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• China's Gas Production Hits Three-Year High

  Published 18 January 2018 | viewed 8,528 times

  China pumped natural gas at the highest rate since 2014 in December 2017 in an attempt to make up for shortages of the fuel in…

• Iraq Ready To Sign Deal With BP For Kirkuk Fields

  Published 18 January 2018 | viewed 7,187 times

  Iraq will today sign an agreement with BP for the development of oil fields around Kirkuk, according to an unnamed Iraqi official who spoke to…

• Oil Prices Rebound After EIA Reports Another Large Crude Draw

  Published 18 January 2018 | viewed 24,996 times

  Amid emerging doubts that OPEC and Russia have outdone themselves with the oil production cuts and are starting to suffer the consequences, the Energy Information…

• Kinder Morgan Delays Trans Mountain Launch Again

  Published 18 January 2018 | viewed 5,844 times

  Kinder Morgan said it would have to delay the start of the expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline by another three months, to December 2020,…

• Shell Inks Another Solar Deal

  Published 18 January 2018 | viewed 5,970 times

  Just a couple of days after it acquired a hefty stake in a U.S. solar company, Shell has made another solar move, closing a power…

• The OPEC Deal May End In June

  Published 18 January 2018 | viewed 14,389 times

  A couple of weeks ago, comments from the UAE’s energy minister spurred the oil price rally higher. What the minister said — or rather, hinted…

• Sunk Iranian Oil Tanker Leave Behind Two Slicks

  Published 17 January 2018 | viewed 5,928 times

  Sanchi, the Iranian tanker carrying condensate to South Korea that crashed into a Chinese freight ship on January 6 and sank earlier this week, has…

• CNPC Expects Robust Oil Demand Growth In China

  Published 17 January 2018 | viewed 12,960 times

  China’s state-owned oil and gas giant CNPC has just added fuel to already strong optimism on oil markets by forecasting that crude oil demand in…

• Saudi Arabia Shuns UBS, BofA As Aramco IPO Coordinators

  Published 17 January 2018 | viewed 6,492 times

  Saudi Arabia has excluded Swiss UBS, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Barclays from the select group of investment banks invited to pitch for the…

• Is The Rig Count Still Relevant?

  Published 16 January 2018 | viewed 27,792 times

  The weekly rig count report that Baker Hughes releases is probably on everyone’s not-to-miss schedule. However, its days as one of the most reliable U.S.…

• BP To Take Final Hit On 2010 Disaster

  Published 16 January 2018 | viewed 26,156 times

  BP will take a US$1.7-billion post-tax impairment charge on expenses related to the finalization of settlements related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. The charge…

• Nigeria Among Worst Performers In Electricity Supply

  Published 16 January 2018 | viewed 8,216 times

  Nigeria is the second-worst country in terms of electricity supply out of 137 countries ranked by the Spectator Index. It is second only to war-torn…

• Asian Oil Buyers Could Benefit From Fresh Sanctions On Iran

  Published 16 January 2018 | viewed 10,119 times

  Asian oil traders—the largest group of buyers of Iranian crude—are not bothered by the prospect of new sanctions from Washington against Iran. Even if these…

• Is An Oil Price Spike Inevitable?

  Published 15 January 2018 | viewed 35,055 times

  The oil glut is over, at least when it comes to U.S. commercial inventories: over the past two months they have been within the average…

• Australia Solar Power Additions Hit Record In 2017

  Published 15 January 2018 | viewed 8,370 times

  Australia’s new solar capacity addition hit the highest on record, according to preliminary estimates from the Clean Energy Regulator, at 1.05 GW, Bloomberg reports. The…

• Morocco Prepares $4.6B Gas Project Tender

  Published 15 January 2018 | viewed 12,013 times

  Morocco is preparing to launch a tender for a natural gas project worth US$4.6 billion, the country’s Energy Minister Aziz Rabbah said in a Bloomberg…

• Iranian Oil Tanker Sinks After Second Explosion

  Published 15 January 2018 | viewed 9,538 times

  A second explosion on board the Iranian tanker Sanchi, which had been burning for a week, sank the vessel, leaving no hope for any survivors…

• The Most Feared Businessman In Russia

  Published 14 January 2018 | viewed 11,879 times

  The dominant narrative in Western media often paints Vladimir Putin as an all-powerful puppet master, whose long hand—at least according to a segment of the…

• Algae May Be Green Energy’s Secret Weapon

  Published 13 January 2018 | viewed 34,143 times

  Algae are probably one of the most attractive directions of scientific development when it comes to finding new green energy sources. They are cheap. They…

• Falling Chinese Oil Imports Weigh On Prices

  Published 12 January 2018 | viewed 10,119 times

  China imported 12 percent less crude oil in December than in November, when crude imports had hit a record high, sparking immediate concern about demand…