BENGHAZI / Reuters Production at Libya’s Sharara oilfield dropped to between 130,000 and 150,000 barrels per day (bpd), from about 280,000 bpd, because of recent security breaches, an engineer who works at the field said on Tuesday. Field employees had difficulty accessing some of the field’s facilities after cars and mobile phones were stolen, said the engineer, who did not ...

Bloomberg When OPEC and Russia first embarked on their strategy to clear a global oil glut, it was expected to succeed within six months. It now looks like the battle could last for years. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners plan to wrap up their production cuts next spring, already nine months later than originally expected. Yet ...

Bloomberg A month after dealing a blow to OPEC, Ecuador says it will cap output at a more comfortable level than it had initially pledged. The South American country will limit its production at its current 541,000 barrels a day to avoid undermining the group’s output-curbs deal, Ecuadorian Oil Minister Carlos Perez said. While that breaches the 26,000-barrel-a-day cut to ...