1. WSJ reporting that Saudi Aramco is looking to buy stakes in us shale.... hey, if you can't beat 'em... join 'em!


  2. "Russian oil firm Tatneft ran Crimea fuel station, despite sanctions risk" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-crimea-tatneft-exclusi/exclusive-russian-oil-firm-tatneft-ran-crimea-fuel-station-despite-sanctions-risk-idUSKBN1EE0SK?rpc=401&  
      


  3. France has passed a law banning oil and gas exploration. Wow. The country produces just 1% of what it consumes in oil. But they're...
      


  4. Rosneft is now saying that it isn't ruling out the possibility that OPEC may be extended beyond 2018... Merry Christmas oil bulls!


  5. France passed an much expected law that bans oil and gas exploration by the year 2040--round about when oil is expected to reach peak...


  6. Hip, hip, horray for the bulls as API reports a bigger than expected crude draw. Gasoline inventories up for weeks on end, but smaller...


  7. 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...
      


  8. With the "fall of Men" going on over sexual harassment in nearly every segment of industry, policy, entertainment, etc. does anyone know if it's...
      


  9. Woodside and ABB will replace one of the gas turbines on Woodside's Goodwyn platform with a battery pack. "Woodside said the battery installation would reduce...
      


  10. 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...
      


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


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


  13. 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...


  14. 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...
      


  15. Venezuela has pulled out of a partnership with Cuba in its Cienfuegos oil refinery and the Caribbean island has taken full ownership of the...
      


  16. After a three-year delay caused by political paralysis in January Lebanon re-launched first licensing round for exploration and production rights in five blocks (1,...
      


  17. 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.


  18. 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.
      


  19. 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...
      


  20. 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...
      


  21.  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...
      


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


  23. 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....


  24. 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...
      


  25. 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...
      


  26. Economy over environment? The new tax bill includes a provision to allow oil development in the massive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ... which Big...
      


  27. 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...


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


  29. 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...
      


  30. 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,...