Russia | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 23
Traders Eye $100 WTI Ahead of Iran Sanctions
The number of oil traders betting on $100-per-barrel WTI by 2019 has surged in the past week, Reuters reported. Open positions on $100 December 2019 WTI call options have increased 30% in the past seven days to reach ...
OPEC-led Group Able to Cover Supply Shortage: Russian Energy Minister
Russian energy minister Alexander Novak has expressed confidence that the OPEC-led group of crude exporters are capable of covering potential supply shortages, S&P Global reported. There are concerns that the grou...
Mubadala, Gazprom Neft, RDIF Create JV for Siberia Oilfield Development
Mubadala Petroleum, Gazprom Neft, and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) have agreed to set up a joint venture (JV) to develop oilfields in Siberia, Pipeline Oil and Gas Magazine reported. Gazprom sold a 49% st...
Aramco, Lomonosov MSU Sign Collaborative Agreement
Saudi Aramco Upstream Technology Company (SAUTC), subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, has signed an memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Russian Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) for joint research focusing primarily ...
OPEC Supply Cuts: Oil Production 9% Lower than Agreed
Signatories to the OPEC non-OPEC supply cut agreement reduced production in July by 9% more than agreed, according to an official committee, Reuters reported. The output figures for July show steadily increasing produ...
Russian Petroleum Exports to Egypt Increase by 84%
Egypt imported $481 million of oil and gas products from Russia in the first six months of 2018, an 84% increase from the same period in 2017, Daily News Egypt reported quoting the Russian Head of Trade Representation...
Kuwait Raises Output by 85,000 bpd
Kuwait started raising its oil output by 85,000 barrels per day (b/d) from July 1, in accordance with the recent agreement between OPEC and non-OPEC producers to increase production by 1 million b/d, according to Reut...
Saudi Aramco has 2M b/d in Spare Capacity: CEO
Saudi Aramco has 2 million barrels per day (b/d) in spare capacity, double the expected OPEC-sanctioned increase in production, CEO Amin Nasser said on June 25, Reuters reported. Aramco currently produces around 10 mi...
