The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has lowered its oil demand forecast for 2021 again, according to the latest version of the Monthly Oil Market Report released on Monday. OPEC now expects global oil demand to fall by 9.77 million barrels per day in 2020 to reach 89.99 …
Read More »Norway Launches Major Wind Power Research Centre
Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Tina Bru, has announced an investment of $13.73 million in a new windpower research centre. The NorthWind research centre will work on innovations to make wind power cheaper, more efficient, and more sustainable. One of the centre’s main priorities will be offshore wind research. …
Read More »Russia’s Rosneft Discovers New Gas Field in Kara Sea
Russian energy giant Rosneft on Tuesday said it had discovered a new gas field in the Kara Sea with total reserves of 514 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas and 53 million tonnes of condensate.
Read More »Iraq Reduced Its Oil Production the most in November
OPEC announced, on Tuesday, that Iraq is the country that has reduced its oil production the most, while Libya was the most productive country in the organization in November 2020. The organization said in its monthly report, “total OPEC-13 crude oil production averaged 25.11 million barrels per day in November …
Read More »OPEC Sees Latest COVID-19 Surge Hitting Oil Demand
Excitement over the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine today had oil prices surging this morning, but the rally fizzled after OPEC put out its monthly oil market report. Citing further uncertainty in the transportation sector caused by surging cases of COVID-19, the group lowered its estimates for a recovery in …
Read More »Azerbaijan, Turkey to Ink MoU on New Gas Pipeline
Azerbaijan and Turkey are expected to ink a memorandum of understanding on Igdir-Nakhchivan gas pipeline, Trend reports citing Turkish media. Azerbaijan’s energy ministry confirmed the information, saying that the details of the document will be revealed after its signing. Reportedly, the document is expected to be signed on Dec.15 between …
Read More »ExxonMobil and Petronas Discover Hydrocarbons in Block 52 off Suriname
ExxonMobil subsidiary ExxonMobil Exploration and Petronas Suriname Exploration & Production (PSEPBV) have discovered hydrocarbons offshore Suriname. The companies have discovered hydrocarbons at the Sloanea-1 exploration well on Block 52. Drilled by operator Petronas, the latest discovery is being examined to determine the well’s resource potential. Block 52 covers an area …
Read More »Iran Needs No Permissions to Return to Oil Market
Iranian Petroleum Minister Bijan Zangeneh said on Monday that Iran will not seek the permission of others to return to oil market because it believes it has right to do so. He said that it is possible for Iran to revive a 2.3 million bpd of oil exports. “As a …
Read More »Pandemic Causes Dizzying Drop in Global Oil Demand
In addition to the great consequences for human health, the pandemic has led to serious socio-economic shocks in most countries of the world, including in the Arab countries, Minister of Energy of Algeria Abdelmadjid Attar said RABAT, December 14. /TASS/. An extremely difficult situation has developed in the global economy …
Read More »Oil Prices Rise on Vaccine Hopes, Tanker Blast at Saudi Arabia
Oil prices rose on Monday, pushing Brent back above $50 a barrel, buoyed by hopes that a rollout of coronavirus vaccines will lift global fuel demand while a tanker explosion in Saudi Arabia jangled nerves in the market. Brent crude futures for February rose 67 cents, or 1.3%, to $50.64 …
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