Iranian Oil Minister Javad Oji said that a new record high will be reached in the country’s oil export in the current Iranian calendar year 1402 (began on March 21). The country’s oil export in 1401 was 83 million barrels more than that of 1400, and 190 million barrels more …
Read More »Average Daily Gasoline Consumption Rises 11% in a Year
Average daily gasoline consumption in Iran rose 11 percent in the past Iranian calendar year 1401 (ended on March 20), according to the managing director of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC). Jalil Salari also said that the country’s average daily gasoline production has reached 115 million …
Read More »BP Decision to Withdraw from Jet Fuel Aupply Unrelated to Russia
The decision by BP to withdraw from the supply of jet fuel for SA airports dates back to February last year and has nothing to do with the Russia/Ukraine war, the Airports Company SA (Acsa) said in a statement on Friday. BP’s decision was only publicised this week and there …
Read More »Chad Nationalizes all Assets Owned by Exxon Mobil
The nationalization of Exxon Mobil’s assets in Chad comes after the oil giants divested from them in December 2022, media have reported. Chad has nationalized all the assets and rights, including hydrocarbon permits and exploration and production authorizations, that belonged to a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil, the West African nation’s …
Read More »Iranian, Omani Foreign Ministers Discuss Ties by Phone
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Thursday evening spoke with his Omani counterpart Badr Albusaidi. Amir-Abdollahian congratulated Albusaidi on the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan and highlighted issues of mutual interest in bilateral ties including the need for coordination of the upcoming visit of Oman’s sultan to Tehran. …
Read More »Petrobras Ready to be Last Oil Producer Standing
Petrobras could be the last man standing when it comes to crude oil production amid the energy transition, the state-run oil company’s CEO Jean Paul Prates said in an interview in Rio de Janeiro. “We will get market share,” Prates said, according to Bloomberg, referring to Brazil’s state-run oil company. …
Read More »Total and BP Tap Wind Power to Decarbonize North Sea Oil Operations
Crown Estate Scotland has awarded offshore wind leases to 13 Companies, including BP and TotalEnergies, to support North Sea oil and gas decarbonization. On Friday, Crown Estate Scotland, an independent commercial organization responsible for managing the British seabed, announced that it had awarded leases to 13 companies, including Big Oil’s …
Read More »Natural Gas Prices See yet another Weekly Decline
Natural gas prices are up on the day, but they are once again down on the week—the third week running—as unseasonably warm weather dampened prospects for one more demand push in the United States. Natural gas prices were trading up on the day to $2.191 (+1.81%), but prices week to …
Read More »Denmark Investigates Unidentified Object in Nord Stream Blast
Denmark is salvaging an unidentified object found next to a Russian gas pipeline damaged in a blast last September, as investigators continue to seek who was behind the attack. The operation comes two weeks after German authorities said they searched a vessel that may have transported explosives used in the …
Read More »Spain Presses Importers of Russian LNG
Spain, the biggest European buyer of liquefied natural gas from Russia, is urging importers not to sign new contracts with Moscow as it seeks to crimp revenues for the Kremlin’s war machine. LNG importers in Spain received a letter from the government asking companies not to sign up to new …
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