Aramco and IBM have announced preliminary plans for a strategic collaboration to establish an Innovation Hub in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The collaboration aims to support high-tech driven economic growth in Saudi Arabia, leveraging emerging technologies in hybrid cloud, AI, and quantum computing to address objectives including circular economy, materials science, …

Japan will keep its investment in the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in Russia, said the nation’s trade chief. The government has requested a Japanese consortium to keep its stake in the project, the nation’s Trade Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura told the press on Tuesday. Japan has few resources of its …

President Joe Biden said he’d seek to impose higher taxes on oil companies that record “windfall” profits without reinvesting in production, with US gasoline prices still high a week ahead of midterm elections. “The oil industry has not met its commitment to invest in America and support the American people,” …

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday said a natural gas hub could be set up in Turkey quite easily and predicted that many countries in Europe would want to make deals for supplies. Putin made his remarks at a news conference in Sochi. Earlier this month, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan …

Turkish authorities are preparing to drill 100 wells on land in 2023 in order to explore oil and natural gas deposits, as well as carry out certain work in the sea, reports TASS. It is assumed that the geological exploration work will be accelerated inside the country and abroad due …

Iran’s non-oil exports have registered a 25 percent increase in the Iranian calendar month to October 22 in comparison to figures from a month earlier, according to the spokesman of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade. Writing on his official Twitter account, Omid Qalibaf also put Iran’s imports during …

After a contract with American Westinghouse company to build the country’s first nuclear plant was announced by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the Left opposition warned that the investment could face problems due to non-compliance with EU rules. The Warsaw government chose Westinghouse for the nuclear project, Morawiecki tweeted on Friday, …

Qatar plans to use its massive liquefied natural gas expansion to transform the nation into the world’s top trader of the super-chilled fuel. “I think we will be one of the largest, if not the largest, LNG trader in the world,” Saad Al Kaabi, the nation’s energy minister and chief …

China is building a vast array of new coal-fired power stations, potentially more than the operating capacity of the US, even though it knows the plants will probably never be fully used. The puzzle of why the world’s leading installer of clean energy is investing so much in the worst …

The 2022 OPEC World Oil Outlook (WOO) will be launched at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) 2022 in Abu Dhabi Today (Monday, 31 October 2022). OPEC’s Secretary General, Haitham Al Ghais, along with OPEC experts, will present the major findings of the WOO 2022, as well …