1. Cuban President Raul Castro and the head of Russian oil company Rosneft met in Havana this weekend. Is it a latest sign of the two...
      


  2. The Saudis are now stepping up their refining experiment in Egypt, with data for November and December showing they've sent 1 billion barrels of...
      


  3. Strike talks stall in Nigeria again after talks about workers who were layed off stall
      


  4. The Azadegan Oilfield, owned jointly by Iran and Iraq is going to be tendered in summer 2018 ... This is huge: an estimated 33...
      


  5. yep, that's right, folks. It's RIG COUNT DAY--only the single biggest, bestest day of the whole darn oil trading week. Some might say EIA...


  6. The EU's gas grid is, however, certainly more resilient to gas supply shocks today than in 2009, when Russian gas supplies to the EU...
      


  7.  If you look Cheniere Energy in 2017 you probably won't be too impressed. But that's not where the real action is for this liquified natural...
      


  8. OPEC and Russia have started talking about exit strategy, quietly for now, but I expect we'll be hearing more about it next year. I...
      


  9. Something "fresh" from my country. NIS, state oil firm, which was mostly under Russia's Gazprom Neft is planing to invest $2.2 billion in new...
      


  10. Russia’s top gas producer Gazprom has signed a roadmap on implementation of projects in Iran and a memorandum of understanding and cooperation on an...
      


  11. Goldman sachs says 2018 will be one of the best years for Big Oil in decades, calling an end to the Big Oil's slump.
      


  12. Another one bites the dust... Kommunal Landspensjonskasse, a Norwegian $70 Billion pension fund,  announced today that it will exclude companies that derive revenue from oil sands.


  13. BP PLC suffered a setback to its post-Deepwater Horizon recovery plans after the Australian government said it would block a $1 billion deal that would...
      


  14. and China as well https://seekingalpha.com/article/4131801-venezuela-moves-oust-dollar-oil-trade-russia-next
      


  15. PDVSA is asking to buy 4.2 million barrels of crude from US and Russia. They can't even unload what's sitting in their ports now....


  16. http://www.ey.com/gl/en/newsroom/news-releases/news-ey-oil-and-gas-sector-must-adapt-now-to-rising-cybersecurity-threat 60% of organizations surveyed recently suffered a significant cyber incident, but only 17% feel confident they would detect a sophisticated cyber attack. A little...


  17. By the end of 2017, oil export from U.S. to all parts of world will achieve record number. Beside Canada, China, ... U.S. oil has...
      


  18. Ineos declared, in a not so surprising development, a force majeure on ioil from its Forties pipeline 
      


  19. In less than a month after being fired as head of Angola’s state-owned oil company, Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of former Angolan President...
      


  20. So I went to download OPEC's new Monthly report for November, only to discover I need to "register" by entering my name and email...
      


  21. ...you hold the world's biggest oil reserves and can't cut a check to Sinopec for $21 million to settle a five-year-old lawsuit. In other bad...
      


  22. OPEC"s MMOR for November shows production lowest in six months. While Nigeria really upped its production by 95,800 barrels per day, Saudi, UAE, Angola,...
      


  23. Seems to be a flurry of accusers that EIA's data is wrong--to the ire of this writer for Seeking Alpha. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4131270-crude-oil-eia-bashers-check-numbers "Disappointingly, the outbreak of the...


  24. Now, this has to be political, right? https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/158423/russian-firm-sistema-sue-rosneft-330-5billion-roubles/
      


  25. Not sure if anyone's keeping an eye on Angola since the change in regime there, but high hopes for this massive venue seem to...
      


  26. In Britain, Europe’s biggest gas market, gas for immediate delivery rose 35% to 92p per therm, its highest level for four years. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/u-k-gas-surges-after-explosion-in-austria-tightens-supply
      


  27. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-11/trump-is-said-to-open-door-for-oil-drilling-off-u-s-east-coast


  28. nothing to worry about here, right? I guess the country has frequent cabinet reshuffles http://www.publicfinanceinternational.org/news/2017/12/kuwait-appoints-new-ministers-cabinet-changes  
      


  29. http://www.nasdaq.com/article/britains-biggest-oil-pipeline-shut-for-weeks-for-repairs-20171211-00833
      


  30. Oilsand ginat Suncor has big issues with alcohol and drug abuse among its employees. Even 73 incidents of employees testing positive for controlled substances since...