Tag: oil

• Friday, March 8th 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  Premier Oil reports 2018 profit as a result of record production

  

  UK-based oil and gas firm Premier Oil with interests in the Falkland Islands has announced its full-year results for 2018, reporting a post-tax profit hike to US$ 133.4m as a result of record production. These full-year results are a ‘return to profitability’ from 2017’s full-year loss of US$ 253.8m.

• Wednesday, March 6th 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  S&P slashes credit rating of several leading Mexican companies including national oil Pemex

  

  Rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) slashed the credit rating for Mexico’s national oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, piling more pressure on the government to tighten up the debt-laden oil firm’s finances.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 09:17 UTC

  Libyan main oilfield back in production in coming days

  

  Libyan state oil company NOC said on Monday it had lifted force majeure at the El Sharara oilfield, the country's biggest, which has been closed since December when state guards and tribesmen seized it.

• Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  Brazilian oil production challenges OPEC' attempts to balance the market and prices

  

  While everyone is talking about how surging U.S. crude oil production will offset a large part of the ongoing OPEC/non-OPEC production cuts, there are other oil producers not taking part in the OPEC+ deal and poised to see their output jump this year.

• Monday, February 18th 2019 - 10:08 UTC

  Russian bank freezes Venezuela's oil company accounts, fearing US sanctions

  

  Russian lender Gazprombank has frozen the accounts of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and halted transactions with the firm to reduce the risk of the bank falling under US sanctions, according to Reuters.

• Thursday, February 14th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Chevron will remain in Venezuela in “coordination with US government agencies”

  

  Chevron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth pledged to work closely with the U.S. to remain in Venezuela despite a spiralling crisis that has led rival oil major Total SA to retreat.

• Friday, February 8th 2019 - 10:13 UTC

  Vaca Muerta shale oil production soared 52% and gas 193%, during 2018

  

  Vaca Muerta, the biggest shale play in Argentina, led a year-on-year increase in oil and natural gas production in 2018 in Neuquen, as more companies bet on the resources for growth in the southwestern province.

• Saturday, February 2nd 2019 - 08:58 UTC

  Oil traders anticipate they will comply with US Treasury sanctions on Venezuela

  

  U.S. sanctions will sharply limit oil transactions between Venezuela and other countries and are similar to but slightly less extensive than those imposed on Iran last year, experts said on Friday after looking at details posted by the Treasury Department.

• Thursday, January 31st 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Washington warns traders not to deal with gold or oil “stolen from the Venezuelan people”

  

  The White House warned traders on Wednesday not to deal in Venezuelan gold or oil following its imposition of stiff sanctions aimed at forcing socialist President Nicolas Maduro from power.

• Wednesday, January 30th 2019 - 10:01 UTC

  Guaidó plans to name new boards of directors at PDVSA and Citgo

  

  The President of Venezuela’s opposition-dominated National Assembly Juan Guaido will announce new boards of directors for state oil company PDVSA and its U.S. business, Citgo, according to opposition leader sources.