Speaking at COP28 in Dubai, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser repeated calls for more upstream investment in the interests of both energy security and to meet growing global demand. Those arguing against fossil fuels have criticized oil and gas industry expansion plans. However, the United Arab Emirates — a fellow …
Read More »Egypt can Export LNG without Israeli Gas: Eni CEO
Italy’s Eni could resume LNG exports from its liquefaction terminal in Egypt next month despite uncertainty over the availability of gas flows between Israel and Egypt. Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi told reporters on the sidelines of the FT Energy Transition Summit in London that he expects Egypt to begin shipping …
Read More »EU Unlikely to Rethink Russia Price Cap despite Oil’s Gains
EU member states appear to have little appetite for adjusting the G7 price cap on Russian oil exports, despite growing evidence that the value of Russia’s main Urals crude is rising above the previously set level of $60 per barrel. Poland and its smaller Baltic neighbors previously took the most …
Read More »Shell Starts up Long-Delayed Iraq Gas Capture Project
The Shell-led Basrah Gas Co. (BGC) will start up a long-delayed project in Iraq next week that should slash the high volumes of associated gas flared at the country’s giant southern oil fields and move it a step closer to ending costly gas imports from Iran. The $3 billion project …
Read More »G7 Gives Qualified Support to Investment in Gas
G7 leaders have agreed that public investment in natural gas can be appropriate as a “temporary response” to the energy crisis caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine and that LNG in particular has an “important role” to play. At their summit meeting in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, they stressed …
Read More »PetroChina’s Earnings Outshine NOC Rivals
PetroChina has become the only one of China’s three national oil companies to report a year-on-year increase in first-quarter net profit thanks to strong upstream production and rising sales of refined products.
Read More »Putin Backtracks on G7 Price Cap for Russian Crude
President Vladimir Putin has backtracked on an earlier move that banned Russian companies from exporting crude oil in compliance with the G7 price cap of $60 per barrel. In a decree issued at the end of December, Putin prohibited Russian producers from exporting crude oil and refined products on terms …
Read More »Novak: Russia Willing to Cut Oil Output if Necessary
Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has said that Russia is willing to cut its crude oil production, if necessary, as part of its response to the G7 price cap of $60 per barrel on the country’s crude exports. Novak told the Rossiya 24 television channel that output could fall by …
Read More »Qatar Adds Shell to North Field South
Royal Dutch Shell has won the second international equity stake for North Field South (NFS), Phase 2 of Qatar’s 48 million ton per year LNG mega-expansion, Shell and QatarEnergy announced on Sunday. The company was awarded a 9.375% participating interest in the two-train 16 million ton/yr NFS project out of …
Read More »Qatar Adds Shell to North Field South
Royal Dutch Shell has won the second international equity stake for North Field South (NFS), Phase 2 of Qatar’s 48 million ton per year LNG mega-expansion, Shell and QatarEnergy announced on Sunday. The company was awarded a 9.375% participating interest in the two-train 16 million ton/yr NFS project out of …
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