New tariffs have been approved for electricity purchases from private homeowners by the government, managing director of Tehran Electricity Distribution Company said.
"The increase in…
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Injecting gas into oil reservoirs should be given priority over gas export to revive unused reserves, a former oil minister said.
Mohammad Gharazi added that after supplying towns and…
Libya's oil production is between 350,000 and 380,000 barrels a day, Naji al-Maghrabi, the new chairman of state oil firm National Oil Corporation based in eastern Libya, said. That is in line…
Russian energy company Rosneft said on Monday it has registered to take part in the 13th licensing round organized by Brazil's national energy agency Agencia Nacional do Petroleo, Gas Natural e…
Iran's second tar refinery will be inaugurated in Kerman this week, Iranian Mines & Mining Industries Development & Renovation said on its website.
Chinese oil companies' rapid switch of oil purchases from over-the-counter to exchange-based transactions has helped the eight-year-old Dubai Mercantile Exchange become a highly influential…
Four and a half years after the Fukushima disaster, and as Japan tentatively restarts nuclear power production elsewhere, legal challenges are mounting for the crippled plant's operator.
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Engineers from the University of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England, have developed a novel technique to predict when bearings inside wind turbines will fail, which could make wind energy…
Oil prices fell to near six-year lows on Monday, as Japan's economy contracted and producers in the United States added drilling rigs for a fourth straight week despite a recent rout in prices.
Libya's UN-backed government has appointed Naji al-Maghrabi as chairman of its state oil firm National Oil Corporation—aka NOC—based in the east of the country, an oil official said on Saturday.…
Iranian and Iraqi high-ranking officials approved the final draft of gas export to Iraq after four days of negotiations, Azizolah Ramezani, National Iranian Gas Company's director for…
Practices adopted by Chinese financers in Iran's petrochemical projects have imposed restrictions that discourage Iranian authorities from using Chinese funds, deputy oil minister and managing…
The National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company in Khorasan Razavi Province is planning to increase the export of oil products to neighboring countries, including Afghanistan,…
The foundation of a cross-border pipeline to pump oil products like gasoline and diesel to landlocked Nepal from India will be laid within a week, India’s Ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae announced…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's appointment of a Harvard-educated lawyer to run the state oil company demonstrates his anti-corruption resolve, which only marks the start of a long reform…
The long-awaited South Pars phases 15 and 16 have made 97% progress and will go on stream in December, Mohammad Reza Forouzesh, contractor of the two phases, said on Sunday.
According to…
Fifty investors have expressed readiness for the construction of compressed natural gas stations across the country, the Oil Ministry's director for energy planning said.
"One of the…
Oman, the biggest oil producer in the Middle East outside OPEC, said its crude and condensate production in July exceeded 1 million barrels a day for the first time.
“In July 2015 the…
Marjan Petrochemical Company—aka 7th Methanol Project—has made 30% progress as its construction operations and installation of distillation towers are underway, Hassan Beigi, managing director of…
A significant growth in both investment and activity in the floating liquefied national gas market is expected over the next seven years, according to a report.
It is expected to hit a…
Finland’s Gasum Oy has demanded through court Russia’s Gazprom lower the price of gas being supplied to Finland.
Gasum Oy dispatched a complaint to this effect to Gazprom in the middle of…
US shale oil production amounted to just 5 million barrels per day at the end of 2014, less than 6% of world production and consumption.
Despite the shale sector’s small market share, it…
Dana Gas—the Middle East’s leading private sector natural gas company—announced revenues of $116 million in the second quarter ended 30 June 2015.
Revenues declined almost 38% year-on-year…
The nuclear dialogue between Russia and Iran will not be limited to the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, as Russia seeks to expand cooperation, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said…
The US agreed to allow some crude to flow to Mexico in the latest step toward easing a 40-year ban on most domestic oil exports.
Up to 100,000 barrels a day of light oil and condensate will…
