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Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro says the country has received an advanced oil tanker from Iran as part of a contract between Tehran and Caracas based on which the Islamic Republic has so far delivered three advanced vessels to the South American country. “We have just received a ship with the …

Angola and Libya have overtaken Nigeria as Africa’s highest crude oil producers, a report by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said. The monthly OPEC report showed an increase in oil production by ten countries last August, led by Libya, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as Libyan production reached …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday Turkey would pay for a quarter of its Russian natural gas imports in rubles under a new set of deals designed to boost trade. Putin made the announcement in opening remarks of his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of …

Berlin took control of the German operations of Russian oil firm Rosneft to secure energy supplies which have been disrupted after Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine. Rosneft’s German subsidiaries, which account for about 12 percent of oil refining capacity in the country, were placed under trusteeship of the Federal Network Agency, …

Türkiye is a “reliable route” for gas deliveries from Russia, the Russian president said on Friday. During a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Putin thanked Erdogan for the Ukraine grain deal. He expressed hope …

Oil prices rose on Friday, Sept. 16, but declined for the third consecutive week amid recession concerns. Crude prices were driven by China’s data that reflected the success of stimulus measures in supporting the economy to face the repercussions of COVID-19, as retail sales and industrial production rose more than …

China faces its biggest annual drop in oil demand in more than three decades as Covid-19 lockdowns and a property crisis weigh on growth in the world’s No. 2 consumer, the International Energy Agency said. Chinese oil demand will decline by 420,000 barrels a day, or 2.7%, this year in …

Shell Plc Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden will step down at the end of this year after almost 40 years at the company, to be replaced by the firm’s head of gas and renewables, Wael Sawan. Van Beurden, 64, has steered the company through some of its most turbulent …

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a new legislative proposal, the Critical Raw Material Act, to tackle the evolving dependency on China when it comes to raw materials and ensure more resilient supply chains. The proposal was announced as part of von der Leyen’s annual State of the Union …

It’s December in Europe, and the temperature is dropping. People have the heating on as they cook dinner, run the washing machine, watch television. But in France, the grid operator is running out of options to keep the lights on. The utility has issued a “red” alert, meaning supplies are …