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After passing the ever-important psychological US$50-a-barrel threshold in a downward direction earlier this week, international benchmarks continued their slide on Tuesday, with Brent crude hitting…
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The Iranian Offshore Oil Company will increase production at the Foroozan oil field, which Iran shares with Saudi Arabia, by 12,000 barrels daily, the company’s…
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A day after the American Petroleum Institute injected a bit of optimism among traders by reporting a crude oil inventory draw of 4.2 million barrels,…
Baker Hughes has taken efficiency efforts in oil and gas a potentially big step further on the road to even lower production costs. Its DeepFrac technology,…
A deputy manager at Iraq’s Northern Gas Company was gunned down today by an unidentified group of men on the way to his office in…
Mexico will be happy to receive suggestions for offshore blocks to be included in the December bidding round for its section of the Gulf of…
A new gas condensate refinery, dubbed the Persian Gulf Star, will make Iran self-sufficient in gasoline production and will set the country on its way…
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OPEC could extend its crude oil production cut agreement by less than six months – the period that is widely assumed to be the logical…
The first quarter of the year saw record-high oil and gas M&A activity in the U.S., with the value of deals topping US$73 billion –…
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