OPEC oil output has risen by more than 1 million barrels per day (bpd) in July as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf members ended their voluntary extra supply curbs on top of an OPEC-led deal, and other members made limited progress on compliance. The 13-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting …

Global oil demand might never return to levels seen before the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said on Thursday. “Demand will take a long time to recover if it recovers at all,” van Beurden told reporters after the Anglo-Dutch energy company reported a …

Iraq’s crude oil exports have increased so far in July, shipping data showed and industry sources said, suggesting OPEC’s second-largest producer is still undershooting its production cut target under an OPEC-led deal. Exports from Basra and other southern Iraq terminals to July 29 averaged 2.75 million bpd, based on figures …

Iranian President’s Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi said that lifting Iran’s arms embargo is one of the JCPOA’s most important commitments, stressing that JCPOA will not continue without lifting it. In a late Wednesday tweet, Vaezi wrote, “The recent measures by US officials to impose their will on members of …

Shell said on Thursday that it had booked a loss of $18.1 billion for the second quarter of 2020 compared to a profit of $3 billion in the same period last year. Shell explained that this included an impairment charge of $16.8 billion post-tax, $22.3 billion pre-tax, as a result …

The historic OPEC+ output cuts agreement has kept vast quantities of oil in the ground. This represents an opportunity for hedging these remaining barrels in their reservoirs and selling them at specified prices in the future. Mexico may be one of the few, if not the only, producer whose budget …

Iranian Foreign Ministry in an announcement on Wed. emphasized that Islamic Republic of Iran will pursue a complaint concerning its frozen assets against the South Korean banks in the international courts of justice. Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated, “No telephone calls have been made by the spokesperson of the …

Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations said that Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is annexed to UN Security Council Resolution 2231, and the US has legal obligations to implement. In a Thursday tweet, Majid Takht-Ravanchi wrote, “The US—with media stunts—continues to claim JCPOA has no legal …

The coronavirus crisis may have triggered the long-anticipated tipping point in oil demand and it is focusing minds in OPEC. The pandemic drove down daily crude consumption by as much as a third earlier this year, at a time when the rise of electric vehicles and a shift to renewable …

US sanctions against Nord Stream 2 challenge the attractiveness of investing in Europe, Chairman of Executive Board of Austria’s OMV, one of Gazprom’s financial partners on the project, Rainer Seele said during a conference call on Wednesday. “In any case, as a European company, we expect politicians to ensure Europe’s …