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  • Oman intends to ask companies to submit bids before June to build the $6 billion Duqm oil refinery and petrochemical complex, a report quoted the country's oil and gas minister, Mohammed Al Rumhi…

  • Russia's top gas producer Gazprom expects its natural gas output to reach 480 billion cubic meters in 2016 after it fell to an all-time low of 418.5 bcm last year, Interfax cited a company…

  • Following a deal with the French oil and gas giant Total, Iran signed an agreement with another French company Axens on the purchase and manufacture of a wide range of petrochemical catalysts.

  • Underscoring the daily processing capacity of the complex, which stands at 2.2 mcm, the official said, “Pipe-laying operation and refining units’ installation have already been undertaken. It is…

  • Iran exported an average 5 million liters of diesel per day to neighboring countries, including Pakistan, in the past 10 months, managing director of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution…

  • Iran has cancelled a London conference where it was set to introduce new oil and gas contracts to investors, the Seda weekly reported on Saturday citing a senior Iranian official who blamed a…

  • Iran, boosting oil exports after the lifting of sanctions, is talking of a need to recoup its market share, OPEC sources said.

    This is while Russian officials have decided they should talk…

  • US oil demand fell in November from a year earlier, the third straight monthly decline, government data showed. Total US oil demand fell by 182,000 barrels per day, or 0.9% compared with the same…

  • Iraq's oil minister said on Saturday his country was ready to accept a decision by OPEC and non-OPEC members to cut crude production. "Iraq will agree and cooperate if producers really want to…

  • Output from the joint Hengam Oilfield, straddling the marine border of Iran and Oman, is of a superior quality compared to that of other fields in the Persian Gulf and even in the world, Qeshm…

  • Iran has increased oil output capacity by 160,000 barrels per day from West Karun, its joint field with Iraq, managing director of Petroleum Engineering and Development Company said on Saturday.…

  • The sixth five-year development plan (2016-21) is targeting an 8% annual growth, says government spokesman, Mohammad Baqer Nobakht.

    The plan outlines government strategies in its budget…

  • Oil edged up above $34 a barrel on Friday, a gain of some 25% from the 12-year lows seen earlier in January, on hopes that a deal between major exporters to cut production could help reduce one of…

  • Iran's oil exports look set to rise by more than a fifth in January and February from last year's daily average, data from a source with knowledge of its loading schedules shows, revealing how…

  • Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich on Friday played down expectations that Russia could coordinate with OPEC to arrest the fall in oil prices by reducing production, saying the state…

  • Disagreements between Iran's oil and energy ministries have hampered projects for increasing the supply of feedstock gas to power plants and exports to neighboring countries.

    Disputes on…

  • To implement its strategic oil and gas projects, Iran has started a new round of talks with international oil giants, including France's Total and the Netherlands' Royal Dutch Shell.

  • Iran signed a deal to export crude oil to French oil and gas major Total on Thursday, as the two countries turned the page for a new era of economic and diplomatic relations.

  • Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday oil prices would not stay low for long, as producers restore market balance.

  • Russia's Gazprom has cancelled a discount in gas prices for Turkish customers, industry officials said on Friday, in the latest salvo in a diplomatic and trade row after Turkey shot down a Russian…

  • Shareholders of Royal Dutch Shell approved the company's $49 billion takeover of BG Group on Wednesday, clearing one of the final hurdles for a deal that will create the world's biggest liquefied…

  • OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia and top non-OPEC producer Russia are showing signs of flexibility about agreeing to tackle an oil glut that has pushed prices to 12-year lows, the oil minister…

  • During the next eight days, independent US oil explorers are expected to report 2015 losses totaling almost $14 billion, the result of the steepest price collapse in a generation.

    Hess Corp…

  • Five domestic firms are in talks with National Iranian Gas Export Company to use natural gas for production and export of electricity, NIGEC's executive director said on Wednesday.

    "…

  • Energy Ministry is in advanced talks with a major South Korean company to introduce new water management projects in Iran, director general of water and wastewater projects at the ministry said.…