Hedge funds cut bets on rising oil prices at the fastest pace since December 2012 as U.S. inventories expanded to the highest in more than three decades.
In a world of $55 a barrel oil, Exxon Mobil Corp. is relying on shale fields in Texas, Oklahoma and North Dakota to help fund the next wave of big overseas projects it needs to thrive in the future.
The Libyan national oil company declared 11 oil fields nonoperational because of “theft, looting, sabotage and destruction” by “unidentified armed groups,” the company said in a statement late Wednesday.
Experts say a majority of key oil exporting Arab countries could face a budget deficit of at least $122 billion in 2015 as the result of the falling oil prices.
Iraq narrowed the discount for April crude deliveries to Asian buyers by the most since November 2011, joining other Middle East producers in raising official selling prices amid signs demand is improving.
A drop in shale oil production has triggered a rebound of global oil prices, but prices will not rise sharply as long as the world's economy stays sluggish, Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair was quoted as saying
Barclays Plc energy analyst Miswin Mahesh sees a “huge risk” of oil production in Nigeria being disrupted by political instability arising from elections scheduled for March 28.