Indian Oil Corp., one of the biggest refiners in Asia, is taking the bus to reach what it considers the future of energy: hydrogen. The company that sells almost half the oil products in India will deploy 50 buses around the capital powered by fuel cells running on hydrogen-compressed natural …
Read More »Iran Launches $126m First Phase of Qeshm Oil Terminal in Iran
Iran has announced the launch of the first phase of a new oil export terminal in the Direstan region. The project, which was officially launched by the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, is expected to increase the export capacity of the country. The first phase of the Qeshm oil terminal with …
Read More »OPEC Cooperation on Oil Protects Our Children’s Future
On 14 September 1960, the five Founding Fathers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo of Venezuela; Abdullah al-Tariki of Saudi Arabia; Dr Tala’at al-Shaibani of Iraq; Dr Fuad Rouhani of Iran; and Ahmed Sayed Omar of Kuwait gathered together in the Al-Shaab Hall …
Read More »Iran Exports $2.5bln Worth of Non-Oil Goods to Middle Eastern Countries
Director-General of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization’s Office for Arabian and African Countries Farzad Piltan announced exports of about $2.5 billion worth of non-oil goods from Iran to the Middle Eastern countries over the past five months. “Iraq, the UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Syria, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, and Bahrain have been the …
Read More »COVID-19 Is Transforming the Auto Industry
Automotive players in Turkey expect up to 8m used car sales in 2020 as a pre-pandemic shortage of new vehicles is exacerbated by supply chain disruptions attributed to the virus. Some 2.1m cars and light commercial vehicles were sold in the first quarter of the year, putting the market on …
Read More »Saudi Government Taps into Aramco for Cash, Forcing It to Stall Projects
The world’s biggest oil company is getting squeezed by its main shareholder, the Saudi Arabian government. Even with crude dropping to US$40 a barrel this week and its cash flow plunging, Saudi Aramco is trying to pay a US$75 billion dividend this year, almost all of it to the state. …
Read More »Non-Oil Exports from Iran’s Chabahar Port Almost Doubles
The export of non-oil commodities in the current Iranian year –a period of around 6 months- via the southeastern port city of Chabahar has risen by 95 percent compared to the corresponding period a year earlier, an official said. Director General of the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran in …
Read More »Iran Foreign Trade Exceeds $24 Billion in 5 Months
Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade put the value of Iran's foreign trade in the first five months of the current fiscal (March 20-August 21) at $24.6 billion.
Read More »Merkel Faces Pressure to Drop Russian Pipeline to Punish Putin
Chancellor Angela Merkel is under pressure from within her own party to drop support for a controversial gas pipeline with Russia after links point to the Kremlin in the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny. Norbert Roettgen, head of the German parliament’s foreign affairs committee and a candidate to …
Read More »Iran Deems EU Trade via INSTEX Inadequate
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi said that EU commercial dealings through the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchange (INSTEX) is not satisfactory for his country, adding that Tehran does not count on the system. “It is now two years that the idea (of INSTEX) has started and it …
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