The price of some Middle Eastern oil has climbed after buyers snapped up cheap cargoes as calm returned to Asia’s physical market. The spot differential for cargoes of Abu Dhabi’s Murban crude scheduled to be loaded in June increased more than $1 a barrel in less than a week, according …

Europe’s biggest solar power plant, the under-construction Karapinar plant in Konya in south-central Turkey, is poised to be fully operational by the end of 2022, Cemal Kalyoncu, the chairman of Kalyon Holding, the company responsible for the project, said on Monday. The current installed capacity of the power plant is …

Chinese LNG imports in March were 4.63mn metric tons, down 17% year/year, customs department data published on April 18 showed. The pipeline gas imports in March were 3.36mn mt, up 8.8% yr/yr. The cumulative LNG imports in the first three months of 2022 were 17.28mn mt, down 11.2% yr/yr. China’s …

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) lowered its 2022 Brent spot average price forecast in its April Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO) report, which was released recently. According to the latest STEO, the EIA now sees Brent spot prices averaging $103.37 per barrel this year, which marks a near $2 …

The U.S. government, under pressure to lower gas prices, announced on April 15 that it will resume the sale of leases for oil and gas drilling on federal lands while imposing new conditions, including the first hike in royalties in more than 100 years. Shortly after coming to office in …

Oil prices rose on Monday as concerns grew about tighter global supply, with the deepening crisis in Ukraine raising the prospect of heavier sanctions by the West on top exporter Russia. Brent futures were up US$1.50, or 1.3 per cent, at US$113.20 a barrel at 12.30am GMT, and US West …

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has assigned a working group to make necessary coordination to resolve technical problems of Iraqi power plants that work with Iranian gas. Khadhimi headed a meeting of high ranking Iraqi officials on energy and was briefed on the potential situation of Iraq’s electricity in the …

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) on Sunday declared force majeure on oil exports from the El-Feel oilfield in the country’s southwest. In a statement, the state-owned company said oil production was halted until further notice after a group of people entered the facility and prevented employees from working. It did …

Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi said that his country will not give the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the data recorded by the surveillance cameras at its nuclear installations before reaching an agreement in Vienna talks. The IAEA will have no access to data …

Iraq’s cabinet may reactivate a deal with Halliburton Co. to drill wells in a western gas field in Akkas next month, Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar said. An agreement with Halliburton would enable the oil ministry to get clear data on the production capacity of the Akkas field and it …