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MOSCOW, March 4 - Rosneft Russia's largest oil firm, expects the rouble devaluation and lower export duties to help profits recover from a 64 percent slump in last year's fourth quarter, one of the toughest on record. Rosneft said on Wednesday fourth-quarter net profit fell to ...
ABUJA, March 5 - Output at Nigeria's Bonny Light crude terminal, operated by Royal Dutch Shell has ramped up to around 200,000 barrels per day, a senior official of state-run NNPC said on Thursday. Production was cut to around 90,000 bpd three weeks ago because of security ...
One of China's largest oilfields in Xinjiang plans to upgrade its information technology to build a "smart field," another move to boost the west regions' economy, sinopecnews.com reported Monday. "The Karamay Oilfield will upgrade from a digital oil field to a smart field in ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An appeals court has vacated a decision that blocked Shell Oil's planned exploratory drilling program in the Beaufort Sea, but representatives of the company and the environmental and Native groups challenging the development said Monday they had no indication ...
TOKYO, March 11 - Japan's top utility, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said its oil and gas consumption fell sharply in February from a year earlier, as higher nuclear plant usage and weakening demand dented thermal power generation. Fuel oil consumption slid 34.8 percent and LNG ...
BEIJING, March 13 - China's largest oil and gas company, PetroChina will set up a joint venture refinery with Venezuela in 2009, Chairman Jiang Jiemi told reporters on Friday. In May, the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and PetroChina agreed to build a refinery in China's far ...
LONDON, March 12 - The leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said the area has the capacity to produce one million barrels per day of crude in three years and criticised Baghdad's policies on oil as "failed". "Today, the region is able to export 100,000 barrels per day and ...
WASIT, Iraq, March 11 - Iraq inaugurated a $3 billion oil project on Wednesday with the Chinese National Petroleum Company (CNPC), activating the country's first major oil deal with a foreign firm since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani joined ...
CALGARY, Alberta, March 10 - Penn West Energy Trust Canada's biggest conventional energy income fund, said on Tuesday it will buy Reece Energy Exploration Corp for C$51 million ($40 million) to bolster its position in a Saskatchewan oil play with the industry in a downturn. Under ...
NEW ORLEANS - Investment bankers may dream of tie-ups between large independent oil and gas companies, but executives who could possibly do such a deal say they are not in the market. On Monday, Canadian companies Suncor Energy Inc and Petro-Canada announced a $15 billion stock ...
MUMBAI, March 30 - India's Reliance Industries Ltd is set to begin gas production from its deep-sea field off the country's east coast in the next 24 to 48 hours, the Economic Times reported on Monday, without citing a source. A company spokesman reached by Reuters declined to ...
OSLO, March 31 - Companies operating oil and gas fields offshore Norway are checking the scope and impact of sub-quality metal components found in pipe fittings, the Norwegian oil industry association (OLF) said on Tuesday. "The involved operating companies are already working to ...
ABU DHABI, March 31 - Abu Dhabi has renewed its onshore gas concession with Royal Dutch Shell Total and Partex, United Arab Emirates state news agency WAM reported on Tuesday. Government-run Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and the companies have signed a new 20-year deal ...
PERTH - Australia opened the bidding on Friday for ten offshore areas that will be used to store carbon dioxide, bringing its pioneering plan to reduce emissions by pumping the greenhouse gas beneath the ocean floor a step closer to reality. Energy Minister Martin Ferguson said ...
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will decide later this year whether to raise the royalty rates energy companies would pay on the oil and natural gas produced on federal leases, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday. Companies now pay a royalty rate ranging ...
TORONTO, April 27 - Toronto's main stock index fell 1.6 percent on Monday, breaking a four-session rally, as fears of an international swine flu outbreak rattled commodity prices, dampening hopes for an economic recovery. Resource-related issues, which make up about 40 percent of ...
TORONTO, April 29 - Toronto's main stock index rose 0.73 percent on Wednesday as higher oil prices and upbeat corporate earnings sparked renewed interest in equities after two straight declining sessions. Stocks got an additional lift in the afternoon as the U.S. Federal Reserve ...
April 29 - Independent oil and gas company Whiting Petroleum Corp (WLL.N) swung to a first quarter loss hurt by hedging losses and a decline in its wellhead oil and natural gas prices. The company's quarterly net loss of $43.8 million or 92 cents per share included hedging losses ...
TORONTO, April 27 - Toronto's main stock index fell sharply on Monday morning after seven straight weeks of gains as concerns about a possible global swine flu outbreak hit commodity prices, dimming hopes for an economic recovery. The oil and gas sector was off 2.02 percent as ...
China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's largest oil and gas producer, has used gas from its stockpiles to meet the rising demand for winter energy, company sources said on Wednesday. The company took 5.7 million cubic meters (cu m) of gas from its Dagang storage ...
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