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The Ceyhan port in Türkiye’s Adana province may resume loading oil from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline in a few days using “manual” procedures, a Turkish official and a source said Saturday. The terminal, on Türkiye’s Mediterranean coast, was damaged in the devastating earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria on Monday. …

Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA is tightening terms for buyers after a monthlong halt to most exports of crude and fuel, demanding prepayment ahead of loadings in either cash, goods or services, company documents showed. PDVSA’s new Chief Executive Pedro Tellechea put the move in place this month. It reinforces …

A consortium made up of energy companies, Eni from Italy and France’s Total, is expediting plans to develop natural gas deposits off the island of Cyprus following the discovery of a third field containing 2-3 trillion cubic feet of hydrocarbon inside the same licensed exploration area, announced the Greek Cypriot …

Turkey on Friday held a long-awaited ceremony to mark an increase in capacity at its first underground natural gas storage facility, in what officials say will make it the biggest storage site in Europe. The country has been filling its gas storage units this year as the import-dependent country sought …

Russia has repeatedly said it will not supply oil to countries that implement the cap – a stance reaffirmed by Mikhail Ulyanov, Moscow’s ambassador to international organizations in Vienna, in posts on social media on Saturday. “Starting from this year Europe will live without Russian oil,” he said. The G-7 …

Türkiye’s Black Sea gas field is on track to go online next year as promised and work has sped up to connect it to the national infrastructure, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday. Addressing a natural gas pipeline opening in the northern Kastamonu province, Erdoğan said drilling at nine of …

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday said a natural gas hub could be set up in Turkey quite easily and predicted that many countries in Europe would want to make deals for supplies. Putin made his remarks at a news conference in Sochi. Earlier this month, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan …

Türkiye’s oil imports jumped, while natural gas purchases fell in June versus a year ago, the country’s energy watchdog said Tuesday. The total oil imports were up 4.9% to 4.19 million tons in June, the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) said in its monthly report. Crude oil imports, the category …

Shell on Thursday reported a second-quarter profit of $11.5 billion, smashing its previous record just three months earlier, lifted by a tripling of refining profits and strong gas trading. The company also announced a share buyback program of $6 billion for the current quarter, but did not raise its dividend …

When U.S. President Joe Biden promised European leaders in March that he would help secure new supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to offset shortages from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, his pledge was greeted with scepticism. After all, the U.S. LNG industry was already hitting its export limits and the …