European natural gas futures extended Monday’s gain as traders weigh fresh risks to winter supplies. Dutch front-month prices rose as much as 5.6% after Royal Dutch Shell Plc canceled several liquefied natural gas shipments after an outage in Australia, which will intensify global competition for spot cargoes. Traders are also …

Iraq expects the price of oil to rebound and rise above $75/b in the coming months because current prices are “inappropriate” for producers, the country’s oil minister said Dec. 6, as OPEC+ sticks to its plan to boost output by 400,000 b/d in January. “I think the current oil price …

Amid heightened worry about the course of the pandemic after the emergence of the Omicron variant, Saudi Arabia injected a dose of confidence in markets by raising its official selling price for its flagship Arab Light to a nearly two-year high. Arab Light will sell for $0.60 more per barrel …

Big Oil majors booked profits of a combined $174 billion for the first nine months of the year as they focused on returning cash to shareholders instead of boosting production to arrest a price rally, The Guardian reported this week, citing a report shared exclusively by Accountable.US, a government corruption …

The certification of Nord Stream 2 has now been suspended, and the pipeline can only be put into operation after the completion of this process, a spokeswoman of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany told reporters in Berlin on Monday. “The certification has not yet been …

Sweden started an oil-fired reserve power plant after Poland said it needed help from its neighbours to meet soaring electricity demand as freezing weather has spread across Europe. It’s the latest chapter in the scramble by European countries to secure adequate supplies in the midst of plummeting temperatures and soaring …

Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) discussed with U.S. oil services company Halliburton ways to develop wells and a digital transformation project for the oil sector. The discussions took place yesterday at the NOC’s Tripoli headquarters between NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla and the Vice President of Halliburton for the Middle …

Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC), a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company, has started drilling operations at the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf in search of new hydrocarbon reserves. The Pars Oil and Gas Company stated that the drilling of the new well was part …

When news first broke a few years ago that Russia’s state nuclear energy company was working on a floating nuclear power plant, some took it as a joke. Others mocked it as the worst idea ever. But it turns out it wasn’t such an outlandish idea after all. The Akademik …

Turkey has threatened to block any “unauthorized” search for gas and oil in what it considers its economic exclusive zone in the eastern Mediterranean after Cyprus awarded hydrocarbon exploration and drilling rights to Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum, following a statement issued by the Turkish Foreign Ministry yesterday, 5 December …