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• China Gas To Boost LPG Imports Threefold

  Published 16 August 2018 | viewed 11,989 times

  China Gas plans to increase its annual imports of liquefied petroleum gas from 2.8 million tons to 10 million tons during the next five years…

• Iraqi Oil Ministry Bans Kurdish Language In Documents

  Published 16 August 2018 | viewed 6,387 times

  The Iraqi Oil Ministry has banned the use of Kurdish words in official documents, threatening Kurdish employees with lawsuits if they violate the ban, Kurdish…

• Gulf Coast Refineries Process Record Volume Of Crude

  Published 16 August 2018 | viewed 13,972 times

  Gulf Coast refineries processed a record-high amount of crude oil last week, at 9.649 million barrels daily, the Energy Information Administration said in its weekly…

• The $80 Billion Megaproject Splurge In Oil

  Published 15 August 2018 | viewed 19,408 times

  The oil and gas industry has been in recovery mode for at least a year now, and although the improvement in performance is clearly there,…

• Iran Oil Minister To Press OPEC On Production Quotas

  Published 15 August 2018 | viewed 7,995 times

  Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh will attend the September meeting of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee of OPEC and Russia and will probably press his…

• Libyan Oil Recovers, Exceeds 1 Million Bpd

  Published 15 August 2018 | viewed 10,180 times

  Libya’s crude oil production has exceeded 1 million bpd for the first time since June, when port blockades and a kidnapping caused production outages that…

• Oil Prices Fall On Significant Crude Build

  Published 15 August 2018 | viewed 44,814 times

  After the American Petroleum Institute surprised markets yesterday by reporting a build of 3.66 million barrels for the week ending August 10, the Energy Information…

• Tesla Faces 3 Lawsuits Over “Funding Secured” Tweet

  Published 15 August 2018 | viewed 5,115 times

  Tesla and more specifically its chief executive Elon Musk are facing three lawsuits over an already notorious tweet by Musk, in which the CEO said…

• Is This A Game Changer For Drones?

  Published 14 August 2018 | viewed 31,552 times

  Drones are making inroads into the oil and gas industry, and these inroads could very well turn into highways for this technology in an industry…

• Venezuelan Drivers Brace For More Expensive Gas

  Published 14 August 2018 | viewed 5,223 times

  Prices at the pump in Venezuela will soon catch up with world market ones as the government seeks ways to tackle rampant fuel smuggling that,…

• Goldman, Silver Lake Advice Tesla On Going Private Plan

  Published 14 August 2018 | viewed 6,072 times

  Goldman Sachs and Silver Lake are the financial advisors to Tesla on chief executive Elon Musk’s plan to take the company private, he said in…

• Iran’s Latest Tactic To Save Market Share

  Published 14 August 2018 | viewed 19,139 times

  Iran will lower the price of its crude for Asian clients, who are its biggest buyers, Iran reported, citing a source from the country’s oil…

• PDVSA To Start Using ‘El Petro’ Next Week

  Published 14 August 2018 | viewed 13,915 times

  Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA will start using the local cryptocurrency El Petro for all its transactions on August 20, President Nicolas Maduro said, as…

• PetroChina Mulls Suspension Of U.S. LNG Imports This Winter

  Published 13 August 2018 | viewed 7,162 times

  PetroChina is mulling over a suspension of U.S. LNG cargo purchases on the spot market during the winter in a bid to avoid having to…

• Can China Afford To Slap Tariffs On U.S. Oil?

  Published 13 August 2018 | viewed 35,116 times

  Chinese refiners and the U.S. oil industry welcomed a decision by Beijing last week to exclude crude oil exports from a list of goods worth…

• Shia Militia Smuggles Oil From Kurdistan To Iran: Iraqi MP

  Published 13 August 2018 | viewed 8,143 times

  Iran-affiliated militia Hashd al-Shaabi is smuggling oil from the Kirkuk province in Iraq into Iran, a former Iraqi MP told media. Amira Zangana added that…

• Top Australian Gas Distributor Accepts CK Infrastructure $9.45B Offer

  Published 13 August 2018 | viewed 5,637 times

  One of Australia’s top gas pipeline operator APA Group has accepted a US$9.45-billion (A$12.98-billion) takeover bid made by a consortium led by Hong Kong-based CK…

• Peak Lithium Won’t Happen Anytime Soon

  Published 12 August 2018 | viewed 57,248 times

  First it was peak oil—back in the 1970s, no less. Then it was peak oil again and again. Now we have moved up a rung…

• Big Oil Backs Tesla Short Sellers, Says Wealth Manager

  Published 10 August 2018 | viewed 14,264 times

  Big Oil companies are behind many short sellers seeking to sink the shares of Tesla, a wealth manager has said, adding that Big Oil stood…

• Chinese Refiners Relieved As Beijing Backpedals Tariffs On U.S. Crude

  Published 10 August 2018 | viewed 15,365 times

  Beijing’s decision to not impose tariffs on U.S. crude oil imports has relieved local state refiners, who have been expanding their purchases from U.S. suppliers,…