian oil ministry told Shana. This makes it the first country…

• Venezuela Can Wreck U.S.-Chinese Relations

  Published 23 September 2018 | viewed 31,936 times

  When the New York Times earlier this month reported that President Trump had met with Venezuelan military officers unhappy with the country’s government to discuss…

• Emirati Oil Co. Begins Hoarding Jet Fuel

  Published 21 September 2018 | viewed 11,070 times

  Emirates National Oil Company has begun storing jet fuel on tankers ahead of U.S. sanctions against Iran, to make sure planes arriving and leaving Dubai…

• Reliance Shuts Down Oil Field On Production Decline

  Published 21 September 2018 | viewed 14,971 times

  India’s Reliance Industries has shut down an oil and gas field in the offshore Krishna-Godavari basin after its production rates began to decline several months…

• Mexico Needs to Produce More Gas to Ensure Supply Security

  Published 21 September 2018 | viewed 6,106 times

  With growing demand for natural gas for power generation and other applications, Mexico needs to prioritize a domestic production increase, the head of Mexico’s National…

• Pemex, Talos Strike Deal To Evaluate Overlap Of Two Blocks

  Published 21 September 2018 | viewed 6,046 times

  Mexico’s state energy company Pemex and a consortium led by U.S. Talos Energy have agreed to evaluate whether a field discovered by Talos in the…

• Will Canada’s $30 Billion Megaproject Be Approved?

  Published 20 September 2018 | viewed 22,740 times

  Oilfield service providers suffered the heaviest blows from the 2014 oil price meltdown—there is little question about that. And the situation was particularly grave in…

• Iraq Oil Exports From South Close To Record-High

  Published 20 September 2018 | viewed 6,543 times

  Crude oil exports from southern Iraq are close to a record-high so far in September, averaging 3.6 million bpd as of yesterday, Reuters reports, citing…

• Japanese Refiners Stop Buying Iran Oil Ahead Of Sanctions

  Published 20 September 2018 | viewed 8,927 times

  Japanese refiners have stopped buying Iranian crude ahead of the November 4 deadline set by Washington to all countries doing business with Iran before economic…

• Canada Transport Ministry Fast-Tracks Crude Oil Rail Car Phase-Out

  Published 20 September 2018 | viewed 19,347 times

  Canada’s transport ministry will fast-track a phase-out of two models of rail cars for the transportation of crude oil and condensate as oil exports by…

• Nuclear Power Could Be Key In Reaching Climate Goals

  Published 19 September 2018 | viewed 10,191 times

  Nuclear power could contribute to achieving the Paris Agreement targets on climate change, but it would need help of its own to do that, a…

• Mexico Begins Oil Contract Review

  Published 19 September 2018 | viewed 10,459 times

  Mexico’s elected government has stayed true to President-elect’s campaign promise to review all oil contracts sealed by the previous administration and has started the review…

• Iranian Hackers Step Up Attacks On Energy Firms

  Published 19 September 2018 | viewed 9,133 times

  Iranian cybercrime group APT33 has stepped up its attacks on a variety of companies in the Persian Gulf, including energy firms, The National reports, citing…

• Oil Prices Inch Higher On Crude, Gasoline Draw

  Published 19 September 2018 | viewed 29,569 times

  After API’s latest surprise inventory build pressured oil prices, the Energy Information Administration cheered the market up by refuting the build and reporting instead yet…

• China Slaps Tariffs On U.S. LNG, Threatens Export Growth

  Published 19 September 2018 | viewed 11,735 times

  As expected, China yesterday retaliated against the U.S. after President Trump announced a list of another US$200 billion worth of Chinese goods that will be…

• Russia Tells Washington To Leave Iran Alone

  Published 18 September 2018 | viewed 22,495 times

  “This is unproductive, this is wrong,” Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak recently said about the U.S. sanctions on Iran, indicating that Moscow will continue to…

• China's Diesel Demand Reaches Peak

  Published 18 September 2018 | viewed 9,120 times

  China’s demand for diesel has peaked and gasoline demand will soon follow, research from state energy giant CNPC has revealed. Reuters cites CNPC’s research division…

• U.S. Shale Oil Production Beats Estimates Again

  Published 18 September 2018 | viewed 43,322 times

  Crude oil production in the U.S. shale patch will hit 7.59 million bpd next month, the Energy Information Administration said in its latest Drilling Productivity…