OPEC has managed to raise crude prices and stabilise the oil market, OPEC member Iran’s oil minister was quoted on Monday as saying by his ministry’s website SHANA, reports Reuters. “OPEC’s performance has been successful because the price of oil has risen from $16 in May to around $45 and …
Read More »Iraq Sends a Million Liters of Fuel to Lebanon
The Iraqi Oil Minister, Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar announced today, Sunday, that 30 tankers carrying more than a million liters of fuel oil will be heading to Beirut from Iraq. Abdul-Jabbar said in a statement received by Shafaq News agency, “The new batch of fuel oil comes as part of the assistance …
Read More »Iran Exports $6.3bln of Non-Oil Goods in 3 Months
Iranian ministry of industry, mine and trade announced that the country has exported non-oil products worth $6.3 billion in the first quarter of the current calendar year (March 20-June 20, 2020). The ministry also said that it plans to export $41 billion of non-oil products by the yearend. There are …
Read More »Ship Leaking Tonnes of Oil Off Mauritius Splits Apart
A grounded Japanese-owned ship that leaked tonnes of oil near protected areas off the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius has split apart, with remaining fuel spreading into the turquoise waters. The bulk carrier struck a coral reef off Mauritius on July 25 and its hull began to crack after …
Read More »Asia Pacific Main Engine of Natural Gas Demand Growth to 2040
Global LNG demand could fall 4.2 percent in 2020 in a multi-wave pandemic scenario before recovering in 2021. The market is expected to begin re-balancing as producers curb supply and the pandemic delays commissioning of new LNG projects. The Global Gas Report 2020 , published by the International Gas Union …
Read More »China Ramps Up US Oil Purchases
US crude oil shipments to China will rise sharply in coming weeks, US traders and ship brokers and Chinese importers said, as the world’s top economies gear up to review a January deal after a prolonged trade war. Chinese state-owned oil firms have tentatively booked tankers to carry at least …
Read More »US-China Trade Review Delayed as Beijing Lifts Farm, Oil Spending
The US and China have delayed a review of their Phase 1 trade deal initially slated for Saturday, sources familiar with the plans told Reuters, citing scheduling conflicts and the need to allow time for more Chinese purchases of US exports. No new date for the initial six-month compliance review …
Read More »Iraq Announces Its Oil Exports to Jordan within a Month
The Iraqi Oil Company “SOMO” revealed, on Saturday, that oil exports to Jordan reached more than 8 thousand barrels per day during July. The company said in a tally on its website, which is viewed by Shafaq News agency, “Total oil exports to Jordan were as follows: – July: it …
Read More »Venezula Is Set to Increase Oil Exports amid Slump in Output
Venezuela’s long-suffering oil industry is ramping up exports even as production continues its inexorable slide. Exports of crude oil, the commodity that bankrolls the regime of President Nicolas Maduro, are set to reach a four-month high of at least 325,000 barrels a day in August, largely because of diesel-for-crude swaps …
Read More »TAPI Remains Important Economic Component of Turkmenistan’s Development
The TAPI (Turkmenistan – Afghanistan – Pakistan – India) transnational gas pipeline project is considered as an important component of economic development in Turkmenistan, head of the Central Asia sector at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAS), Dina Malysheva told Trend. …
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