Energy

  • Oil fell for a second trading day in a row on Monday, after speculators cut their bullish bets by the most in three months last week and US crude drillers added more rigs for a tenth week running…

  • Mexican Finance Minister Jose Antonio Meade said last week that approximately $5.4 billion in funds for state-run oil firm Pemex will be eliminated from the proposed federal budget in 2017.

  • Iran will send the first advance payment to Russia to finance the ongoing construction of the Bushehr-2 Nuclear Power Plant by the end of the year, an official site with the Russian manufacturing…

  • An official at the National Iranian Oil Company said it can tap into 28% of its total in-place crude oil and gas condensates, stressing the need to implement advanced oil recovery methods to boost…

  • Iran’s petrochemical output increased by 7% over the past six months compared to the same period a year ago, the head of production control at National Petrochemical Company said.

    “Since…

  • The National Iranian Oil Company is set to raise gas condensate exports to meet increasing demand from foreign customers, the company's managing director said, playing down speculation about new…

  • Iran has told the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries it pumped 3.63 million barrels of oil per day in August, up 10,000 bpd from July, an OPEC source said, marking a slowdown in the…

  • Saudi Arabia is likely to appoint a new Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries governor and national representative, a source familiar with the matter said. Adeeb Al Aama is expected to…

  • Iran and Russia broke the ground for two nuclear power plants in southern Bushehr Province in a ceremony on Saturday.

    With a combined power production capacity of 1,057 megawatts, the new…

  • National Iranian Oil Company and China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) have reached a final agreement to develop the Abadan Oil Refinery, managing director of National Iranian Oil…

  • The CEO of the Industrial Development and Renovation Organization (IDRO) of Iran outlined the energy roadmap for the next 10 years and said Tehran is seeking $180 billion in oil and gas…

  • As officials from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries shuttle between Tehran, Moscow and Paris in preparation for an informal meeting in Algiers, the focus of their efforts appears…

  • OPEC and other producers can reconcile talks aimed at stabilizing the oil market with the prerogative of Iran, Nigeria and Libya to boost output, according to Algeria’s energy minister.

  • It will be too early for Iran to discuss freezing crude output when the world’s biggest producers meet later this month in Algiers, according to an official from the Iran’s state-oil company.

  • Oil prices edged lower on Friday but were set for the first weekly gain in three weeks after jumping 4% a day earlier due to a surprisingly large drawdown in US crude stocks.

  • Algeria’s energy minister was scheduled to meet his Saudi counterpart and OPEC’s secretary-general in Paris on Friday as part of moves toward clinching a global deal on stabilizing crude output to…

  • Polish refiner Lotos is poised to sign a long-term oil deal with Iran after receiving its first supplies from OPEC’s No. 3 producer last month, the deputy head of Lotos said on Thursday.

  • Plans are underway to build new power plants with distributed generation (DG) system and a capacity of 4,000 megawatts during the sixth five-year economic development plan (2016-21).

  • Iran is struggling to reduce water consumption in the agricultural and energy sectors despite a marked rise in its water reserves, data published this week by the Energy Ministry showed.

  • Iran’s Association of Petroleum Industry Engineering and Construction Companies (IRAPEC) has defended the general structure of the new oil and gas contractual framework, aka Iran Petroleum…

  • Japan’s electricity wholesaler Electric Power Development said on Friday it has pushed back the projected commercial start of its first nuclear power plant by two years to 2024/25, reflecting a…

  • Oil analysts are dusting off their favorite output statistics to figure out how much more crude Iran must pump before it hits pre-sanctions production levels, potentially triggering its…

  • Iran plans to launch the long-awaited new upstream oil and gas contracts, aka Iran Petroleum Contract, at a three-day international conference in Tehran scheduled for January 30.

  • Iran has exported 20.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas over the past three years, 13.6% more than its total exports during former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s second term in office from…

  • According to the Customs Service of Armenia, natural gas imports from Iran increased by 1.2% to 186.5 million cubic meters while imports from Russia declined by 27.3% from 1.125 billion cubic…