Gulf

Oil&Gas Drilling

Qatar Starts Expansion Drilling At World’s Largest Gas Field

Qatar Petroleum has started the development drilling campaign of the North Field East Project to expand the production capacity of the world’s biggest natural …

Oil Price

Saudi Arabia, Russia Brawl Creates Crude Turmoil

​Oil prices lost as much as a third of their value on Monday in their biggest daily rout since the 1991 Gulf War as Saudi Arabia and Russia signalled they woul…

Oil&Gas Drilling

UAE’s Latest Natural Gas Discovery Is A Gamechanger

The Persian Gulf is, without doubt, the most prominent oil and gas production area in the world. After decades of intensive exploration and production, the regi…

Crude

Shell Looks To Expand Mars Crude Pipeline System

Shell Midstream Partners LP (NYSE: SHLX) announced that it is considering expanding its 163-mile-long Mars crude oil pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, the company…

Market Analysis

Oil Infrastructure at Risk as Iran Looks to Avenge Soleimani's Death

Energy infrastructure around the Persian Gulf could be among the most tempting targets for Iran in seeking retaliation for the U.S. killing of Gen. Qassem Solei…

India Plans Bio-gas Plants to Halt Crop-burning Pollution

A major source of the smog that engulfs vast swathes of northern India, including the capital New Delhi, is the burning the straw and stubble of the previous ri…

Coal Trade

Bearish US Thermal Coal Export Market Driven by Unsupportive Pricing

Exports of Illinois Basin coal from the US Gulf Coast and Northern Appalachian coal exports through Baltimore have both slowed considerably from levels seen thi…

GORD Launches EcoLab,First Energy Efficiency Testing Facility

The Gulf Organisation for Research & Development (GORD) has launched EcoLab, Qatar's pioneering facility measuring energy efficiency and safety for air conditio…

Offshore Wind Power

Estonia And Latvia to Jointly Develop An Offshore Wind Mega-project of 1GW in the Baltic Sea

The Liivi Bay project in the Gulf of Riga, which would be developed by Estonia's Eesti Energia, would present the two small Baltic nations with a means of sprea…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Saudis to Push for Extension of Oil-Production Cuts at OPEC Meeting

Saudi Arabia will push for an extension of oil production cuts through mid-2020 at a producers’ summit this week in an effort to prop up Saudi Aramco’s initia…

Crude

Iran Launches Operation to Seal an Expanding Oil Leak Off Persian Gulf Rig

Iranian authorities say a major leak that has taken place off an oil rig in the Persian Gulf waters is being contained as they insist more work would be needed …

Saudi-led Group Lined up for Dubai PV Giant

ACWA Power and Gulf Investment Corp to build phase four of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar farm

Bos Shelf LLC

BOS SHELF LLC is the company formed by Star Gulf FZCO and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic. BOS Shelf is 100% Azerbaijani company and part of SOCAR …

Oil & Gas Trade

Canada's Heavy Oil Exports To Asia From US Surge

Shipments of Canadian crude from the U.S. Gulf Coast since May have more than doubled all of 2018's exports as Asian refiners scramble for heavy sour oil, accor…

Oil & Gas Trade

Trump’s Disdain for Alliances Backfires

A strange thing happened when the Trump administration tried to recruit an international coalition of naval forces to protect oil tankers in the Persian Gulf th…