Energy

  • Oil hit four-month lows on Monday after a steep drop in Chinese stock markets and on more evidence of a global supply glut that has halved prices over the past year.

    Chinese stocks tumbled…

  • Iran should not only reclaim the lost oil and petrochemical share, but also enter lucrative markets,  Hassan Khosrojerdi, the head of Petrochemical, Gas and Oil Exporters' Union, said Monday…

  • Speculators’ conviction that oil will rally weakened at the fastest pace in three years, just before futures tumbled into a bear market.

    The net-long position in West Texas Intermediate…

  • Lobbying over whether to scrap the four-decade-old US ban on exporting crude oil has almost doubled, as proponents push to build momentum toward a showdown likely to come sometime after the 2016…

  • A water-powered motorbike with the ability to travel up to 500 miles on a liter of water is turning heads in Brazil.

    The "T Power H2O" motorcycle was created by Sao Paulo-based public…

  • Technip Italy, a world leader in project management for the energy industry, has finalized two joint agreements valued at $2.9 billion with Egypt-based companies for upgrades of two refineries in…

  • Reliance Industries Ltd., operator of the world’s biggest oil-refinery complex, will reestablish trading ties with Iran once sanctions are eased following the nation’s nuclear accord with world…

  • Iran's Mapna Group has signed a $2.5 billion contract with the Iraqi Shamara Holding Group to provide technical and engineering services for the construction of a 3,000-megawatt power plant in…

  • China's biggest coal producer, Shenhua Group, plans to list its wind farm assets in an initial public offering in Hong Kong valued at up to $1 billion. The IPO is expected for the first half of…

  • Transporting 36 billion liters of crude and other oil products, including gasoline, fuel oil, diesel and kerosene, through pipelines to target markets is estimated to cost $140 million during the…

  • Iraq's southern oil exports have risen above 3 million barrels per day so far in July, according to loading data and an industry source, setting shipments from OPEC's second-largest producer on…

  • In response to US and EU sanctions, Russia has embarked upon a heavily publicized “pivot” to Asia over the last 18 months, seeking new strategic and economic partners to mitigate the effects…

  • The Iranian Central Oil Fields Company's gas production has increased by 103% in the last Iranian year (ended March 20) compared with the previous year, having produced approximately 1 billion…

  • With the announcement of a nuclear deal with the West and the prospect of sanctions relief within a year, Iran is looking to revitalize its oil and gas industry.

  • The construction of Anahita Refinery, located in the west, will commence as of August 24, Abdolreza Mesri, a lawmaker from Kermanshah, said on Sunday.

    According to Mesri, the refinery will…

  • Iranian experts manufactured the first fully-indigenized hydropower turbine.

    The turbine, which is of vertical Francis type, was installed in Azad Dam 10-megawatt power plant in …

  • Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari plans to split the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation into two entities, his spokesman said on Saturday. Buhari, elected in March on promises…

  • Federal prosecutors formally accused executives from Brazil’s top builders of participating in the country’s biggest corruption scandal in history.

    Prosecutors on Friday accused Marcelo…

  • Obtaining advanced western technologies in the petrochemical sector is now more important for Iran than regaining the lost market share in the US and Europe, a senior official in the National…

  • Domestic oil equipment producers are capable of competing with foreign brands in international markets and meeting domestic needs.

    “I am positive that due to competitive prices, even the…

  • Iran is set to sign a deal with South Asia Gas Enterprise Ltd., aka SAGE, to export gas to India through the longest subsea gas pipeline, Alireza Kameli, managing director of National Iranian Gas…

  • Essar Oil's crude imports from Iran jumped to its highest level in 15 months in June when the private refiner shipped in about 73% more oil from Tehran compared to the previous month.

  • Greece will look to alternatives to privatizing its power grid operator ADMIE as part of a new bailout deal with its lenders, Energy Minister Panos Skourletis said. "We will follow the path of…

  • There may be an increase in Iranian gas production to 11 million cubic meters a day by 2017 and the country hopes Europe could become one of its key markets.

  • Exploration activities have commenced to find oil and gas reserves in a geologically complex anticlinal trap, in the southern Fars Province.