The value of Iran’s non-oil exports rose 12.22 percent during the first 11 months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2022-February 19, 2023), as compared to the same period of time in the past year. According to Mohammad Rezvani-Far, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs …
Read More »EU Power Market Reform is about to Take a Delicate Step Forward
A year into an unprecedented energy crisis that rocked the European Union, officials in Brussels are ready to unveil their plan to prevent consumers from facing huge swings in electricity prices in the future. While some EU leaders pledged massive overhaul, what’s likely to emerge is anything but radical. Power …
Read More »Kazakhstan Sends First Batch of Oil to Germany via Druzhba Pipeline
The system of main oil pipelines of the KazTransOil national company started receiving Kazakh oil for transportation to Germany on Feb. 23, said Shyngys Ilyasov, director of the public relations and internal communications department at KazTransOil, in a press statement. According to the oil supply schedule approved by the Kazakh …
Read More »High Gas Prices could be the New Normal for Europe
In the winter of late 2022 and early 2023, Europe got lucky. It got very lucky. Gas storage sites were fuller than usual because of the massive LNG-buying effort the EU put into securing gas for the winter, and the winter itself turned out to be warmer than usual. Yet …
Read More »EU Sanctions on Russia Create Opportunity for Emerging Producers
With EU bans on Russian oil and oil-product exports set to go into effect this year in response to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, emerging market producers are poised to gain larger shares of an evolving market. EU bans against Russian oil products such as diesel were rolled out earlier …
Read More »Electric Energy Expected to Exceed 30% of China’s Terminal Energy Consumption in 2025
The proportion of China’s electrical energy is expected to exceed 30 percent of the country’s total terminal energy consumption by 2025, according to a report released by China Electric Power Enterprise Federation on Friday. Statistics showed that China’s current terminal energy consumption electrification rate stands at 27 percent, higher than …
Read More »Eni Responds to Energy Crisis with $2.6 Billion Profit Q4 2022
Eni SpA posted a record annual profit due to high oil and gas prices, despite its fourth quarter missing estimates. The Italian energy giant followed its peers with stellar earnings for 2022, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent the value of key commodities soaring. While the cost of energy has …
Read More »Iraq Announces String of Deals to Boost Oil and Gas Output
Iraq has been saying it wants to produce more oil and gas for a while now but turning stated ambitions into reality has taken a while. This week, the country took a big step towards that reality when it signed a slew of deals with foreign companies as part of …
Read More »Venezuelan Oil Production has Plummeted by 75% in Ten Years
According to the 2022 BP Statistical Review of World Energy, Venezuela has more proved oil reserves than any other country in the world. Venezuela’s 304 billion barrels of proved reserves just edges out Saudi Arabia’s 298 billion barrels. Both are far ahead of U.S. proved reserves of 69 billion barrels. …
Read More »Russia Halts Oil Deliveries to Poland
Russia stopped deliveries of oil to Poland via the “Druzhba” (“Friendship”) pipeline, as informed by the Polish biggest state oil company PKN Orlen. PKN Orlen informed the Polish Press Agency that the company was prepared for such a move and that deliveries to its refineries would continue on tankers. “The …
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