Gulf OPEC producers the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, as well as Iraq, are debating whether they should roll over existing oil supply cuts into 2021, as they struggle to stick to their agreed reductions, OPEC and industry sources said. Their hesitance raises the possibility of reviewing output targets when …
Read More »Trump Issues Executive Order on Fracking
Trump will issue an executive order to require an economic analysis of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as the president seeks to use what he portrays as Biden’s mixed messages on energy to woo voters in the swing states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The order calls for U.S. agencies to analyze …
Read More »Oil Falls 3% on Fuel Demand Concerns as Europe Widens COVID-19 Lockdowns
Oil prices fell more than 3% on Monday on worries that widening coronavirus lockdowns across Europe will weaken fuel demand, and as traders braced for turbulence during the U.S. presidential election week. Brent crude futures for January dropped $1.34, or 3.5%, to $36.60 a barrel by 0410 GMT, while U.S. …
Read More »Samsung to Participate in Building Gas Tankers at Russia’s Zvezda Yard
Republic of Korea’s Samsung is to participate in building gas carriers at Russia’s Zvezda shipyard in the Far East, according to the press office of the Presidential Plenipotentiary in the Far Eastern Federal District. The announcement comes after a meeting between the Co-Chairmen of the Organizing Committee of the year …
Read More »Iran’s 7-Month Non-Oil Exports Stand at $18.2b
Iran exported 65.5 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $18.2 billion during the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20-October 21), registering a 17.5-percent fall in terms of weight, compared to the figure for the previous year’s same period. According to the Head of the Islamic …
Read More »European Lockdowns Upset the Math of the Oil Market
The global oil market looks set for a challenging time in the coming weeks as a combination of negative factors bears down on crude prices. Fortunately, policymakers have tools at their disposal to mitigate the impact and ensure prices do not drop again like they did at the height of …
Read More »Oil Investments are Drying up as Crude Demand Falters
The COVID-19-induced shortage in key oil investments could spell trouble for the entire industry for years to come. Thirty-five percent: this is the size of the spending cuts oil and gas companies are likely to have made this year in response to the effects that the coronavirus pandemic is having …
Read More »Qatar Petroleum Makes New Gas Discovery in S Africa
Qatar Petroleum has announced a new gas/condensate discovery in the Luiperd prospect, located in Block 11B/12B, in the Outeniqua Basin, 175 kilometres off the southern coast of South Africa. This is the second significant discovery in Block 11B/12B, which is being explored by Qatar Petroleum and its partners, Total (operator), …
Read More »Asian Gas Markets Warm up to China’s Surging LNG Demand
Aside from economic growth during a global pandemic, China appears to be also projecting an increase in natural gas demand this winter while other major Asian powers’ gas demand is either expected to remain flat or increase only incrementally. On Thursday, the country’s three state-run oil majors said that China’s …
Read More »Russia Pushes ahead with Plans to Expand Gas Supplies to Asia
As Russia’s relationship with the West reaches a new low, the world’s largest country is now looking East to diversify gas exports to Asian markets. Addressing the plenary session of the 12th VTB Capital’s Russia Calling! Investment Forum via video conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia’s intention to boost …
Read More »