NEW YORK: Oil prices tumbled about 4 per cent on Friday on rising US-China tensions and doubts about how quickly fuel demand would recover from the coronavirus crisis. Fuel demand plummeted as the coronavirus pandemic caused governments to impose restrictions on movement and businesses closed their doors. Oil has rallied in recent days on as…
MOSCOW, Spain’s Repsol has pulled out of a planned joint venture to develop two Arctic oil blocks with Russia’s Gazprom Neft and Royal Dutch Shell, a spokesman at Repsol said on Friday. Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian gas giant Gazprom , Repsol and Shell signed a memorandum of understanding last June on establishing…
Texas: Royalties from oil pumped on Paul Ruckman’s land allowed the South Texas retiree to build a six-bedroom, seven-bathroom vacation home. He had plenty left over, and donated some of it to Helena, Texas, an 1800s ghost town that draws hundreds to historic buildings and gunfight re-enactments. The worst oil bust in decades has slashed…
MOSCOW, Russia’s state holding company Rosneftegaz has relinquished its controlling stake in the country’s largest oil producer, Rosneft, Rosneft said on Friday, after Rosneft’s exit from Venezuela. Rosneft disposed of its assets in Venezuela two months ago as the United States stepped up sanctions against the firm. Analysts have said that the renunciation of state…
The U.S. and Canadian oil and natural gas rig count fell to all-time lows as North American energy firms slashed spending after global coronavirus lockdowns caused energy prices and demand to collapse. The U.S. rig count, an early indicator of future output, fell by 21 to a record low 318 in the week to May…
LONDON, Commodities trader Trafigura has seized the moment and taken a rare dominant position in the North Sea crude market over the past two weeks as oil demand jumped, trading sources said. A combination of OPEC-led global production cuts, cheap freight rates and oil stuck in floating storage sent crude markets into overdrive starting at…
The Modi government’s decision to raise the price of subsidised cylinder over the past several months, including the recent fall in non-subsidised LPG price, has led to zero subsidy for the first time in years. According to an estimation by a Nomura report, oil firms are likely to end up making an over-recovery of Rs…
New Delhi: Spot prices of liquefied natural gas (LNG) have fallen sharply to $1.3 per unit, which has serious implications for India because it will be difficult to sell the fuel to factories as supplies under long-term contracts have a much higher rate of $5-7. Industry fears a flood of disputes and litigation as factories…
In an effort to boost Make in India initiatives and further the goal of Aatmanirbhar Bharat, state-run GAIL India is processing line pipe tenders of more than Rs 1,000 crore for around 100,000 tonne steel procurement by September 2020. This would translate to progressive supply of 800 kilometre of line pipe from domestic bidders. This…
New Delhi: India’s petroleum product demand is expected to fall by eight per cent to 4,597 thousand barrels per day in 2020, International Energy Agency (IEA) said as part of its May oil market report. “We expect oil demand to fall by 180 kb/d y-o-y in 1Q20 and 1.3 mb/d in 2Q20. Consumption should return…
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