Energy

  • The oil ministry has reviewed the list of companies banned from signing oil contracts and a number of them have been delisted, Mizan news agency quoted deputy oil minister, Emad Hosseini, as…

  • Ukraine imported 572.2 million cubic meters of Russian gas in the first two weeks of January, the country’s state-owned gas company UkrTransGaz reported on Monday. All in all, Ukraine imported 1…

  • The price of oil could fall to $25 a barrel, Lukoil chief Vagit Alekperov said. Based on the latest statements from Saudi Arabia, he said a price drop to $25 could not be ruled out amid…

  • Oil advanced in New York, paring an eighth weekly decline, as the International Energy Agency (IEA) lowered forecasts for supplies from outside OPEC and said prices could recover, Bloomberg…

  • BP Plc will face a maximum fine of $13.7 billion under the Clean Water Act for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, several billion dollars less than feared, after a judge ruled that it was smaller than…

  • India imported 42 percent more Iranian oil last year over 2013 levels as its refiners increased purchases to take advantage of an easing in sanctions targeting Tehran's nuclear program.

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  • A hydrogen unit for refining kerosene and gasoil (diesel) is being built at the Tehran refinery, which has been taking measures recently to uphold environmental standards, director of operations…

  • Power generation capacity of solar and wind power plants will increase two-fold by yearend (March 21), managing director of Iran Power Generation and Transmission Company (Tavanir) announced.

  • Three projects are being implemented, one in Isfahan and two others south of the country, with the aim of increasing the domestic gasoline production capacity by 10 million liters a day, deputy…

  • While preliminary estimations indicated that Yadavaran oilfield's reservoir contains approximately 17 billion barrels of oil, a recent study has assessed the figure to stand at 34 billion barrels…

  • The largest methanol unit in the world, with a production capacity of 7,000 tons per day, has had a progress of 65 percent so far, Tasnim news agency reported Friday.

  • Dubai launched a project Thursday to build a solar plant to produce 200 megawatt of electricity, as part of plans to generate five percent of the emirate's power from renewables by 2030. The $327…

  • Refineries around the world processed a record volume of crude in December as plants returned from maintenance and falling oil prices boosted margins, the International Energy Agency said on…

  • Persian Gulf Arabs are gradually losing perks from free water to cheap fuel as governments hit by the slump in crude prices seek to trim their budgets, Bloomberg reported.

  • Norway is embracing a slump in the krone that Finance Minister Siv Jensen says will act as a buffer to protect western Europe’s biggest oil exporter from plunging crude prices.

  • Italy's Eni has reached its second agreement in less than a week to explore oil and gas fields in Egypt, as efforts by Cairo to pay foreign oil majors debt attracts investors, UPI reported.

  • Qatar Petroleum and Shell said they had decided not to proceed with their $6.4 billion Al Karaana petrochemical project in the Persian Gulf state, the region's second big energy project to be…

  • The country's air quality slightly improved after gasoline produced at petrochemical plants was eliminated from the list of fuels distributed nationwide, deputy head of the Department of…

  • Subsidies are intended to protect consumers by keeping prices low. But they also come at a high cost as they are expensive for governments -- and therefore taxpayers -- to finance and can hinder…

  • Industry experts expect that further pressure reductions of the South Pars Phase 12 reservoir in the coming years will reach full production from present platforms, indicating the need for a new…

  • The London seminar, in which Iran's new petroleum contract model was to be unveiled, is postponed from February to September, the head of the Oil Contracts Revision Committee…

  • The first national conference on 'Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development' kicked off on Wednesday at the University of Zabol in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, IRNA reported.

  • The Norwegian ambassador to Tehran, Odyssey Norheim, announced that her country is willing to expand cooperation with Iran in petrochemical industry. " Iran and Norway are both among the world's…

  • China's domestic natural gas production rose 10.7 percent last year, faster than in the previous year, as the country's first shale gas field added to output from conventional deposits, Platts…

  • European Union countries are at risk of stranding natural gas investments as they build pipelines between nations amid declining demand, according to an energy trading industry group.