A proposed free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea would remove the current 3% to 8% tariff that Canadian oil and gas producers have to pay for exports into that Asian nation, a Canadian government spokeswoman said Monday. ...
Tags: LNG Exports, Oil Exports
Kazakhstan's CPC Blend crude has fallen to a 23-month low versus Dated Brent, as weak end-user demand has continued to weigh on values for prompt supplies. CIF Augusta CPC Aframax cargoes were assessed at a $1.73/barrel discount to the ...
Tags: Crude Oil, CPC Blend crude
The Indonesian government reached a deal with lawmakers late Wednesday to revise down its targets for subsidized fuel consumption and crude production in its 2014 budget to make the figures more realistic, officials said. The measure cuts ...
Tags: fuel consumption, crude production
US Gulf Coast 3% sulfur fuel oil jumped $2.25 on Thursday to an eight-month high of more than $94/barrel following a spike in crude oil and swaps prices. Gulf Coast HSFO was assessed at $94.08/b following activity in the Platts Market on ...
Tags: USGC HSFO, sulfur fuel oil
The Urals crude market strengthened sharply Wednesday in both Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean as buying interest increased sharply to clear some remaining prompt June cargoes. Differentials for CIF Augusta Urals Aframax cargoes ...
Tags: Crude Oil, crude market
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday that US Class I railroads originated 110,164 carloads of crude oil in the first quarter of 2014, 1.4 percent more than in the fourth quarter of 2013 and, by 1,559 carloads, the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
More than half of Asia's gas needs will be supplied by LNG by 2030, Santos Ltd CEO David Knox said Thursday, adding that this will provide the Australian LNG exporter opportunities to grow. Speaking from the Brisbane Mining Club, Knox ...
Tags: Gas, Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China's state-owned Sinopec said Wednesday it has signed a pact with Kuwait Petroleum Co to enhance cooperation in the oil sector, including refining. Sinopec, or China Petrochemical Corp., said the deal was signed Tuesday in Beijing in ...
Tags: Oil, Refining, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
South Sudan has received over $3.5 billion from the sale of crude oil between June 2013 and May 2014, the country's oil minister Stephen Dhieu Dau said in a statement made available to Platts in the capital Juba on Sunday. "As from June ...
Tags: crude oil, oil industry
Crude production in Libya is facing further setbacks this week, as loadings out of the 110,000 b/d Marsa al-Hariga crude terminal in Eastern Libya have stuttered to a halt. Traders and shipping sources said that no there have been no ...
Tags: Crude production, oil flowing
Loading volumes for Republic of Congo's two main crude oil grades -- Djeno and N'Kossa -- are set to rise in July to a total of 7.42 million barrels from 6.47 million barrels in June, according to copies of preliminary loading schedules ...
Tags: Crude Oil, medium-sweet crude
Sellers at the 8th Asia LNG summit in Beijing Wednesday said there is a growing shortfall of LNG globally, as buyers wait on the sidelines, preferring to sign LNG term contracts linked to other indexation points rather than traditional ...
Tags: Potential LNG, gas
Iranian petrochemical traders currently sell all their products on a CFR basis in Asia instead of FOB to avoid payment issues, trade sources in Iran and Dubai said Tuesday. "We sell products on a CFR basis in countries like China so as to ...
Tags: Petrochemical
China's top economic planner announced on Friday a rise in the retail price of gasoline and diesel, both by 70 yuan (11.35 U.S. dollars) per tonne as of Saturday. The move means that the benchmark retail prices of gasoline and diesel will ...
Tags: Oil Products, Crude Oil
Russia does not plan to reduce export volumes of its crude and gas in the next 10-20 years, but expects to increase exports of high quality oil products as major modernization of its refineries is in the final stages, Lukoil CEO Vagit ...
Tags: Crude Exports, Gas Exports