CNBC Saudi Aramco completed the purchase of its 70% stake in the kingdom’s petrochemical giant Sabic from the Saudi Public Investment Fund, it announced Wednesday, tying the knot on one of the largest ever deals in the global chemicals industry. The state oil company also announced an extension of its $69.1 billion payment plan — to be in staggered instalments
Reuters LONDON/MOSCOW – An OPEC-led panel meeting to review the oil market next week will advise the wider OPEC+ group cooperating on a record supply cut, five OPEC+ sources said, meaning further talks would be needed on whether to extend the agreement further. OPEC, Russia and allies, known as OPEC+, agreed on Saturday to keep production cuts of 9.7 million
CNBC OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia and non-OPEC leader Russia said Monday that the success of the energy alliance’s latest production cuts relies on all members complying with the terms of the deal. The statement comes shortly after OPEC and non-OPEC allies, known as OPEC+, agreed to extend its deepest round of production cuts in history to take roughly 10% of oil supplies
Reuters MOSCOW/DUBAI – OPEC and its allies led by Russia will meet on Saturday to discuss extending record oil production cuts and to push laggards such as Iraq and Nigeria to comply with existing curbs. The producers known as OPEC+ previously agreed to cut supply by 9.7 million barrels per day (bpd) during May and June to prop up prices
Reuters WASHINGTON – The Trump administration believes ahead of an expected OPEC+ meeting this week that major oil producers such as Saudi Arabia and Russia will honor their pledges to cut crude production and will not damage the global economy by changing course, a senior official said on Tuesday. “We trust that other major oil producers will not revert to
Reuters LONDON – When OPEC, Russia and their allies agreed in April to slash oil production, little did they expect that their initiative to prop up collapsing prices would be helped by a swift drop in U.S. output. Now that crude has rallied on the back of those cuts from below $20 a barrel to $40 or more, the group
Reuters LONDON – Oil prices rose on Tuesday to near three-month highs on expectations that major producers would agree to extend output cuts that have shored up prices, during a video conference likely to be held this week. Benchmark Brent crude LCOc1 rose 2.2%, or 83 cents, to $39.15 a barrel as of 1215 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI)
Reuters DUBAI/MOSCOW – OPEC and Russia are moving closer to a compromise on extending current oil output cuts and are discussing a proposal to roll over supply curbs for one to two months, three OPEC+ sources told Reuters on Monday. OPEC+ decided in April to cut output by a record 9.7 million barrels per day, or about 10% of global
Oil & Gas The countries will stop production for a month as part of measures to reduce oil output Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will halt oil production in the neutral zone in June for one month, Abdullah al-Sumaiti, acting head of Kuwait Oil Gulf told KUNA news agency. The offshore Khafji oilfield had partially resumed production in March following a
Reuters LONDON – Saudi Arabia and its allies in the expanded OPEC+ group of oil-exporting nations have successfully engineered a prospective deficit in the oil market, boosting spot prices and calendar spreads over the last four weeks. Front-month Brent futures prices have risen by more than $15 per barrel (80%) since the second trimester of April, while the six-month calendar
Reuters DUBAI – Saudi Arabia and Russia are firmly committed to achieving oil market stability and expediting a rebalancing of the market, the energy ministers of the two countries said in a joint statement on Wednesday. Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and Russian counterpart Alexander Novak held a phone conversation as part of their consultations on oil market
Reuters WASHINGTON/LONDON/DUBAI – As the United States pressed Saudi Arabia to end its oil price war with Russia, President Donald Trump gave Saudi leaders an ultimatum. In an April 2 phone call, Trump told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that unless the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) started cutting oil production, he would be powerless to stop
