The first major contracts for Saudi Arabia’s Jafurah field – supposedly, the biggest shale gas field outside the U.S. – were awarded last week, as the Kingdom aims to become the third largest natural gas producer in the world by 2030, to the point where it could even become a …

On Tuesday, European natural gas futures jumped after U.S. and European allies weighed new sanctions against Russia if it should invade Ukraine. Cold weather is not the only driver of natgas prices but also geopolitical instability in the region has helped push prices near 100 euros per megawatt-hour. According to …

China is likely to commence the operations of 412 petrochemicals projects between 2021 and 2025, accounting for about 50% of the total upcoming petrochemicals project starts in Asia by 2025, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. GlobalData’s latest report, ‘Global Petrochemicals New-Build and Expansion Projects Outlook, 2021-2025’ …

QatarEnergy said that its LNG producing affiliate, Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company, has entered into a long-term Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with China’s Guangdong Energy Group Natural Gas Company. The SPA is for the supply of one million tons per annum of LNG to China over a 10-year …

In the showdown over Russia’s implicit threat to invade Ukraine, the United States and European allies are eyeing what they see is a major vulnerability for Moscow — the just-completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline to carry natural gas to Europe. US officials made clear Tuesday after President Joe Biden’s two-hour …

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 …