Energy

  • The overseas arm of India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp has submitted a revised plan to develop the giant Farzad B gas block in Iran, including a commitment to spend more than $3 billion, a senior…

  • Russian oil major Rosneft hopes to benefit from European court rulings that have allowed some Iranian banks to escape from European Union sanctions.

  • Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh says investors will not be convinced to invest in Iran's lucrative hydrocarbon sector unless they are confident that rules and regulations will not be the…

  • In line with policies to ram up oil and gas production, the National Iranian Drilling Company has completed drilling operations in 193 exploration, appraisal, repair and production oil and gas…

  • Oil prices steadied on Tuesday as a rebound in Libyan crude production balanced expectations of a draw in US crude oil and product inventories. Benchmark Brent crude oil was up 25 cents at $53.37…

  • Qatar said Monday it plans to boost production from a vast underwater natural gas field it shares with Iran by 10%, giving the energy-rich Persian Gulf nation potential new revenue as it pursues…

  • Improving health, safety and environment (HSE) management systems, safeguarding the environment, refinery expansion and selling oil byproducts through private companies top the National Iranian…

  • A total of 1.114 billion liters of gasoline, or 85.6 million liters daily, were burned during the Persian New Year holidays (March 21-April 2), said a spokesperson for the National Iranian Oil…

  • The Energy Ministry says it is ready to withstand a higher electricity load and avoid outages as power demand nationwide soars during the hot summer season.

    Electricity demand is forecast…

  • Major projects in the petroleum sector will be commissioned in the near future, says Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, the oil minister.

    "An estimated $20 billion worth of projects are being developed…

  • Libya’s crude production rebounded to about 660,000 barrels a day as the OPEC nation’s biggest oil field resumed output after about a week of disruption.

    Force majeure on the Zawiya export…

  • Crude stockpiles are starting to decline in a sign that the production cuts implemented this year are bringing the market to balance, according to OPEC’s Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo.

  • Oil prices fell on Friday after a three-day rally ran out of steam as a higher US rig count signaled rising production from shale, contributing to the global supply glut.

  • Iraq’s Oil Minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi said on Sunday that his country plans to increase daily crude oil production to 5 million barrels by the end of this year, up from the current rate of about…

  • Oil prices have been capped at around $55 a barrel so far this year, but they are on track to hit $70 per barrel later in 2017, according to Pierre Andurand, managing partner at Andurand Capital…

  • Indian state refiners will cut oil imports from Iran in 2017/18 by a fifth, as New Delhi takes a more assertive stance over an impasse on a giant gas field that it wants awarded to an Indian…

  • Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian says his ministry is doing all it can to reduce electricity wastage in the national grid to less than 10% in the present fiscal year that ends in March 2018.

  • Despite a two-week break for the Persian New Year holidays, the energy industry in Iran was moving ahead with government efforts to launch oil, gas and petrochemical projects…

  • Russian oil output was 11.05 million barrels per day in March, down 200,000 bpd from October— the baseline for a global deal to curb oil production and in line with a government promise, Energy…

  • March 20, 2017 - Iran has started oil production from the offshore South Pars crude oil layers after installing its first floating production, storage and offloading vessel, the FPSO Cyrus,…

  • German energy giant EON said on Wednesday that it booked a record loss of $12.7 billion in 2016, after massively overvaluing its coal and gas-fired power generation business which was spun-…

  • Iran Water and Power Resources Development Company has invited domestic and foreign companies to finance, build and operate Karun II Dam and Power Plant project in Khuzestan Province.

  • Negotiations are underway with Iraq to develop three joint oilfields together. Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said on Tuesday.

  •  production last year, but if OPEC maintains its output cuts, demand should overtake supply in the first half of this year, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday.

    The IEA's…

  • Tehran Construction Engineering Organization (TCEO) signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran Fuel Conservation Company (IFCO), a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company, to formulate…