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January 03, 2022
Russia failed to boost oil output last month despite a generous ramp-up quota in its OPEC+ agreement, indicating the country has deployed all of its current available production capacity.
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January 03, 2022
OPEC and its allies are expected to revive more oil supplies when they meet next week, underscoring the group’s optimism in the outlook for global demand.
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December 30, 2021
FireBird Energy has completed an acquisition of operated assets located in the Midland Basin from Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Chevron Midcontinent, L.P. Leaseholdings included in the transaction total approximately 21,000 acres.
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December 29, 2021
Oil drillers in the biggest U.S. fields are shouldering record costs at the same time that some banks are increasingly reluctant to loan money to the sector, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
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December 28, 2021
Mexico plans to end crude oil exports in 2023 as part of a strategy by the nationalist government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to reach self-sufficiency in the domestic fuels market.
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December 21, 2021
TotalEnergies has signed with the Ministry of Energy and Minerals of the Sultanate of Oman a series of agreements for the sustainable development of the country’s natural gas resources.
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December 21, 2021
Shell’s entry into this block signifies a further commitment to Oman, while enhancing and diversifying Shell’s gas supply.
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December 17, 2021
Libya may introduce contracts with private oil companies that would give bonuses to those that meet targets and penalize those that don’t, as the OPEC member tries to raise output to 1.4 million barrels a day by mid-2022.
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December 16, 2021
Processing the high-sulfur crudes produced in the Gulf of Mexico hasn’t been this profitable since 2017, thanks largely to cheap shale gas.
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December 15, 2021
Crude production in the Permian Basin is expected to surpass a pre-pandemic high this month as a rebound in the U.S. shale industry fuels activity in its most prolific patch.
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December 13, 2021
Mexico could slash Pemex’s taxes further as the world’s most indebted oil company scrambles to reverse long-term oil production declines.
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December 10, 2021
Pemex is said to be planning to trim its crude oil exports next year as it cranks up domestic fuelmaking to supply an economy bouncing back from the pandemic.
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December 09, 2021
Chevron has signed an agreement with the government of Equatorial Guinea for Block EG09, located in the Douala basin on the border of Cameroon.
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December 08, 2021
Amid the rusted remnants of Venezuela’s once-mighty oil industry, a motley crew of obscure drillers has achieved a feat few thought possible: It’s more than doubled the country’s crude production in the space of a year.
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December 07, 2021
In the debate over why U.S. oil producers haven’t added additional supply, the boss of ConocoPhillips lays the blame squarely with the government.
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December 07, 2021
Halliburton Co., the oil industry's largest frac services provider, warned that the world is headed into a period of scarcity for oil after seven years of underinvestment following crude’s plummet from $100 a barrel in 2014.
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December 07, 2021
The United Arab Emirates and Reliance Industries Ltd. agreed to build a $2 billion petrochemical plant, the Indian company’s first such investment in the Middle East.
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December 02, 2021
OPEC and its allies agreed to proceed with their next oil-production hike, while signaling they could revisit the decision at any moment as the risk to demand from the omicron variant of Covid-19 becomes clearer.
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November 22, 2021
OPEC and its allies may re-evaluate plans for reviving oil supplies if the world’s four largest consuming countries go ahead with a coordinated release of their strategic petroleum reserves.
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November 18, 2021
In its November Short-Term Energy Outlook, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts that rising production from OPEC+ countries and the United States will lead to global liquid fuels inventories increasing and crude oil prices falling in 2022.
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November 17, 2021
The oil market is about to swing into a healthy supply surplus, if the world's big international energy forecasters are to be believed.