The number of U.S. oil-producing companies filing for bankruptcy has exceeded 200 in the first quarter of 2020, and as billions of dollars in revenue have vanished amid low oil prices, thousands of workers have also lost their jobs. Due to the coronavirus, crude oil prices last month hit their …
Read More »Coronavirus Destroys Oil-Dependent Economy of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia may have won a brief no-holds-barred oil price war with Russia, but observers say it hastened a coronavirus-led energy slump despite a subsequent historic deal to slash production. “This has changed everything,” chief economist at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Monica Malik told Bloomberg in an article published on …
Read More »Under US Pressure, Saudi Arabia Concedes Defeat in Its Oil Price War against Russia
By calling for an urgent OPEC+ meeting to discuss oil price stabilization under pressure from President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia has admitted defeat in its price war against Russia, Mamdouh Salameh, a visiting professor of Energy Economics at ESCP Europe Business School said. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency …
Read More »OPEC, Allies Likely to Make Oil Output Cuts if US Joins
The group of oil producers known as OPEC+, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, are likely to agree to cut production at a meeting scheduled for Thursday as long as the United States joins in cutting output, three OPEC+ sources told Reuters. A previous production-cut deal ended last month after Russia …
Read More »Turkey’s Energy Bill to Drop as Saudis Fire First Shot in Oil War with Russia
Already grappling with risks from the spreading coronavirus, markets around the world found themselves opening Monday with yet another shock – Saudi Arabia firing the first shot of an oil price war. The move lead Brent crude to drop by almost a third at one point Monday, sinking the global …
Read More »Iraq to Halt Oil Output at Southern Oil Field
Nahr Bin Omar oil field is considered one of the most controversial fields because of the pollution and gas emissions.
Read More »Turkey Plans New Hydrocarbon Exploration in East Med
Turkey has consistently contested the Greek Cypriot administration'.s unilateral drilling in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Read More »Exxon to Sell $25B of Oil and Gas Fields in Europe. Asia and Africa
Exxon'.s shares heavily underperformed relative to other Oil Majors over the past five years.
Read More »China Considers Speeding up Shale Gas Drive
China'.s reliance oil and gas imports is growing too rapidly.
Read More »Turkey Imports Record LNG Supplies in First Half of 2019
In total. Turkey imported 23.29 billion cubic meters of natural gas via pipelines and LNG terminals in the first half of 2019.
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