World oil demand will rise by 1.1% this year to 90.26 million barrels a day, with gains coming from countries outside of the major industrialized nations, a U.S. government forecast said Tuesday. The Energy Information Administration said ...
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A top energy watchdog forecast the U.S. will bypass Russia in the production of liquid fuels--everything from crude and gasoline to biofuels like ethanol--solidifying America's growing importance in global energy markets. The ...
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Refining capacity expansions in China have been largely on track this year although the country's relatively weaker growth in oil demand could delay some projects and result in lower utilization rates, analysts said this week. Up to 1.3 ...
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Cambodia has imported 871,000 tons of petroleum in the first six months of the year, a 5.6 percent decline compared with the 922,800 tons at the same period last year, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Monday. During the ...
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The Unites States' plan to cut reliance on oil imports will not affect the oil production in the Gulf countries as Asia's demand for Middle East oil is rising, said a report released Monday by research firm Orient Planet. Recent major ...
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China is expected to surpass the US as the world's largest oil importer by 2017, and the opposing trend of growing crude oil imports by China and falling imports by the US will affect inter-regional trade flows and the cost to both ...
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China's apparent oil demand in July rose 6.6% year on year to 41.52 million mt or an average 9.82 million b/d, according to Platts' estimates based on recently released preliminary government data. Apparent oil demand was, however, 1.7% ...
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China's biggest energy firm PetroChina (0857.HK) will join Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) in developing Iraq's giant West Qurna oilfield and is in talks with Russia's Lukoil (LKOH.MM) to buy into a second project at the field, industry sources said. ...
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The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that China's net oil imports will exceed those of the United States by October 2013 on a monthly basis and by 2014 on an annual basis, making China the largest importer of oil in the ...
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China's apparent oil demand in June surged 11.7% year on year to 40.89 million mt, or an average 9.99 million b/d, according to Platts' estimates Monday, based on the latest preliminary government data. This is the highest growth rate ...
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The ability of OPEC to influence the balance of crude markets is diminishing in the face of growing US oil production, with 2013 expected to be a rare instance of a year-on-year decline in the call on the producer group to maintain balanced ...
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OPEC's share of the global oil market is set to diminish further next year as surging supplies of oil from the US and other non-OPEC producers outpaces an expected acceleration in world oil demand growth, the International Energy Agency ...
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Oil demand in Algeria has risen very strongly over the last few weeks, creating some shortages in parts of the country, a source at Naftal, the country's main fuel distributor, said Wednesday. But he added that Naftal had stepped up its ...
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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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