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 …