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Daily: Crude oil prices shed on robust production from OPEC, firmer dollar
Crude oil closed down as much as 1 percent on Monday, retiring from Friday’s hike on a strong dollar and worries over extremely high supplies from OPEC. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries pumped a record high of 31.22 million barrels of oil per day (bpd) in May and the group is expected the maintain its current production at its meeting on Friday. Brent crude oil futures declined by 68 cents, or 1 percent, to close at $64.88 a barrel. U.S. crude decreased just by a dime, ending at $60.20 a barrel, after slipped more than 1 percent with Brent earlier.
read more... 02/06/2015
Egypt: Mediterranean gas exploration tender prolonged by two months
Egypt has prolonged its tender for natural gas exploration in the Mediterranean Sea by two months with the addition of four new blocks, as stated by the state gas board on Tuesday, since the country wants to increase domestic energy production.
read more... 27/05/2015
Bulgaria requires renewable energy producers to split output
Bulgaria's electricity grid operator required all green energy producers to halve their output on Monday in an effort to balance production and consumption in the Balkan country, according to the state-owned company.
read more... 26/05/2015
Total, Novatek launch gas production at Siberian project
French oil leading company Total has launched gas and condensate production at its Termokarstovoye field in northern Siberia, the first of a sequence of projects with Russia's Novatek to come to completion, according to the company on Wednesday.
read more... 21/05/2015
Centrica to import more gas from Russia, Norway
Centrica, the largest supplier in the UK, has extended existent contracts with two of the world's largest producers, Russia's Gazprom and Norway's Statoil, move that will increase kingdom’s dependence on gas imports, as its production diminishes.
read more... 14/05/2015