Energy

GCC ministers meet as OPEC oil cut looms

  Bloomberg Russia’s energy minister met with counterparts from Saudi Arabia and other Arab Gulf oil-producers to discuss steps to stabilize crude markets amid OPEC’s drive to win cooperation from the biggest supplier outside the group in limiting output to prop up prices. Ministers from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates gathered in Riyadh for oil ...

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Russia’s rising output forecasts give leverage in OPEC talks

  Bloomberg As Russia gets ready for talks on cooperation with OPEC on Monday, it’s using the playbooks of Iran, Iraq and Venezuela to gain leverage. Just days before Energy Minister Alexander Novak heads to Vienna for discussions that could include output curbs, Russian officials emphasized the nation’s ability to keep increasing record output to even loftier heights. They were ...

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Oil above $50 as market waits for output deal

  Bloomberg Crude settled above $50 a barrel as investors assessed the likelihood of a deal to reduce supply after Russia’s energy minister said the country’s oil output may rise to a record next year. December futures rose 0.4 percent in New York after swinging between gains and losses during intraday trading. Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said production could ...

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Saudi Electricity posts best quarterly profit in a decade

  Bloomberg Saudi Electricity Co., the dominant electricity provider in the Arab world’s biggest economy, reported its best quarterly profit in more than a decade after the state-controlled utility raised prices following subsidy cuts. Third-quarter net income surged to 4.4 billion riyals ($1.2 billion) from 2.92 billion riyals in the year-earlier period, the company said in a statement to the ...

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Exxon boss, Saudi minister differ on oil supply outlook

  Reuters Exxon Mobil’s boss Rex Tillerson and Saudi Arabia’s energy minister took opposing views on declining investment in the oil sector setting the stage for a possible major supply crunch. More than two years of downturn that saw oil prices halve to around $50 a barrel today after a boom in U.S. shale oil production have led to a ...

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‘Many nations willing to join OPEC output cuts’

  Bloomberg Many nations are willing to join OPEC in cutting production to secure a continued improvement in oil prices, said Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy and Industry Khalid Al-Falih. The minister didn’t name any countries in his speech at the Oil & Money conference in London Wednesday, saying only that negotiations will continue until the scheduled Nov. 30 meeting ...

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OPEC optimistic to reach oil output deal in Nov

  LONDON / Reuters OPEC should be able to reach a deal next month to limit oil production without too much disagreement about individual countries’ output levels, the producer group’s secretary-general said on Tuesday. Mohammed Barkindo also told journalists on the sidelines of the Oil & Money conference that Russia, which is not in OPEC, was not backtracking on its ...

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Oil at $50-60 ensures adequate supply: Saudi

  Bloomberg & Reuters Officials from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, key protagonists in shaping OPEC policy, said oil at $50 to $60 a barrel would ensure adequate global supply, setting out a potential price band for the producer club before its meeting in Vienna next month. “A $50, $60 oil price — absent a supply accident — is sufficient to ...

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Iran October oil exports hold near 5-year, pre-sanctions level high

  Reuters Iran’s October crude and condensate exports are set to hold near five-year highs hit in September, a source with knowledge of its preliminary tanker schedule said, reflecting Tehran’s success in boosting shipments after Western sanctions were lifted. The No. 3 OPEC producer is producing around 4.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude and ultra light oil condensate, ...

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Oil gains above $50 amid OPEC output cut plans

  Bloomberg Oil rose as the dollar weakened, edging back above the $50 level where prices have hovered since rallying on OPEC’s decision to cut output last month. West Texas Intermediate futures advanced 1 percent in New York, erasing Monday’s 0.8 percent slide. The dollar sank, increasing the appeal of commodities denominated in the currency, on speculation that a pick-up ...

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