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Iraq aims to increase crude oil export capacity from its southern ports to 6 million barrels per day from the current 3.5 million barrels a day capacity, Karim Hattab, deputy oil minister for distribution affairs said in a statement. Hattab said the increased capacity would be after 2023 and that …

Russia views an oil price between $45 and $55 per barrel as the optimum level to allow for its oil production recovery, Reuters reported, citing Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. He added that Russia will support an increase in oil production by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries …

Russia will support hiking production under the historic OPEC+ accord by 500,000 barrels a day in February if the market continues to stabilize, the deputy prime minister in charge of the energy sector, Alexander Novak, has said. “If the situation stays normal and stable, we will support the increase,” Novak …

Apple is moving forward with its electric self-driving car technology after all, and will start production in 2024, according to a report from Reuters. Apple plans to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own battery technology. Apple first started to design its own vehicle way back in 2014, …

Russia intends to support a further increase in OPEC+ production at the group’s meeting next month, even as a new strain of the coronavirus raises concerns about demand, said officials familiar with the country’s oil policy. As of now, Moscow believes it makes sense to raise OPEC+ output by 500,000 …

A lifting of virus restrictions, as vaccines are rolled out, should allow for a strong bounce-back in oil demand and prices in the second half of next year, Trend reports with reference to UK-based Capital Economics research and consulting company. “Indeed, after crashing in early 2020 in response to widespread …

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has lowered its oil demand forecast for 2021 again, according to the latest version of the Monthly Oil Market Report released on Monday. OPEC now expects global oil demand to fall by 9.77 million barrels per day in 2020 to reach 89.99 …

OPEC announced, on Tuesday, that Iraq is the country that has reduced its oil production the most, while Libya was the most productive country in the organization in November 2020. The organization said in its monthly report, “total OPEC-13 crude oil production averaged 25.11 million barrels per day in November …

Excitement over the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine today had oil prices surging this morning, but the rally fizzled after OPEC put out its monthly oil market report. Citing further uncertainty in the transportation sector caused by surging cases of COVID-19, the group lowered its estimates for a recovery in …

In addition to the great consequences for human health, the pandemic has led to serious socio-economic shocks in most countries of the world, including in the Arab countries, Minister of Energy of Algeria Abdelmadjid Attar said RABAT, December 14. /TASS/. An extremely difficult situation has developed in the global economy …