PetroChina Co Ltd, the nation's leading oil and natural gas producer, said on Thursday it expects a 20-billion-yuan ($3.3 billion) annual profit boost from the government's natural gas price reform. That inflow will further buoy the ...
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OPEC would need to cut production sometime in the second half of 2013 or early 2014 to stave off "a large drop in prices," Kuwait's leading bank said in a report over the weekend. In its latest economic bulletin, released late Sunday, the ...
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OPEC's collective oil export earnings rose 8.5% to $1.24 trillion in 2012 from $1.14 trillion in 2011, the oil producer group said Friday in its latest annual report. It stressed that the 2012 figure was a preliminary estimate. The group ...
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Global oil prices are unlikely to drop below $100/b until 2025, supported by OPEC's market management efforts and crude demand growth in Asia, Leonid Fedun, vice president of Lukoil said Tuesday, presenting key findings of the company's ...
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OPEC ministers meeting in Vienna Friday reached an expected agreement to maintain the group's current crude production limits, leaving their combined output ceiling at 30 million b/d. Ministers had widely signaled their happiness with ...
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Kuwait will increase its oil production capacity to about 3.6 million b/d by 2022, according to a study by the emirate's Diplomatic Center for Strategic Studies (DCSS). The official KUNA news agency reported Wednesday that the study said ...
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Saudi Aramco boosted its crude production to a record 9.506 million b/d in 2012, excluding blended natural gas liquids, up 5% from 9.068 million b/d in 2011, the company said in its latest annual report. "During 2012 at Saudi Aramco, we ...
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In 2003, Yukos was preparing for a game-changing merger with another private Russian oil company, Roman Abramovich's Sibneft, to create a 2.3 million b/d Russian oil producing giant. The deal was scuppered, however, in large part because ...
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OPEC ministers should consider the needs of the global oil market in a year's time, rather than just the current demand/supply balance, when they meet to review the cartel's production ceiling in two weeks, the head of the International ...
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China National Offshore Oil Corp or CNOOC Group, the parent of listed arm CNOOC Ltd, refined 30.08 million mt (602,400 b/d) of crude last year, up 15.2% from 26.1 million mt in 2011, the company said in its 2012 sustainable development ...
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China's oil and gas companies could lift their total overseas equity production to 3 million b/d by 2015, the executive director of the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. "Chinese national oil companies are present everywhere in ...
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ClydeUnion Pumps was awarded the contract to supply various pumps for the Nasr Phase-1 and Umm Lulu Phase-1 field development projects offshore Abu Dhabi, UAE. ClydeUnion Pumps will supply the complete package of pumps which includes ...
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Russia's crude oil production hit a record high of 518 million mt (10.4 million b/d) in 2012, preliminary data released Wednesday by the energy ministry's Central Dispatching Unit showed, as the country cemented its position as the world's ...
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In a first-ever meeting, peak oil proponents met with the US Energy Information Administration earlier this month to urge the nation's top statistical agency to temper its rosy outlook on future US energy production. Representatives ...
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Trade Arabia reported that crude oil output from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries declined 90,000 barrels per day to 31.08 million barrels per day in November. This follows October production of 31.17 million barrels per ...
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