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• Saudi Arabia Eyes 80% Jump In Oil Revenues By 2023

  Published 26 December 2017 | viewed 20,924 times

  Saudi Arabia sees oil revenues soaring by 80 percent over the next six years, according to unnamed sources that spoke to Bloomberg. The information is…

• Is Saudi Arabia’s Post-Oil Future Realistic?

  Published 24 December 2017 | viewed 24,969 times

  In case anyone had any doubts that Saudi Arabia has very ambitious economic growth plans, the 2018 budget, announced earlier this week by King Salam,…

• Crystallex Looks To Take Control Of Citgo

  Published 22 December 2017 | viewed 10,046 times

  Canadian miner Crystallex has asked a federal U.S. judge to allow it to take control over PDVSA’s U.S. business, Citgo, after Venezuela failed, according to…

• New FERC Head Hints At Gas Pipeline Approval Changes

  Published 22 December 2017 | viewed 6,377 times

  The new chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Kevin McIntyre, has hinted at the possibility of making changes to the current gas pipeline approval…

• U.S. Slaps Sanctions On Israeli Oil Billionaire

  Published 22 December 2017 | viewed 16,958 times

  The U.S. Department of Treasury has issued sanctions against Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler on allegations of human rights abuse and corruption. Gertler is a senior…

• Mexico Strikes Oil-Trading Deal With Trafigura

  Published 22 December 2017 | viewed 9,394 times

  Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission has taken on Trafigura as a crude oil trading partner, making it the first foreign company to get the right to…

• Saudi-U.S. Nuclear Talks To Start In Weeks

  Published 21 December 2017 | viewed 10,550 times

  Saudi Arabia will initiate talks with the U.S. administration within a few weeks about the participation of U.S. nuclear energy companies in the Kingdom’s first…

• Forties Pipeline To Return To Operation In January

  Published 21 December 2017 | viewed 7,127 times

  The Forties crude oil pipeline network should return to normal operation in early January, its owner Ineos said. The shutdown of the piece of infrastructure…

• U.S. Asks China To Implement New Oil Sanctions On North Korea

  Published 21 December 2017 | viewed 13,401 times

  Washington is talking with Beijing about new oil sanctions against North Korea, UN diplomats told AFP. The two are working on a draft resolution that…

• BP, Rosneft Team Up On Arctic Gas Exploration

  Published 21 December 2017 | viewed 9,748 times

  Sanctions or no sanctions, BP, which is a 20-percent shareholder in Russia’s Rosneft, struck a new joint venture with its partner for the exploration and…

• What’s Next For U.S. Shale Giants?

  Published 20 December 2017 | viewed 20,355 times

  For OPEC, U.S. shale oil is a curse. For the Trump administration, it is the biggest tool to help achieve what the White House has…

• Indonesia Refineries Prepare To Switch To Sour Crudes

  Published 20 December 2017 | viewed 7,057 times

  The latest oil price rally that made Brent less appealing to international buyers has prompted Indonesian refineries to start preparing for modifications that will allow…

• Oil Prices Rise After Strong Crude Inventory Draw

  Published 20 December 2017 | viewed 24,402 times

  The Energy Information Administration reported yet another inventory draw for last week, making it the fifth one in a row with falling inventories. The authority…

• Nebraska Sticks To Keystone XL Decision

  Published 20 December 2017 | viewed 7,945 times

  The Nebraska Public Service Commission upheld its November decision to allow the construction of the controversial Keystone XL crude oil pipeline, although it demanded a…

• Repsol, VNG Announce $2.2B Plan For Norwegian Oil Fields

  Published 19 December 2017 | viewed 4,971 times

  While Statoil expands its operations in Brazil, two European energy companies—Spanish Repsol and German VNG—have announced investment plans for two fields in the North Sea…

• Saudi Deficit Narrows On Higher Oil Prices

  Published 19 December 2017 | viewed 8,263 times

  Improving oil prices narrowed Saudi Arabia’s budget deficit from 12.8 percent last year to 8.9 percent this year, and now Riyadh is expected to announce…

• Activist Investor Prompts Chevron To Evaluate Myanmar Operations

  Published 19 December 2017 | viewed 5,905 times

  Chevron will need to evaluate how feasible an exit from Myanmar would be, after an activist shareholder filed a resolution requiring the company to do…

• OPEC vs IEA: Who’s Right On Oil Prices?

  Published 18 December 2017 | viewed 27,344 times

  Last week, the International Energy Agency made a lot of OPEC brows furrow when it warned that 2018 may not be a very happy new…

• Australia Can Achieve A Zero-Carbon Gas Grid By 2050

  Published 18 December 2017 | viewed 4,582 times

  Australia could make its gas grid completely emission-free by 2050, a new report compiled by Energy Networks Australia has suggested. According to the report, the…

• Is A Russia-Cuba Energy Deal In The Works?

  Published 18 December 2017 | viewed 9,975 times

  The chief executive of Russian state oil major Rosneft met yesterday with Cuba’s President Raul Castro, suggesting that the two are working on an energy…