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(Market Watch) Oil futures ended lower on Monday, with the U.S. benchmark posting a loss of 8% after a key meeting of major crude producers, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, was tentatively shifted to Thursday, amid rising tensions between...

(CNBC) Russia and Saudi Arabia are “very, very close” to a deal on oil production cuts, according to the chief executive of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund RDIF. “I think the whole market understands that this deal is important, and it will bring lots of stability,...

Dutch engineering company Fugro said on Monday it is taking appropriate measures during the COVID-19 pandemic to keep its employees, partners and clients safe and healthy while ensuring service delivery. Current market conditions have forced the company to implement...

The fall in oil prices triggered by the Saudi Arabia-Russia price war and the COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in a number of oil and gas companies readjusting their 2020 exploration and production programmes. US oil major ExxonMobil said...

Mr Rudolph Elias, CEO of Suriname state oil company Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V., says with the second significant oil discovery at Block 58 offshore Suriname by Apache Corporation and Total, it is of the utmost importance that a national...

The crude oil market is staring into an abyss. The challenges are physical – dealing with extreme oversupply – and financial, with market participants from wellhead to forecourt under severe duress. Ann-Louise Hittle and Alan Gelder, who, respectively, lead...

(S&P Global) At the conclusion of a difficult week, the world surpassed 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus and the total global death toll neared 60,000. A new wave of infections prompted China and Singapore to reinstate lockdowns over...

A month after the last unproductive OPEC+ meeting and with COVID-19 slashing demand amid the ongoing price war, the US has managed to broker a new extraordinary meeting for oil-producing nations. Russia and Saudi Arabia will be back to the...

Brazilian oil and gas company Petrobras said Thursday it has identified the presence of oil in the pioneer well of the Uirapuru block, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt. In a press release, the company said that the pioneer well,...

Former Minister of Energy and Energy Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago Kevin Ramnarine says that the Twin-Island Republic will be hit hard by the fall in oil and natural gas prices which is wreaking havoc in the energy market...