SINGAPORE: Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia on Monday shifted upwards from a price it has backed for around two years, saying oil at between $70 and $90 a barrel was comfortable for consumers.
Until now, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi had said the (...)
DUBAI: The UAE's Crescent Petroleum has teamed up with Russia's state-run oil producer Rosneft to purse oil and gas deals in the Middle East and North Africa, Crescent said in a statement on Wednesday.
Rosneft pumps over a fifth of Russia's oil, (...)
DOHA: The impact from the Greek debt crisis will be "limited" and oil prices are unlikely to fall below $65 a barrel, a senior OPEC delegate from the Gulf Arab region said on Sunday.
Oil at below $65 a barrel would be too low to encourage (...)
DUBAI: Arab oil ministers gathering in Qatar have crude prices where they want them even after a more than 10 percent fall driven by concern other European nations could suffer a debt crisis similar to that of Greece.
OPEC-members attending an (...)
KUWAIT: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have boosted output capacity from their shared Neutral Zone to 610,000 barrels per day from around 550,000 bpd, a Kuwait oil official said on Tuesday.
But the two OPEC producers have drawn back from long-term plans (...)
ABU DHABI: The Egyptian unit of the UAE s Dana Gas is targeting a boost of about 20 percent in oil and gas output this year, the unit s president said on Monday.
That s an ambitious plan, but that could be done this year, Hany Elsharkawi told (...)
VIENNA: OPEC ministers meeting in Vienna this week were expected to keep supply targets intact and instead rely on hoped-for economic growth to sustain oil prices.
The oil market rose towards $69 a barrel on Monday after Group of 20 finance (...)