Energy

Saudi, Mideast vie for China teapot crude imports

  Reuters Top global oil exporter Saudi Arabia is looking at new ways to sell crude to China, offering more cargoes at spot prices and more lenient payment terms after losing ground in the world’s fastest-growing oil import market to Angola, Russia and others. Independent refiners, known as teapots, have shaken up China’s oil industry this year, accounting for most ...

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OPEC meets non-OPEC nations for oil talks

  VIENNA / Reuters Officials from OPEC and non-member oil producing countries met on Saturday aiming to build support for an OPEC plan to reduce output one day after OPEC members were unable to agree on how to implement the deal. Arriving for the meeting with OPEC’s High Level Committee of exporters, only the representative of non-OPEC Azerbaijan made comments ...

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Iran crude oil exports to hit 4-month low in Nov

  Reuters Iran’s crude oil exports are set to decline 5 percent in November to a four-month low, a source with knowledge of its preliminary tanker schedule said, as low seasonal demand in Europe takes the edge off its post-sanctions export bonanza. Iran’s oil exports typically hit a low around October or November each year, reflecting peak refinery maintenance seasons ...

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Kuwait’s first solar plant to generate 10MW

  Reuters Kuwait has begun operating its first-ever solar power plant at the Umm Gudair oil field, a landmark for the OPEC member country as it seeks to diversify its sources of energy to meet fast-rising local demand. The 30-million Kuwaiti dinar ($99 million) project, Sidrah 500, will produce 10 megawatts (MW) of electricity, half of which will be supplied ...

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BP, Shell help lift oil trading profitability to 6-year high

  Bloomberg The trading arms of Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc enjoyed their best year ever in 2015, helping push the combined gross margins of oil merchants to a six-year high, according to a closely watched report. Oil traders last year “stormed ahead, thanks to low, volatile spot prices that created cash-and-carry opportunities,” consultancy Oliver Wyman said in ...

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Crude climbs up as OPEC chief seeks to resolve output plan

  Reuters Oil climbed with OPEC’s secretary-general set to visit Baghdad on Tuesday for talks aimed at resolving a deal on output after Iraq said it should be exempt from planned cuts. Futures rose as much as 0.8 percent in New York after falling 0.7 percent Monday. Mohammed Barkindo will meet with Iraq’s prime minister and oil minister, according to ...

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‘OPEC cut may hasten oil market rebalance’

  Singapore / AFP Under current conditions, the IEA expects global output to exceed demand until the second half of 2017, Fatih Birol told journalists on the sidelines of an energy conference in Singapore. “But we know that the producers are thinking of intervening in the markets. The OPEC and non-OPEC producers, if they intervene in the markets, this rebalance ...

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Record green power installations beat fossil fuel

  Bloomberg Renewable energy reached an important turning point last year with record new installations of emissions-free power surpassing sources that burn fossil fuel, according the International Energy Agency. New installations of renewable energy overtook conventional power for the first time in 2015, the Paris-based agency said on Tuesday in its Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report. Global green power rose ...

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Oil investors ease back as market steadies before OPEC talks

  Bloomberg Oil investors are playing it safe as OPEC hammers out the details of a deal to trim output. Money managers reduced bets on falling prices to the lowest since May as oil held above $50 a barrel, prolonging a rally that began when the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries announced a deal to cut production to between 32.5 ...

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Short-term oil output cap can reduce market volatility: Russia

  Reuters A short-term cap in oil output would reduce market volatility, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday at a meeting with OPEC Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo, as both are looking at ways to stabilise prices. Russia is the world’s largest oil producer but not a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its budget has ...

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