Iran rejects again the call to freeze its oil output and emphasized that it will go ahead with its plans to increase its oil production to as high as 4m b/pd.
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.
A deal to freeze oil output by OPEC and non-OPEC producers fell apart on April 17th after Saudi Arabia demanded that Iran join in despite calls on Riyadh to save the agreement and help prop up crude prices.
Kuwait Oil Company will soon offer contracts for offshore rigs and support services to drill its first undersea wells as the Gulf nation tries to boost crude output to the highest level in more than four decades.
Russia’s oil output set a post-Soviet high in March as the success of a proposed crude production freeze between OPEC members and other major producers appeared to be in doubt.
Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, said that Riyadh will only freeze its oil output if Iran and other major producers do so, while challenging the country’s main regional rival to take an active ...
Iran will attend talks with fellow members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia in Qatar on April 17th, yet without joining their proposal to freeze crude oil production.
OPEC oil output was rising in March as higher supply from Iran after the lifting of sanctions and near-record exports from southern Iraq offset maintenance and outages in smaller producers.
OPEC and non-OPEC producers - Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Venezuela - are expected to hold a meeting in the Qatari capital on April 17th to debate oil output freeze on the January 2016 levels. The meeting is a f ...
Algeria's state energy firm Sonatrach has awarded an $880m contract to four foreign firms for a supply of oil and gas drilling tubes. The four companies are Germany's CCC Machinery, Dutch firm Van Leeuwen, Japan's Ma ...