ADNOC, the Abu Dhabi state oil company, Adu Dhabi Investment Holding, and Mubadala Investment Co., two state investment funds, have teamed up in an Abu Dhabi Hydrogen Alliance to develop hydrogen production and export capabilities, joining a growing number of businesses betting on hydrogen, Argus reports citing Emirati media. Bloomberg …
Read More »The UAE Warns U.S. Shale Companies against Pumping More Oil
Any attempt by U.S. shale and other oil producers to boost output this year will backfire and lead to lower prices, according to the energy minister of the United Arab Emirates. Oil prices have surged in the past two months with the development of coronavirus vaccines. They jumped again last …
Read More »UAE-Based Firms Help Venezuela’s Oil Exports to Skirt U.S. Sanctions
Little-known shipping companies registered in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been shipping Venezuelan crude oil in breach of the U.S. sanctions on Nicolas Maduro’s regime, Reuters says in a special report on Tuesday. The companies Muhit Maritime, Issa Shipping FZE, and Asia Charm Ltd, all registered in two free …
Read More »UAE Sees Gradual Oil Demand Recovery in 2021
The United Arab Emirates is optimistic about a recovery in oil demand in 2021, but says it won’t be immediate. Rollout of coronavirus vaccines and improvement in ties between the United States and China are likely to improve demand for oil, Energy Minister Suhail Al-Mazrouei told Sky News Arabia. “Recovery …
Read More »UAE Eases Oil Supply Cuts to Asia after OPEC+ Compromise Deal
The United Arab Emirates will provide Asian oil buyers with a little more crude next month after OPEC+ reached a compromise deal on cuts. While OPEC’s third-largest producer will still reduce supply to Asia in January, the curbs won’t be as deep as this month in percentage terms. Abu Dhabi …
Read More »With Expansion of Capacity, UAE to Play more Assertive Role in OPEC
The United Arab Emirates’ resistance at OPEC meetings to extending deep supply cuts into 2021 is the start of a more assertive policy stance that could make it harder for the group to balance global oil supply. The seeds of the emerging divergence have their roots in a major expansion …
Read More »Abu Dhabi’s Latest Oil Find Brings UAE Closer to Russia in Reserves
UAE’s discovery of new oil resources will take the country’s total conventional oil reserves to 107 billion barrels, placing the OPEC nation near Russia, one of the world’s largest energy exporters. The find “strengthens the country’s position in sixth place in the world in the list of countries with the …
Read More »UAE Discovers 22 Billion Barrels Worth of Onshore ‘Unconventional’ Oil Resource
An onshore unconventional oil source with 22 billion recoverable barrels has been discovered, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has announced. The discovery of new oil sources “is a testament to ADNOC’s relentless efforts to unlock and maximize value from the UAE’s hydrocarbon reserves for the benefit of the …
Read More »UAE Achieves 126% Compliance with OPEC+ Quota in Oct
The UAE achieved 126% compliance with its OPEC+ quota in October, the energy ministry said late Nov. 17, as OPEC’s third largest producer sought to compensate for overproduction in August. The country’s compliance since the cuts were implemented in May is 101%, the ministry said in a statement on the …
Read More »OPEC Faces Dilemma over Oil Cuts into 2021
Gulf OPEC producers the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, as well as Iraq, are debating whether they should roll over existing oil supply cuts into 2021, as they struggle to stick to their agreed reductions, OPEC and industry sources said. Their hesitance raises the possibility of reviewing output targets when …
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