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A report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has revealed that most of the world’s nations hiked their military budgets last year, marking the…
UK-listed BP and China’s CNPC aren’t exactly strangers, already jointly developing Iraq’s Rumaila oilfield, but BP’s new shale gas deal with CNPC is the British…
Unable to sustain their own livestock in the desert, Saudi Arabia is scooping up more and more American farmland, with the onus now on drought-stricken…
Eminent domain is a tough pill to swallow for Americans who take their property rights very seriously, and the aggressive moves by Sabal Trail to…
Royal Dutch Shell has confirmed media reports that it is looking to sell part of its production holdings in the North Sea, saying all these…
The world’s top oilfield services provider Schlumberger announced last week it has received approval from the Chinese antitrust authorities for its acquisition of Cameron International,…
After the slow and painful death of Canadian oil exports - helped along by crashing oil prices, a global supply glut, and the languishing Keystone…
Two separate projects in the sultanate of Oman are about to turn the tiny Gulf country into an important international liquefied natural gas (LNG) player…
UK Chancellor George Osborne announced major tax cuts for the country’s energy industry last week, in hopes of propping it up amid the continued price…
One of the biggest oilfields in China, Daqing, has slipped into a loss of around $700 million over the first two months of this year,…
Italian oil giant Eni launched crude oil production last weekend at the Goliat field in the Norwegian shelf of the Barents Sea with a stark…
As Argentina tries its luck as the next potential venue for a shale boom, the country’s new government goes for a major overhaul of the…
The Nigerian Senate has backed plans by Oil Minister Ibe Kachikwu to split the Nigerian National Oil Company into as many as 30 independent companies.…
Gazprom Neft, the oil-producing and refining arm of gas giant Gazprom, has reported a 21.3 percent increase in its oil and gas output for 2015,…
Growth in U.S. natural gas production may have been the catalyst for the development of massive LNG export projects that led to the first American…
Royal Dutch Shell is planning to sell assets worth a staggering $30 billion in a bid to prop up its balance sheet, after completing the…
Debt-laden Brazilian state-run Petrobras is in exclusive talks with Argentinian Pampa Energia to sell its 67.2 percent stake in its Argentina business to the local…
Just like everything else, the bankruptcy river flows downstream, and as upstream players look to pass their debt burdens onto midstream operations through a rash…
More than one-third of public oil companies globally face bankruptcy, according to a new Deloitte report that paints a fairly gloomy picture of the U.S.…
Reeling under sanctions and a recession caused by depressed oil prices, the Russian government is working to finalize a list of seven strategic state-owned companies…