Iran has discovered oil in its Caspian Sea waters for the first time in more than a century, the state-run Fars news agency reported. The deposit was found at a depth of 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) during drilling on a...
South Korea will effectively become the first of Iran’s major Asian customers to halt oil purchases from July 1, when a European Union insurance ban will prevent further imports. South Korea’s largest oil ...
OPEC wants to push oil prices back down to $100 a barrel by boosting production as it fears demand destruction, the group’s chief said Thursday. The shift in policy by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Cou...
Sudan has restarted oil production from the Heglig oil field, Sudan’s government spokesman Rabie Abdelaty said Wednesday. The Heglig oil field, which has a production capacity of 60,000 barrels a day of oil, or ...
The UAE’s hydrocarbon export earnings are expected to climb to their highest ever level of more than $122 billion in 2012 because of high production and prices, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The ...
Oil markets are better-supplied for the first time since 2009 as “sluggish” demand and OPEC output at more than a three-year peak eased inventory depletion, according to the International Energy Agency. Global oil inv...
Oil fell below $120 a barrel on Wednesday to the lowest in almost two months, pressured by rising U.S. inventories and concern about the strength of global demand. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on T...
Ukraine is planning to increase its own oil production, first and foremost, through the development of the Subotynske oil field on the Ukrainian shelf of the Black Sea and oil fields in Egypt, where Naftogaz of Ukrain...
Kuwait is looking to increase oil production to 4 million bpd by 2020 and maintain it through 2030. Farouk Al Zanki, CEO of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), said this in the opening session of Gulf Petroleum Confer...
South Sudan accused Sudan of trying to build an “illegal” 25-km oil pipeline crossing the border towards the South’s oil fields, a day after talks to resolve a damaging oil dispute between the two si...