The EU'.s market reform package is very much moving in the right direction.

Economic pressure on Saudi Arabia is set to intensify as the state spends at home and abroad.

Unlike many consumer products. few Chinese-made vehicles are sold in the United States.

During the period of sanctions. oil production in the country was capped at about 2.7 million barrels a day. including 1 million barrels sent to export markets.

Iraq has undertaken the second largest cut in oil output after Saudi Arabia among the participants of the OPEC deal signed last year in Vienna.

The US shale oil output will make up more than half of the 1.5 mb d in non-OPEC supply growth forecast for the next year.

Given the current realities in the EU. especially after Brexit. the implementation of South Stream will be impossible without Germany’s approval.

A branch of Gazprom is operating in Rio de Janeiro.

Over past years. 5.000 trucks transit goods between the two countries. now it reaches to 15.000.

OxyMem’s status in the clean energy sector has soared since Byrne. Prof Eoin Casey and Dr Eoin Syron founded it at UCD in 2013.