The Venezuelan Minister of Petroleum and Mining, Eulogio del Pino, has declared that the daily production of crude oil from Orinoco Oil Belt has increased from 20,000 to 30,000 b/d, thus benefiting the whole region.
OPEC's second-largest producer, Iraq, increased daily oil production to an all-time high of 4.5mb/d, according to estimates by the research firm, JBC Energy.
The failure of the deal to freeze oil production, which could have hastened a recovery in oil prices, puts Nigeria and other cash-strapped oil producers in more trouble.
The Nigerian Association of Energy Economics (NAEE) said the country's currently fluctuating oil production level of 2.4mb/d may not be enough to guarantee any sustainable economic development.
Italy's Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, arrived in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, in a show of support for a UN-backed unity government that Western nations hope can unite the oil-rich country and lead the fight aga ...
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have reached a deal to resume production at the disputed Khafji offshore oilfield, Kuwait’s acting Oil Minister, Anas Al-Saleh, said.
Bahrain is considering to launch a $355m pilot project that will help recover a huge untapped resource in the residual oil saturation in the Gas Cap of the Mauddud reservoir.
Venezuela's state-run firm PDVSA faces around $5.2b in payments to bondholders in 2016, a sum that some experts say it will be hard-pressed to meet after the government used nearly all of its available cash reserves ...