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SINGAPORE - As a combination of plunging commodity prices and declining exports drastically changes Asia's terms of trade, exceptionally weak currencies, such as South Korea's, are likely to see disproportionate benefits. Most of Asia, barring Malaysia and Vietnam, imports huge ...
LONDON, Jan 20 - Oil exploration group Dragon Oil Plc (DGO.I) (DGO.L) announced a 28 percent increase in gross production in 2008 and said it was targeting a 15 percent rise in average daily production in 2009. "Although the industry is presently contending with a lower oil price ...
BUDAPEST, Jan 20 - Hungarian oil and gas group MOL MOLB.BU does not need any new credit until Oct. 2010 as its existing loans are sufficient to cover its financing needs, Chief Financial Officer Jozsef Molnar told daily Napi Gazdasag. Molnar also told the business daily on ...
MOSCOW - Who pays and who profits from Sunday's apparent agreement on a new gas relationship between Russia and Ukraine? In a normal, commercial world, it should be easy enough to work out. But the complex, opaque nature of the two nations' gas dealings and the lack of full ...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 -- A U.S. federal judge has halted the Bush administration's efforts to open 110,000 acres of federal land in Utah to oil and gas exploration, it was reported on Sunday. In a ruling late Saturday, U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo M. Urbina said the danger of ...
MOSCOW - Russia and Ukraine aim to sign an agreement on Monday to restart gas flows to Europe through Ukraine after finally agreeing a price for 2009 supplies. The two former Soviet neighbors, whose pricing dispute left parts of southeast Europe without gas in the middle of ...
WASHINGTON - Weak global oil prices threaten to destabilize major oil producers Iran and Venezuela, but Russia is better able to manage because of its sovereign investments, CIA Director Michael Hayden said on Thursday. "Here's one (event) that's destabilizing, but it could be ...
TEHRAN - Iran has told 21 Asian and European customers it will reduce oil sales to them, its OPEC governor said in remarks published on Sunday, as Iran and other members of the cartel cut output to halt sliding prices. Mohammad Ali Khatibi, Iran's representative to the Organizati...
PERTH, Jan 19 - Macquarie Group (MQG.AX) has cut its forecast for Brent crude oil prices by over 20 percent to an average $59 a barrel over 2009, it said on Monday, citing weaker world oil consumption and high stock levels. The Australian bank's economists see world gross ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Energy Information Administration on Tuesday again pared back its 2009 world oil demand forecast due to the global economic downturn, but predicted a slight recovery in consumption for next year. World oil demand will drop by 810,000 barrels per day in 2009 ...
BEIJING -- China is forecast to produce 189 million tonnes of crude oil in 2008, a growth of 1.61 percent over the 186 million tonnes last year, according to a recent report released by the nation's leading oil producer, PetroChina. The production would rank the nation fifth ...
MOSCOW/KIEV - A deal to restore Russian gas supplies via Ukraine to Europe appeared on the verge of collapse after Moscow rejected additions by Kiev as a 'mockery of common sense'. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appealed to EU leaders late on Sunday to exert influence on Kiev ...
CARACAS - Venezuela's 640,000 barrel per day Amuay refinery is operating normally after a fire at one of its naphtha units, state oil company PDVSA said in a statement on Sunday. Refinery sources on Saturday said the fire broke out on December 24 and damaged a furnace at Amuay's ...
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 27 - Malaysian industrial gas provider Petronas Gas (PGAS.KL) is expected to call bids for a 900 million ringgit ($258.8 million) power plant project in Sabah on Borneo early next year, the Business Times reported on Saturday, citing an unidentified source. ...
NEW YORK, Dec. 24 -- Crude oil shed 9 percent to the level of 35 U.S. dollars a barrel Wednesday as a buildup in U.S. gasoline stockpiles and more worrying economic data added to the demand concern. Light, sweet crude for February delivery fell 3.63 dollars to settle at 35.35 ...
BEIJING, Dec 26 - PetroChina (601857.SS)(PTR.N) (0857.HK), China's top oil firm, has found more than 200 million tonnes, or 1.46 billion barrels of proven oil reserves this year in its Daqing oilfield, local media reported on Thursday. Daqing, China's largest field by output, has ...
TOKYO - Oil rose above $36 on Friday, after the UAE joined Saudi Arabia in deepening supply curbs to comply with OPEC's biggest-ever crude output cut last week. Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC), the main producer in the United Arab Emirates, the world's fifth-largest oil ...
Wall Street entered the Christmas holiday in subdued mood on Wednesday, posting a modest Santa Claus rally, as investors digested more gloomy data on the economy and, with just four trading days left in 2008, began to take stock of a torrid year. The crisis that started in the US ...
BEIJING, Dec 25 - China offshore oil specialist CNOOC Ltd (0883.HK) is reevaluating its operational activities and is likely to scale down or delay some projects as slumping oil prices threaten to invalidate its previous oil economics, a company source said on Thursday. Oil ...
TOKYO/DUBAI - The UAE joined Saudi Arabia in deepening oil supply curbs after OPEC's biggest ever output cut last week, telling refiners on Thursday it would tighten shipping limits on exports of its main grades. While top exporter Saudi Arabia effectively started implementing ...
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