Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh have offered commiserations on the passing of Iran’s OPEC Governor Hossein Kazempour Ardebili. Kazempour Ardebili, 68, passed away in a Tehran hospital on Saturday two weeks after he slipped into a coma due to a brain haemorrhage. In a …

Chinese state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) unveiled a home-grown floating production storage and offloading vessel, known as an FPSO, with the deepest working depth, at 420 meters underwater, on Friday. CNOOC said the vessel will help boost oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea. The 256-meter-long …

The number of U.S. oil and natural gas rigs operating fell to an all-time low for a second week in a row as energy firms slashed spending on new drilling after oil prices collapsed due to a slump in demand amid global lockdowns to stop the coronavirus pandemic. The rig …

Saudi Energy Minister His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud and his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak reaffirmed their respective countries’ firm commitment to maintaining the stability of the global oil markets. The two ministers held a call today during which they underlined their countries’ joint consultations regarding latest developments …

Russian oil producers are confronting their greatest challenge in decades as they try to fend off a historic price slump without permanently damaging their fields. To save the market from collapse caused by the coronavirus, Moscow and its OPEC allies agreed to cut crude output deeper than ever before. Their …

Italian energy major ENI published on May 13 the company’s sustainability report that describes its commitments in its Long-Term Strategic Plan to 2050, which combines financial, environmental and social sustainability. “The historical moment we are going through poses complex challenges on our path, but we are certain that these difficulties …

The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has refined its design for a very small, 3D-printed nuclear reactor, as well as the manufacturing process needed to create it. Last year, ORNL set out to use advances in 3D printing, materials, nuclear science, nuclear engineering and computing to …

Saudi Arabia stood by its pledge to curtail oil output under the OPEC+ deal, reducing shipments to the prized Asian market. Saudi Aramco cut contractual volumes for June loading to at least seven Asian customers, according to traders notified by the state-owned company. Three other regional buyers received what they …

The rebalancing of the oil market is underway and will accelerate, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said on Wednesday, May 13, days after some of its members voluntarily increased their production cuts. The world oil market was thrown into disarray earlier this year as lockdown measures imposed …

It will take more than a year, and perhaps several, for oil demand to recover to what it was before the coronavirus shuttered economies and caused energy markets to collapse, according to the head of the International Energy Agency. Crude demand of about 100 million barrels a day prior to …