Rollout of coronavirus vaccines and improvement in ties between the United States and China are likely to improve demand for oil, Energy Minister Suhail Al-Mazrouei told Sky News Arabia. “Recovery will be gradual, and won’t happen in a quarter or two,” he said. SourceContinue Reading

A new virus strain and the realization that vaccines will take some time to be rolled out have worsened the short-term oil outlook, while the OPEC+ alliance is poised to add 500,000 barrels a day of production in January. SourceContinue Reading

Saudi Arabia’s export revenue fell by nearly a quarter in October from a year earlier, driven largely by a slump in global oil prices. SourceContinue Reading

The deal is part of an effort by President Xi Jinping’s government to consolidate the nation’s major pipelines and other midstream facilities into a single firm, intended to boost competition among drillers and downstream oil and gas sellers. SourceContinue Reading

The new Covid-19 strain — which is possibly already in the U.S., Germany, France and Switzerland — is raising the risk of more stay-at-home measures that would sap energy demand. The UK is considering putting more people under a severe lockdown to halt its spread. SourceContinue Reading

Apparel manufacturer The North Face is inviting scorn and maybe a little coal in their petroleum-based stockings this Christmas, writes Jason Modglin, President of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers. SourceContinue Reading

Equinor and its license partners have decided to invest NOK 3 billion in the North Sea Statfjord Øst field to improve recovery by 23 million barrels of oil equivalent. SourceContinue Reading

Joe Biden made it clear on the campaign trail that he planned to take strong action to fight global warming. But his ambitious, $2 trillion climate plan will take time and resources. In the meantime, here are some of the smaller, immediate steps he can take — and a few that are probably much harder...Continue Reading

Google will start selling its cloud-computing services in Saudi Arabia through a deal with oil producer Aramco, risking a backlash from staff who oppose doing business with the fossil fuel industry or regimes accused of human rights abuses. SourceContinue Reading

The Nordic government beat back a lawsuit by environmental groups in the country’s Supreme Court, which ruled on Tuesday the authorities had acted lawfully by awarding exploration licenses in the Barents Sea to companies including Equinor ASA, Aker BP ASA and Lundin Petroleum AB. SourceContinue Reading