(Oil Price) – The United Arab Emirates has managed to boost its oil exports to pre-crisis levels as early as June, as it has kept pushing crude through the Strait of Hormuz and outside it. The UAE, which left OPEC on May 1, has found workarounds to the blockage at the Strait of Hormuz. It has been shuttling crude through
(Oil Price) – Saudi Aramco saw its adjusted net income jump by 33% for the second quarter from a year earlier as high oil prices and the oil giant’s ability to re-route most crude exports more than offset the constrained flows at the Strait of Hormuz. The state giant Aramco on Tuesday reported an adjusted net income of $33.385 billion for the
(BOE Report) – U.S. oil exports in July fell to 3.66 million barrels per day, the lowest level in eight months, ship tracking data showed, as a short-lived peace deal between the U.S. and Iran in June briefly flooded markets with Middle Eastern oil and diminished demand for American crude abroad. The U.S. had cinched the spot as the world’s
(Oil Price) – Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz slightly increased as US-Iran negotiations remained ongoing in an effort to restore peace after the memorandum of understanding collapsed amid two weeks of tit-for-tat strikes, according to Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi, who provided no further details. Still, the security situation in the Gulf deteriorated overnight after the US
(BOE Report)– Russia sees scope to boost oil exports to China and to deepen cooperation on supplies of liquefied natural gas, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Tuesday in Beijing. China and India have become the main buyers of Russian oil since the start of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022. China imports roughly 1.4 million barrels
(Oil Price)– The $5-billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), which is planned to export crude oil from Uganda via a port in Tanzania, is now 75% complete, moving landlocked Uganda a step closer to becoming an oil exporter. EACOP, a controversial pipeline project that has seen a lot of environmental opposition and planning and construction delays, is now about
(Investing.com)– Exxon Mobil signed an agreement with Iraq on Wednesday to help it develop its large Majnoon oilfield and expand its oil export infrastructure, marking a return to the country two years after leaving. OPEC’s second largest producer is looking to draw back Western oil majors and increase output constrained by years of war, corruption and sectarian tensions. Iraqi Prime Minister
