West Texas Intermediate advanced almost 3% to settle above $68 a barrel after President Donald Trump said he plans to make a “major statement” on Russia on Monday and reiterated criticism of President Vladimir Putin. One sanctions bill, which at least 85 senators have endorsed, would levy 500% tariffs on China and India if they make any purchases of Russian energy.
Rising Phoenix Capital, an investment firm specializing in oil and gas mineral royalty acquisitions, today announced a new strategic acquisition in the Midland basin. The mineral rights, located in Ector and Midland Counties, TX, are operated by ConocoPhillips and were acquired through the firm’s Maroon Bells Fund, an income-focused mineral portfolio that has delivered consistent cash distributions.
bp Plc said it expects to report rising production and a strong result from its oil trading business for the second quarter, offering a boost for the energy major struggling to reverse years of underperformance.
Production for the three months through June is now expected to be higher compared with the first quarter, the London-based company said in a statement on Friday. That’s up from earlier guidance for it to be broadly flat. Output had slipped in the first three months of the year. It will report earnings for the period on Aug. 5.
Saudi Arabia raised crude output far above its OPEC+ quota last month, joining other producers in a rush to export oil out of the Persian Gulf as Israel went to war with Iran, according to the International Energy Agency.
Perenco has completed its acquisition of the Greater Angostura producing oil and gas assets and associated production facilities from Woodside Energy in Trinidad & Tobago, the company announced Friday. The finalization of the deal, combined with Perenco’s existing operation of the Teak, Samaan and Poui (TSP) and Cashima, Amherstia, Flamboyant and Immortelle (CAFI) fields, aligns Perenco as a major oil and gas producer in country.
“There is no peak oil demand on the horizon,” OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais wrote in the foreword of OPEC’s latest World Oil Outlook (WOO), which sees global oil demand growing by about 19% from now until 2050 to reach 123 million barrels per day (bpd).
The United States and Iran are poised to return to the negotiating table at a moment when tensions between the two are high and trust is low.
The talks were initially planned for July 10 in Oslo, according to RFE/RL’s sources, who now say the meeting has been postponed — likely to next week.
As LNG Canada shipped its first LNG cargo from the newly completed facility in Kitimat, on the northwest coast of British Columbia, activity is ramping up on the East Coast especially offshore natural gas.
Brazil is preparing to defend its oil export sector as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports starting August 1. The move has escalated tensions between the two countries, with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowing reciprocal action: “If he charges us 50%, we’ll charge him 50%,” Lula told local media outlet Record.
Senior officials from three of OPEC’s core producer nations — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait — lined up to say that the super-sized addition of supply by the producer club at the weekend was needed by the global market.