17 dec – Indian oil firms need to bring in foreign players to unlock resources: Dharmendra Pradhan

  Indian oil firms need to bring in foreign players to unlock resources: Dharmendra PradhanNEW DELHI: India’s oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan asked exploration companies to consider farming out their acreages to global players with advanced technology to expedite development and raise oil and gas output. India, the world’s third biggest oil importer and consumer, depends…

15 DEC – Letter from the Middle East: The UAE and Opec—a problem postponed, not solved

  The solution reached by Opec+ in early December may have calmed oil markets’ fears over lack of unity in the alliance’s appetite for retaining production curbs until the end of the year. But month-by-month revisiting of output limits opens the prospect for tensions to emerge with each negotiation. And the potentially growing impatience of…