After over a year of pandemic-driven volatility and weak oil demand, Saudi Arabia is now experiencing an oil export boom. Saudi Arabia’s oil exports increased in March by 75 percent year-on-year, at a value of almost $14 billion, according to a General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) report, with crude oil …
Read More »OPEC: IEA Net-Zero Scenario may Lead to Oil-Price Volatility
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) stated that the scenario provided in the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) report could affect companies’ investments and demand for oil, Reuters reported. According to the report, investors should not fund new oil, gas, and coal supply projects if the world wants to …
Read More »OPEC Says IEA Net-Zero Pathway could Add to Oil-Price Volatility
OPEC has said that an IEA report suggesting that investors should not fund new oil projects to curb emissions could lead to oil-price volatility if it is acted on. The International Energy Agency on Tuesday said investors should not fund new oil, gas and coal supply projects if the world …
Read More »OPEC’s Oil Exports Have Jumped by 1 Million Bpd in May
OPEC’s oil exports have jumped by 1 million barrels per day (bpd) so far in May, while the OPEC+ group started easing the production cuts by 350,000 bpd this month, tanker tracker Petro-Logistics said on Monday. At the ministerial meeting in early April, the OPEC+ group decided to gradually return …
Read More »Oman Key Partner in OPEC+ Decisions
The Director-General of Marketing at the Ministry of Energy and Minerals has said the Sultanate is an important partner in the cooperation agreement signed between OPEC and non-OPEC members that decided to cut oil production. He said that it was decided that the Sultanate’s share of the production cut in …
Read More »Russia’s Oil Reserves will Last until 2080
Russia’s oil reserves will last until 2080 at the current pace of annual production, Natural Resources Minister Alexander Kozlov told Russian outlet RBC in an interview this week. Russia also has natural gas reserves for another 103 years of annual production at current output levels, the minister said. Russia’s actual …
Read More »OPEC Expects Global Economic Growth to Sustain Oil Demand but Sees India’s Energy Needs Collapsing
OPEC left its global oil demand forecast for 2021 unchanged in its monthly outlook report, due to an economic rebound in the second half of the year but the bloc sees energy consumption in India, the world’s third-biggest consumer of oil, collapsing because of the surge in Covid-19 infections. The …
Read More »Iraq Set to Buy ExxonMobil $350 Million Share of Basra Oilfield
Oil giant ExxonMobil has received an offer for its share of the West Qurna 1 oilfield in Basra, by Iraq, according to reports by Reuters. The head of the state-run oil operating company said on Monday that a formal offer, priced at $350 million, to buy the share had been …
Read More »OPEC’s Compliance with Oil Production Cuts Deal 122% In April
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) says its compliance with the OPEC+ oil production cuts deal totalled 122 per cent in April, as production averaged 25.08 million barrels per day. In March, OPEC’s compliance with the production cuts deal was 124 per cent, at 25.04 million barrels per …
Read More »High Global Demand Sends Russian Urals Crude Oil Price Soaring
Russia’s Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday that the average price for domestic Urals oil benchmark stood at $62.50 per barrel in April, which is a 340% increase in annual terms. According to the ministry, in the first four months of the year the average price for the Russian export …
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