Saudi Arabia might have just signed off on one of the most notable oil output deals in history, but challenges lie ahead as the kingdom faces keen competition from rival suppliers to the prized Asian market. That perhaps explains why the de-facto leader of OPEC slashed its official selling prices …
Read More »Saudi Aramco’s Share Continues Decline despite Historic OPEC+ Deal
Saudi Aramco’s shares continued to decline during trading yesterday, despite Sunday’s historic agreement to reduce oil production that was reached by OPEC and the major oil producers in the world. Aramco shares were down 1.7 per cent by the end of trading yesterday having dropped 1.25 per cent on Sunday. …
Read More »Saudi Arabia Cuts Oil Prices to Asia, Raises US
Saudi Arabia has announced its official crude pricing (OSP) for May, selling oil more cheaply to Asia while keeping prices flat for Europe and raising them for the U.S., after OPEC and its allies agreed the biggest output cut deal in history. Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant Saudi Aramco has …
Read More »US Increase Pressure on Saudis as Negotiators Wrestle over Historic Oil Deal
The US stepped up pressure on Saudi Arabia to seal a historic deal to cut oil production as negotiations that President Donald Trump himself has brokered dragged on for a third day. Talks aimed at ending a price war that’s savaging the US oil industry and threatening petrostates’ budgets continued …
Read More »US Senators Urges Saudi Officers to Take Concrete Action to Cut Oil Output
Republican U.S. senators from oil states who recently introduced legislation to remove American troops from Saudi Arabia said on Saturday they had spoken with three officials from the kingdom and urged them to take concrete action to cut crude output. Saudi Arabia and Russia were close to finalizing a deal …
Read More »Saudi Arabia Delays Release of Oil Price Data Again as Mexico Refuses to Yield on Output Cuts
On Thursday, Riyadh, Moscow and other OPEC+ members and partners tentatively agreed to cut crude output by some 10 million barrels per day (bpd) over the next two months, with the deal requiring each country to cut about 23 percent of its output. Saudi state-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco has …
Read More »Saudi Arabia and Russia End Their Oil-Price War with Output Cut Agreement
Saudi Arabia and Russia ended a devastating oil price war on Thursday, agreeing to slash output together with other members of the OPEC+ alliance in an effort to lift the market from a pandemic-driven collapse.
Read More »Saudi Arabia and Russia End their Oil-Price War with Output Cut Agreement
Saudi Arabia and Russia ended a devastating oil price war on Thursday, agreeing to slash output together with other members of the OPEC+ alliance in an effort to lift the market from a pandemic-driven collapse. The tentative deal came after strong pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump and American lawmakers, …
Read More »Saudi Wealth Fund Buys Stakes in European Energy Companies
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has built up stakes in European oil firms, including about $200 million in Equinor ASA, as the kingdom navigates the coronavirus pandemic and plummeting crude prices. The Public Investment Fund amassed shares in Norway’s largest producer mostly through the open market last week, according to …
Read More »OPEC+ May Clinch 3-Months Accord for Output Cut
Changes are reportedly high for countries part of the OPEC+ group to agree upon implementing oil production cuts for at least three months from May to July, 2020.
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