Energy

  Bloomberg Iran, OPEC’s third-biggest member, plans to boost its oil output to 4 million barrels a day this year, potentially complicating the producer group’s plan to cut supply in an effort to prop up prices. Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said he hopes the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will agree next month at a meeting in Vienna to ...

  Reuters Iran will launch next month its first new style tender to develop oil and gas fields since the lifting of international sanctions, a leading oil official said on Monday, after months of internal discussions over the terms, intended to be more alluring to foreign companies. OPEC’s third largest oil producer hopes to revive its energy sector following the ...

  Bloomberg Oil investors must be getting dizzy. In the two months since OPEC began talking about capping production, speculators’ sentiment has swung wildly, with government and exchange data showing the four biggest weekly position changes ever for the two global benchmark crudes. The latest shift is to optimism, with money managers the most bullish on West Texas Intermediate oil ...

Bloomberg Oil traded near $50 a barrel in New York as U.S. producers increased drilling and OPEC nations added supply, threatening to compound a global surplus. Futures were little changed after slipping 0.2 percent Friday. Output from OPEC member Libya expanded to 560,000 barrels a day, according to National Oil Corp., up from 540,000 last week, while Iran repeated plans ...

  Bloomberg Iran is ramping up efforts to woo foreign investment in an energy industry stunted by years of sanctions, with a request for companies to submit documents to pre-qualify as bidders to develop the country’s oil and natural gas fields. State-run National Iranian Oil Co. will solicit documents from international companies starting from Monday, according to an announcement posted ...

  Bloomberg The world’s most prominent energy forecaster will raise its outlook for wind and solar installations following a decade of underestimating growth in the renewables industry. The International Energy Agency, which was established as a watchdog of the industry in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, will “significantly” raise its estimates for renewables when it publishes its annual ...

  Bloomberg Kashagan, a vast oil field in the Caspian Sea, sent its first crude for export after about 16 years in development and more than $50 billion of investments. The venture loaded 26,500 metric tons of crude for export into the country’s pipelines, Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry said in an e-mailed statement Friday. Of that, 7,700 tons was sent to ...

  AP North Dakota’s oil production dropped below 1 million barrels per day for the first time in more than two years, officials said Thursday — yet another reminder that the drilling boom is over in the country’s No. 2 oil state due to the slump in world oil prices. The state produced an average of 981,039 barrels of oil ...

  Bloomberg Hundreds of Jordanians took to streets of Amman to protest a $10 billion gas deal recently reached between Natural Electric Power Co. of Jordan and partners in Israel’s Leviathan field. The demonstrators carried banners stating “Israeli gas is an occupation” and “To our government, you do not represent us,” while some wore red T-shirts with the slogan “Enemy ...

  Bloomberg Don’t expect a major ramp-up of oil production in Oklahoma’s hot new shale plays any time soon, even as companies invest billions of dollars in the region, said Newfield Exploration Co.’s chief executive officer. Producers need more exploration time and a higher oil price before they can begin accelerating drilling in the Scoop and Stack oil formation, Lee ...