Tajikistan announced that it is now receiving oil and petroleum products from Iran, opening a potential new energy source for a country whose fuel supplies have long been dominated by Russia. The deliveries began in late August, Tajikistan's Energy and Water Resources Ministry told the Asia-Plus news agency, following talks between the two countries on expanding cooperation in the oil and gas sector. The ministry has not disclosed the volume of the shipments, their commercial terms, or how the oil and petroleum products were transported to Tajikistan.…
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States stayed the same this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US staying at 588, up 51 from this same time last year. The number of active oil rigs rose by 2, reaching 449 during the latest reporting period, according to the data. This is 35 above this same time last year. The number of gas rigs fell by 2 to 130, which is 12 more than this time last year. Miscellaneous rigs stayed the same at 9. The latest EIA…
Navitas Petroleum, an Israeli oil and gas producer and developer that operates a project under development in the North Falkland Basin, is stepping up plans to expand its oil field project in the Falkland Islands through the acquisition of a second floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel that could boost daily oil output capacity by thousands of barrels. The post Sea Lion roars into Falklands expansion as Navitas reels in second FPSO appeared first on Offshore Energy .
Dozens of workers manning airlift for the Norwegian oil and gas industry agreed new compensation and benefits terms with the Federation of Norwegian Aviation Industries.
The federal government is putting another 3,388 acres of public mineral estate on the auction block for oil and gas development in Montana and the Dakotas. The Bureau of Land Management said it will offer 20 parcels in an online oil and gas lease sale scheduled for October 27. The acreage has already worked its way through several stages of the federal review process. BLM completed scoping for the parcels in May and closed a public comment period on the acreage and related environmental analysis in July. There is still another opportunity to object.…
Beyond looking out the windshield and seeing retail diesel prices that once again are rising, here are some key comparisons that a consumer dealing with those higher numbers should know. On February 27, the last day before military action began between Iran on one side and the U.S. and Israel on the other, the price of international crude benchmark Brent settled at $72.48/barrel on the CME commodity exchange. On the same day, ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) settled at $2.596/gallon. On Wednesday, Brent settled at $91.62/b. ULSD settled at $4.4523/g. window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd:
