A high-ranking Italian economic delegation arrived in Tehran on Wednesday to hold talks with Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, the latest in a series of European officials seeking trade…
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Oman’s oil production rose during the first half of this year by 2.9% to reach 175.6 million barrels, compared with 170.8 million barrels during the same period of last year. National Center for…
Kuwaiti, Austrian and Azerbaijan's investors have visited Ilam Province to explore investment potentials in the region's energy projects, Ilam Province's governor said.
Indonesia's Pertamina is losing 80 billion rupiah ($6 million) a day from subsidized fuel sales, adding to losses from declining oil prices that have cut into first-half profits in its upstream…
Total SA, Europe’s biggest refiner, is taking preliminary steps to restart its La Mede plant in southern France, which was halted in June by a strike.
“The installations will gradually move…
Russia has filed an application to expand the boundaries of its continental shelf in the Arctic Sea.
Moscow made a similar claim in 2002, but the United Nations turned it down for lack of…
Parsabad Moghan's substation development project in Ardabil Province, northwestern Iran, is ready to go on stream, managing director of Azarbaijan Regional Electricity Company said on Wednesday.…
Russia has submitted its bid for vast territories in the Arctic to the United Nations, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
The ministry said in a statement Russia is claiming 1…
Oil pumping in the Iraqi pipeline carrying Kurdish and Kirkuk oil to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan has been halted since last Thursday, shipping agents and Turkish energy sources said.…
The total solar energy absorbed by Iran's atmosphere, oceans and land masses is above international levels, reaching 8 kilowatt-hours per square meter in some regions, such as Qasr-e…
Russian nuclear giant Rosatom and Vietnam’s state-owned Vietnam Electricity have signed a framework agreement for building the Southeast Asian country’s first nuclear power plant, the Russian…
Four small-scale power plants have become operational on Greater Tunb Island in the Persian Gulf, while plans are underway to improve Abu Musa Island's electricity system.
The four power…
Government officials have pushed for private sector's involvement in oil exports.
The issue was discussed during a meeting at Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and…
Oil recovered to just above $50 a barrel on Tuesday after touching a six-month low in the previous session, although high global production and concern over the economic outlook in China weighed…
The construction of a $10 billion gas pipeline stretching from Central to South Asia is set to begin in December, Pakistani officials said on Monday after meeting with a delegation from…
India’s oil imports from Iran rose 2.4% in July from a year ago, with some of the shipments among the first after a landmark deal that will allow Tehran to boost exports in return for curbing its…
Oil fell to its lowest in six months on Monday, knocked by fresh evidence of growing oversupply and data highlighting slowing demand in China, leaving crude prices set for their weakest third-…
Iran has resumed gas exports to Turkey after Botas, the country's gas importing company, said it is ready to re-receive gas, dispatching director at National Iranian Gas Company, Manouchehr…
South Pars phases 20 and 21 will become operational by November and their gas will be sent to Iran's Gas Trunkline—aka IGAT—in winter, Alireza Ebadi, director of phases 20 and 21 at Pars Oil and…
The long-term Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action announced on 14 July by Iran and the P5+1 (France, the UK, the US, China and Russia plus Germany) in Vienna puts Iran on a firm reintegration path…
Iranian engineers manufactured the first fully-indigenized hydro turbine governor, which is compatible with the highest international standards.
Ukraine has collected 13.06 billion cubic meters of gas in underground storage as of August 3, still short of the 18-19 bcm it seeks to store by mid-October, gas transport monopoly Ukrtransgaz…
Iranian energy projects represent a $167 billion opportunity for regional and international companies, as the Persian Gulf state prepares for the lifting of sanctions.
The Russian Economic Development Ministry increased its forecast for oil production in 2015 to 530.5 million tons, while lowering its forecast for the production of gas to 626 billion cubic meters…
Iran and Armenia have signed an electricity supply contract, valued at €107 million, whereby the Export Development Bank of Iran, as the country's exim (export-import) bank, undertakes to provide…