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Anadarko will pay US$2 billion to acquire a number of assets of mining giant Freeport-McMoRan in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil company said yesterday.…
France’s Total has beaten a private equity firm to Chesapeake Energy’s Barnett shale assets. The energy major last week said it had exercised its pre-emptive…
India’s Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan expects the demand for crude oil in the country to rise in excess of 11 percent this year, thanks to…
Lithuania is planning to sue Russia’s Gazprom for overinflated gas prices at a second court in Sweden, after losing an arbitration court case there. This…
The Libyan National Army has taken control of three oil export terminals in the so-called Oil Crescent, wrestling them from the Petroleum Facilities Guard, which…
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Forced by unfavorable market conditions and regulatory delays, Enbridge Energy will drop its planned pipeline project Sandpiper that was to transport crude oil from North…
A series of air strikes conducted by the Syrian army across the country ended with scores of militants dead and various vehicles destroyed, including a…
The Japanese government could become a shareholder in Russia’s oil giant Rosneft, as part of a broad cooperation in the energy sector. The investment that…
It has become perfectly clear by now that Russia is putting a lot of effort into building its relationship with Iran, focusing, of course, on…
As if North Dakota hasn’t been the topic of numerous oil news headlines in recent weeks, it’s making headlines again—this time for some radioactive nuclear…
The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has backed a claim by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe that it should have a say in the…
Clashes between supporters of Gabon’s opposition leader Jean Ping and security forces that began on Wednesday culminated in a fire set to the National Assembly…
Brazil’s embattled state oil giant Petrobras will get access to some US$11 billion in cash following the sale of exploration and production rights to the…
Crude oil inventories in the U.S. rose by 2.3 million barrels to 525.9 million barrels last week, remaining at historically high levels for this time…
Two renowned oil industry experts from Scotland have vigorously criticized Shell’s plans to leave major parts of four platforms in the Brent field standing when…
Five security officers in the employment of Mexico’s state oil company Pemex were caught siphoning fuel from a pipeline in the state of Veracruz as…
Yemeni Houthi armed forces today purportedly struck facilities of Saudi oil giant Aramco in the southwestern part of Saudi Arabia as well as the airport…
Brazil’s oil-producing states are considering the implementation of new taxes for exploration and production companies operating on their territory in a bid to prop up…
China General Nuclear Power Corp. has been indicted by the FBI on allegations that it has been trying to illegally acquire nuclear technology secrets from…