1. Oil truckers in the Permian Basin (Texas) who were fired when oil prices tanked in 2014 are now back in high demand as prices...
      


  2. I had no idea that leading a Chinese state-run oil giant was so .. not lucrative. The recently resigned chairman of state-run Sinopec reportedly...
      


  3. I expect US drillers to now increase their drilling budgets nicely for Q1/2 2018. Makes sense if they scaled back drilling budgets when prices...
      


  4. With all the bullishness raging on in oil now, especially after Libya's pipeline attack that took some 90,000 bpd offline for at least a...
      


  5. Exxon's started exporting gas from Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale. I don't think OPEC are factoring Argentina's shale oil and gas into their plans, I...
      


  6. CEO Bob Dudley no longer sees U.S. shale being the swing producer he thought it would be. Could this be smokescreen for soaring, record shale...
      


  7. Brent up to $66.20 and WTI up to $59.77 after news of an explosion of a pipeline in Libya. 
      


  8. Saudi Arabia expects oil revenue to jump about 80 percent by 2023 to help the kingdom record its first budget surplus in a decade
      


  9. Last week, the UN Security Council unanimously voted in favor of the resolution to introduce new sanctions against North Korea for its continuing ballistic...
      


  10. Saudis Expect Oil Revenue to Increase 80% by 2023 I can't help wondering if someone woke up thinking "Let's produce some news" or all that...
      


  11. Despite the ongoing struggle for control of Libya's oil wealth (and this is probably going to go back and forth for some time to...
      


  12. They've announced that the Forties pipeline for North Sea oil is going to restart ... oil prices haven't really responded to that. Still stable...
      


  13. Here some good perspective on where oil demand might be headed, when you put all the demand forecasts from the EIA side by side...
      


  14. Interesting story on this 'think tank', Heartland, which was funded by Big Oil to get the Climate denial message out, but is now out...
      


  15. Mexican light crude is being kept at home, limited how much is available for export. Guess who's gonna fill the gap left int he...


  16. What if Saudi Arabia decided to exit OPEC's production cut deal as soon as its IPO is launched? They need higher oil prices to...
      


  17. Italian Eni SpA succeeded in producing gas from the Mediterranean's largest gas field Zohr.  Nobody believed they would do it but  pumping began this...
      


  18. US administration has paused its funding for a major study meant to improve how regulators enforce offshore oil and natural gas drilling safety.  
      


  19. Yes.... yes... YES! It is rig count day! Number of oil rigs up, or down?


  20. I wondered who would be the first to capitalize on the debacle that is PDVSA/Venezuela. I hadn't figured it would be Canada.  Canadian miner Crystallex...
      


  21. Not sure how far these changes will go, but FERC says oil and gas pipeline approval process will be reviewed. Also, it will tighten...


  22. US Bank Declares End to Oil and Gas Pipeline Loans—Then Quietly Joins $4B Deal with Dakota Access Owner
      


  23. Nigeria is now saying it has achieved 98% automation when it comes to tracking its oil. It now says it can track every single...
      


  24. Supplies about 40% of all UK's daily oil and gas consumption, but still down, and will be down, according to Ineos, until "early January"....


  25. Speaking of corruption.... Kazakhstan's oil fund to the tune of $22 billion has just been frozen on grounds of corruption as a Moldovan investor...


  26. US again is set to ask for a resolution to stop oil products flowing into North Korea. And again, many think China will not...


  27. So, there are plant to make Saudi Arabia a top tourist destination; a new renewables hub; now they're announcing nuclear power plans. What's next...
      


  28. The meat industry is, apparently, a bigger producer of harmful emissions than Big Oil. Something for Big Oil to boast about.
      


  29. BP's Dudley said BP had a turning the corner year in 2017, as its first year post-settling its over $60 billion in fines and...


  30. Former executives from oil Royal Dutch Shell and Eni are to be tried on charges of aggravated international  corruption for their role in a...