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Daily: Brent and U.S. crude oil decline due to Ukraine, Libya supply worries
Brent crude oil traded slightly over $110 a barrel on Tuesday amid supply disruption worries as Ukrainian forces confronted separatists in Donetsk for a second day and since oil output in Libya was cut to 160,000 barrels per day (bpd) as a result of chaos in the country.
read more... 28/05/2014
A conglomerate run by BP awards a contract of $375 million for Shah Deniz gas project
A conglomerate run by BP and the South Caucasus Pipeline Company has awarded a contract for pipeline construction estimated at $735 million to a consortium of companies to facilitate the expansion of the Shah Deniz II gas project in Azerbaijan which gives Europe a possibility to diminish dependence on Russian gas.
read more... 27/05/2014
BP plans to make a $1.5 billion investment in Egypt in 2014
BP aims to make a $1.5 billion investment in 2014 to raise its natural gas production in Egypt, affected by an energy crisis after three years of political chaos, according to the state news agency MENA on Sunday.
read more... 12/05/2014
BP vends interest in four Alaska oil fields for unrevealed amount
British oil and gas most important company BP Plc vended its interests in four oilfields on the Alaska North Slope for an unrevealed amount to oil and gas producer Hilcorp, as stated by the company on Tuesday.
read more... 24/04/2014
China: oil demand to lowest level in 5 years
Because of easing economic growth, China's oil consumption in 2013 registered the slowest growth in five years. According to Reuters calculations, China's oil demand grew 1.6% in 2013, the weakest yearly growth in five years, while in December, when it burned roughly 10.06 million barrels per day of oil, it registered a decrease of about 7.5% in comparison to the same period of a year before. For the whole of 2013, oil demand was about 9.78 million bpd, about 150,000 bpd higher than 2012.
read more... 20/01/2014