Libya >> 3/11/2011 - Libya's Al Jurf offshore oil field has stopped producing amid turmoil in the country, Total Chief Executive Christophe de Margerie said on Friday. ... |
Libya >> 3/10/2011 - A huge explosion occurred near an oil facility outside the Libyan rebel-held town of Ras Lanuf, Libya’s Ras Lanuf refinery was shut amid fighting between government forces and rebels, While the facili... |
Libya >> 3/10/2011 - Italian group Eni SpA has raised its oil and natural gas production growth forecast for the next four years but warned that growth depended on stoppages in Libya being short-lived. ... |
Libya >> 3/10/2011 - The United States believed in 2009 that Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam was taking part of the output of an oil field run by France's Total, according to a diplomatic cable seen by the Norwegian n... |
Algeria >> 3/9/2011 - The chief executive of Algerian state energy firm Sonatrach flew to oil and gas fields in the Sahara desert after workers there demanded a pay rise, Sonatrach employees told Reuters on Wednesday. <... |
Egypt >> 3/7/2011 - Eng. Abdallah Ghorab, the Chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) accepted the nomination to serve as Egypt Petroleum Minister and to replace Mahmoud Latif who was appointed as a... |
Sudan >> 3/4/2011 - Tens of thousands of people have fled Sudan's contested Abyei border town, leaving large parts of it empty, aid workers said, after a surge in fighting left dozens dead. ... |
Libya >> 3/3/2011 - Muammar Gaddafi struck at rebel control of a key Libyan coastal road for a second day on Thursday but received a warning he would be held to account at The Hague for suspected crimes by his security f... |
Saudi Arabia >> 2/25/2011 - Top exporter Saudi Arabia has raised oil output above 9 million barrels per day (bpd) to make up for a near halt in Libyan exports, an industry source said, helping prices fall further from the highes... |
Iraq >> 2/24/2011 - An Iraqi Oil Ministry spokesman says an agreement to develop the first natural gas field in western Iraq has been delayed because of disagreements about what the local government gets from the deal. ... |
Libya >> 2/24/2011 - Austrian energy group OMV (OMVV.VI) has halted output at its Shateira field in Libya, a company spokesman. ... |
Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) >> 2/23/2011 - Anadarko Petroleum Corp shut its Ivory Coast operations in February because of political unrest in that country, the U.S. oil and gas company said in a filing with regulators. ... |
Uganda >> 2/22/2011 - Tullow Oil is close to signing an agreement with Uganda now that the country's elections have taken place, one of the firm's directors said, paving the way for a $10 billion oil project to begin. ... |
Sudan >> 2/21/2011 - Sudan has appointed private sector businessmen to help manage its state oil firm Sudapet, which owns stakes in all of Sudan's oil blocks, to improve the company's efficiency and widen its scope, the o... |
Iraq >> 2/21/2011 - Iraq's oil ministry will sign an initial deal with South Korea's KOGAS and Kazakhstan's KazMunaiGas for the western Akkas gas field on Thursday, an oil ministry official said. ... |
Egypt >> 2/21/2011 - The expected cabinet reshuffle announced by Egypt Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik is to exclude Sameh Fahmy, the Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and a prominent member of the former ruling National Democra... |
Oman >> 2/21/2011 - PDO announced in its 2010 Media Briefing a material oil discovery at Amal Southeast, close to the existing Amal and Amal East oil fields, which are currently part of an important Enhanced Oil Recovery... |
Spain >> 2/18/2011 - Repsol has begun the second phase of its accessibility project to convert more than 500 of the service stations in its network. Through this initiative, the company will have the largest network of ac... |
Iraq >> 2/13/2011 - Iraq, seeking to rebuild its energy industry after years of conflict and scarce investment, will soon sign a delayed deal for the Akkas natural-gas field and review production-sharing contracts signed... |
Iraq >> 2/3/2011 - DNO can confirm that export production tests at the Tawke oil field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq commenced on 2 February. At present, the tested volumes are around 10,000 bopd. ... |