The near collapse of Venezuela’s once colossal oil industry under the weight of endemic corruption‚ and strict U.S. sanctions, along with Mexico’s sputtering mature oil fields, saw Latin America’s economically crucial hydrocarbon sector fall into decline.
RIYADH: Driven by a fall in crude and commodities pricing, oil and gas production in the US is decelerating at a time when demand is showing signs of recovery, research by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has shown.
It was meant to be an arrangement by which Nigeria swapped crude oil for refined petroleum products but now it has emerged the country has accumulated up to $3 billion in debts owed to trading houses such as Vitol and oil majors like BP for fuel supplies.
ABUJA, June 12 (Reuters) – Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has been advised to reduce the state’s stake in the oil and gas sector to raise up to $17 billion to boost economic growth during his four-year term, a policy document showed.
If it was Russia’s intention to send oil tumbling after its oil minister last week said that OPEC+ has no intentions of cutting production, in the process inviting another round of shorts and bearish CTAs, well… mission accomplished: on Wednesday oil tumbled more than 3% following the latest dismal Chinese PMI data, and followed a 4.4% […]
Singapore, a major hub for oil transportation and storage, has detained this year a record-high number of oil and chemicals tankers that have failed to pass inspection—more than the number of detained tankers in the whole decade to 2019. As old tankers are increasingly used by Russia to ship its crude oil and products without […]
South Africa is one step closer to having a new entity in charge of petroleum in the country, with a significant merger between PetroSA and other Central Energy Fund (CEF) subsidiaries progressing.
South Australia’s minister for energy and mining has told the industry that the regional government is “at your disposal” as he aims to placate fears of the energy transition.
News last week from Iraq Oil Ministry sources that the first stage of a gas processing facility at the Halfaya oil field is now expected to come online ahead by early 2024, ahead of schedule, is crucial for the country’s future in three respects. First, it will go some way to appeasing repeated U.S. calls […]
Environmentalists are up in arms over apparent slack added to the Group of Seven’s energy and environmental goals, after ministers decided that the ‘war in Ukraine and its effects on oil and gas’ warrant breaking what are supposed to be ‘firm commitments’ that climate advocates say are necessary to limit global warming.