The Kurdistan Regional Government will supply Iraq’s state oil marketer SOMO with 230,000 barrels a day as part of a deal for Baghdad to release funds for salaries in the northern region, people familiar with the matter said. The transfer of the crude is a crucial element for an agreement between the federal and semi-autonomous administrations to restart exports through a pipeline to Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.
“While inventories globally have built very significantly, stocks in the pricing centres – especially in the US – are still quite low,” Daan Struyven, head of oil research at Goldman Sachs, said on Bloomberg Television. Market focus has shifted to “downside risks to supply,” he said.
The United States could abandon the International Energy Agency (IEA) if the organization, created in the aftermath of the 1970s Arab oil embargo, doesn’t return to forecasting energy demand without strongly promoting green energy.
From pioneering technologies that shattered geological limits to building empires that outmuscled governments, these oil titans didn’t follow the energy industry — they dragged it behind them. Some were wildcatters with nothing but a hunch and a homemade rig.
Crude oil inventories in the United States decreased by 3.9 million barrels during the week ending July 11, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The build brings commercial stockpiles to 422.2 million barrels according to government data, which is still 8% below the five-year average for this time of year.
EnQuest PLC has been awarded a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) for Block C in Brunei by the Petroleum Authority of Brunei Darussalam (PABD).
Venture Global and Itay’s Eni today announced the execution of a new Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) for the purchase of 2 MMtpa of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from CP2 LNG, Venture Global’s third project, for 20 years.
Seatrium Limited has announced the impending delivery of the PETROBRAS 78 (P-78) – the first of a series of turnkey Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSO), to Brazil’s Petrobras.
The Association of the Petroleum Industry of Kurdistan (APIKUR) has spoken out condemning attacks on oil production sites operated by APIKUR member companies in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region that occurred on July 15 and July 16, 2025.
Activity is slowing in U.S. oil fields as drillers remain in the crude-price danger zone for profits, according to one of the biggest investors of private operators in the shale patch.