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July 31, 2015
Chevron Corp. posted its lowest profit in more than 12 years after an energy market rout prompted the company to write down the value of oil and gas fields by almost $2 billion.
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July 30, 2015
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska has furthered her efforts to end the current ban on U.S. crude oil exports by releasing a report on the potential benefits to the Great Lakes region if the United States allowed domestic crude oil exports.
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July 22, 2015
A glut of cheap natural gas trapped in the U.S. Northeast will be heading south by the end of the year, radically changing the price differences between the regions.
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July 22, 2015
Less than 12 hours after Consol Energy Inc. indicated it would report a second-quarter loss, its biggest shareholder called on the company to spin off or sell its natural gas operations.
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July 20, 2015
An all-star panel of upstream-related speakers managed to agree on Monday morning, that the Iranian deal with the U.S. and other Western countries may pose an oversupply problem for oil markets in the long term, and it will create problems in the very short term, as well.
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July 20, 2015
Canadian natural gas producers are losing more ground to U.S. competitors as an acute shortage of pipeline space is forcing them to curb growth.
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July 17, 2015
Schlumberger Ltd. is beginning to reap some benefits from more than 20,000 job cuts announced this year to weather the oil-price crash.
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July 17, 2015
Brent oil headed for the longest run of weekly declines since January, as ample inventories and an accord to ease sanctions on Iran suggested global markets will remain oversupplied.
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July 16, 2015
Oil fell to a three-month low after an Energy Information Administration report showed inventories at the biggest U.S. hub increased the most since April.
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July 16, 2015
Canada needs to connect to global liquid natural gas (LNG) markets to avoid a decade of decline in natural gas production, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said today in its 2015 natural gas forecast and LNG report.
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July 15, 2015
Natural gas made Qatar’s citizens the richest in the world within a generation. Even with bigger fuel reserves, Iran will struggle to follow its neighbor’s path.
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July 14, 2015
Driven in large part by the rapid expansion of shale oil and gas drilling and production in North America, the world market for oil field specialty chemicals reached $25 billion in 2014, but significant declines in oil price have dampened the demand outlook for oil field chemicals.
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July 13, 2015
The plight of the Umeadis and others who haven’t received wages has hit everything from local shops to the banking industry in Africa’s biggest economy, in which about a third of the formal workforce of 11 million is employed by the state, according to Renaissance Capital.
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July 13, 2015
Speculators retreated from bullish oil bets at the fastest pace since 2012 on mounting concern that economic turmoil in Europe and Asia will prolong a supply glut.
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July 13, 2015
Saudi Arabia told OPEC it raised oil production to a record as the organization forecast stronger demand for its members’ crude in 2016.
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July 06, 2015
Crude tumbled the most in five months amid mounting concern about economic stability in Europe and Asia.
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July 01, 2015
Cenovus Energy has reached an agreement to sell Heritage Royalty Limited Partnership (HRP) for gross cash proceeds of approximately $3.3 billion.
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June 30, 2015
Russia’s plan to build a new $15 billion pipeline to Turkey is at risk of delay because of a fight over gas prices, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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June 30, 2015
Oil held losses below $60/bbl as investors weighed the prospects of Iran increasing crude exports in an oversupplied market.
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June 09, 2015
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) cut its 2030 oil production forecast by 17% as capital expenditures slipped after crude prices tumbled.
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June 04, 2015
Global natural gas use will rise at a slower pace than previously forecast amid lower-than-expected growth in Asian demand, said the International Energy Agency, cutting its outlook for a third consecutive year.
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