Middle East
News
December 08, 2023
WesternZagros, a privately held American company with offices in Calgary, Canada, and Erbil and Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, has officially become a member of APIKUR.
News
December 06, 2023
At the center of discussions in Riyadh will be Russia’s role in OPEC+, the Saudi-led alliance between the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other major oil producers, which last week agreed to extend and deepen production cuts to bolster prices.
News
December 05, 2023
ADNOC and SOCAR will explore opportunities to work together to advance blue hydrogen, carbon management and geothermal technologies that can accelerate the decarbonization of energy systems in the UAE, Azerbaijan and other key markets and support their net zero ambitions.
News
December 05, 2023
OPEC+ could take further measures if last week’s production cuts agreement isn’t enough to balance the oil market, said Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak.
News
November 27, 2023
The OPEC leader has been making a largely unilateral production cutback of 1 MMbpd since July, and is now seeking further support from across OPEC and its partners, said the delegates, asking not to be identified because the information is private.
News
November 23, 2023
The state-owned Middle Eastern company has been studying a possible bid as it seeks to boost its global footprint, people familiar with the matter said. Any deal could value Wintershall Dea at more than €10 billion ($11 billion), the people said.
News
November 22, 2023
Egypt is set to resume exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) following a months-long hiatus after supplies of the fuel from Israel increased.
News
November 20, 2023
Oil is back in a bear market, but as things currently stand one of OPEC’s largest producers is set to increase output in January.
News
November 16, 2023
(WO) — Aramco announced that it has successfully produced the first unconventional tight gas from its South Ghawar operational area two months ahead of schedule.
News
November 15, 2023
The US will enforce oil sanctions against Iran amid the renewed conflict in the Middle East, a White House Energy adviser said Wednesday.
News
November 14, 2023
Imports are expected to rise to 650 MMcfd on Thursday, and to the normal level of 800 MMcfd early next week, from about 250 MMcfd earlier in November, the person said, asking not to be named because the information isn’t public.
News
November 13, 2023
West Qurna 1 is located in southern Iraq and has recoverable reserve estimates of over 20 Bbbl, making the oil field on of the largest in the world.
News
November 13, 2023
Chevron Corp. has started supplies to local customers in Israel and the region from its Tamar natural gas field, the company said Monday. The field was closed last month on safety concerns following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
News
November 10, 2023
The OPEC+ leader is likely to extend its 1 MMbpd production cut — introduced over the summer — into next year, according to analysts at UBS Group AG, FGE, Commerzbank AG and Eurasia Group. RBC Capital Markets says it looks increasingly likely.
News
November 09, 2023
Oxy Oman and OQGN intend to exchange knowledge and technical expertise to develop strategies enabling the deployment of CCUS projects in Oman in line with the national strategic direction, including carbon capture, transport of carbon dioxide to Oxy Oman’s production assets for EOR, and supporting the development of relevant policies and procedures with the appropriate government bodies.
News
November 07, 2023
Delivery of the contract includes the design and manufacture of top drives from Kenera’s rig equipment business, Bentec.
News
November 06, 2023
The two sides also signed a long-term sales and purchase agreement (SPA) for the delivery of 3 MMtpa of LNG from the NFS project to Sinopec’s receiving terminals in China over a span of 27 years.
News
November 05, 2023
Saudi Arabia and Russia reaffirmed that they will stick with oil production curbs of more than 1 MMbpd until the end of the year, even as turmoil in the Middle East roils global markets.
News
November 03, 2023
The giant offshore Leviathan field is exporting the fuel after another Israeli field, Karish, returned from an outage, allowing domestic demand to be met, said people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the information isn’t public.
News
November 02, 2023
TotalEnergies is extending beyond 2024 its interest in Oman LNG, by ten years, and in Qalhat LNG, by five years. The parties agreed to finance investments to reduce the plant’s GHG emissions during this extension.
Article
October 2023
Saudi-led production cut extension tests regional compliance
