Key OPEC+ ministers will convene online Sept. 17 in the face of stalling global oil demand, patchy compliance with output cuts, and Libya’s potential return to the market after a month-long blockade that shut down almost all of its crude production. But despite frustration among members that oil prices have …
Read More »Putin to Instruct Government to Appoint Gazprom as Single Gas Program Operator
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he would instruct the government to deliver on the idea of appointing Gazprom as the single operator of gas supply and gasification programs, he said on Wednesday at a meeting with the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller. Miller said that the government is currently …
Read More »Eni and BP Report New Gas Discovery in Great Nooros Area, Egypt
Rome-based Eni SpA and London-based BP PLC on Wednesday announced a new gas discovery in the Great Nooros area, located in the Abu Madi west development lease, offshore Egypt. Eni, through its subsidiary IEOC, holds a 75% stake in the license of Abu Madi, while BP holds the remaining 25% …
Read More »Iraq may Lose $50bn over OPEC+ Deal
Iraq’s commitment to a recent agreement by the Russian-led OPEC+ group will deprive the country of 750,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd), the former Iraqi oil minister warned yesterday. “OPEC+ deal would incur $50 billion in losses over the next two years,” Ibrahim Bahr Al-Ulloum told Russia Today (RT). …
Read More »Oil Giants Plan for a Future with Less Crude and More Hydrogen
Indian Oil Corp., one of the biggest refiners in Asia, is taking the bus to reach what it considers the future of energy: hydrogen. The company that sells almost half the oil products in India will deploy 50 buses around the capital powered by fuel cells running on hydrogen-compressed natural …
Read More »China’s National Oil Company Brings First Offshore Wind Project into Operation
China’s offshore oil and gas major CNOOC Ltd announced on Tuesday that its first offshore wind power project has connected to the grid and begun to generate power The wind power project, located in the sea area nearby China’s eastern province of Jiangsu, and with a total installed capacity of …
Read More »Oil Market more Fragile as Virus Hurts Demand
The outlook for global oil markets has grown “even more fragile” as a resurgent pandemic derails the recovery in demand, the International Energy Agency said. The IEA, which advises major economies, trimmed forecasts for fuel consumption for the rest of the year and predicted that oil inventories – which rebounded …
Read More »Turkey Backs Off in EastMed, But For How Long?
Turkey withdrew its seismic research vessel, the Oruc Reis, from the contested waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where tensions triggered by the ship’s activities have run high for more than a month. The move came as a surprise for many, and observers wonder whether the move is just a …
Read More »IEA: Except for China, Oil Demand Recovery Slow for Rest of 2020
The International Energy Agency (IEA) trimmed its 2020 oil demand forecast on Sept. 15, citing caution about the pace of economic recovery from the pandemic. The Paris-based IEA cut its 2020 outlook by 200,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) to 91.7 million bbl/d in its second downgrade in as many months. …
Read More »Kuwait Aims to Finish Mideast’s Biggest LNG Terminal by March
Kuwait aims to open what will be the Middle East’s largest import terminal for liquefied natural gas in March, according to two people familiar with the project. The Al-Zour plant will allow Kuwait to receive 22 million tons of LNG (about 31 billion cubic meters) a year, almost doubling the …
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