International

The signing last week of a multi-pronged memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Saudi Arabian Oil Company – formerly the Arabian American Oil Company – (Aramco) and the China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) is a critical step in China’s ongoing strategy to secure Saudi Arabia as a client state. …

Turkey on Tuesday (9 August) sent its newest drill ship on the first eastern Mediterranean energy exploration mission in nearly two years. The search for natural gas in energy-rich waters around the divided island of Cyprus has turned into an irritant in Turkey’s ties with the European Union. President Recep …

The 165th day of Russian aggression and war against Ukraine is coming to an end. Unpunished evil always returns and commits a bigger crime. Unfortunately, the lessons of Russian aggression against Georgia on 8 August 2008 and the beginning of the war against Ukraine in 2014 were not learned by …

After years of uncertainty and stagnation, the offshore drilling market is on the rebound and is in the early innings of an upcycle in investment and activity that will outpace the 2016-2019 cycle, major services and rig providers say. Analysts and top offshore drilling executives say that offshore rig utilization …

India is among the top importers of crude oil, depending on foreign fuels to meet 85% of its requirements. And it seems to have put its overdependence on imported oil to its advantage when the Ukraine war pushed the fuel prices in the global markets. Saudi Arabia seems to have …

China’s natural gas output has exceeded 100 billion cubic meters per year during the past consecutive five years, thepaper.cn learned from Chinese energy giant China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) on Sunday. The rising output is a result of multiple factors such as technology progress and China’s accelerated efforts to develop …

The UAE government’s net operating surplus more than doubled in the first quarter to Dh36.4 billion ($9.9 billion) as surging oil prices boosted public revenue, finance ministry data showed on Monday. High oil prices and increased production have been a boon for the UAE’s economy this year, along with a …

The Iraqi Minister of Oil, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar, announced on Sunday that Iraq is the only country capable of producing the largest amount of crude oil among the crude oil producing countries in the coming years, according to the AlSabaah newspaper. Jabbar confirmed that Iraq has surplus production ready to …

The offshore oilfield Kashagan in Kazakhstan, which pumps more than 300,000 barrels per day (bpd), was shut down on Thursday after a gas leak was detected on the site, the field operator said on Friday. “NCOC, the Operator of the North Caspian Project, confirms that on 3 August 2022, Bolashak …

Russia’s share of the Indian oil market is growing at the expense of Saudi imports, Bloomberg has reported, noting Russian oil has been selling at a sizeable discount to Saudi crude. Russia became the second-biggest oil supplier to India in June, after Iraq, which remained the biggest oil supplier to …