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2016, December, 6, 18:40:00
IRAN - INDONESIA COLLABORATION
Indonesian companies are interested to join upstream projects in Iran's oil industry in fields like Ab Teymour and Mansouri oilfields, said Chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) of Indonesia Zulkifli Hasan.
2016, December, 2, 18:50:00
IRAN'S OIL BENEFITS: 3.9 MBD
OPEC in its 171st ordinary meeting on Wednesday, November 30, agreed to Iran's share of 3.9 million barrels per day in its total output.
2016, December, 2, 18:45:00
IRAQ'S OIL BENEFITS
The government of Iraq is hoping that a new OPEC deal will help the war-weary country generate enough revenue to help pay for its costly, 2-year-old fight against the Islamic State group.
Iraq, whose oil revenues make up nearly 95 percent of its budget, has been reeling under an economic crisis since late 2014, when oil prices began their descent from a high of above $100 a barrel.
2016, November, 28, 19:00:00
2017: DEMAND RECOVERY
“We expect demand to recover in 2017, then prices will stabilize, and this will happen without an intervention from OPEC,” Al-Falih said in Dhahran, eastern Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, according to the Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat. “We don’t have a single path which is to cut production at the OPEC meeting, we can also depend on recovery in consumption, especially from the U.S.”
2016, November, 28, 18:50:00
OPEC CAN CUT
"The general trend and public statements suggest that OPEC can reach a viable agreement for its production and market management."
"If we can agree, and I am optimistic, (oil) prices will increase and this is also what the world economy demands."
2016, November, 23, 18:40:00
PERGAS INVESTMENT TO IRAN
Managing Director of Pergas Consortium Colin Rowley says his consortium is ready to invest in Iranian petroleum industry, train workforce and transfer technology.
2016, November, 23, 18:30:00
IRANIAN - IRAQI REDUCTION
Iran and Iraq emerged as major stumbling blocks to an OPEC agreement on reducing crude-oil output, as cartel members gathered ahead of their official meeting to tackle the thorny puzzle of how to share the pain of reducing their production
2016, November, 22, 18:55:00
ATTRACTIVE IRAN
Iranian oil and gas sectors are very much attractive to foreign investors because of low cast of production, a senior expert said on Monday.
2016, November, 21, 19:00:00
IRAQ'S THREE PROPOSALS
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed in September to reduce output to help draw down a global supply glut that is weighing on oil prices, but left the details of the plan to be worked out later. The group is holding a so-called “technical meeting” at their Vienna headquarters Monday and Tuesday to discuss the mechanism for implementing the September agreement. The technical meeting will prepare for OPEC’s ministerial meeting Nov. 30 in Vienna.
2016, November, 21, 18:55:00
RUSSIAN INVESTMENTS TO IRAN
A senior official at the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said on Friday that the country has signed three memoranda of understanding (MoU's) with three leading Russian oil companies for bilateral cooperation.
2016, November, 21, 18:50:00
OPEC'S CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM
"I came here to meet with the Iranian petroleum minister just before attending the crucial meeting of OPEC members in Algiers and Minister Zangeneh assured me here that he would do and Iran would do everything possible to reach the consensus and to work for it," the official added.
2016, November, 17, 18:45:00
IRAN - SAUDI COMPETITION
Iran overtook political rival Saudi Arabia as India's top oil supplier in October, shipping data showed, just ahead of a producers' meeting this month to hammer out the details on output cuts aimed at reining in a global glut.
2016, November, 17, 18:35:00
PAKISTAN NEEDS MORE GASOLINE
Pakistan's gasoline consumption rose 17.5% year on year to 4.385 million mt in fiscal 2015-16, while high speed diesel consumption rose 2.6% to 6.223 million mt and furnace oil sales fell 250,000 mt to 8 million mt.
2016, November, 17, 18:30:00
$500 MLN FOR LUKOIL
LUKOIL has raised USD 500 million in a 5-year unsecured loan at 3 month LIBOR+3.0% to finance the development of the Gissar group’s gas condensate fields in Uzbekistan. Soyuzneftegaz Vostok Limited, a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of PJSC “LUKOIL”, is the borrower under the loan.
2016, November, 8, 18:40:00
TOTAL & CNPC: IRANIAN DEAL
Iran wants $200bn of investment in its energy industry over the next five years in order to raise production. Until now the country has been struggling to persuade overseas energy companies to commit amid wrangling over the contract terms offered by Tehran.