Category: Production

Oil falls on China COVID curbs and weak factory data

Global oil benchmark Brent crude fell $1 a barrel after weaker-than-expected factory activity data out of China and on concerns that the world’s top crude importer’s widening COVID-19 curbs will curtail demand

Repsol raises dividend, share buybacks after third quarter profit doubles

Spain’s Repsol said that higher oil and gas prices had caused its adjusted net profit to double to 1.48 billion euros in the third quarter compared to the same period in 2021, prompting an increase in the dividend and more share buybacks

IEA: World is in its ‘first truly global energy crisis’

Tightening markets for liquefied natural gas (LNG) worldwide and major oil producers cutting supply have put the world in the middle of “the first truly global energy crisis,” the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said

US says Russia oil price cap will not be aimed at OPEC

New steps from Group of Seven countries to cap Russian oil sales at an enforced low price will not be replicated against OPEC producers, whose plans to cut output have irked consumer countries

OPEC+ members endorse output cut after U.S. coercion accusation

OPEC+ member states lined up to endorse the steep cut to its output target agreed this month after the White House, stepping up a war of words with Saudi Arabia, accused Riyadh of coercing some other nations into supporting the move

OPEC cuts 2022, 2023 oil demand growth view as economy slows

OPEC cut its 2022 forecast for growth in world oil demand for a fourth time since April and also trimmed next year’s figure, citing slowing economies, the resurgence of China’s COVID-19 containment measures and high inflation

EIA sees slower oil demand, output growth this year and next

U.S. oil demand and production is expected to grow more slowly than previously forecast for the remainder of this year and in 2023, the U.S. Energy Department said

OPEC+ agrees deep oil production cuts

OPEC+ agreed steep oil production cuts, curbing supply in an already tight market, causing one of its biggest clashes with the West as the U.S. administration called the surprise decision shortsighted

OPEC+ to consider oil cut of over than 1 million barrels per day

OPEC+ will consider an oil output cut of more than a million barrels per day (bpd) next week, OPEC sources said, in what would be the biggest move yet since the COVID-19 pandemic to address oil market weakness

EIA: U.S. crude, fuel stocks fall in most recent week

U.S. crude and fuels stocks posted surprising declines in the most recent week as fuel demand rose and refiners cut runs, the Energy Information Administration said