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August 09, 2016
The worst may be yet to come for some strained oil services companies as $110 billion in debt, most of it junk rated, creeps closer to maturity.
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July 26, 2016
Oil dropped to a three-month low in New York amid speculation that U.S. fuel stockpiles increased, bolstering a glut in the world’s biggest crude-consuming nation.
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July 20, 2016
Making strategic long-term investments, and pooling resources from within the oil and gas industry is central to energy sector progress, said senior officials at a recent gathering of the Middle East Petroleum Club (MEPC) in Abu Dhabi.
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July 19, 2016
Oil closed at the lowest level in more than two months in New York as the dollar rose against its peers and global crude markets were deemed comfortably supplied despite threats to output.
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July 07, 2016
Oil retreated after a government report showed U.S. crude stockpiles dropped by less than expected.
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July 01, 2016
Natural gas exports from the U.S. Gulf Coast will reach buyers in Asia and South America faster and at lower costs thanks to an expanded Panama Canal that could see 550 tankers a year by 2021.
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June 30, 2016
Commodity investors aren’t letting the shock of Brexit spoil their best three months since 2010.
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June 28, 2016
U.S. natural gas futures surged to the highest level in 10 months amid forecasts for sweltering heat and on speculation that a series of pipeline disruptions will curb supplies in the market.
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June 14, 2016
For the top 50 largest U.S. E&P companies, revenues and capital expenditures dropped 41% during 2015—the first year since 2004 that EIA-posted monthly WTI spot prices averaged below $60/bbl for the entire 12 months.
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June 02, 2016
U.S. exports of shale gas stand to increase confidence in the fuel as a long-term energy source, while giving Europe the chance to diversify its natural gas supplies, Norway Petroleum and Energy Minister Tord Lien said Wednesday.
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May 26, 2016
Donald Trump is poised to give his first substantive energy policy speech in North Dakota, a state eager to hear how he can help the industry recover from the worst downturn in a generation.
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May 12, 2016
Iran’s success in boosting crude output to the most since late 2011 is no incentive for it to join OPEC partners in curbing production to shore up prices. With crude rallying, analysts see no immediate need for action.
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May 06, 2016
After three years of spin-offs and asset sales from Brazil to California, Occidental Petroleum Corp. is ready to start growing again, said CEO Vicki Hollub.
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April 28, 2016
Today the Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC), in its second update to the 2016 Canadian Drilling Activity Forecast, announced it revised the forecasted number of wells drilled (rig releases) across Canada for 2016 to 3,315 wells.
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April 26, 2016
API called on the administration to maintain and promote U.S. oil and natural gas development through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM) 2017-2022 offshore program, API Group Director of upstream and industry operations Erik Milito said today in a briefing with journalists.
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April 19, 2016
Major OPEC and other crude producers will meet in Russia, possibly next month, in a new push to agree on an output freeze to shore up oil prices, Iraq’s Deputy Oil Minister Fayyad Al-Nima said.
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April 19, 2016
In response to continued low oil prices, onshore crude oil production in the Lower 48 states is expected to decline from an average of 7.41 MMbpd in 2015 to 6.46 MMbpd in 2016, and to 5.76 MMbpd in 2017. Increased production from the federal Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is not enough to offset those declines.
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April 19, 2016
Kuwait’s oil production is set to return to normal in three days after thousands of striking workers returned to their jobs Wednesday. OPEC’s fourth-largest producer will boost output to an average of 3 MMbopd in three days, Kuwait Petroleum Corp. said Wednesday.
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April 10, 2016
As oil markets look for the green shoots of a price recovery, LNG participants are hunkering down for a long winter.
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April 08, 2016
In the energy world, India is becoming the new China.
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April 07, 2016
Natural gas producers are finally realizing that the age-old adage is true: If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
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