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• Canadia Ltd. Returns To Sudan For First Time Since Oil Price Crash

  Published 23 October 2017 | viewed 8,799 times

  State Oil Company Canada Ltd. has returned to Sudan and will resume exploration in the Al-Rawat field, Sudanese media reported, quoting the country’s Minister of…

• Syrian Rebel Group Takes Over Oil Field From IS

  Published 23 October 2017 | viewed 6,179 times

  U.S.-backed Kurdish-dominated militia the Syrian Democratic Forces wrested control over the al-Omar oil field in eastern Syria from the Islamic State, a spokeswoman for the…

• 300,000 Bpd Offline As Kurdistan Conflict Continues

  Published 23 October 2017 | viewed 8,814 times

  Crude oil flows from Kurdistan to Turkey’s port city of Ceyhan continued at rates of between 200,000 and 250,000 bpd over the weekend, versus a…

• Will Demand For Offshore Rigs Ever Recover?

  Published 22 October 2017 | viewed 21,984 times

  Last quarter, offshore drilling rig companies retired more rigs than ever before in a three-month period, according to one energy advisory firm. Embattled Transocean is…

• Energy Regulators Look To Guard Grid From Cyberattacks

  Published 20 October 2017 | viewed 4,855 times

  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has set its sights on making the less important parts of the national grid safer against hackers, and has…

• Mexico Says OPEC Has Not Approached It For Deal Extension

  Published 20 October 2017 | viewed 6,287 times

  OPEC has not yet approached Mexico to discuss the possibility of extending the oil production cut deal sealed last November, Mexico’s deputy energy minister Aldo…

• Shell Restarts Bonny Light Exports

  Published 20 October 2017 | viewed 6,103 times

  Shell Nigeria has lifted the latest force majeure off its Bonny Light exports, which was introduced a month ago after a leak was discovered in…

• London Stock Exchange Boss Defends Push To Win Aramco IPO

  Published 19 October 2017 | viewed 4,153 times

  Xavier Rolet, the chief executive of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group has defended the bourse’s campaign for winning the secondary listing of Saudi Aramco…

• Norway’s Energy Minister Sees Strong Long-Term Demand For Oil

  Published 19 October 2017 | viewed 10,878 times

  Norway is at the forefront of Europe’s green energy shift, but it is also its biggest crude oil producer. The country has so far juggled…

• Kinder Morgan Warns About Trans Mountain Delays

  Published 19 October 2017 | viewed 7,948 times

  Kinder Morgan has warned that its Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project is facing possibly months of delays because of the timing of permit issuance…

• UK Oil And Gas Costs To Rise 100% If Brexit Fails

  Published 18 October 2017 | viewed 19,613 times

  The UK’s embattled oil industry might have to tackle a twofold increase in trade costs if its separation from the European Union takes place under…

• Conflicting News Spurs Doubt On Aramco IPO

  Published 18 October 2017 | viewed 6,816 times

  Aramco has asked FTI Consulting to suspend investor relations work on its upcoming initial public offering, according to unnamed sources who spoke to Reuters. The…

• Major Crude Oil Draw Sends Oil Prices Higher

  Published 18 October 2017 | viewed 25,773 times

  A day after API’s estimate of a 7.13-million-barrel draw in U.S. oil inventories led benchmark prices higher, the EIA added to bullishness by reporting inventory…

• Iran Ready For OPEC Oil Deal Extension

  Published 18 October 2017 | viewed 7,228 times

  Iran is ready to take part in a further extension of the OPEC oil production cut deal, the country’s Deputy Minister for Trade and International…

• Big Oil To Bet On Petrochemicals As Demand Peak Looms

  Published 17 October 2017 | viewed 19,685 times

  Remember that “This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Oil” commercial that blew up on Twitter at this year’s Super Bowl? It was about crude oil being used…

• Enbridge Pipeline Expansion Finally Approved

  Published 17 October 2017 | viewed 12,096 times

  Enbridge will be able to double the capacity of its Line 67 crude oil pipeline from Edmonton, in Alberta, to Superior, Wisconsin, after the U.S.…

• Mexico Locks In $46 Per Barrel In 2018 Oil Hedge

  Published 17 October 2017 | viewed 21,305 times

  Mexico has locked in an average export price of US$46 per barrel of crude oil for 2018 in its annual oil hedge, which is closely…

• OPEC Oil Deal Compliance Falls To 86%

  Published 17 October 2017 | viewed 9,687 times

  Amid a fresh oil price rally, albeit a moderate one, on the back of events in Kurdistan, the head of the International Energy Agency said…

• Is Hydrogen Fuel As Dumb As Musk Thinks?

  Published 16 October 2017 | viewed 27,613 times

  Hydrogen fuel cells are a controversial thing. Elon Musk, for example, finds them “incredibly dumb”, and he’s far from the only one. Yet the concept…

• Kuwaiti Minister: OPEC Deal Extension May Be Unnecessary

  Published 16 October 2017 | viewed 8,724 times

  OPEC and its partners may not need to extend the November 2016 crude oil production cut agreement beyond its March 2018 deadline if everyone fully…