Wall Street stocks mostly fell on Monday, April 13, ahead of major earnings reports, while the oil market gave a muted response to an historic deal by major producers to cut output. Two of the 3 major United States stock indices ended solidly lower ahead of Tuesday, April 14, when …
Read More »Major Investment Projects Continue for Gazprom
The Gazprom Management Committee has taken note of information about the status of the Company’s major investment projects. Within the Eastern Gas Program, Gazprom continues to ramp up its production and gas transmission capacities. At the Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia, the Company is setting up the facilities required to bring …
Read More »Saudi Arabia Cuts Oil Prices to Asia, Raises US
Saudi Arabia has announced its official crude pricing (OSP) for May, selling oil more cheaply to Asia while keeping prices flat for Europe and raising them for the U.S., after OPEC and its allies agreed the biggest output cut deal in history. Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant Saudi Aramco has …
Read More »New OPEC+ Deal Could Mean Over 15 Million Barrels per Day in Cuts
Late last week, OPEC and non-cartel oil producers reached a new major agreement stipulating a collective reduction in oil output by around 10 million barrels per day effective 1 May. Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO Kirill Dmitriev told the broadcaster CNBC on Monday that the total oil production decrease …
Read More »Putin Makes Painful Climb down as Russia Sues for Peace in Oil Price War
Vladimir Putin’s deal with OPEC to cut oil output and boost prices three years ago was a triumph for the Russian leader, bolstering his clout on the global stage. But now he’s had to make stinging concessions after US President Donald Trump stepped in to end a price war. Amid …
Read More »Goldman Sachs still Sees Crude Prices Falling after OPEC+ Deal
Goldman Sachs said on Sunday that the deal between major oil producers to cut output by nearly 10 million barrels per day is ‘historic yet insufficient,’ adding that no deal would be enough to offset the sharp drop in demand already occurring. The investment bank still expects oil prices to …
Read More »OPEC+ Cuts Deep into Global Supply, but not Deep Enough
OPEC and its allies have finalized an historic deal to take 9.7mn barrels per day (bpd) of oil supply off the market – just under 10% of global production – to help the industry through its worst crisis in a century. Following emergency talks on April 9, the group originally …
Read More »OPEC + Agreement will Help Support Prices
The Iraqi Minister of Oil, Thamer Al-Ghadban announced on Monday an agreement to reduce oil production that will help reduce stocks and support prices. Iraq welcomed the results of the OPEC + meeting, which reached the commitment of the members of the group to a historic cut in production to …
Read More »Oil Climbs more than 4% as OPEC+ Agree Record Output Cut
Oil prices jumped more than $1 a barrel on Monday after major producers finally agreed their biggest-ever output cut, but gains were capped amid concern that it won’t be enough to head off oversupply with the coronavirus pandemic hammering demand, Trend reports with reference to Reuters. After four days of …
Read More »Trump Hails OPEC+ Agreement to Cut Oil Production for Saving U.S. Energy Jobs
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday welcomed a deal to cut oil production reached by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and some other major oil producing countries, known as OPEC+, as it will save hundreds of thousands of U.S. energy jobs. “The big Oil Deal with OPEC …
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