It’s no secret that Iran provides critical support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The trouble comes in trying to figure out how much Iran spends and what that support actually looks like. Estimates of Iran’s lar...
Iran, China and Indonesia have reached a final agreement on building a refinery on the East Java island to process 150,000 barrels per day of heavy crude oil, an Iranian official said on Wednesday. The joint venture p...
Mashreq Petroleum plans to construct a pipeline to transport crude oil from Port Said to Mostorod refining plant. In statements made to Al-Bourse, Mashreq Petroleum Chairman Tamer Abu Bakr said that the estimated inve...
By Matt Hamilton and Javier Panzar A ruptured pipeline near Santa Barbara leaked an estimated 21,000 gallons of crude oil Tuesday, some of which flowed into the ocean and left a thick coat of black tar along the coun...
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) raised the retroactive prices of crude sold to Asia in April, after robust demand pushed up spot premiums for its grades. Prices were also boosted by a cut in supply of flagship ...
Oman Tank Terminal Company (OTTCO) plans to start operating a floating storage unit later this year to ease trade of crude oil futures on the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME), trade sources said on Tuesday. The storage...
A bill on a guarantee agreement signed between Tunisia and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) was passed, Tuesday, at a plenary session of the House of People’s Representatives (HPR). It ...
India is set to import 8 million barrels of Iraqi oil to fill its first strategic petroleum reserve (SPR), taking advantage of cheap prices and lending some support to a market suffering from oversupply. India’s...
As tanker owners with aged VLCC tankers were looking for an opportunity in the scrap market, in order to send their vessels for demolition, the opportunity of floating storage plays rose, giving those older ship anoth...
China’s imports of commodities eased again in February, as the Lunar New Year holiday week took a bite out of shipping volumes, preliminary customs data showed on Sunday. Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday the ...