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• Oil Prices Rally On Significant Crude Draw

  Published 12 September 2018 | viewed 40,508 times

  A day after the American Petroleum Institute gave oil bulls a cause for celebration with an estimated 8.636-million-barrel inventory decline for the week to September…

• Militants Fire Rockets At Tripoli Airport

  Published 12 September 2018 | viewed 13,265 times

  Rockets have been fired at the only functioning airport in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, Reuters reports, citing information from local residents and a statement…

• Gas Could Overtake Oil As The Largest U.S. Energy Source This Year

  Published 11 September 2018 | viewed 16,633 times

  Natural gas, helped by gains in energy efficiency, will dethrone oil as the biggest energy source that the United States uses by the end of…

• New Report Sums Up Oil Industry Benefits for Texas

  Published 11 September 2018 | viewed 7,204 times

  A new report from Texans for Natural Gas, a North Texas organization set up to promote the local oil and gas industry, has summed up…

• India Considers Policy Change To Let Oil Companies Sell Products To Affiliates

  Published 11 September 2018 | viewed 6,147 times

  The Indian oil ministry is mulling over an amendment to its regulations of how oil and gas companies conduct their business to allow them to…

• Hurricane Danger Lifts Oil Prices

  Published 11 September 2018 | viewed 43,248 times

  Hurricane Florence, which is moving towards the U.S. East Coast, helped push prices higher today and will continue to act as a tailwind for West…

• Native American Tribes File Suit Against Keystone XL Approval

  Published 11 September 2018 | viewed 7,198 times

  The Rosebud Sioux tribe and the Fort Belknap Indian reservation have filed a lawsuit seeking a withdrawal of Washington’s approval of the controversial Keystone XL…

• Russia’s New Gas Giant

  Published 10 September 2018 | viewed 15,706 times

  Something strange happened last week: Russia’s largest independent gas producer, Novatek, surpassed in market value state behemoth Gazprom for the first time ever. Yet, as…

• U.S. Energy Secretary To Meet Russian And Saudi Counterparts

  Published 10 September 2018 | viewed 6,727 times

  U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry will meet this week with Saudi Arabia’s Khalid al-Falih and Russia’s Alexander Novak, Reuters reports, adding that the meetings…

• Erdogan Accuses U.S. Of Supplying Oil To Syrian Rebels

  Published 10 September 2018 | viewed 10,771 times

  Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan has lashed out at the United States, accusing Washington of supplying crude oil to a rebel group calling itself the People’s…

• Islamic State Bombs Kirkuk Oil Pipeline

  Published 10 September 2018 | viewed 12,413 times

  Islamic State militants have bombed an oil pipeline in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, the top security official of the Kurdistan government told local news outlet Rudaw.…

• California Governor Signs Anti-Offshore Drilling Law

  Published 10 September 2018 | viewed 10,267 times

  California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law this weekend a bill that aims to make drilling for oil and gas off the state’s coast unprofitable.…

• How Much Longer Can The Saudis Suppress Oil Prices?

  Published 09 September 2018 | viewed 35,842 times

  When earlier this week reports emerged that Saudi Arabia is striving to keep oil prices in the range of US$70-80 per barrel in a bid…

• Iranian Oil Exports To China Hit 874,000 Bpd In August

  Published 07 September 2018 | viewed 20,573 times

  China imported Iranian crude at an average daily rate of 874,000 barrels last month, S&P Global Platts data shows, and, according to the agency, these…

• Qatar To Splash $11.6B On LNG Capacity In Germany

  Published 07 September 2018 | viewed 19,040 times

  Qatar will spend US$11.6 billion (10 billion euro) on investments in Germany that will include participation in the construction of an LNG terminal, the kingdom’s…

• The Ironic Little Detail In B.C.’s Spill Response Program

  Published 07 September 2018 | viewed 7,086 times

  When British Columbia launched its improved oil spill response program as part of its efforts to safeguard its environment against accidents from the expanded Trans…

• Washington Announces Sanctions On Syrian Oil Industry

  Published 07 September 2018 | viewed 20,297 times

  The U.S. Department of Treasury announced sanctions against five Syrian companies and four individuals on allegations of facilitating crude oil shipments and financing to the…

• The Next Global Oil Hotspot

  Published 06 September 2018 | viewed 28,119 times

  There are at least 41 billion untapped barrels of crude oil in sub-Saharan Africa, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated two years ago. During the downturn,…

• Exxon Inks LNG, Petrochem Deal In China

  Published 06 September 2018 | viewed 6,971 times

  Exxon will build a multibillion-dollar petrochemical complex in China and invest in an LNG import terminal, both in the Guangdong province, the company said. The…

• Oil Tumbles On Mixed Inventory Data

  Published 06 September 2018 | viewed 26,851 times

  After reporting a 2.6-million-barrel inventory draw last week, the Energy Information administration this week had more good news for oil bulls, estimating that crude oil…