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• Eastern NOC Strengthens Hold On Oil Crescent

  Published 28 June 2018 | viewed 6,592 times

  All oil export revenues from Libya’s Oil Crescent will be sent to a central bank in the eastern part of the country, according to eastern…

• An Unlikely Shale Frontier

  Published 28 June 2018 | viewed 15,352 times

  Algeria is eager to attract Big Oil majors such as Exxon and Chevron to its shale patch to tap its massive gas reserves, estimated to…

• Oil Investment In Canada To Drop Despite Rallying Prices

  Published 27 June 2018 | viewed 18,947 times

  Canada has the world’s third-largest crude oil reserves, but the country seems determined to pretty literally keep these in the ground. This determination becomes strikingly…

• EPA Ignored Calls To Cut Biofuel Quota Waivers

  Published 27 June 2018 | viewed 6,212 times

  The Energy Protection Agency consistently ignored calls from the Energy Department to stop issuing—or lat least curb—waivers sought by refiners under biofuels regulation, Reuters reports,…

• Goldman Analyst Skeptic About Tesla Model 3 Deadline

  Published 27 June 2018 | viewed 6,994 times

  A Goldman Sachs analyst that has been bearish on Tesla for years has written in a note to clients that the EV maker might once…

• Hefty Inventory Draw Boosts Oil Prices

  Published 27 June 2018 | viewed 26,038 times

  A day after the American Petroleum Institute helped push crude prices even higher by estimating a 9.228-million-barrel draw in U.S. crude oil inventories, the EIA…

• Russia To Assess Legal Frame For Iranian Oil Imports

  Published 27 June 2018 | viewed 14,443 times

  Russia will assess its agreement with Iran to import crude oil in exchange for goods “from the legal point of view,” Energy Minister Alexander Novak…

• Is The Eagle Ford About To Boom Again?

  Published 26 June 2018 | viewed 31,927 times

  When the U.S. Geological Survey published its updated resource estimate for the Wolfcamp Basin in the Permian a couple of years ago, it added fresh…

• Kinder Morgan Announces $2B Permian Pipeline Project

  Published 26 June 2018 | viewed 15,128 times

  After it gave up the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in its native Canada, Kinder Morgan has bet on a certain win in the pipeline-strapped Permian.…

• Court Dismisses Anti-Big Oil Climate Change Case

  Published 26 June 2018 | viewed 5,813 times

  District Judge William Alsup dismissed a case brought by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland against five Big Oil companies on the grounds that…

• Will Energy Secretary Perry Ask Russia For More Oil?

  Published 26 June 2018 | viewed 7,094 times

  Energy analysts expect Energy Secretary Rick Perry might ask his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak for more oil to compensate for lost supply from the Iranian…

• Power Grab In Libya Threatens Oil Industry

  Published 26 June 2018 | viewed 16,730 times

  The Libyan oil plot jut thickened after the Libyan National Army said it had passed control of the country’s oil ports to a non-officially recognized…

• Gasoline Price Set To Soar Despite OPEC+ Deal

  Published 25 June 2018 | viewed 19,853 times

  Nearly everyone expected the OPEC+ decision to start raising oil production on Friday, with U.S. drivers excited to get some relief from high gas prices…

• Saudi Oil Minister: OPEC+ Agreement Is Just The Beginning

  Published 25 June 2018 | viewed 24,776 times

  OPEC’s decision to rein in compliance rates with the 2016 oil production cut deal is “interim”, Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih said after the…

• Female Drivers To Boost Gasoline Demand In Saudi Arabia

  Published 25 June 2018 | viewed 6,345 times

  The addition of half the Saudi population to the current number of drivers will significantly boost gasoline demand in the Kingdom and, according to Bloomberg,…

• Do Teslas Produce As Much CO2 As Gasoline Powered Cars?

  Published 25 June 2018 | viewed 13,825 times

  Teslas may not be any greener than their gasoline counterparts, research from UK-based climate data provider Engaged Tracking has suggested, based on data about the…

• Offshore Oil Ban May Cost New-Zealand Billions

  Published 25 June 2018 | viewed 7,157 times

  New Zealand’s ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration could cost it billions in lost revenues, the head of the country’s oil and gas…

• This Russian Oil Major Is Ready To Open The Taps

  Published 23 June 2018 | viewed 12,016 times

  Russia’s second biggest oil company, Lukoil, is ready to raise production by 23,000 bpd in two to three months if its gets the green light…

• PDVSA: Venezuela Will Struggle To Recover Lost Oil Production

  Published 22 June 2018 | viewed 13,579 times

  Venezuela will be hard put to recover by end-2018 the crude oil production that it lost in the last couple of years, the country’s Oil…

• Tesla Closing Down Solar Capacity

  Published 22 June 2018 | viewed 29,079 times

  Tesla is closing down solar panel sales and installation facilities in nine states, Reuters reports, citing current and former employees of the company’s solar business…