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).
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.
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.
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 Ukrai ...
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 sides were postponed.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the country's sovereign wealth fund could reach $55 billion by March next year if oil prices kept high, in an apparent bid to defend his economic record in the fa ...