Tag Archives: Oil Price

Weak demand in China will lead to lower supply from the world’s top crude exporter, Saudi Arabia, to the world’s largest crude importer in December, trading sources told Reuters on Monday. The drop in Saudi supply would come despite the fact that the Kingdom has reduced its official selling prices …

India’s fuel exports to Europe have soared this year to make India the biggest exporter of refined oil products to the EU as Indian refiners are capitalizing on a loophole in the EU sanctions against Russia, Finland-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said in its monthly …

Over a quarter of U.S. oil production capacity in the Gulf of Mexico remained offline after hurricane Rafael weakened to a tropical storm that the U.S. National Hurricane Center expects to move on south and southwest this week. As of Sunday, over 480,000 bpd in oil production capacity and 310 …

Indonesia and China have signed strategic cooperation agreements in critical minerals in total bilateral deals worth $10 billion encompassing green technology, food security, and mineral resources. The agreements were signed this weekend at the Indonesia-China Business Forum in Beijing, which was the first overseas visit of newly inaugurated Indonesian President …

Russia may be considering the creation of a massive state oil company by combining current state assets Rosneft and Gazprom Neft, and private Lukoil, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources. According to the report, the mechanism discussed is for Rosneft to absorb the two smaller companies, which would …

Beleaguered North African oil producer Libya is set to announce within months its first oil and gas exploration bid round since the civil war began in 2011, Libyan Oil Minister Khalifa Abdul Sadiq told Bloomberg in an interview. OPEC member Libya plans to offer blocks both onshore and offshore in …

One of Europe’s biggest economies and car markets, Italy, has renewed its push to seek a revision of the European Union’s plans to ban the sales of new combustion-engine cars from 2035, a draft document seen by Bloomberg showed on Thursday. Italy and the Czech Republic have teamed up to …

China’s crude oil imports continue to be weak, with October marking the sixth consecutive month in which crude cargo arrivals have lagged behind the imports in the same months of 2023, official Chinese data showed on Thursday. Last month, China imported a total of 10.53 million barrels per day (bpd) …

The Biden Administration plans to offer the minimal possible acreage in a Congress-mandated oil and gas lease sale in the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said late on Wednesday. The BLM is required in the 2017 Tax Act by Congress to …

The central Iraqi government has decided to start delivering crude oil from Kurdistan to the state-owned oil company or the oil ministry, local media reported, noting that the price that Baghdad is going to pay to the regional government of Kurdistan is yet to be determined. For starters, however, Baghdad …