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• Clashes In Kurdistan Send Oil Prices Higher

  Published 16 October 2017 | viewed 11,681 times

  Reports of clashes between Iraqi troops and Kurdish armed forces near Kirkuk yesterday sent WTI and Brent higher in Asian trade today. The latest reports…

• What’s Stopping An Oil Price Rally?

  Published 15 October 2017 | viewed 16,948 times

  Oil supply disruptions, high OPEC oil cut deal compliance rates, an extra-violent hurricane season, and the threat of new U.S. sanctions against Iran have fed…

• UK’s FCA Met With Aramco Prior To Proposing Listing Rule Change

  Published 13 October 2017 | viewed 5,934 times

  The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority’s chief admitted that the watchdog met with executives from Saudi Aramco several months prior to its proposal to change the…

• Kurdistan Accuses Baghdad Of Planning Oil Field Seizure

  Published 13 October 2017 | viewed 15,126 times

  Kurdistan authorities have accused the central Iraqi government of planning to seize oil fields in the autonomous region. Baghdad is amassing military power in two…

• Chevron Quits Australian Deepwater Oil Exploration

  Published 13 October 2017 | viewed 9,445 times

  Chevron has decided to drop its US$500-million exploration program in the Great Australian Bight off the coast of South Australia as low oil prices make…

• The New Challenger To Lithium Batteries

  Published 12 October 2017 | viewed 67,703 times

  With the EV market about to explode and the European Union planning a battery-making consortium to bring the continent onto the global EV battery scene,…

• India Needs Help To Boost Oil Production

  Published 12 October 2017 | viewed 6,577 times

  India needs foreign drillers on board to increase its crude oil production as it plans to reduce its dependence on imported oil. According to Wood…

• Draw In Crude Inventories Lifts Oil Prices

  Published 12 October 2017 | viewed 20,050 times

  EIA today reported a 2.8-million-barrel draw in U.S. crude oil inventories for the week to October 6, lifting market spirits further amid higher oil demand…

• District Judge Rules Dakota Access Can Continue Operating

  Published 12 October 2017 | viewed 4,871 times

  The Dakota Access oil pipeline can continue shipping oil from North Dakota’s Bakken fields to Illinois despite protests, U.S. district judge James Boasberg ruled in…

• Busting The Lithium Bubble Myth

  Published 11 October 2017 | viewed 37,429 times

  Forget about oversupply of lithium, and ignore the naysayers. There’s no bubble here. Everyone’s talking about electric cars, and lithium miners are getting more than…

• Oil M&A Deals Set To Rise

  Published 11 October 2017 | viewed 10,944 times

  Mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas industry are on the rise, and the trend will intensify over the next 12 months, the latest…

• Rising OPEC Production Weighs On Oil Prices

  Published 11 October 2017 | viewed 9,172 times

  After a brief respite in August, OPEC oil production rose once again in September, to 32.75 million bpd, up 88,500 bpd from the previous month,…

• South Sudan Tightens Oil Industry Security

  Published 11 October 2017 | viewed 9,135 times

  South Sudan’s government is making a push for better oil industry security as the new African country looks to return to oil production rates from…

• Saudi Arabia Ups November Oil Exports To 7-Million Bpd

  Published 10 October 2017 | viewed 11,004 times

  Saudi Arabia plans to export 7.1 million barrels of crude daily next month, substantially more than what it said it would ship abroad from August…

• Niger Delta State Looks To Break Free From Oil

  Published 10 October 2017 | viewed 6,325 times

  Bayelsa, a state in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, will search for non-oil natural resources to diversify away from its main commodity—oil. This is…

• Saudis Lose Market Share To OPEC Rivals

  Published 10 October 2017 | viewed 7,163 times

  Iraq and Iran increased their crude oil shipments abroad last month, taking advantage of lower Saudi exports to key destinations to expand their international market…

• The “Amazon Effect” Is Coming To Oil Markets

  Published 09 October 2017 | viewed 52,739 times

  While OPEC mulls over further steps to once again support falling oil prices, tech startups are quietly ushering in a new era in oil and…

• Oil Stable After OPEC Chief Suggests ‘’Extraordinary Measures’’

  Published 09 October 2017 | viewed 13,865 times

  Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate started the week with gains after yesterday OPEC’s Secretary General, Mohammed Barkindo, said the cartel may have to take…

• Gulf Of Mexico Output Falls Nearly 100% After Hurricane Nate

  Published 09 October 2017 | viewed 12,527 times

  As of Sunday, 92.61 percent of crude oil production capacity in the Gulf of Mexico was shut in, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement…

• LNG Production Starts At Wheatstone

  Published 09 October 2017 | viewed 7,585 times

  Chevron has announced the start of production at its Wheatstone LNG offshore project in Australia, with exports from the facility due to begin in several…