Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) managing director Bafred Enjugu told AFP that Nigeria was finally “domesticating” the refining of crude into products, in reference to the successful relaunching of hi...
Uganda’s long-awaited pipeline through Kenya has hit another snag after Uganda’s government announced that it is still considering a pipeline through Tanzania to export oil if it proved cheaper than altern...
Morocco’s only oil refiner, Samir, called for an extraordinary general assembly meeting on October 16 to approve plans for a capital increase of $1.04b in an effort to end the company’s financial difficult...
Two European companies, Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas and Britain’s Petrofac, have been selected build the Fadhili gas plant in Saudi Arabia for Saudi Aramco, industry sources told Reuters. The contracts are w...
Iraq has formally asked oil companies investing in the country to reduce their 2016 spending plans by September 30, citing lower oil prices and government revenue, said Bloomberg. Abdul Mahdy Al-Ameedi, director of li...
According to Gulf News, Iran has projected average oil prices at $42 to $50 per barrel in a draft budget bill for the year to March 2017. “In consultation with the Ministry of Petroleum, three price options of $42, $4...
Algeria’s foreign exchange reserves fell 11.1% in the first six months of 2015 as a result of weaker oil prices, the central bank informed. Bank of Algeria Governor Mohamed Laksaci was quoted by the APS news age...
The investment bank Goldman Sach’s recently released a report saying that oil prices could drop to $20/barrel, at least in the short term, USAToday reported. “Although oil prices have revisited the lows of last ...
Press TV quoted Mohammad Keramati, the head of the Iranian Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, as saying that more than 490b barrels of Iran’s oil reserves are not recoverable without the right technologies. “Ev...
Sources told Reuters that Saudi Arabia sees no need to hold a summit for oil producing countries’ over oil prices if such discussions would fail to produce any concrete resolution of the outlying issue. The comm...