The U.S. oil industry has a message to President Joe Biden’s recent climate executive orders involving the oil and gas sector—restricting America’s oil production would increase its reliance on foreign imports of oil with more emissions than the crude pumped from America’s oilfields. Over the past two weeks, President Biden …
Read More »EV’s Are A Large Part of the Clean Energy Boom
Over the past half decade, the energy sector has been going through a major seismic shift, pivoting away from fossil fuels toward cleaner, renewable alternatives. The sector has, amazingly, maintained its momentum amid the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns that brutally disrupted the entire global energy sector. A recent report …
Read More »OPEC+ Success with Oil Strategy Buys Time before Tough Choices
OPEC and its allies can celebrate their success in steadying world oil markets when they gather this week. But the coalition will soon be faced with some tough choices. Last month’s pledge by Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman to slash production by a further 1 million barrels …
Read More »OPEC+ Committed to Achieve 99% of Agreed Oil Cuts
OPEC and its partners expect that the agreed oil-supply curbs will reach 99 percent in January, Bloomberg reported, citing an unnamed delegate. The implementation among the OPEC members was at 103 percent, while it reached 93 percent for non-OPEC partners, including Russia and Kazakhstan, last month. The compliance data is …
Read More »Iran Top Petrochemical Power in Region
Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh underlined that the country’s petrochemical industry is among the most powerful ones in terms of technology, equipment and production rate. “We are one of the top petrochemical countries in region in terms of technology and the ability to build much-needed equipment, as well as the …
Read More »ExxonMobil, Chevron Bosses Mulled Combining Operations amid Volatile Oil Markets
ExxonMobil and Chevron bosses last year discussed merging the two biggest oil producers in the U.S., Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the meeting. According to Bloomberg, ExxonMobil chief executive officer Darren Woods and Chevron CEO Michael Wirth discussed a potential consolidation of the oil …
Read More »Russia may File Lawsuit over Hindrances to Nord Stream 2
Russia may file a lawsuit over the hindrances other countries have been posing to the gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev told Russian mass media in an interview. “If there are reasons for this, it goes without saying the issue may be …
Read More »Oil Prices Up over Saudi Output Cut, Vaccine Hopes
Oil prices rose on Monday, boosted by the start of Saudi Arabia’s production cut of 1 million barrels per day (bpd) and with positive reports on the new coronavirus vaccines. International benchmark Brent crude was trading at $55.38 per barrel at 0654 GMT for a 0.65% rise after closing the …
Read More »OPEC+ Sees Almost Full Compliance with January Oil-Supply Cuts
OPEC and its partners estimate they implemented 99% of their agreed oil-supply curbs in January, according to a delegate who asked not to be named. The 23-nation alliance known as OPEC+ aimed to withhold 7.2 million barrels a day of crude from the market this month — about 7% of …
Read More »Saudi Arabia will Sell more Shares of Energy Giant Aramco
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Thursday the kingdom will sell more shares of energy giant Aramco in the coming years, following the world’s biggest public listing in 2019. “There will be Aramco share offerings in the coming years, and this cash will be transferred to… the Public Investment …
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