OPEC+ agreed today, Aug. 3, to raise the production target for September by 100,000 barrels per day (bpd), Reuters reported, citing a member of the group. The decision came during the OPEC+ Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee’s meeting today, headed by Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud. The …

Germany blamed Russia on Wednesday for reduced gas supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline and dismissed Gazprom’s claim that disruptions were the result of legal and technical problems. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said a gas turbine repaired in Canada has been waiting for transfer at Siemens Energy’s site in western …

The G7 group of leading industrialized nations continues to explore ways of curbing Russia’s huge revenues from oil, including by considering a ban on all services enabling transportation of Russian oil unless said oil has a price cap, the G7 foreign ministers said on Tuesday. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, …

The European Union has reduced its dependence on Russian gas deliveries by 50 percent, but savings will be necessary to make up for the difference with alternative supplies. This is what the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said this week in a …

It’s no secret that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had a massive global impact. From the sanctions to the natural gas supply cutoffs, the economic toll is both catastrophic and far from over. Currently, economists and other experts are trying to predict how different parts of the world will react …

After a decade of losses and shareholder frustration, the U.S. shale patch is generating record amounts of cash flows and is earning record profits this year as oil prices soar while firms prioritize returns to investors. The public independent U.S. shale producers already had a blockbuster first quarter, with many …

Iran has earned as much money from the export of gas in the past four months as it had received during the whole last year, the oil minister said. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Oil Minister Javad Owji said the income generated by …

Director-General of the UN nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, said that Iran is rapidly making progress in its nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general who is in New York to participate in the 10th Conference to Review the Non-Proliferation Treaty said in a press conference on Tuesday evening …

Samsung Engineering Co. and five other South Korean companies have teamed up with Malaysia’s state energy company Petroliam Nasional Berhad to work on a project to capture, transport and store carbon dioxide, an emerging technology for emissions reduction. Under a memorandum of understanding signed in a virtual meeting in Kuala …

Addressing the 10th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the United States, France and UK issued an anti-Iran statement regarding Iran’s nuclear program. The UK and France and the United States, who unilaterally withdrew from JCPOA, once again repeated their baseless claims against Iran’s …