International

On the eve of talks with Turkey’s president and a key EU summit, the bloc is holding back on sanctions on more Turkish oil company officials, according to media reports. “Work has stopped on additional blacklistings of Turkish individuals, and we are not talking of economic sanctions anymore,” the Reuters …

Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry said it had contained a fire following a March 19 drone attack on its Riyadh refinery, with no interruption to oil supplies and no casualties, in the latest strike claimed by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. The Houthis had earlier announced a hit on an unspecified Saudi …

Indian state refiners are planning to cut oil imports from Saudi Arabia by about a quarter in May, in an escalating stand-off with Riyadh following OPEC’s decision to ignore calls from New Delhi to help the global economy with higher supply. Two sources familiar with the discussions said the move …

The U.K.’s oil and gas industry faces a struggle to recover from an investment slump sparked by the coronavirus and in the longer term will have to manage a prolonged decline in output, according to its trade body. Production may decline further this year and next, following a 5% decrease …

Although the COVID-19 pandemic is causing disruptions across almost all industries, the oil and gas sector is less likely to witness significant disruption in the short term, according to Dr Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General of the World Energy Council (WEC). “While the energy transition progresses, we now see that significant …

Dmitry Peskov recalled that Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak was praised by Putin for his work MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin did not have any talks with the Saudi Arabian leadership ahead of the OPEC+ decisions on oil production cap, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS. …

U.S. crude oil production is expected to fall by 160,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2021 to 11.15 million bpd, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Tuesday, a smaller decline than its previous monthly forecast for a 290,000-bpd drop. The agency said it expects U.S. petroleum and other …

India has asked state refiners to speed up the diversification of oil imports to gradually cut their dependence on the Middle East after OPEC+ decided last week to largely continue production cuts in April, two sources said. India, the world’s third biggest oil importer and consumer, imports about 84% of …

The world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, Qatar, has long occupied a political position in the Middle East that has neither been decisively aligned with the U.S.-Israel-Saudi axis of power nor with the Iran-China-Russia one. More recently, though, there appears to have been a move further away from the …

Qatar Petroleum on March 3 loaded about 712,000 barrels of condensate destined for the Emirates National Oil Co. in the UAE, the first commercial energy trade since the end of the Gulf blockade in early January, according to data analytics firm Kpler. Qatar Petroleum shipped the condensate from Ras Laffan …