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Oil prices rose on Friday, extending the previous session’s gains, as major producers began output cuts to offset a slump in fuel demand triggered by the coronavirus pandemic while data showed U.S. crude inventories grew less than expected. Still, prices gave up some of their earlier gains as the month …

One of the world’s fastest-growing commodity markets is under great pressure — but it’s healthy. LNG prices are depressed amid destruction in demand, in large part due to the Covid-19 pandemic stalling the global economy. The first big economic punch to the LNG gut started with swathes of virus cases …

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak expressed hope on Wednesday about a balance in the demand for oil in May and June, although he said that there is no point in predicting future prices. Novak noted that in May or June, several nations are expected to lift the restrictions imposed by …

The President of Iran and the Prime Minister of Armenia described the relations between the two countries friendly and developing and stressed the need for officials to work together in the Joint Commission on Cooperation to develop bilateral, regional and international relations between Tehran and Yerevan. In a telephone conversation …

OPEC oil supply in April is at its highest since December 2018, a company that tracks oil shipments said on April 28, as producers pump at will before a new supply-limiting pact takes effect in May. The month-on-month increase is more than 2 MMbbl/d, Daniel Gerber, CEO of Geneva-based Petro-Logistics, …

While everyone is understandably watching the meltdown in the crude oil market, the global market for natural gas is also cratering. At least 20 cargoes of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) have been cancelled by buyers in Asia and Europe, according to Reuters. The global pandemic and the unfolding economic …

President Donald Trump is considering all options available to him to make the Saudis pay for the oil price war as the crash that followed has done significant damage to the U.S. oil industry With last month having seen the indignity of the principal U.S. oil benchmark, West Texas Intermediate …

South Korea, the country with the fourth-largest commercial storage capacity in Asia, has just run out of room to store more oil, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on Monday, as available storage capacity everywhere in the world in shrinking fast amid the demand collapse. South Korea’s total commercial …

Iran’s non-oil exports to Iraq are reported to have increased by 0.7 percent. For the Iranian calendar year 1398 (ended on March 19), non-oil export to Iraq hit $8.9 billion, according to a deputy with the country’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO). Tehran Times reports that medicines and medical equipment, plastic …

Qatar managed to maintain its position as the largest liquefied natural gas exporter in the world (at 77.8mn tonnes) in 2019, International Gas Union (IGU) said in its “2020 World LNG Report”. Global LNG trade increased further in 2019, reaching 354.73mn tonnes, an increase of 40.93mn tonnes since the end …