Russia’s latest move to cut natural gas supply to Europe is intensifying global competition for seaborne shipments of the fuel, threatening higher prices and shortages from Asia to South America. Utilities in South Korea and Japan are accelerating plans to purchase more liquefied natural gas cargoes for winter out of …
Read More »Iraq, Saudi Arabia Send Crude Oil to Europe through Egypt
Iraq and Saudi Arabia are working on sending their crude oil to Europe in an effort to help the continent’s oil refineries which are desperately trying to give up the oil supplies from Russia. According to a report recently published by Bloomberg, more than one million barrels per day of …
Read More »China Belt and Road Spending Dips, with no Investment in Russia
China’s finance and investment spending in Belt and Road countries fell slightly in the first half compared to a year earlier, with no new coal projects and investments in Russia, Egypt and Sri Lanka falling to zero, new research showed. Saudi Arabia was the biggest recipient of Chinese investments over …
Read More »EIA: U.S. Crude Imports from Iraq Surged Last Week
The U.S. crude oil imports from Iraq averaged 456 thousand barrels per day (bpd) last week, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on the weekend. In its weekly report on U.S. oil imports, EIA said that the U.S. net oil imports averaged 5.722 million bpd last week, up by 439 …
Read More »Libya to Increase Daily Oil Production to 1.2 mln Barrels
The state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) of Libya on Saturday said that it plans to increase the daily oil production to 1.2 million barrels, Trend reports citing Xinhua. “The NOC is striving to increase production and bring it back to its normal rates of 1.2 million barrels per day in …
Read More »Iraq, Kurdistan Choose Dialogue to Ease Oil Dispute
The federal government in Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdish region pledged Saturday to “increase dialogue” to ease a simmering oil dispute that has been playing out in the courts in recent months. The announcement came during a rare visit to the Iraqi capital by the Kurdish region’s prime minister. Masrour …
Read More »Saudi Arabia has Big Plans to Boost Oil Export Capacity
Saudi Arabia expects to have freed up to 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil for exports by 2030 by cutting its direct oil use in power generation as it looks to replace petroleum liquids with gas-powered generation and renewables, Energy Intelligence reports, quoting industry sources. Saudi Arabia relies …
Read More »Iraq, KSA are Helping Europe Overcome a Pivot away from Russian Oil
Saudi Arabia and Iraq are helping Europe wean off of Russian crude, which is increasingly headed to Asia, as Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine reshuffles the global energy market. Europe has imported more than 1 million barrels per day via the SuMed pipeline in the first three weeks of July, …
Read More »Libya Aims to Raise Oil Production to 1.2 Million bpd
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) aims to bring back production to 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) in two weeks, NOC said in a statement. “NOC is striving to increase production and bring it back to its normal rates of 1.2 million barrels per day in two weeks,” according to …
Read More »Saudi Arabia’s Ability to Pump more Oil “Limited”
Saudi Arabia has limited additional crude oil production capacity, Wall Street Journal sources revealed on Wednesday. The sources, who are said to be familiar with Saudi Arabia’s oil production capabilities, were not named. The mystery surrounding Saudi Arabia’s crude production capabilities has grown in recent weeks amid a tight oil …
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