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• An Unexpected Windfall For U.S. Solar

  Published 31 July 2018 | viewed 24,798 times

  U.S. solar power companies are benefiting from a slump in global PV panel prices following China’s decision to substantially reduce subsidies for the solar industry,…

• The Texas Oil Boom Isn’t Creating Enough Jobs

  Published 30 July 2018 | viewed 25,466 times

  Texas is witnessing a fresh oil boom with June production hitting 4.3 million bpd, all thanks to two things: efficiency improvements and, of course, oil…

• Tesla To Add New AI Feature To Its Vehicles

  Published 30 July 2018 | viewed 5,944 times

  Tesla plans to add a new artificial intelligence feature to its vehicles, the latest from Twitter has revealed. As Electrek reports, Elon Musk broke the…

• Iraq Security Forces Disperse Oil Field Sit-Ins

  Published 30 July 2018 | viewed 11,333 times

  Iraq’s security troops have dispersed two sit-ins in southern Iraq, one at a key oil field, local media report. The field is West Qurna-1, one…

• Saudis Won’t Suspend Oil Exports To The West

  Published 30 July 2018 | viewed 12,712 times

  Aramco is unlikely to suspend West-bound crude oil exports after the Houthi missile attacks against two Saudi tankers in the Bab el Mandeb strait, The…

• U.S. Investigators: Maduro Took Part In PDVSA Money-Laundering Scheme

  Published 30 July 2018 | viewed 11,261 times

  A U.S. probe into the laundering of US$1 billion from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA has spread to the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, the Miami…

• Are Europe’s Renewable Goals Too Ambitious?

  Published 29 July 2018 | viewed 31,689 times

  Wind energy in Europe is expanding, but it is not expanding evenly across the continent, a new report from Wind Europe has revealed. During the…

• Aramco Considers Bond Sale To Buy Sabic Stake

  Published 27 July 2018 | viewed 6,704 times

  Aramco is considering a bond issue to finance a reported 70-percent stake acquisition in petrochemical giant Sabic from the Saudi sovereign investment fund, Bloomberg reports,…

• Washington Pressing Tel Aviv For Gas Pipeline To Jordan

  Published 27 July 2018 | viewed 7,786 times

  The Trump administration is pressing Israel to go ahead with a gas pipeline deal it signed with Jordan a few years ago, writes Israeli reporter…

• BHP Billiton Sells U.S. Oil Assets To BP

  Published 27 July 2018 | viewed 10,245 times

  BHP Billiton has concluded the sale of its U.S. shale oil operations to BP and Merit Energy, a local U.S. oil independent, for US$10.8 billion,…

• Saudi Budget Deficit Shrinks As Oil Prices Rally

  Published 26 July 2018 | viewed 9,284 times

  Higher oil prices are invariably good news for oil-dependent economies. The latest price rally is particularly good news for the world’s top oil exporter, Saudi…

• Total’s Record Production Boosts Q2 Profit

  Published 26 July 2018 | viewed 5,435 times

  French Total booked a 44-percent improvement in its second-quarter net profit on the back of record-high quarterly oil and gas production, the company said today.…

• Indian Refiner Cancels Iranian Oil Shipment As Insurance Won’t Cover Cargo

  Published 26 July 2018 | viewed 16,072 times

  Hindustan Petroleum has cancelled a crude oil shipment from Iran after its insurer refused to provide coverage for the cargo on concern about U.S. sanctions,…

• Venezuela Boosts Reserves By Granting Central Bank Oil Bloc

  Published 26 July 2018 | viewed 7,192 times

  Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announced that the government has granted the country’s central bank a concession for an oil bloc in the prolific Orinoco Belt…

• Saudi Arabia Halts Oil Shipments At Key Chokepoint

  Published 26 July 2018 | viewed 23,166 times

  Saudi Arabia halted crude oil and oil product shipments via the Bab el Mandeb chokepoint in the Red Sea after a Houthi attack on two…

• Oil Jobs Under Threat From Drones

  Published 25 July 2018 | viewed 12,097 times

  The drones are coming to oil and gas and they may soon be intelligent enough to replace humans in on-site inspections. That’s what the latest…

• Citi: The Case For $45 Oil

  Published 25 July 2018 | viewed 49,893 times

  Oil could be back to US$45 a barrel within 12 months, Citigroup’s commodities chief Ed Morse said in an interview with the Financial Post, noting…

• Oil Markets Stabilize On Major Crude Draw

  Published 25 July 2018 | viewed 23,522 times

  A day after the American Petroleum Institute pushed prices up by surprising the market with a draw across the crude oil and fuels inventory board,…

• Petrobras Could Be Selling Mature Oil Fields To EIG-Backed Bidder

  Published 25 July 2018 | viewed 7,311 times

  Petrobras has entered exclusive talks with Ouro Preto Oleo e Gas, a company backed by EIG, for the sale of two mature oil field clusters,…

• Is The Solar Industry Really In Trouble?

  Published 24 July 2018 | viewed 26,980 times

  Last week Goldman Sachs ruined the mood of many in the solar industry—at least of those who pay attention to investment bank forecasts—by projecting that…