U.S. imports of crude oil from Iraq last week averaged 226 thousand barrels per day (bpd), the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said this weekend. In its weekly report on U.S. oil imports, EIA said that the U.S. imports averaged 5.910 million bpd last week, down by 77 thousand bpd from …

China’s representative at the Vienna multilateral talks to revive Iran’s nuclear deal says the negotiations are in the concluding stages. Wang Qun told Iran International on Saturday that the Iranian negotiating team has returned to the talks with their final package. Answering a question about the remaining issues that should …

Russia could get an additional $65 billion for its state coffers this year if higher oil prices remain resilient, Bloomberg reported this week, citing estimates made by economists. For the windfall to realize, prices need to remain around $90 per barrel of Brent for the rest of the year, according …

The number of active drilling rigs in the United States rose by 22 this week—the 16th straight weekly increase to the number of oil and gas rigs in the United States, and the largest single-week rise since February 2018. The total rig count now sits at 635 as the price …

After becoming the world’s largest importer of liquefied natural gas, China is now looking to become a factor in global LNG trade, analysts tell Reuters. China was the single biggest contributor to the rise in global LNG demand in 2021, after a lackluster 2020, due to the pandemic slump in …

Oil prices rose for an eighth straight week amid growing concerns about supply disruptions as a result of intensifying geopolitical tensions in eastern Europe and a rise in demand. Brent, the global benchmark for two thirds of the world’s oil, jumped 3.31 per cent to trade at $94.44 per barrel …

Iranian Oil Minister’s Deputy for Planning said that Parsian Energy Intensive Industrial Special Economic Zone (PEISEZ) is a new hub of oil and gas in Iran and that the ministry assures investors feeding the zone. An advantage of the PEISEZ is that it is close to the oil and gas …

The European Union and the UK have seen their dependence on natural gas imports jump to 80 percent in 2020 from 65 percent in 2010, as regional production plunged, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Friday. The high dependence on gas imports and the low levels of gas …

A report released by Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) indicates that Iran’s oil production in January experienced 21,000 barrels per day increase, reaching the highest production level comparing last three years. Despite continued economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic, its crude oil production reached more than 2.5 million …

Wall Street stocks tumbled and oil prices surged as White House warnings of a possibly imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine reverberated through financial markets. Markets lurched on Friday during a briefing by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who said a Russian invasion could “begin at any time,” including during …