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• Ukraine Billed For Gas To Pro-Russian Separatists

  Published 17 August 2017 | viewed 6,182 times

  Gazprom has been supplying natural gas to pro-Russian separatist territories in eastern Ukraine and charging Kyiv’s state-owned company Naftogaz for it, Ukrainian UAWire reported, citing…

• The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is Slowly Dying

  Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 21,045 times

  Forty years ago, in the wake of the Arab oil embargo that made the United States acutely aware of just how dependent its economy was…

• Transocean Seals Biggest Offshore Oil Deal Since Crash

  Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 9,568 times

  In what’s the biggest M&A deal in oil since the 2014 price crash, Transocean has agreed to buy Norwegian sector player Songa Offshore for U$1.1…

• Trump Speeds Up Oil, Gas Pipeline Approval Process

  Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 12,957 times

  With an executive order signed yesterday, President Donald Trump has set out to speed up the approval process for major infrastructure projects, including oil and…

• Oil Prices Rise On Hefty Crude Inventory Draw

  Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 19,409 times

  Another week, another draw – this seems to be the refrain this driving season, with the API and the EIA in sync with their weekly…

• Foreign Oil Eyes 44 Billion Barrels In Cuba

  Published 15 August 2017 | viewed 31,418 times

  One of the few foreign energy companies with a presence in Cuba is now seeking funding for a 2018 exploration drilling campaign for Block 9,…

• Australia Takes On Qatar For Top LNG Producer Status

  Published 15 August 2017 | viewed 8,319 times

  Australia this week moved a step closer to becoming a real problem for Qatar on the LNG market, after the second floating production, storage, and…

• Can The Permian Push Prices Down To $40?

  Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 15,098 times

  Two analyst firms have revised upwards their production growth forecasts for the Permian, expecting oil output there to be 300,000 bpd higher by the end…

• Oil Prices Inch Higher As Libya Closes Crude Export Terminal

  Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 12,298 times

  The Zueitina oil terminal in Libya has ceased loading cargos as port workers protest, demanding better working conditions, Bloomberg quoted the head of the workers’…

• 35,000-Barrel Oil Spill Prompts Urgent Cleanup In Kuwait

  Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 8,069 times

  An oil spill into Kuwaiti waters prompted an emergency cleanup over the weekend, with media reports saying it all will be over this week. While…

• Higher Oil Prices Slash Saudi Deficit

  Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 8,875 times

  The Saudi Finance Minister has announced an annual decline in the budget deficit for the first half of the year thanks to higher oil prices…

• Is LNG Moving From A Buyers’ To A Sellers’ Market?

  Published 13 August 2017 | viewed 12,282 times

  When Petronas announced the cancellation of its biggest investment abroad, its US$28-billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project, the news sounded an alarm for the LNG industry,…

• Indian Refiners Plan To Splash $35B On Petrochemicals

  Published 11 August 2017 | viewed 6,252 times

  Indian state-owned refiners are planning to spend US$35 billion on expanding their petrochemicals output in anticipation of a boom in demand for products ranging from…

• B.C. Seeks To Block Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Extension

  Published 11 August 2017 | viewed 9,299 times

  The new government of British Columbia has announced that it stands firmly against the extension of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline and will seek…

• China Prepares For A Natural Gas Import Boom

  Published 10 August 2017 | viewed 25,433 times

  Last month, the International Energy Agency said that China will account for 40 percent of the global annual growth in natural gas demand over the…

• Iraqi Economy Hit Hard By ISIS And Low Oil Prices

  Published 10 August 2017 | viewed 7,619 times

  Iraq continues to face economic growth challenges due to the consistently lower oil prices and the fallout from the war with IS, the International Monetary…

• Gazprom Neft Bets On Stable Oil Market In 2018

  Published 10 August 2017 | viewed 4,502 times

  Gazprom Neft plans to borrow some US$2 billion next year as it expects international oil markets to stabilize and the Russian central bank to reduce…

• Oil Glut Endures As OPEC Confirms Higher Output

  Published 10 August 2017 | viewed 12,960 times

  OPEC confirmed reports that its crude oil production increase last month, reporting a daily rate of 32.869 million barrels, up by 172,600 bpd. Global commercial…

• Traders Hoard LPG Off Singapore Coast

  Published 09 August 2017 | viewed 5,947 times

  LPG-carrying vessels are piling up off the coast of Singapore as traders await higher prices, Reuters reports, citing industry insiders. According to tanker tracking data…

• Oil Prices Slip On Strong Crude Draw, Surprise Gasoline Build

  Published 09 August 2017 | viewed 20,910 times

  Amid stubbornly falling oil prices and growing doubts about OPEC’s ability to rein in production, the EIA reported a draw in U.S. commercial crude oil…