Oil

After the announcement of the assassination of Hamas leader Haniyeh in Tehran, Oil prices jumped, with Brent crude climbing 1.5% to just below $80 a barrel. Haniyeh, a chief negotiator for Hamas and based in Qatar, was in Tehran for the inauguration of Iran’s new president on Tuesday. He was …

Abu Dhabi’s national oil company ADNOC has raised the production capacity at one of its offshore oilfields by 25% using AI technology as the United Arab Emirates looks to boost its total crude oil production capacity to 5 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2027. ADNOC’s offshore Satah Al Razboot …

Crude oil inventories in the United States fell again this week, this time by 4.495 million barrels for the week ending July 26, according to The American Petroleum Institute (API), after analysts predicted a smaller 2.333 million barrel draw. For the week prior, the API reported a 3.9 million barrel …

Sources in the Indian oil sector revealed that in June, the country’s oil imports from Iraq dropped to their lowest points since September 2020. According to Shafaq News, Indian refineries have already reduced their imports of oil from several Middle Eastern producers that raised prices early this year. The Iraqi …

Oil prices rose on Monday, paring last week’s loss, on fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East following a rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which Israel and the United States blamed on Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. Brent crude futures gained 33 cents, or 0.4%, to $81.46 …

Iraqi oil exports to the United States saw a decrease last week, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Sunday. The EIA reported that the average US crude oil imports from eight key countries reached 5.974 million barrels per day (bpd) last week, down by 70,000 bpd from …

The next U.S. president will have a very limited set of tools to materially boost oil supply in the United States, according to investment bank Goldman Sachs. Whoever wins the presidential election in November will have to contend with low stocks in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Moreover, any regulatory …

Morgan Stanley has forecasted that the crude oil market, currently experiencing tight conditions, will likely move into surplus next year as the investment bank anticipates that oil prices will drop to the mid-to-high $70s range by 2025. Morgan Stanley said that the tight market conditions are expected to persist for …

Russia’s four-week average seaborne oil exports fell to 3.11 million barrels a day as of July 14, down by almost 600,000 barrels or 17% from their recent peak in April, Bloomberg has reported. The country’s seaborne crude shipments have now sunk to the lowest since January and are likely to …

Oil prices continued to be weighed down in Asian trade on Wednesday by growing concerns about China’s economic growth and oil demand which were offsetting an estimated drop in U.S. crude oil inventories. In Asian trade, both benchmarks were dropping by around 0.2%, with the U.S. WTI Crude benchmark clawing …