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Qatar is interested in joining French firm TotalEnergies and Italy’s Eni in exploring for oil in two areas in Lebanese waters, the Lebanese energy minister said on Friday. Qatar wants to join the consortium to explore for oil in blocks 4 and 9 in the Eastern Mediterranean, Walid Fayad said …

The OPEC+ decision to sharply curtail oil production threatens to push prices to levels that tip the global economy into recession, the International Energy Agency warned. “The massive cut in OPEC+ oil supply increases energy security risks worldwide,” with “resulting higher price levels exacerbating market volatility,” the IEA said in …

Falling crude oil prices and declining oil exports resulted in a $3.2-billion drop in Russia’s oil revenues to $15.3 billion for September, the lowest monthly oil export revenue for Moscow this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. Total crude oil and oil product exports out of Russia …

Statistics showed that 38,650,000 tons of non-oil goods, valued at $24.198 billion, were exchanged between Iran and 15 neighboring states in the first half of the current year, showing a seven percent growth. Iran’s trade value with neighboring states registered a seven percent from March 21 to September 23, registering …

Iran and Gazprom have created a roadmap on fields, there are several working groups, Iranian Deputy Petroleum Minister Ahmad Asadzadeh said. “Another area is the development of fields in Iran. This is one of the topics in the agreement. We have created a roadmap with Gazprom, we have several working …

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday proposed to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan building a natural gas hub in Türkiye. Speaking on the sidelines of a regional gathering in Kazakhstan, Putin said building a hub in Türkiye would allow, among other things, regulating prices, selling gas at market prices, …

Some Biden administration officials are growing concerned that their plan to cap the price of oil purchased from Russia may backfire after the OPEC+ alliance’s surprise production cut last week, according to people familiar with the matter. The plan seeks to keep enough Russian supplies on the global market to …

OPEC on Wednesday cut its 2022 forecast for growth in world oil demand for a fourth time since April and also trimmed next year’s figure, citing slowing economies, the resurgence of China’s COVID-19 containment measures and high inflation. Oil demand will increase by 2.64 million barrels per day (bpd) or …

Oil prices struggled to find their footing in early Asian trade on Thursday after a weakening global demand outlook depressed the market in the last session. Brent crude futures dropped 7 cents, or 0.1 percent, to $92.38 a barrel by 0310 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was down 21 …

Saudi Arabia rejected statements criticising the Kingdom as “not based on facts”, after last week’s OPEC+ decision to cut its oil production target despite US objections, saying it served the interests of both consumers and producers. This decision was adopted through consensus, took into account the balance of supply and …