Russian refineries are keeping output low despite the end of spring turnarounds, as crude availability becomes tight as a result of cuts agreed by OPEC and its allies, according to trading sources. “There is a dearth of crude supply, and volumes are reduced,” a trader said. Refinery throughput at Russian …

OPEC+ is seeking extra production cuts from members that haven’t missed their targets again in June, potentially tempering the impact of the supply resumption planned by the wider coalition next month. A technical committee that met online on Tuesday outlined plans for countries including Iraq, Nigeria and Kazakhstan to make …

Oil prices rose on Wednesday following a sharp drop in U.S. crude inventories, with the market waiting for next steps from a meeting later in the day on the future level of output cuts by OPEC and its allies. Brent crude LCOc1 futures were up 19 cents, or 0.4%, at …

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Tuesday announced that 13 member nations lost 18 percent of their income in 2019 due to both the fall in oil prices and the loss of markets. According to OPEC’s Annual Statistical Bulletin data, the most affected countries were Iran and Venezuela, which …

Qatar’s gas supplies to the UK have reached their highest rate with 42.7 million cubic metres being provided per day over the last three weeks, the Gulf states’ Al-Sharq newspaper reported yesterday. The paper reported that six of the largest tankers had arrived in the station of South Hook Gas …

Demand for OPEC’s crude oil is set to bounce back next year at a historically quick pace, the global coalition said in its July report published Tuesday. OPEC expects demand for its product to spike roughly 25% to 29.8 million barrels per day in 2021, bringing it slightly above levels …

Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas merchant, is making a bet on the trade’s digital future by taking a minority investment in the online platform developer GLX Digital. GLX is among a handful of companies using web-based trading to modernize the world of physical commodities and …

U.S. crude oil production from seven major shale formations is expected to decline by about 56,000 bbl/d in August to about 7.49 million bbl/d, the lowest in the two years, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a monthly forecast on July 13. The biggest decline is forecast for …

OPEC, Russia and allies agreed on Saturday to extend record oil production cuts until the end of July, prolonging a deal that has helped crude prices double in the past two months by withdrawing almost 10 percent of global supplies from the market. It’s a victory for Saudi Arabia and …

In retrospect, it’s impressive that it lasted as long as it did. Four months after OPEC cobbled together a record production cut to offset the demand destruction unleashed by the COVID-19 lockdowns, R-OPEC+ (i.e., OPEC plus Russia and a bunch of non-OPEC exporters) is set to slowly resume pumping more …