Oil

Iraqi oil exports to the United States increased last week, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA.) The EIA reported on Sunday that the average US crude oil imports from ten key countries reached 5.647 million barrels per day (bpd) last week, an increase of 640.000 bpd from the …

Crude oil refining in China fell to the lowest in three months in September as more refineries closed for regular seasonal maintenance. Even so, oil prices will likely suffer a negative impact from the news, as it also revealed refining since the start of the year was down 1.6%. Chinese …

Oman’s national oil company OQ’s upstream business part, OQ Exploration and Production (OQEP), reports that its landmark initial public offering (IPO) has raised $2 billion. The latter is a clear sign that national and international interest in GCC-based oil companies is still very high. The IPO result makes OQEP the …

OPEC’s crude oil production slumped by 604,000 barrels per day (bpd) in September compared to August, as Libya’s output was largely halted amid a political standoff and Iraq moved to improve compliance with the OPEC+ cuts. All 12 OPEC producers pumped on average 26.04 million bpd of crude last month, …

Libya’s oil production experienced a significant decline due to a political crisis that lasted for a month. The crisis involved tensions between rival factions and led to the closure of important oil fields and ports. Output dropped by over 80%, from 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) to approximately 500,000 …

Kazakhstan has been one of the “rogue” members of OPEC+, regularly producing more oil than it was supposed to under the bloc’s output cap agreement. Now, it seems that Kazakhstan has done it again, potentially heightening internal tensions within OPEC+. Reuters reported this week that Kazakhstan’s largest field, Tengiz, had …

A global company that monitors oil supply and shipment volumes announced, on Wednesday, that Iraq ranked second in crude oil exports to India over the past nine months. According to Commodities at Sea, “Russia topped the list with crude oil exports to India, supplying an average of 1.7 million bpd …

For the first time since the end of August, Libya’s oil production exceeded 1 million barrels per day (bpd) on Sunday, after the warring factions reached a deal on how to elect the new leadership of the African OPEC member’s central bank. Libya’s oil output stood at 1.067 million bpd …

Oil prices fell on Monday after posting their steepest weekly rise in over a year last week as oversupply concerns amid softer demand countered the worries of a wider Middle East war disrupting exports in the key producing region. Brent crude futures fell 31 cents, or 0.4%, to $77.74 per …

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced on Sunday that Iraqi oil exports to the US had dropped during the past week. “In a span of a week, the US imports of crude oil from 10 major countries amounted to 5.744 million bpd, up by 343,000 bpd from the previous …