1. Aramco IPO reportedly delayed by indecision regarding the listing venue. If only y'all could all see my surprised face right now..


  2. If Nigeria can't get their oil act together, there's always nuts. Apparently in Kogi State, revenues from cashews will overtake oil revenue. Govt is encouraging...


  3. The blacklist now includes Sergey Topor-Gilka, who runs the engineering company Technopromexport and several subsidiaries of Surgutneftegaz (SNGS.MM). Empty gesture, or meaningful strongarming?


  4. Oil, gas rigs up 11 this week, +12 for oil, and -1  for gas. Most notably, Permian added 18 rigs this week. Not good news...


  5. Britain is tightening controls on firms hoping to carry out hydraulic fracking in parts of the country by adding a financial health check to the application...
      


  6. China has issued a white paper calling for advancing international cooperation on the Arctic. These guys aren't wasting any time, are they? "The Chinese paper...
      


  7. "Over US$83.1 billion in capital expenditure will be spent over the lifetime of the top 10 onshore oil projects to produce 9.7 billion bbls...
      


  8. "New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose city sued five energy companies this month, including Exxon Mobil, BP and Shell claiming damage to the city from...
      


  9. BP Alaska boss shaved her head after promising the company she would shave her head if it held production steady at the forty-year-old field....


  10. US adds more entities and persons to the US sanctions list regarding North Korea, ships transferring oil to NK included, most notably from Russia. 


  11. Britain increases financial health check for frackers in Britain. Frackers already have it tough here. Will regs kill fracking completely? http://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/britain-to-tighten-financial-checks-on-fracking-firms/  


  12. Mexico's drug cartels, it would seem, are now moving in on oil after the crackdown on drug lords. Gotta diversify ... Great story on...
      


  13. native americans behind Eagle Spirit Pipeline from Alberta to BC coast launched a gofundme campaign to pay to challenge Trudeau's oil tanker moratorium ac.


  14. Aramco looking at expanding in the US given the recent tax cuts and oil industry support from the Trump Administration.  


  15. All this talk about the US becoming the biggest producer in the world has opened up a debate about the quality of that crude,...
      


  16. "A deal in Hong Kong with the possibility of accessing, either now or later, the Chinese investing public works wonders for Saudi Arabia, for China, for...
      


  17. Venezuela is saying it will be no problem to raise its production by 1 million bpd. They say this as their production continues its...


  18. Delta, United, American, along with Dubai's Emirates aren't going to hedge fuel deliveries this year--in a clear signal that these airline giants are not...


  19. API expected to report another draw in crude oil inventories today, as US production moves back up to 9.750 million bpd. 


  20. Media rumor now is that Kazakhstan's state-run oil company, KMG, is gunning for an IPO after delisting its upstream unit in London ... 
      


  21. Russian pension funds are considering investments in Aramco, and so are Chinese companies. Won't that be the best shareholder lineup EVER?
      


  22. Red Mountain Energy was operator. No fatalities confirmed yet.


  23. EIA is still going to publish weekly report this week despite gov shutdown. Nice to know oil markets will have another catalyst other than...


  24. Libya is planning to restart its Wintershall oilfield. That would put some 57,000 bpd of new supply into the market. 
      


  25. Not even a week after Delta Avengers made additional threats, some oil workers in Nigeria were kidnapped at gunpoint. It's tragic, but at the...


  26. The biggest refiner on the East Coast, with liabilities of about $10 billion, just filed for bankrupting, citing costly Bush-era EPA regulations and dwindling...
      


  27. Oil demand to peak by 2030 due to EV adoption, says BofA. These forecasts are getting increasingly confusing. Just the other day a Mazda...
      


  28. “There is a readiness to continue cooperation beyond 2018...The mechanism hasn’t been determined yet, but there is a consensus to continue,” Saudi Arabia’s Energy...


  29. US drillers lost rigs this week--the second loss in three weeks. Production was still up last week. Permian basin still hot hot hot, adding...


  30. suspected shooter in a DAPL protest (for firing at officers) was let out of her halfway house prior to trial to attend adult learning...