India can’t prioritize eliminating greenhouse gas emissions without sufficient financing from richer nations to help offset the high cost of transitioning to clean energy, according to a senior government official. In laying out its position ahead of key global climate talks later this year, the top bureaucrat in India’s environment …
Read More »Iran Kicks Off Drilling Operation in Joint Forouzan Oilfield
Managing Director of Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) Alireza Salmanzadeh announced on Sunday that drilling and repairing of oil wells have started at Forouzan joint oilfield with the purpose of increasing oil extraction. Salmanzadeh made the remarks after the completion of the installation project of the giant offshore rigs. “Installation …
Read More »Nord Stream 2 98% Ready, Construction Works to be over in August
Construction works under the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project may be finished already in August, Matthias Warnig, managing director of Nord Stream 2 AG, the project operator, said in an interview with the Handelsblatt newspaper on Sunday. “We believe that construction works will be over by the end of …
Read More »No Energy Company will be Unaffected by Clean Energy Transitions
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released a peer-reviewed report today, focussed on the efforts of oil and gas companies to reduce their environmental footprints, concluding that companies’ failure to address growing calls to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could threaten their long-term social acceptability and profitability. The International Energy Agency …
Read More »Iran, Oman Determined to Boost Trade Ties
Iran shares borders with fifteen countries, namely the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, Oman, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kuwait, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. Expansion of trade with these neighbors, specially increasing non-oil exports to them, is one of the major plans that the Iranian government …
Read More »OPEC’s Spat Isn’t even about Oil – It’s about What Comes after Oil
The UAE took oil market watchers by surprise this month when it dug its heels in and refused to agree to an extension of the current OPEC+ production control deal under its original terms. The emirates demanded an adjustment of baseline production levels, noting that November 2018 was hardly reflective …
Read More »U.S. Imports of Crude Oil from Iraq Hiked This Week
British tabloid “The Sun” wrote about “the growing fear of a third world war” against the backdrop of the emergence of Russian submarines in the Baltic Sea and US participation in the “war games” in the Black Sea. The publication notes that a submarine with Oscar-II class cruise missiles (according …
Read More »Eni to Buy Italian Wind Portfolio in Renewable Drive
Eni has agreed to buy one of the largest onshore wind portfolios in Italy from fund manager Glennmont Partners, as part of plans to expand its green energy business. The Italian energy group will buy a 315 megawatt portfolio comprising 13 plants, taking its overall wind capacity in Italy to …
Read More »OPEC+ Production Decision Delay Tests Co-ordination Capacity
OPEC+ has delayed its decision on the extent of crude oil production increases, raising questions about the alliance’s capacity to coordinate production and highlighting disagreements about supply policies, according to Fitch Ratings. Earlier this week, OPEC+ postponed for a third time its meeting to finalise the decision on the next …
Read More »Oil Prices Rise over 2pc as US Inventories Decline
Oil prices rose for a second day on Friday as the market reacted to falling US inventories. Signs of strong Asian demand from both China and India also strengthened the market. Brent crude oil futures were up $1.49, or 2%, at $75.60 a barrel by 1:12 p.m. ET (1712 GMT). …
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