Energy

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Iran's electricity production capacity has increased by 480 megawatts with the operation of three units in Seymareh Dam's power plant.

    "Three 160-MW units went on stream in Seymareh power…

  • State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, SOCAR, is drilling a new well in the Oil Rocks field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, SOCAR said on its website. The daily debit of the well No. 2613…

  • The development of the largest natural gas field in Turkmenistan, Galkynysh, will continue, the newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan said.

    More than 20 production wells have been drilled during…

  • Iran has lined up 45 oil and gas projects to show international companies at a conference in London in December.

    The projects, including oil and gas exploration, will be discussed along…