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• Top U.S. Refiner: Venezuela Sanctions Are Not Disrupting Refining

  Published 14 March 2019 | viewed 9,464 times

  The U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry have not had a significant impact on the operations of the largest U.S. refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp, chairman…

• Norway Plans To Expand Arctic Oil Exploration Areas

  Published 14 March 2019 | viewed 8,030 times

  Norway’s government is proposing to expand the area that will be offered for oil and gas exploration in the 2019 licensing round of acreage in…

• Why Oil & Gas Companies Can’t Snag Millennial Talent

  Published 14 March 2019 | viewed 15,266 times

  The oil and gas sector is facing a stiff competition in attracting young talent in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) because Millennials and Generation…

• Iraq Looks To Boost Crude Oil Trading Business

  Published 14 March 2019 | viewed 5,816 times

  Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) is looking to expand its crude oil trading activities with more spot sales and with opening offices outside Iraq,…

• Eni Makes Major Oil Discovery Offshore Angola

  Published 13 March 2019 | viewed 16,936 times

  Italy’s oil and gas major Eni said on Wednesday that it had made a major oil discovery in Angola’s deepwater in a find that could…

• Venezuela’s Latest Nightmare: Crude Oil In The Tap Water

  Published 13 March 2019 | viewed 20,697 times

  Ordinary people in Venezuela are bearing the brunt of the ongoing power struggle in the country and last week’s blackout. While the power outage in…

• Mexico Could List State Oil Firm Pemex On Local Market

  Published 13 March 2019 | viewed 7,057 times

  Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador does not rule out a possible listing of the ailing state oil firm Pemex on the local market. Pemex…

• The EIA Cuts U.S. Oil Output Projections

  Published 13 March 2019 | viewed 12,567 times

  U.S. crude oil production will continue to set records, but the pace of growth could be slower than what was thought just a month ago,…

• Iran’s Secret Oil Tanker Mission

  Published 13 March 2019 | viewed 6,508 times

  Iran is on a discreet mission to procure second-hand oil tankers in order to keep exporting crude oil. This comes after U.S. sanctions on its…

• North Korea Evades Sanctions With Elaborate Smuggling Strategy

  Published 13 March 2019 | viewed 6,589 times

  North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile program remains in tact while the country continues to defy United Nations resolutions with significantly increased illegal ship-to-ship oil…

• What’s Holding Oil Prices Back?

  Published 13 March 2019 | viewed 7,220 times

  Oil market participants had started to worry in advance about how the U.S. sanctions on Iran in November would impact global supply, causing oil prices…

• U.S. Supermajors Could Form A New Oil Cartel

  Published 12 March 2019 | viewed 12,521 times

  The ambitious shale growth plans of the U.S. supermajors could in the future allow them to control so much of U.S. shale oil production that…

• Russian Oil Firms Ready To Cut Production

  Published 12 March 2019 | viewed 7,720 times

  At an energy ministry meeting earlier this month, Russia’s oil majors confirmed that they would be sticking to the production cuts that Russia had pledged…

• Argentina Looks To Boost Gas Output

  Published 12 March 2019 | viewed 5,489 times

  Argentina aims to build new natural gas pipelines and to attract more investment in oil and gas production in the Vaca Muerta shale play in…

• EPA Chief Urges The World To Buy U.S. Fossil Fuels

  Published 12 March 2019 | viewed 5,977 times

  U.S. oil, natural gas, and coal are being produced in a more environmentally conscious manner than anywhere else on the planet, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…

• Oil Prices Jump As Saudis Promise To Do "Whatever It Takes"

  Published 12 March 2019 | viewed 15,801 times

  Oil prices rose early on Tuesday to their highest level this month, supported by the Saudi pledge to continue cutting deeper and a blackout in…

• Fracking Could Help UK Eliminate Gas Imports By 2030s

  Published 11 March 2019 | viewed 6,197 times

  If the UK were to roll out fracking at its shale gas reserves, it could nearly eliminate its net gas imports by the early 2030s,…

• In A U-Turn, Tesla Raises Car Prices, Backtracks On Stores Closure

  Published 11 March 2019 | viewed 4,981 times

  Less than two weeks after Tesla said that it would cut all vehicle prices by an average of 6 percent and shift sales on online…

• China Boosts Coal To Gas Switching, But Fight On Pollution Gets Tougher

  Published 11 March 2019 | viewed 5,652 times

  In its fight against coal emissions pollution, China significantly stepped up its coal-to-natural gas and coal-to-electricity switch to 35 cities last year from 12 cities…

• Analysts: Permian Oil Output Set To Double By 2023

  Published 11 March 2019 | viewed 14,105 times

  Less than a year ago, IHS Markit predicted that “stunning” growth in the Permian would result in the basin doubling its oil production to 5.4…