Oil News
|
By AFP
-
Spears and poisoned blowguns at hand, the Waorani people say they are ready to strike down invaders of their Amazon homelands, just like their forefathers did.
|
|
By AFP
Baghdad -
Iraq is on track to produce nearly six million barrels of crude daily by 2030, the International Energy Agency said Thursday, which would make it the world's third biggest oil supplier.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday warned the United States of unspecified "consequences" if it tried to seal off to Tehran the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic passage into the oil-rich Gulf.
|
|
By AFP
Tehran -
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday called the end of oil sanction waivers by the United States a "hostile measure" that "won't be left without a response"."US efforts to boycott the sale of Iran's oil won't get them anywhere.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Saudi Arabia has no immediate plans to raise oil output after the United States ends sanctions waivers for buyers of Iranian crude, energy minister Khalid al-Falih said Wednesday.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
The decision to tighten sanctions on Iran will have "no material impact" on oil prices given the large US supply of petroleum, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Tuesday. "We are a country awash with oil and gas," Kudlow said.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
Plans by oil and gas majors to spend $4.9 trillion on fuel exploration are "poles apart" from the goal of the Paris climate deal to limit the global temperature rise, a new analysis showed Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
Jerusalem -
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised a White House announcement on Monday ending sanctions exemptions for Iran's oil customers, calling it "of great importance" in boosting pressure on Tehran.
|
|
By AFP
Ottawa -
The new conservative leader of Canada's oil-rich Alberta province said Wednesday he will nix its carbon tax, opening up a new battlefront with liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ahead of October national elections.
|
|
By AFP
Ottawa -
Canada's opposition conservatives won a clear victory in provincial elections in oil-rich Alberta Tuesday, in a setback for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his environmental policies just six months ahead of national polls.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Turkey voiced hope Tuesday that the United States will extend an exemption in sanctions to allow it to keep buying oil from Iran, despite tensions between the allies on multiple fronts.
|
|
By AFP
Strasbourg -
The European Parliament on Tuesday rejected a move to strip ExxonMobil lobbyists of their access badges after the US oil giant missed the assembly's first hearing into claims it knowingly misled the public on climate change.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
The US Treasury on Friday unveiled financial sanctions on four maritime shipping companies and nine of their oil tankers over crude deliveries to Cuba, to pressure Havana to end support for Venezuela.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
The United States on Friday announced sanctions on ships of Venezuela's state oil company and companies that link it to key ally Cuba, hoping to cut off vital lifelines for President Nicolas Maduro.
|
|
By AFP
Den Haag -
Climate campaigners marched to Shell's headquarters in the Netherlands on Friday and handed the oil giant a lawsuit aimed at forcing it to meet targets in the Paris accord.
|
|
By AFP
Ottawa -
Canada's Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear an appeal from a group of Ecuadoran villagers seeking compensation from the Canadian subsidiary of US energy giant Chevron over oil pollution in the Amazon jungle.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
A 2.3 percent jump in global energy demand last year outstripped the expansion of renewables and helped drive record-high greenhouse gas emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
Khartoum -
Sudan summoned Egypt's ambassador to Khartoum on Thursday to protest Cairo's "illegal" call for oil and gas exploration bids in the Red Sea area of Halayeb, claimed by both countries.
|
|
By AFP
Mene Grande -
Greasy slicks continue to darken the ground in Mene Grande, a modest town where Venezuela's oil boom was born more than a century ago. But now the days of crude glory are gone, replaced by desolation.The asphalt on the roads is worn down.
|
|
By AFP
Bakou -
Major oil producers led by Saudi Arabia agreed Monday to keep working together to prop up crude prices, but said they would decide only in June on whether to extend production cuts.
|
|
By AFP
Caracas -
A weeklong blackout and ever-tightening US sanctions have nudged Venezuela's already declining oil production into an even steeper dive, experts say.
|
|
By AFP
Mumbai -
India's biggest private oil refiner Reliance Industries has capped crude imports from sanction-hit Venezuela, the company said Thursday, following pressure from the United States.
