Oil climbed as investors weighed a surge in Omicron cases against signs that the new strain is not as severe as previous waves. Brent was 0.39 per cent higher at 9.40am UAE time after losing 0.9 per cent in the previous session. West Texas Intermediate, which didn’t trade on Friday …

Japan’s industry ministry said on Monday it will hold an auction on Feb. 9 to sell about 100,000 kilolitres, or 628,980 barrels, of crude oil from its national reserve as a part of a U.S.-led coordinated release of oil reserve to cool rising prices. The supply, to be taken from …

Saudi Arabia’s exports soared in October as the world’s biggest oil exporter benefited from higher crude prices. The value of exports jumped to 106.2 billion riyals ($28 billion) from 55.9 billion riyals a year ago, according to the kingdom’s General Authority for Statistics. The share of oil in total exports …

As part of its pledges during the COP26 climate summit last month, India—where coal currently accounts for around 70% of electricity generation—committed to net-zero emissions by 2070, and 500 gigawatts (GW) of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030. In late October, an expert committee appointed by the power ministry submitted …

Russia’s Gazprom once again refrained from booking gas transit capacity of the Yamal-Europe pipeline for delivery through Poland for Sunday during an additional auction session, the data from GSA Platform showed. At the regular auction session on Saturday, the offer to book Sunday capacity at the entry point to the …

Despite its decreased appetite, U.S. imports of crude oil from Iraq jumped to 359 thousand barrels per day (bpd) last week, 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 5.234 million bpd this week, down …

Due to the reduction of Iran’s gas exports to Iraq from 52 million cubic meters per day to 8 mcm/d in recent months, the neighboring country’s electricity generation has decreased by 3,400 megawatts, a member of the board of the Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce said. Hamid Hosseini said in an …

The allegations of insufficient gas supplies against Russia and the Gazprom energy corporation are unacceptable and groundless, European states create obstacles for themselves, Spokesman for the Russian gas giant Sergey Kupriyanov told the Rossiya-1 TV channel. “All accusations against Russia and Gazprom relating to delivering insufficient amount of gas to …

The agreement between Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan on a natural gas swap deal for up to 2 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas is expected to take effect early 2022, Iran’s oil minister Jadav Owji confirmed. “The size of the swap contract is 1.5 to 2 billion cubic meters of …

Iraq collectively grossed more than eight billion dollars from oil sales last November, according to a survey by the state oil marketer, SOMO. Crude oil exports amounted to 98,192,317 barrels, yielding 7,610,850,000 dollars, SOMO survey said. Exports from oilfields in mid and south Iraq were 95,860,149 barrels, while Kirkuk oilfields, …