The managing director of Pars Oil and Gas Company with installation of the jacket of Phase 11 the natural gas production of the gas field surpassed 700 million cubic meters. Mohammad Meshkinfam said the offshore part of Phase 11, and six platforms of phases 13, 14, 22, 23, and 24 …
Read More »Iraq Expects a Significant Reduction in OPEC Oil Production
The Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Oil, Thamer Al-Ghadban attributed on Sunday the postponement of the conference of oil producing and exporting countries, until next Thursday due to “technical reasons”. Al-Ghadban said, in a statement to the official newspaper, “Al-Sabah”, that “the conference that was scheduled to take place …
Read More »Trump Says Will Put Tariffs on Oil Imports If He Has to
Oil prices have collapsed recently both due to the lowered demand amid the rapid spread of COVID-19 and OPEC+’s failure to reach an agreement on cutting oil output in April. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he “does not care about OPEC” and that he will put tariffs on …
Read More »Gazprom’s LNG Megaproject Doomed to Fail
The gas giant Gazprom is no longer in the spotlight after the US Treasury sanctioned Rosneft, the Russian national oil company, most probably triggering the collapse of the OPEC+ agreement and bringing about an unexpectedly low pricing environment for March 2020 within both the oil and gas segments. Having launched …
Read More »Norway May Join Oil Output Cuts for the First Time Since 2002
Norway, the biggest oil producer in western Europe, said it would consider joining a broad international agreement to cut production. The Nordic nation, whose oil output is set to grow over the next few years, hasn’t been a part of coordinated international cuts to support prices since 2002. OPEC and …
Read More »Majority of OPEC+ States Ready to Cut Oil Output
Oil prices suffered their worst decline in decades in March after Russia and Saudi Arabia failed to reach a deal on output cuts amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo is in constant contact with the OPEC+ countries; the main participants in the group support the idea …
Read More »Spain and Sweden are Europe’s Cheapest Markets for PPA
Spain and Sweden have the cheapest power purchase agreement (PPA) prices in Europe for wind and solar energy, according to data from Bloomberg NEF’s (BNEF) 1H 2020 European Corporate PPA Price Survey. Sweden, with prices set around €30.50/MWh, is the cheapest market for onshore wind corporate PPAs. In the solar …
Read More »IAEA to Send Two Rapid Coronavirus Testing Devices to Iran
Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency says the IAEA will soon send two rapid coronavirus diagnostic test devices to Iran. Kazem Gharibabadi said following consultations between the two sides, the International Atomic Energy Agency decided to send two RT-PCRs to Iran. “In addition to these …
Read More »Iran Completes Oil Products Storage Terminal, Names it after Soleimani
The National Iranian oil Refining and Distribution Company has completed a new oil products storage terminal in northwestern Iran, named after slain military commander Qassem Soleimani, the semi-official news agency ILNA reported on Saturday. The terminal, in Orumiyeh, has the capacity to store 118 million litres of oil, gasoline and …
Read More »OPEC+ Emergency Meeting Likely to be Postponed to April 8 or 9
OPEC and its allies will not hold their emergency virtual meeting on Monday and will likely postpone it until April 8 or 9 to allow more time for negotiations among oil producers on crude supply cuts, two OPEC sources said on Saturday.
Read More »
Iran Energy News Oil, Gas, Petrochemical and Energy Field Specialized Channel