Look at these remarks made by heads of states in the aftermath of sinking oil prices and demand destruction caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
Read More »U.S. Cuts Forecast for 2020 Oil Output Ahead of OPEC+ Meeting
The U.S. cut its oil output forecast by more than one million barrels a day, days before OPEC and other producers meet to discuss a global deal to stem an unprecedented collapse in prices. Production will average 11.76 million barrels a day in 2020, down from an expected 12.99 million, …
Read More »Under US Pressure, Saudi Arabia Concedes Defeat in Its Oil Price War against Russia
By calling for an urgent OPEC+ meeting to discuss oil price stabilization under pressure from President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia has admitted defeat in its price war against Russia, Mamdouh Salameh, a visiting professor of Energy Economics at ESCP Europe Business School said. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency …
Read More »US Announces $22m to Advance Marine Energy Industry
The DoE seeks to support research and development and testing infrastructure in ocean sciences and marine energy.
Read More »US Economic, Banking Restrictions on Iran Crime Against Humanity Amid Pandemic
Iran's Permanent Representative to the UN office in Geneva said in a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) chief that the imposition and intensification of US sanctions on Iran amidst the coronavirus pandemic amount to a crime against humanity.
Read More »Trump Says Will Put Tariffs on Oil Imports If He Has to
Oil prices have collapsed recently both due to the lowered demand amid the rapid spread of COVID-19 and OPEC+’s failure to reach an agreement on cutting oil output in April. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he “does not care about OPEC” and that he will put tariffs on …
Read More »Gazprom’s LNG Megaproject Doomed to Fail
The gas giant Gazprom is no longer in the spotlight after the US Treasury sanctioned Rosneft, the Russian national oil company, most probably triggering the collapse of the OPEC+ agreement and bringing about an unexpectedly low pricing environment for March 2020 within both the oil and gas segments. Having launched …
Read More »Oil Holds Near $20 as Saudis Surge, Russia Stands Pat on Output
Oil held near $20 a barrel as Saudi Aramco’s output surged above 12 million barrels a day, but Russia said it would refrain from further production hikes.
Read More »Trump May Rent Strategic Petroleum Reserve Storage to U.S. Drillers
The U.S. Energy Department is considering renting space in the nation’s emergency oil reserve to domestic producers awash in crude, according to three people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified before a formal announcement.
Read More »Trump Says the U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia to Meet on Oil Price Crash
President Donald Trump said the U.S. would meet with Saudi Arabia and Russia with the goal of staunching an historic plunge in oil prices.
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