Energy Economy

A second wave of Covid-19 infections in China’s capital is threatening to depress the nation’s appetite for American oil just after a pick-up in purchases. Signs of weakening demand from the world’s largest oil consumer are now starting to weigh on export prices for American crude, according to industry participants. …

The unprecedented OPEC+ deal in April, which led to drastic output cuts, is now entering its most dangerous phase, with oil demand and prices recovering. At the time, President Donald Trump claimed credit for the breakthrough, even though the U.S., the world’s biggest oil producer, wasn’t part of the agreement. …

India’s UCO Bank is exploring the avenues to keep the rupee payment mechanism with Iran alive, amid the challenges made by the US’ unilateral sanctions. According to A K Goel, MD and CEO of UCO Bank, with India no longer importing oil from Iran, the lender is in talks with …

The Iranian president says Iran is building a major pipeline to transferring oil from west of the Persian Gulf to its east, cutting dependence on Hormuz Strait for oil exports. President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday described the pipeline project as a major and significant national program. “We are doing a …

OPEC+ nations that had been pumping more oil than their quotas allow for are starting to fall in line and provide details to other members of the cartel on how they’ll make extra reductions to compensate. Nigeria, Angola, Gabon and Brunei have submitted plans to the OPEC secretariat in Vienna …

The Russian energy ministry expects the average Urals price to be $35/b in 2020, minister Alexander Novak said in an interview with German daily Handelsblatt published June 20. Russia’s 2020 budget is based on an oil price of $42/b, officials said previously. Novak said he currently only expects oil services …

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh in a phone call with his Iraqi counterpart Ihsan Abdul Jabbar called for more cooperation between the two brotherly and friendly neighbors. Zangeneh congratulated Abdul Jabbar on his designation as the new Iraqi oil minister in Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s administration. During the phone call, both …

Saad al-Kaabi, Qatari energy minister and chief executive of Qatar Petroleum, announced that his country intends to expand the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, i.e. its North Field (known in Iran as South Pars) gas field, and expects investment opportunities overseas, despite a slump in global energy demand …

Armenian Ambassador to Tehran Artashes Toumanian in a meeting with Head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) Hamid Zadboom underlined the necessity for the revival of trade relations between the two countries which were affected by the coronavirus outbreak.

Iran’s economy will experience an inflation decline by approximately 7% in late March next year, according to an analytical report.