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  • Equatorial Guinea Joins OPEC

    Published 25 May 2017 | viewed 17,614 times

    Equatorial Guinea has become the 14th member of OPEC on the day the cartel announced a nine-month extension of its November 2016 crude oil production…

  • Libya Insists On Keeping Oil Output Cut Exemption

    Published 25 May 2017 | viewed 6,679 times

    Libya has insisted that it remains exempt from the oil output reduction deal that OPEC today decided to extend by another nine months, to March 2018.…

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    Published 24 May 2017 | viewed 85,559 times

    Those who watched The Space Between Us would surely have a fresh memory of the plane that Gary Oldman’s character flew from the ground into…

  • Norway’s Disgruntled Oil Workers Settle On 2017 Wages

    Published 24 May 2017 | viewed 6,156 times

    The great majority of oil workers in Norway, or 87 percent,, have agreed on wages for this year with the companies that employ them. The…

  • Oil Prices Spike On Strong Crude Inventory Draw

    Published 24 May 2017 | viewed 31,747 times

    A day before OPEC’s meeting in Vienna, where the cartel should announce officially the nine-month extension to its crude oil production cut deal, the Energy…

  • China’s CNPC Ready To Splash $2B On Peru Oil Field

    Published 24 May 2017 | viewed 7,573 times

    China’s biggest oil and gas state company, CNPC, is willing to spend US$2 billion on the development of Block 58 in southern Peru. The news…

  • Ecopetrol Losing 26,000 Bpd Due To Unrest

    Published 23 May 2017 | viewed 4,358 times

    Colombia’s state energy company Ecopetrol is losing oil production at the rate of 26,000 barrels daily because of protests that forced the company to partially suspend…

  • Trump To Sell Half The Strategic Petroleum Reserve

    Published 23 May 2017 | viewed 30,034 times

    In a release of part of the draft budget for fiscal 2018, the Trump administration has proposed halving the strategic petroleum reserve, which will raise…

  • Royal Navy Trains For LNG Tanker Bomb Attacks

    Published 23 May 2017 | viewed 5,636 times

    The British Royal Navy has been preparing to counteract a potential terrorist attack on LNG carriers for the last two years, a source from the…

  • Saudi vs Shale: The Breakeven Myth

    Published 22 May 2017 | viewed 67,614 times

    Saudi Arabia is well known for its super low production costs for oil. In fact, its oil is almost the cheapest to extract. Only Kuwait…

  • Tunisian Oil Protests Continue, Second Pumping Station Closed

    Published 22 May 2017 | viewed 5,470 times

    Protesters in southern Tunisia have closed another oil pumping station in the Kebili province, signaling that the months-long sit-ins and gatherings are nowhere near an end.…

  • OPEC Thinks Deeper Cuts Might Not Be Required

    Published 22 May 2017 | viewed 14,920 times

    The addition of another couple of smaller producers to the OPEC-non-OPEC oil production cut deal will be enough to bring global supply to a more…

  • GE Strikes Deals Worth $15B In Saudi Arabia

    Published 22 May 2017 | viewed 9,237 times

    GE has closed preliminary agreements with Riyadh on a number of projects worth a collective US$15 billion, the company said. GE’s Vice Chairman John Rice…

  • Frac Sand Fraud Could Lead To 180-Year Prison For Texas Senator

    Published 21 May 2017 | viewed 20,141 times

    Ponzi schemes are an enduring kind of fraud, one of whose many attractions for people looking to make money on other people’s backs is that…

  • Iraq Starts Paying Off $1 Billion Power Debt To Iran

    Published 19 May 2017 | viewed 8,204 times

    Iraq has made a US$300-million payment to Iran under a power export agreement, according to Azeri news media Trend, quoting Iran’s Deputy Energy Minister Houshang Falahatian.…

  • Colombia’s Oil Reserves Shrink

    Published 19 May 2017 | viewed 10,015 times

    Colombia’s crude oil reserves declined by 16.8 percent last year, according to the country’s natural resources ministry, but things are changing this year and more…

  • Oil Prices Rise As OPEC Discusses Deeper Output Cuts

    Published 19 May 2017 | viewed 23,074 times

    OPEC is discussing a potential deepening of crude oil output cuts in a bid to accelerate market rebalancing, sources from the cartel told Reuters. The news…

  • Investors Unimpressed By String Of Oilfield Services IPO’s

    Published 18 May 2017 | viewed 12,280 times

    The number of initial public offerings in the oilfield service sector has so far this year overtaken exploration and production listings by a wide margin, signaling…

  • From Oil To Arms: Saudis Move Away From Crude

    Published 18 May 2017 | viewed 18,160 times

    The sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia has set up a defense business as part of its efforts to reduce the Kingdom’s dependence on crude…

  • Petrobras May Pay First Dividend In 3 Years

    Published 18 May 2017 | viewed 5,102 times

    Brazil’s state energy major Petrobras last distributed a dividend in April 2014. This year could mark the return of the payouts as the company eyes…

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