India, the world’s third-biggest oil importer, gets a bulk of its Russian supplies made up over 35% of India’s total crude imports in 2023, amounting to 1 .7 million barrels per day.
PetroChina’s contract to develop the Nahr bin Umar gas field follows the takeover by PetroChina of ExxonMobil’s operator role in the giant West Qurna 1 field.
For China, Iraq’s gas sector is not just potentially massive but is also highly connected to its equally potentially huge oil sector.
Around 70 percent of Iraq’s gas reserves are ‘associated’ with oil fields, and the majority of these fields are located in the southeast of Iraq.
China achieved record-breaking crude oil and natural gas production in 2023, with unconventional gas contributing significantly to the overall figures.
Despite fluctuations in demand and some disappointment among analysts, both domestic production and imports of energy commodities reached historic highs.
While Chinese oil demand growth may slow in the future, its natural gas demand growth is likely to remain robust as it increases the use of natural gas in power generation
HOUSTON :Oil rose nearly 2per cent on Monday as investors worried about disruptions to maritime trade and supply costs after the Iran-aligned Yemeni Houthi militant group attacked ships in the Red Sea.
Gazprom and CNPC agreed to increase the volume of Russian gas export to China through the Power of Siberia pipeline next year.
Benchmark Brent averaged around US$80 a barrel this year, after a volatile 2022 in which prices surged above US$100 after Russian supplies were disrupted following the Ukraine war
IEA: Russia’s oil revenues dropped in November.
IEA: Russia’s export revenues for crude and oil products fell by 17% month-on-month in November to $15.2 billion.
Russia’s overall oil shipments declined by 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) in November, the agency noted.
Novak: “The timely actions of OPEC+, thanks to which about 2.2 million barrels per day will be held off the market in the first quarter of next year, will allow the period of low demand to pass painlessly in the first quarter of 2024,”.
A new report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air claims that the G7 price cap has failed to live up to its potential.
When we talk of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we tend to focus on the latter’s political, social and humanitarian dimensions. But often this comes at the expense of considering an important economic dimension — one which recent events in Gaza have brought into stark relief.