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Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, Iran’s oil minister, said on Friday that the Islamic Republic did not allow the Trump administration to decrease Iranian oil export to zero. In separate remarks on Thursday, Zanganeh also said, “Trump thought we die due to the sanctions, but we did not, they are knocked down.” …

The U.S. will always play an important role in global energy markets, even though President-elect Joe Biden is likely to be less vocal than President Donald Trump about oil, the UAE’s energy minister told CNBC ahead of Inauguration Day. “The United States of America is a major player now … …

The Trump administration plans to add China’s top chipmaker SMIC and oil giant CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, escalating tensions with Beijing before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, according to sources familiar with the matter and a document seen by Reuters. The Department of Defense (DOD) …

Iran’s Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh said on Monday that the US sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump on the Iranian oil industry officials are due to his sense of revenge and drudges against Iran. Speaking in the opening ceremony of 181 natural gas projects in Fars Province through …

The United States formally exited the Paris Agreement on Wednesday, fulfilling a longstanding promise by US President Donald Trump to withdraw the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter from the global pact to fight climate change. But the outcome of the tight US election contest will determine for how long this …

Trump will issue an executive order to require an economic analysis of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as the president seeks to use what he portrays as Biden’s mixed messages on energy to woo voters in the swing states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The order calls for U.S. agencies to analyze …

The members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and their non-OPEC allies, have set the stage for a dramatic meeting at the end of November as bears look firmly in control of oil markets. The expanded OPEC-plus alliance, which is dominated by Saudi Arabia and Russia, could have …

Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s promise that he would “transition” the country away from oil and natural gas might hurt him politically in Texas and Pennsylvania, but it did not come as a surprise to many in the energy industry. Oil and gas executives have been keenly aware that the world …

As OPEC and its allies ruminate over whether to ease their collective production cuts at the end of the year, a very interested – though perhaps distracted by the US election – Trump administration will be watching closely from Washington. The OPEC+ agreement, forged in April during the worst of …

Oil prices rose more than two per cent on Monday, lifted by comments from doctors for U.S President Donald Trump, suggesting he could be discharged from hospital as soon as Monday. This is just a few days after his positive coronavirus test sparked widespread alarm. Mr Trump’s health update eased …