|
|
By AFP
Magway -
As clouds of acrid, black smoke belched above the flames engulfing an artisanal oil field in central Myanmar, prospectors from nearby hillsides arrived in droves, hoping for riches from a fresh line of black gold.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Two years after they teamed up to take back control of oil markets, the alliance between Russia and OPEC continues to be effective.
|
|
By AFP
Oslo -
Norway will announce on Friday whether its sovereign wealth fund, which is the world's biggest and has been fuelled by petrodollars, will divest its oil and gas holdings in a decision keenly awaited by climate activists.
|
|
By AFP
Istanbul -
Two Turkish ships will begin drilling in search of oil and gas off Cyprus "in the coming days", Turkey's foreign minister said Thursday, in a move likely to stoke tensions on the divided island.
|
|
By AFP
Havana -
With top ally Venezuela in crisis, Cuba is moving to cover its oil needs elsewhere, seeking possible alternative supplies in Qatar and Algeria, officials said Monday.
|
|
By AFP
Tunis -
Militiamen have kidnapped a group of Tunisian workers near the Libyan capital Tripoli, demanding Tunis release a comrade, the foreign ministry and a rights activist said."The foreign ministry is following the case of the Tunisian citizens...
|
|
By AFP
London -
Global energy demand will surge by a third over the next two decades on advancing prosperity, but Indian demand growth will eclipse that of flagging giant China, Britain's BP forecast Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Ottawa -
Canada's public broadcaster said Tuesday it found in a trove of Twitter messages evidence of possible foreign actors trying to sow divisions between Canadians on pipelines, migrants and other hot-button issues.
|
apis-393703 apis-393625 apis-393555 apis-393537 apis-393536 apis-393483 apis-393439 apis-393388 apis-393089 apis-392993 apis-392970 apis-392968 apis-392713 apis-392155 apis-392138 apis-392077 apis-391307 apis-390943 apis-390872 apis-390638 apis-390458 apis-390336 apis-390321 apis-390240 apis-389866 apis-388744 apis-388518 apis-388382 apis-388235 apis-388034
Oil Image
Members of the Naval Air Station Pensacola Pollution Response unit set oil containment boom at Sherman Cove aboard the base to protect environmentally sensitive grass beds from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. by uscgd8
Protesters in Rio de Janeiro over oil royalties. YouTube
Bob Dudley is CEO of BP BP America
Protesters opposed to the proposed Keystone XL demonstrate outside the White House in 2011. Chesapeakeclimate/Wikimedia Commons
Greenpeace activists chain themselves to each other during a demonstration on Bosphorus bridge calling for the release of 30 people arrested in Russia over a protest against Arctic oil drilling, during the Istanbul Marathon in Istanbul November 17, 2013. The 30 people detained by Russia consists of 28 activists who were arrested after coastguards boarded the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise following the protest at an oil platform owned by state-controlled Gazprom off Russia's northern coas With permission by Reuters / Murad Sezer
Prices as of January 2, 2018 at 1:41 p.m. NASDEQ
Dry sand from tarsands production.
Dry sand from a tailing pond, water is used to remove the oil from the sand. The water and sand which is left over is moved to holding ponds.
Sonis sounds amplified down toward seabed. NMANewsDirect
Crude Oil Tanker US Federal Govt
Oil pump in Russia Yukon White Light
The new ship and the world's largest, The Prelude Shell Oil
Francis Bacon, Second Version of Triptych, 1944 / 1988. Oil and alkyds on canvas. Each panel 198 x 147.5 cm (each panel), Tate Modern, London. © Estate of Francis Bacon / SODRAC (2013) © Estate of Francis Bacon / SODRAC (2013)
Drawing shows how sound from the seabed is bounced back to hydrophone. NMANewsDirect
HOUSTON: Corporate headquarters for oil services industry giant Halliburton, which was headed before 2000 by former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. WhisperTo / Wikimedia
Uncontacted Indians' territory in Peru is being
invaded by oil companies. ©Anon/ Survival
|
|
