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Iran Newspaper reported on Wednesday, quoting head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) Alireza Moghadasi, that new statistics of Iran’s foreign trade show that Iran’s non-oil exports in the beginning 10 months of the current Iranian calendar year (starting on 20 March 2021) reached $38.763 billion. According …

Oil and gas flows aren’t likely to be significantly impacted from the tensions building in Ukraine, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The bank’s base case is “no disruption,” Jeff Currie, Goldman’s global head of commodities research, said in a Bloomberg TV interview with Shery Ahn and Paul Allen. Sanctions …

Shell Plc will take key processing units offline, as part of major maintenance that’s due to start at Europe’s biggest oil refinery in the coming days. Work at Pernis in Rotterdam will include two so-called high-vacuum units, according to a person familiar with the plans. These produce feedstock for units …

Turkey is undergoing massive power cuts to industrial customers this week at an unprecedented level never seen before after the country’s natural gas supplies dipped following a disruption of imports from Iran. Major industrial zones and clusters and major production sites, including those of foreign car manufacturers, are being hit …

Iraq is already scheduling crude oil shipments for delivery in March thanks to strong demand, the deputy head of the State Organization for the Marketing of Oil, or SOMO, told media in Baghdad, as quoted by Reuters. Ali Nizar also told media that Iraq’s oil exports were stable this month …

The U.S. Administration is in talks with energy companies and major gas-producing countries globally about the potential for a large supply of natural gas to Europe in case Russian deliveries are interrupted if Russia invades Ukraine, U.S. officials with knowledge of the talks told CNN. Russia, which supplies over one-third …

Despite a crude oil inventory build in the latest EIA report, U.S. commercial petroleum stocks have declined in most of the weeks in the past year and a half, falling below seasonal averages for the past five years and even below the five-year average before the pandemic. The continuously declining …

The Russian-Chinese talks on supplies of gas from Russia’s Far East to China have reached a “high degree of readiness,” Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov said at a news conference on Tuesday. He said that the project to deliver Russian natural gas to China via Mongolia was not the …

Brent oil may retest a support at $85.68 per barrel, a break below could open the way towards $83.04-$84.67 range. There is a strong resistance at $89, which still holds firm under four attacks by bulls. A temporary top may have formed around this level. Due to the slide below …

The oil market is running out of sellers in its surge to almost $90 a barrel. Whether it’s speculators, traders hedging their barrels in storage tanks or U.S. producers, some of the biggest drivers of bearish price movements have all retreated in recent months. As global stockpiles fall to seven-year …