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  • Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh hosted Spain's Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism Manuel Soria in Tehran on Monday to explore cooperation in a wide range of economic and energy ties.

  • Development of gas fields is the top priority of the National Iranian Gas Company, the company's chief of operations, Abdolhossein Samari, said on Monday.

    Samari said Iran will continue to…

  • Oil prices could plunge below $40 per barrel and beyond, but such falls are expected to be shortlived, said Russian presidential aide Andrey Belousov at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok…

  • When Enrico Mattei, Italian oil company Eni’s CEO, coined the phrase "seven sisters" to signify the oil companies constituting "the Consortium for Iran", which dominated the global oil scene from…

  • Changouleh Oilfield's development project will be showcased to foreign investors at a conference in London in December, ahead of the likely lifting of international sanctions in 2016.

    The…

  • The assets of seven companies related to the controversial case of a "missing" Iranian oil rig have been blocked and the judiciary will pursue the case to recover part of the money paid to…

  • Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian touched on the ministry's revenues, the national water crisis and revision of the country's much-criticized dam-building policies, among others.

  • The Iranian oil minister wants to negotiate with German companies ahead of the lifting of sanctions to jumpstart investment in the oil and gas industry.

    "Iranian and German companies can…

  • Total SA reduced production at its 225,500 barrels per day Port Arthur, Texas, refinery on Saturday after a contract worker was killed when the bulldozer he was driving in a pit beneath a refining…

  • Iran exported 2.2 million tons of petrochemicals in the past five months, generating $1.49 billion in revenues, managing director of Petrochemical Commercial Company said.

    "The exports were…

  • Iran's electronic fuel card system is prone to fraud and may be scrapped once and for all within the next few months, the head of Iran Gas Station Owners Union said.

  • Despite the protracted downward slide, oil prices finished off the week with just a bit less volatility than when it started the week.

    WTI stayed at around $46 per barrel as of midday on…

  • India's oil imports from Iran fell 27% to a five-month low in August from a high base last year and ahead of a planned shutdown by two refineries.

  • Preparations for the construction of a second reactor at Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant have begun and the project is moving as scheduled, Rosatom CEO Sergei Kirienko said late on Friday.

  • Russia's Gazprom has bolstered its industrial presence in the heart of Europe with two major gas deals, despite tensions with Moscow over the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

  • Plans to build new power plants and wind farms in East Azarbaijan Province in Iran require an investment of $3 billion, Governor General Esmaeil Jabbarzadeh said.

  • The Oil Ministry intends to send a delegation to South Africa in October to explore grounds for cooperation.

    According to the head of National Petrochemical Company, Abbas Sheri-Moqaddam,…

  • The Energy Ministry has no plans to increase electricity prices in the foreseeable future, deputy energy minister said, despite reports by government officials that power tariffs in Iran are…

  • Energy deals between Russian oil major Rosneft and Chinese partners will be worth more than $500 billion in the next 20 years, according to Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin.

  • Iran's oil minister said the National Iranian Oil Company needs $50 billion to carry out its development projects in shared oil and gas fields.

  • A senior Oil Ministry official said the presence of American companies in Iranian oil projects is feasible, as Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh interpreted the unlikely bond as "cooperation, not…

  • The state fined 30 oil companies on Thursday for failing to meet a deadline to report information about the source, volume and disposal of water used in oil and gas production.

  • Andy Hall, one of the best-known oil traders who is bullish on prices, said the decline in the oil market is not a repeat of 1998 or 2008.

  • Plans call for reducing the role of government in energy projects and boosting private sector investments in this key sector.

    Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian made the statement on the…

  • A long-awaited study by the US President Barack Obama administration concludes that lifting the nation’s four-decade ban on oil exports would not increase US gasoline prices and could even help…