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Oil Set for Biggest Weekly Gains in Two Years

Oct 04, 2024

Oil prices rose for a fourth consecutive session on Friday as investors braced for a potential Israeli strike on Iranian energy infrastructure, setting up crude benchmarks for their biggest weekly gains since OPEC+ began curtailing output two years ago…

Shell Restarts Stones Platform as Hurricane Forecast Shifts

Sep 24, 2024

Shell said on Tuesday it has started the process of restoring oil production at its Stones platform as the forecast of a looming major hurricane in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico shifted.Shell had shut down production on Sunday at both the Stones and…

OPEC+ Has Oil Price and Demand Problems. It Should Solve Demand

Sep 05, 2024

OPEC+ has two problems and two solutions.The first problem is that crude oil prices are too low for the comfort of most of the members of the group, which pulls together the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies including Russia…

Equinor Could Reevaluate UK Oil Investments Amid Potential Tax Hikes

Aug 28, 2024

Norway's Equinor may reconsider investing in oil and gas in Britain if the Labour government changes the industry's tax regime, a top company executive told Reuters.Equinor's head of international operations said it may not be as attractive…

Johan Castberg Oilfield Expected to Reach Full Output in H1 2025

Aug 27, 2024

Equinor's Arctic Johan Castberg oilfield is expected to reach full production of some 220,000 barrels per day in the first half of 2025, a senior company official said on Tuesday.The oilfield in the Norwegian part of the Barents Sea is set to…

Equinor to Resume Gullfaks C Output After Well Incident

Aug 23, 2024

Norway's Equinor has begun work to resume output at its Gullfaks C oil and gas platform in the North Sea after a shutdown on Sunday, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday.The incident was caused by problems with one of the platform's wells…

Egypt Plans to Restore 'Normal' Oil and Gas Production by 2025

Aug 22, 2024

Egypt plans to return oil and gas production to normal levels from 2025 with the help of international partners, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said in a press conference on Thursday.The North African country had aimed to become a regional…

OPEC⁺ Faces Moment of Truth on Planned Output Increase

Aug 22, 2024

In the next few weeks, Saudi Arabia and its OPEC⁺ allies must take a delicate decision about whether to proceed with planned production increases from October, or postpone them because of an uncertain economic outlook.The recent slides in front-month Brent futures prices…

Demand Concerns Drive Oil Prices Down

Aug 22, 2024

Oil prices edged lower for a fifth session on Thursday as investors worried about the global demand outlook, however a decline in U.S. fuel inventories limited declines.Brent crude futures LCOc1 slipped 2 cents to $76.03 a barrel, while U.S…

Ultra-High Pressure Oil Wells Could Unleash another 2B Barrels from GOM

Aug 18, 2024

U.S. energy firms last week cut oil and natural gas rigs for the second time in three weeks, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on Friday.The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, fell by two to 586 in the week to Aug…

Libya's Waha Oilfield Resumes

Aug 16, 2024

Maintenance on the Zaggut-Sidra pipeline linking Libya's Waha oilfield to the port of Es-Sider has been completed and flows have resumed, Waha Oil Company said on Friday. Oil production from the field is expected to return to normal levels in the coming hours…

Oil Investors Slash Positions to All-time Low Amid Financial Market Turmoil

Aug 12, 2024

Investors cut their petroleum positions to the lowest level for at least a decade early last week, part of a broad-based retreat from risk amid rising concerns over a global economic slowdown.Hedge funds and other money managers sold the equivalent…

Mexico's New Government Plots Reform to Boost Oil Reserves Amid Soaring Debt

Aug 08, 2024

Mexico's incoming government will encourage state oil producer Pemex to seek equity partnerships with private oil companies, a model out of favor with the current president, in a bid to boost reserves amid towering debt, according to four sources familiar with the matter…

US Oil Output Falls in May for First Time Since January

Jul 31, 2024

U.S. crude oil production fell in May in its first monthly decline since January, while fell natural gas output decreased to its lowest since February 2023, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed on Wednesday.Crude oil production fell by 61…

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