MOSCOW: Russia is taking a leaf out of the US shale playbook so it can ramp up oil production quickly and hang on to its share of the global market when demand finally recovers after the coronavirus pandemic. At least two state-owned banks, Sberbank and VEB, plan to lend oil firms some 400 billion roubles…
Refiners such as HollyFrontier Corp and CVR Energy are exploring opportunities to produce renewable diesel to save money on less profitable refineries and offset compliance costs associated with U.S. blending laws.The product, however, currently only occupies a tiny corner of diesel production – and logistical hurdles are likely to limit its growth in coming years.…
WARSAW: Poland has signed contracts worth 1.9 billion zlotys ($483 million) to expand its liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Swinoujscie on the Baltic Sea to 8.3 billion cubic metres (bcm) by 2023 from 5 bcm now in response to increasing domestic demand. An LNG unit of Poland’s gas infrastructure operator Gaz-System and the ports…
OSLO: Norway plans to offer up to 136 new oil exploration blocks in a major new licensing round, of which 125 lie in the Arctic Barents Sea, the country’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy said on Wednesday. Norway’s 25th licensing round would open eight new regions of the Barents Sea that have so far been…
PSU major Oil India on Wednesday said it continues to lose production due to protests that started after a gas well in Baghjan caught fire, following a major blowout.In a statement, the company said there was an output drop of 103 MT of crude oil and 0.14 MMSCM of natural gas on Tuesday due to…
New Delhi: Giving a push to infrastructure development across sectors, the government on Wednesday approved a proposal for additional investment to be made by ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) in the development of an oil and gas project in neighbouring Myanmar. As per the clearance given by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), OVL will…
The government has collected about Rs 40,000 crore from excise duty on petrol and diesel in the first two months of the fiscal, or about 16 percent of its full-year target. The exchequer’s collection rose three times in May, when the government mopped up Rs 29,396 crore (vs Rs 10,560 crore in April) following a…
NEW DELHI : Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC), the country’s largest fuel retailer on Wednesday said that transportation fuel prices may continue to go up due to international crude oil prices being on an upswing. IOC, also the country’s largest refiner said that demand recovery has been faster than anticipated, and its capacity utilization, which…
NEW DELHI – The decision to build Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd’s new refinery through a joint-venture with parent Indian Oil Corp Ltd will allow the project to go ahead without any need for fresh equity from National Iranian Oil Co, which is part of the former’s promoter group, sources in the know told Cogencis. National…
On the new York Mercantile exchange, WTI crude for delivery in August traded at the price of 40.16 USD. per barrel at the time of writing this review down by 1.40%. The low of the session was the mark of$. per barrel. At the time of writing, WTI crude oil found support at the level…
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