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• U.S. Steps Up Rhetoric Over Nord Stream 2 Pipeline

  Published 15 January 2019 | viewed 11,432 times

  U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell has sent a letter to several German companies, warning them that they could face sanctions if they continue to…

• Platts Plans To Reform Dated Brent Crude Oil Benchmark

  Published 14 January 2019 | viewed 12,185 times

  In a bid to boost the liquidity of the Brent international crude oil benchmark, S&P Global Platts plans to reform the way Dated Brent is…

• Top Dutch Court To Rule On Groningen Gas Field Suspension

  Published 14 January 2019 | viewed 6,791 times

  The top administrative court of the Netherlands will hear on Thursday two urgent requests to halt gas production at the giant Groningen field, but the…

• OPEC To Publish Quotas For New Production Cut Deal

  Published 14 January 2019 | viewed 9,959 times

  OPEC plans to publish this week the quotas for individual countries under the new OPEC/non-OPEC production cut deal agreed upon on December 7 and in…

• Zimbabwe Now Has The Most Expensive Gasoline In The World

  Published 14 January 2019 | viewed 15,584 times

  Zimbabwe is on a three-day nationwide strike and protests are erupting in the streets after the government of the southern African country doubled fuel prices,…

• Bearish Bets On Diesel Tell A Worrying Story

  Published 14 January 2019 | viewed 10,996 times

  The mood in the crude oil and oil product futures market turned decisively sour in the fourth quarter of 2018 as building crude oil oversupply…

• Saudis Rush To Meet Japan’s Oil Needs

  Published 14 January 2019 | viewed 11,010 times

  Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih discussed on Monday how Saudi Arabia could meet Japan’s petroleum requirements in a meeting with the Japanese minister for economy…

• Plunging Gasoline Prices Lead To First U.S. Consumer Price Drop In Nine Months

  Published 14 January 2019 | viewed 8,443 times

  U.S. consumer prices inched down by 0.1 percent in December, due to a sharp decline in gasoline futures, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said…

• Norway’s Oil Production To Fall To 30-Year Low

  Published 12 January 2019 | viewed 28,370 times

  Despite cost controls, increased efficiency, and higher activity offshore Norway, oil production at Western Europe’s largest oil producer fell in 2018 compared to 2017 and…

• India’s Oil Imports From Iran Still Low Due To U.S. Sanctions

  Published 11 January 2019 | viewed 21,750 times

  Indian oil imports from Iran plunged by 41 percent on the year to just over 300,000 bpd in December, roughly around the level of Iranian…

• Renewables, Natural Gas To Lead New U.S. Electric Capacity  

  Published 11 January 2019 | viewed 15,975 times

  Wind, natural gas, and solar capacity will lead the new electricity capacity in the United States this year, while coal-fired generation will account for more…

• Angola Prepares For First Oil Licensing Round In Eight Years

  Published 11 January 2019 | viewed 9,790 times

  OPEC producer Angola is putting the finishing touches on its first oil licensing round in eight years, hoping to replace dwindling production at some maturing…

• Gas Pipeline TAP Completes $4.5B Project Financing

  Published 11 January 2019 | viewed 10,816 times

  The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP)—one of the European Union’s (EU) key strategic infrastructure projects to diversify Europe’s gas deliveries away from Russia—has secured US$4.5 billion…

• Russia’s Coal Exports, Production Hit Five-Year High In 2018

  Published 11 January 2019 | viewed 13,573 times

  Russia’s production and exports of coal hit last year their highest levels since 2013, according to S&P Global Platts estimates of data from Russia’s Energy…

• Saudi Arabia Closes $500 Million Wind Farm Deal

  Published 10 January 2019 | viewed 10,861 times

  Saudi Arabia has made a first tangible step to generate electricity from sources other than oil and gas, awarding a contract on Thursday for the…

• Iran’s Oil Minister: We Will Not Comply With Illegal U.S. Sanctions

  Published 10 January 2019 | viewed 12,232 times

  Iran will not be complying with the “fully illegal” U.S. sanctions, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Thursday, in yet another defiant statement from…

• Glencore Loses Exclusive Oil Sale Rights To Libyan Crude Grades

  Published 10 January 2019 | viewed 9,452 times

  Glencore has lost its exclusive right to market two of Libya’s crude grades and oil companies like Shell and BP have already had their first…

• Italy Looks To Block Oil, Gas Exploration Permits

  Published 10 January 2019 | viewed 18,924 times

  Italy plans to suspend the issuing of 36 pending oil and gas exploration permits, as the government finds upstream oil and gas activity not of…

• Saudi Aramco Set To Disclose Accounts, Oil Reserves In Planned Bond Sale

  Published 10 January 2019 | viewed 9,030 times

  Saudi Aramco is getting ready to issue a bond in the second quarter of 2019 to help it finance the acquisition of a majority stake…

• OPEC’s No.2 Boosted Production, Exports Just Before Cuts Began

  Published 10 January 2019 | viewed 18,381 times

  Iraq increased in December both its oil production and exports, just ahead of the start of the new round of OPEC cuts, but OPEC’s second-largest…