Petrobras and a partner firm, Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), have found a new oil reservoir in deepwater offshore the Brazilian state of Sergipe on the country’s northeastern Atlantic coast.
South African stocks edged lower on Wednesday, led by petrochemicals firm Sasol as brent crude for July slipped when investors adjusted their positions ahead of a key meeting of OPEC oil producers.
President Muhammadu Buhari is likely to keep the oil portfolio for himself in the new Nigerian cabinet, rather than trust anyone else with the source of most of Nigeria's revenue and traditional fount of corruption, ...
The drop in oil prices will probably spur smaller oil and gas explorers in Africa to consider mergers to fund their ambitions, according to Pura Vida Energy NL.
Russian oil output remained unchanged in May at a post-Soviet high of 10.71 million barrels per day (bpd), Energy Ministry data showed on Tuesday, three days before OPEC meets to decide on output levels.
When Croatia announced in 2013 it would set a tender to explore for oil and gas in its pristine Adriatic waters, the government evoked the hydrocarbon riches of Norway to win over the plan's many detractors.
Gazprom Neft, Russia’s third-largest oil producer, is now settling all of its crude sales to China in renminbi, in the most clear sign yet that western sanctions have driven an increase in the use of the Chinese curr ...
Further stabilization of oil prices is likely to help lower inflation in Russia, allowing the central bank to reduce rates at a faster pace, the World Bank said Monday as it raised the economic outlook for the country.
Crude oil prices dipped in early Asian trading on Monday as rising OPEC output and an expectation that the group would keep production high added to sentiment that the market remained over supplied despite ongoing fa ...