SHARJAH / WAM Dana Gas has announced that its average production for Q1, 2019 has increased by 6 percent year-on-year to 68,700 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) from 65,000 boepd in Q1 2018. The first quarter production increase was led by the KRI (Kurdistan Region of Iraq), which leapt to 32,750 boepd in Q1, 2019 from 26,300 boepd …

Bloomberg First Mexico’s president told oil drillers to produce more. Now he wants fuel stations to charge less. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is calling on fuels, liquid petroleum gas, and natural gas distributors to review their profit margins and pass on more tax savings to consumers in his latest crackdown on the private energy market. Mexico offers subsidies …

Bloomberg Canada housing starts rebounded in March from a sluggish performance a month earlier, returning to levels more in line with demographics and highlighting the buoyancy of the nation’s battered real estate market. Builders started an annualised 192,527 homes in March, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported. That’s up from 166,290 a month earlier, when excessively cold weather slowed …