US imports of crude oil from Iraq averaged 434 thousand barrels per day (bpd) last week, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Sunday, amid a growing appetite for the black gold during the same period. In its weekly report on U.S. oil imports, EIA Said that the U.S. imports …

Russia, the world’s third-largest oil producer, has long been an unknown when it comes to the OPEC+ production agreement which caps the petroleum output of participants to support higher prices. It was Moscow’s spat with Saudi Arabia over production quotas in early 2020 which, combined with the emergence of the …

Germany has objected to draft EU plans to label nuclear power plants as an environmentally friendly energy source that can help countries reach their climate change goals. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s new three-party coalition government voiced its objections in a formal letter to Brussels, ministers said on Saturday. The EU aims …

For the second year in a row Russia loses to Saudi Arabia the competition for the world’s largest oil market. China, which buys more than 10% of world oil production daily, reduced imports of Russian oil in 2021, TASS reports, citing statistics from the General Administration of Customs of China. …

America’s production of fossil fuels is expected to hit a record high in 2023, as continued improvements in drilling efficiency in oil and gas and high enough oil prices will support increased output of all fossil fuels, including coal, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Friday. The combined …

China, the world’s biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas, kicked off an unprecedented effort to resell its supply, alleviating global fuel shortage fears that have sparked record prices this winter. Two of China’s biggest state-owned LNG importers released tenders this week offering to sell dozens of cargoes for delivery through …

A team of scientists in China and Britain have made what they say is a breakthrough in the quest to use sunlight to produce hydrogen, which can be used as a power source or in industry. In a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications last week, the scientists …

The Kurdistan Region sits upon the world’s seventh-largest gas reserves-one rank behind Saudi Arabia, member of Kurdistan’s Parliament Ali Hama Saleh said on Saturday, citing the benefits of the Region’s future replacement of oil if exploited properly. “The Kurdistan Region, in comparison to the world’s countries, enlists as the seventh-largest …

European Union climate chief Frans Timmermans called on member states to increase investment in renewable energy and eventually wean the continent off Russian gas. Tensions between the bloc and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been escalating amid accusations that Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s state-owned energy company, isn’t doing more to fill …

Expansion of energy exchanges between Russia and Iran as two countries possessing respectively 37 percent and 15 percent of gas and oil reservoirs in the world can pave the way for diminishing petrodollar dominance if Moscow and Tehran omit dollar in economic interactions. The increase of bilateral cooperation between Iran …