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China's growing influence in Venezuelan oil
interesting report on China's influence in Venezuela by csis https://www.csis.org/analysis/when-investment-hurts-chinese-influence-venezuela can Venezuela ever break free now?- Rodent Replied
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Bahrain Discovers Giant Oil Field
Bahrain has discovered an oil field that they say will dwarf its current reserves. No details in numbers, though. Kind of ironic this find...- Marina Schwarz Replied
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Trudeau on the Oil Tightrope
PM Trudeau is heading to western Canada, where he will have to face opponents to the Trans Mountain project as well as the oil industry...- Marina Schwarz Replied
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Conoco: The Great Trend-Bucker
I'm adding Conoco to Shell in my brand new list of Smart Oil Companies. Instead of boosting spending to grow production, Conoco is selling non-core...- conocophillips
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UK Oil Fund S/B Worth $703 Billion
If UK had set up a SWF in the 80s as a tool for investing its North Sea oil revenues like Norway did in the...- Rodent Replied
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Environmentalists Lash Out at UN for "Greenwashing"
Environmentalists are unhappy about the UN Climate's support of Shell's plan for transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables. I'm confused: they're bad when they...- Marina Schwarz Replied
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Crazy Crude Oil Inventory Fact
Happy API day to all! Ever get frustrated by how far apart API and EIA inventory data is? Many people put more stock into EIA's...- Rodent Replied
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All Quiet on the Venezuelan Front?
I haven't heard much news in the way of Venezuela's oil industry in the last few days, but this morning I saw that a...- Rodent Replied
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Does oil price shocks impact on energy consumption?
The shocks in the oil price have a great effect on energy consumed through the demand side. This penetrates through the increase in the...- Longe Adedayo Emmanuel Replied
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ConocoPhillips reports first-quarter sale, purchase activity
In this year’s first quarter, the company closed or entered definitive agreements for $250 million of proceeds from the sale of noncore assets. Several...- CMOP Replied
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Russia To Invest $50 billion in Iran Oil and Gas
Russian oil and gas companies are ready to splash $50 billion on oil and gas exploration in Iran. Makes sense, really. Wonder how Riyadh...- Marina Schwarz Replied
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Iraq Approves Plan To Increase Oil-Output Capacity
The Iraqi cabinet on April 1 approved a plan to raise the nation's crude-oil production capacity to 6.5 million barrels per day (bpd) by...- CMOP Replied
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Permian Takes A Public Hit
I'm not one for fear mongering, particularly for an industry like oil that already has a healthy dose of fear mongering spread daily. But...- Rodent Replied
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Total Pioneers Robots on Offshore Platforms
Total is the first oil company to trial autonomous robots on offshore platforms. "The robot developed by taurob and TU Darmstadt is ATEX-certified, can perform...- Marina Schwarz Replied
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Climate Change Trial Starts on Rough Footing for Environmentalists
A civil suit playing out between five American oil companies and the municipalities of Oakland and San Francisco started off poorly for climate change activists. In...- san francisco
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China's Tariffs Into Effect on Oil Pipe
China's tariffs into effect today. World didn't stop turning as far as I can tell. Per Houston Chronicle, "Last year the United States exported 832,000...- BeamMeUp Replied
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API President To Step Down, Finds A Strange New Calling
Yeah, I'm not really sure what to think about this. http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/02/jack-gerard-oil-lobbyist-mormon-church/- Rodent Replied
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Russia Ups Oil Production in March
It might not seem like big numbers, but Russia increased its oil production in March from 10.95 million bpd to 10.97 million bpd--the first...- Rodent Replied
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Russia Ups Oil Production in March
It might not seem like big numbers, but Russia increased its oil production in March from 10.95 million bpd to 10.97 million bpd--the first...- Rodent Replied
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Why we ever think that oil industry is now nothing more than a setting of the sun?
A few days ago. I met a person, and he made a statement or it is good to say that he asks me a...- Harsh vardhan singh Replied
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Surprise Surprise
Oil Prices Rise After API Reports Surprise Crude Draw March 20,2018 Oil Falls After API Reports Major Surprise Crude Inventory. March 27, 2018 WTF, with all...- MJL Replied
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Is Dudley Getting Paid Too Much?
BP's Bob Dudley got a handsome paycheck of about $10 million for last year and some people are unhappy about it. What do you...- bp
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Iraq Brings Forward Awarding Of New Oil Contracts:New Contracts, New Rules
Iraq plans to award oil and gas exploration and development contracts in 11 new blocks on April 15. Iraq had initially set June 21...- Pavel Replied
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Is Geopolitical Uncertainty Grips the Oil Market?
Currently if we see towards oil market we can not predict what's going to happen next? Before, If we talking about forecasting the market...- Harsh vardhan singh Replied
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EPA to Give Carmakers A Big Break
Sources at EPA say they are going to relax Obama-era mileage/emission standards. Media spinning this as a doom and gloom scenario that will end...- BeamMeUp Replied
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Oilfield Service Firms Out to Get Revenge
Oilfield service providers are still reeling from the price collapse from 2014 but some are beginning to recover and they are out to get...- oil
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What Big Oil Can Learn From Typewriters
Typewriters evolved into the new world of word processors. Can oil companies transform themselves, evolving their processes and products into the new world of...- oil
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Is oil price heading north?
We have been seeing a slow and steady rise in oil prices without much of external factors. How sustainable is this price and for...- Juju Mathew Replied
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Will Saudi and Russia Pull It Off Long-Term?
So, this long-term cooperation that Mohammed told Reuters about is making ripples. But here's a very good story I found on Forbes, which raises...- Marina Schwarz Replied
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New Kid on the Block: the Meramec Field
I don't know about you, but I'm getting fed up with the Permian. It's like the rest of the shale patch is either dead...- Marina Schwarz Replied
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