Gas

Oil Shale

U.S. Shale Producers Devon Energy , WPX Energy in Merger Talks

U.S. shale producer Devon Energy Corp is in talks to acquire rival WPX Energy Inc in an all-stock transaction that would create a combined company worth around…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal Energy to Replace Natural Gas at Hospital in Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Dutch news portal Gawalo has published an interesting article about efforts by a hospital in the Netherlands looking at replacing natural gas with geothermal en…

Crude Oil

Shell Set To Load First Oil From One Of Libya’s Open Ports

Supermajor Shell has provisionally chartered an oil tanker to load crude from one of Libya’s three open ports at the end of next week in what could be the firs…

Crude Oil

With 41m Barrels, Gabon’s Oil Pproduction Appreciated by 3% in H1 2020

Gabon has produced 41 million barrels of oil to the 1 st half of 2020.

LNG

China to Build Country's Largest LNG Reserve Base

China is building its largest liquefied natural gas reserve base in its eastern Jiangsu province.

Oil Pipeline

PipeChina Signs Gas Grid Pact with Southern Guangdong Province

Southern Guangdong became the first province to transfer its natural gas pipeline network to China's newly formed oil and gas pipeline giant PipeChina.

Oil & Gas Trade

Iraqi Oil Ministry Denies Deal to Up Oil Exports

Iraq's oil ministry on Thursday denied a media report citing Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar as saying an agreement was imminent with the OPEC+ group to increas…

Oil & Gas Trade

Nigeria's Oil Sales Revenue Plummeted 75% in July

Data from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation showed that Nigeria’s oil sales revenue in July was 55.29 million US dollars, a decrease of 75% from the …

Oil Field

Shell Looks to Sell off Stake in Philippines Gas Field

Shell is looking to sell its 45pc stake in the Philippines' Malampaya gas field, almost a year after fellow major Chevron sold off its own stake in the field.

Biobattery

UK Opens Consultation on Green Gas Levy to Support Biomethane

The U.K. government has opened a public consultation an initiative that aims to scale up the production of renewable natural gas, also referred to as bioemethan…

Crude Oil

Gazprom Neft Sees Full Oil Demand Recovery By The End Of 2021

Russia’s oil producer Gazprom Neft believes that global oil demand will return to its pre-pandemic levels in the second half of 2021.

Market Analysis

ConocoPhillips Sees Global Oil Demand Returning, Executive Says

U.S. oil producer ConocoPhillips COP.N sees global demand returning to 100 million barrels per day and growing from there, with oil an "important part of the en…

Oil & Gas Trade

Iran Opens Navy Base At World’s Most Crucial Oil Chokepoint

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps of Iran opened this week a new naval base in a coastal town along the world’s most important oil chokepoint, the Strait of …

Oil&Gas Drilling

KrisEnergy Gets Funding to Bring Cambodia Offshore Project Online

KrisEnergy has reached a loan deal with Kepinvest Singapore to assist the company with bringing the Apsara project off Cambodia online on schedule.

United States

California to Ban Sale of Gasoline-Powered Cars by 2035

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday ordered all passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035 to fight climate change and smog-foul…