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• Moody’s Scolds Oil Executives for Pay Model

  Published 22 July 2016 | viewed 6,150 times

  Moody’s has slammed the current model used by oil companies to remunerate executives as too dependent on growth and as such, outdated and not in…

• ‘’The Worst Is Behind Us’’ Schlumberger CEO Sees Reason For Optimism

  Published 22 July 2016 | viewed 13,044 times

  All’s not well in oilfield services, but it might start getting a bit better from now on. That’s the essence of a statement made by…

• India’s ONGC Issues US$1B Bonds To Buy Stake In Russian Oil Field

  Published 22 July 2016 | viewed 5,411 times

  India’s state oil company ONGC has collected US$1 billion in proceeds from two bond issues, which will be used to refinance a loan, taken out…

• Pipeline Leak Spills Crude in North Saskatchewan River

  Published 22 July 2016 | viewed 5,819 times

  Canadian media are quoting oil and gas company Husky Energy as having told authorities that a leak from a pipeline has spilled between 200,000 and…

• Russia Ramps Up Arctic Oil Production

  Published 21 July 2016 | viewed 18,224 times

  Three export terminals on Russia’s Arctic coast shipped an average of 230,000 barrels of crude in the second quarter of 2016. This figure is almost…

• Russia may Take Bourgas-Alexandroupolis Pipeline Off Shelf

  Published 21 July 2016 | viewed 7,274 times

  An oil pipeline project that was suspended due to financial problems a few years ago may once again be on the agenda because of the…

• UAE Gets Closer to Commissioning First Ever Nuclear Plant

  Published 21 July 2016 | viewed 6,171 times

  The UAE is hardly the country one thinks would rely on nuclear energy, but times are changing, and the emirates are all for renewable energy…

• This Is How Elon Musk Plans To Dominate Global Transportation

  Published 21 July 2016 | viewed 7,040 times

  It’s out. The second part of Elon Musk’s Top Secret Master Plan has been published on the Tesla website. The much-awaited document gave rise to…

• Lunar Drilling: The Resource Race For The Moon Is On

  Published 20 July 2016 | viewed 21,884 times

  The race for the Moon is on. Nobody is really sure exactly what resources are located on the Moon, or how vast they are, but…

• Nigeria Launches $100 Million Oil Fund

  Published 20 July 2016 | viewed 8,919 times

  Nigeria’s government has launched a special fund worth US$100 million to take care of securing the credit that the oil industry of the country needs.…

• Oil Markets Panic After EIA Reports Surging Gasoline Inventories

  Published 20 July 2016 | viewed 15,341 times

  Commercial crude oil stockpiles in the U.S. fell by 2.3 million barrels in the week to July 15, the Energy Information Administration reported. This is…

• Vancouver Bans All Oil Storage Within City Limits

  Published 20 July 2016 | viewed 6,931 times

  The city council of Vancouver has voted unanimously to ban new construction for oil storage facilities and refineries in the city, as well as expansions…

• Why Oil Prices Might Not Rebound Until 2019

  Published 19 July 2016 | viewed 40,637 times

  It’s a safe bet that investors are getting increasingly tired of all the conflicting forecasts about oil and gas prices. Some argue that oil is…

• Cameron LNG Gets Go-Ahead for Export Expansion

  Published 19 July 2016 | viewed 4,663 times

  Cameron LNG, Sempra Energy’s liquefied natural gas export terminal in Louisiana, has received approval for a planned expansion in the amount of gas it exports…

• Iran Ships First Oil to China’s Teapots

  Published 19 July 2016 | viewed 5,042 times

  The Olympic Target supertanker, carrying two million barrels of Iranian crude, is en route to the eastern Chinese port of Shandong, Reuters reports, citing sources…

• China Plans Military Exercise In South China Sea

  Published 19 July 2016 | viewed 3,543 times

  A week after a Hague tribunal ruled against its territorial claims to 80 percent of the South China Sea, Beijing is organizing military exercises in…

• Energy Is The Reason Europe Is Still Backing Erdogan

  Published 18 July 2016 | viewed 23,832 times

  A lot of people in Europe are wondering why political leaders on the continent seem to be ready to agree with whatever Turkish President Recep…

• Arab Oil Exports Down $24 Billion In Q1, Challenges Remain

  Published 18 July 2016 | viewed 5,515 times

  Arab countries exported US$50.4 billion worth of crude oil in the first quarter of the year, local media report. This is US$24 billion less than…

• Nigerian Lawmakers Urge Change of Oil Well Ownership

  Published 18 July 2016 | viewed 6,116 times

  Legislators from the South-South and South East regions of Nigeria have urged the federal government of the country to change the ownership rules for oil…

• Two Oil Shipments Delayed At Libya’s Hariga Port

  Published 18 July 2016 | viewed 7,354 times

  Protests over unpaid salaries from a unit of the Libyan Petroleum Facilities Guard have caused a delay of two shipments of crude oil from the…