1. Soaring shale production is now the biggest problem for OPEC. Oil cut deal is now going to an end in coming months and still...


  2. So says a state-owned energy firm, Petoro. I'm beginning to be confused about Norway. It's the greenest of them all in Europe but it...
      


  3. South Korea's fuel oil imports are skyrocketing as it tries to phase out coal and nuclear plants enter maintenance season. But I was thinking,...
      


  4. What would they do without Japan? They'd have to stick to their banishment of Qatar, I guess.  https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/UAE-Qatar-Warily-Extend-Joint-Oilfield-Concession.html  


  5. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Indias-Oil-Imports-From-Venezuela-Plunge-To-Lowest-Since-2012.html And this is what happens, my friends, when you get so far into debt. You're beholden to your creditors. Venezuela pumps at the mercy...


  6. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Which-Oil-Major-Has-The-Best-Investment-Strategy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+oilpricecom+(Oil+Price.com+Daily+News+Update) Total's low-cost purchase in Libya, Exxon's aggressive capex when others are skimping, or Hess's buybacks?


  7.   We have protests, we have defunding, we even have banks who refuse to loan to the dirty oil industry. The latest? Legislative weapons. "The Baltimore...


  8. Dinosaur-era volcanos, of course! That is, if we are to believe a study from Rice University. http://www.worldoil.com/news/2018/3/13/geologists-link-ash-from-dinosaur-era-volcanoes-with-shale-oil-gas  


  9. Iraq's oil ministry said the nation would reduce its petroleum products imports by 25 percent as crude oil refineries are being rehabilitated following fighting...
      


  10. Testimony to the vitality of your crude reserves ... Shell, BP and most recently PetroChina are signing major LIbyan crude contracts regardless of the...
      


  11. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-08/saudi-oil-minister-hints-aramco-ipo-could-be-delayed-until-2019 If you could only see my super sarcastic mock surprised face right now. I don't want to say I told you so. Wait. Yes...


  12. Oh my, oh my. We're shunning Big Oil from putting money towards the arts now?  http://www.france24.com/en/20180312-climate-protest-prompts-partial-evacuation-louvre My favorite line: "Some 30 activists had laid a long stretch...


  13. BC to Alberta: We don't want the Trans Mountain pipeline expanded. Alberta to BC: But our oil needs shipping and selling, and we need the revenues...
      


  14. Analysts agree, PetroChina is a bargain.  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-12/at-232-billion-world-s-3rd-largest-oil-major-is-seen-as-cheap


  15. The oil and natural gas industry urged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to maintain his offshore drilling plan and open up federal waters from coast...
      


  16. Oh, North America. I'm bored with your irrational pipeline hatred. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/canada-thousands-protest-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-180309060838063.html It will be interesting to see how many protestors actually show up here (they optimistically...


  17. There's internal disagreement in OPEC as to what the best price of oil should be. The crack is between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Saudis...
      


  18. According to their lawyer, Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has sued a group of oil trading companies through a U.S. trust over a multi-billion...
      


  19. a) Shell/Blackstone Eye $10B BHP Billiton Shale Purchase b) Sempra Gets Regulator Nod for $10B Oncor   


  20. BP's fields, including maturing ones, produced more last year than the year before, CEO Dudley says he's never seen a negative decline rate in...
      


  21. Many see the US as mostly apathetic to the plight of the renewable energy industry. 


  22. Big oil and big corn continue their clash about on proposed biofuels policy reforms. Valero Energy Corp a major oil refiner, funded a study...
      


  23. Chevron is the supermajor with the biggest acreage in the Permian and it's making good use of this acreage, it seems, partly by sheer...
      


  24. Russia dispelled the myth today that it may join OPEC. Nope. Nada. Not gonna happen. Did anybody really think Russia would tie itself down...


  25. Exxon is saying it is targeting double its cash flow from operations by 2025. Meanwhile Shell is planning for its gas production to be...


  26. The price of Brent crude oil will average $75 per barrel next year, according to the latest forecast from oil and gas analysts at...
      


  27. HOUSTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The global oil and gas industry needs to invest more than $20 trillion over the next 25 years to...
      


  28. The IEA has forecast that growth in non-OPEC supply--the US. Canada, Brazil and Norway--will be enough to cover the growth in global oil demand. If...
      


  29. Indonesia scrapping 186 regulations in order to woo foreign investors to its energy industry. How successful will this be? And assuming they will be...


  30.   The continuous rising oil price is making it difficult to actually plan