Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil firm, is expected to price later on Tuesday a three-part bond in U.S. dollars as a campaign to raise funds, IFR news service reports. The bond sale is set to be benchmark-sized, which typically means the issue would be of at least $500 million. …
Read More »Italy’s Industry Calls for Lower Energy Costs
Italy’s industry needs an urgent plan from the government to help reduce the high energy costs, which are higher than in other European countries, the president of the Italian business lobby, Confindustria, said on Tuesday. “Our companies continue to incur energy costs that are more than 35% higher than the …
Read More »Iraq Accelerates Solar Power Development
OPEC’s second-largest oil producer, Iraq, aims to accelerate solar power development with at least 1,000 small-sized projects over the next three years, a senior government official has said. “Solar energy will be an essential part of the national energy mix by 2030,” Mazhar Mohammed Salih, advisor to the Iraqi Prime …
Read More »UAE Says OPEC+ must Consider Rising Oil Demand
The OPEC+ group must consider rising oil demand when it makes decisions about production levels, the energy minister of one of OPEC’s top producers, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said on Tuesday. The OPEC+ alliance is doing its best to balance the oil market, UAE’s Energy Minister Suhail Mohamed Al …
Read More »Iraq Files Lawsuit against U.S. over Kurdistan Oil Contracts
Iraq has filed a lawsuit against the United States over oil contracts between American companies and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, escalating a constitutional dispute that has long threatened to destabilize the country’s energy sector, Reuters reported. According to Iraqi media, the lawsuit was filed on Monday …
Read More »Europe’s Natural Gas Prices Rise on Supply Outage in Norway
Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices rose early on Monday following an unplanned cut to capacity of the giant Troll gas field in Norway, the single largest supplier of gas to Europe. Dutch TTF Natural Gas Futures, the benchmark for Europe’s gas trading, jumped by 2.2% at trade open in Amsterdam …
Read More »Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Announce New Oil Discovery
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have announced a new oil discovery in the so-called Partitioned Zone (PZ) between the two OPEC heavyweights which share equally output from the area. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait announced on Monday that Wafra Joint Operations had made a new oil discovery in the North Wafra Wara-Burgan …
Read More »Aramco Considers Asset Sales to Raise Cash
Saudi Aramco is reportedly exploring asset sales as a means of increasing the availability of funds to fuel its international expansion and existing operations, according to unnamed sources who spoke to Reuters. The sources told the publication that the Saudi state major had asked investment banks to come up with …
Read More »Russia Adds Military Escorts to Oil Tanker Fleet in Gulf of Finland
Russian military vessels are escorting oil tankers traversing the Gulf of Finland, Finland’s defense minister told media this weekend, saying this was “a completely new development.” The news follows an attempt last week by the Estonian navy to stop a tanker carrying Russian oil, which prompted the appearance of a …
Read More »Canada’s Atlantic LNG Dreams just Got Pricier
As the U.S. tariff threats have prompted Canada to seek alternative export markets for its oil and gas, even the province of Quebec in eastern Canada—which ditched an LNG export plan four years ago—is entertaining the idea once again. While an LNG project on Canada’s West Coast is close to …
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