Iran has completed 13 phases of South Pars Gas Field (SPGF) in the past seven years to bring the country’s production of natural gas to 700 million cubic meters from this field. Development of South Pars Gas Field has been among the top priorities of the Ministry of Petroleum. Seven …
Read More »OPEC Seeks Relevance as Doubts Swirl on Oil’s Future
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries turned 60 on September 14 – and despite its colorful past, COVID-19 is proving to be its greatest challenge in that time span. The pandemic wiped out a third of global demand for oil during the darkest days of crisis – the second quarter …
Read More »OPEC+ Expected to Keep Current Output Cuts, despite Signs of Weakening Oil Market
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 …
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