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Romania wants to reduce its participation in Petrom
OMV, Austrian major oil and gas group, does not intend to increase its share in its Petrom division, even though the Romanian government would like to vend a part of its 21% stake in order to reduce its participation to 8%, according to OMV’s representative on Tuesday.
read more... 27/04/2010
Lindsey refinery acquisition
Oil Refinery Petroplus, based in Switzerland, has submitted a proposal to buy Total’s refinery Lindsey in the UK. In order to reduce its total production capacity of oil, Total, the largest oil company in France, intends sell its 223 000 barrels per day Lindsey refinery. This event was rather unexpected news.
read more... 23/04/2010
Russian Oil Production established a record in March
Official data show that Russian oil production increased to a record high, from 10.08 billion barrels per day in February to 10.12 billion barrels per day in March. This was conditioned by factors, such as: rising demand and prices on the global market, the recovering global economy, etc.
read more... 02/04/2010
Rosneft aims for its first big overseas acquisition
Russian oil giant Rosneft aims for acquiring assets in four German refineries from Venezuela.
read more... 02/04/2010