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• How The Oil Crisis Has Impacted Military Spending

  Published 09 April 2016 | viewed 23,190 times

  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…

• BP Sets Up Shale Gas Operation In China

  Published 06 April 2016 | viewed 6,908 times

  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…

• Saudi Arabia Buying Up Land In The U.S. Southwest To Feed Its Cows

  Published 02 April 2016 | viewed 10,570 times

  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…

• Gas Pipeline Uses 160 Eminent Domain Suits To Get Property In 3 States

  Published 31 March 2016 | viewed 15,284 times

  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…

• Shell Looking To Sell The Famous Brent Field, But Who Will Buy?

  Published 30 March 2016 | viewed 12,359 times

  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…

• Schlumberger And Cameron See Path Clear For Merger

  Published 29 March 2016 | viewed 5,872 times

  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,…

• Canadian Oil Sees Silver Lining To Decline In U.S. Shale

  Published 25 March 2016 | viewed 9,755 times

  After the slow and painful death of Canadian oil exports - helped along by crashing oil prices, a global supply glut, and the languishing Keystone…

• Oman Gas Projects Could Undermine U.S. LNG Market Ambitions

  Published 23 March 2016 | viewed 12,180 times

  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 Oil Industry Gets Tax Break, Too Little Too Late

  Published 22 March 2016 | viewed 5,618 times

  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…

• China’s Oil Majors See Production In Biggest Fields Shrink

  Published 21 March 2016 | viewed 11,875 times

  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,…

• Eni’s Arctic Field Comes Online, But Will it Ever Be Profitable?

  Published 16 March 2016 | viewed 6,131 times

  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…

• Argentina’s YPF Ousts ‘’Magician’’ In Favor Of Banker

  Published 15 March 2016 | viewed 6,045 times

  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…

• Will Nigeria Beat Corruption With This Massive Oil Company Split

  Published 11 March 2016 | viewed 5,845 times

  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 Weathers Price Rout, Sets Ambitious Plans for Future

  Published 09 March 2016 | viewed 5,972 times

  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,…

• Can LNG Exports Help Ailing US Producers? Apparently Not

  Published 08 March 2016 | viewed 17,656 times

  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…

• Shell Hopes To Sell $30 Billion In Assets, But Timing Is Terrible

  Published 05 March 2016 | viewed 15,226 times

  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…

• Mired In Debt, Petrobras To Sell Off Assets In Argentina

  Published 03 March 2016 | viewed 5,271 times

  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…

• Upstream Debt May Put Pipelines Under Pressure

  Published 26 February 2016 | viewed 8,183 times

  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…

• 35% Of Public Oil Companies Could Face Bankruptcy

  Published 24 February 2016 | viewed 27,391 times

  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.…

• Russia So Desperate It Could Sell Off State-Owned Oil Assets

  Published 04 February 2016 | viewed 12,250 times

  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…