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By Rhod Mackenzie
Russian oil exports to the Asia-Pacific region (APR) amounted to 193 million tons in 2023. The OPEC+ deal has had an estimated 30 trillion ruble impact on the Russian budget. Pavel Sorokin, the First Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, announced this on January 2...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri, confirmed that the country purchases Russian oil at market prices. The decrease in purchases is due to the fact that oil from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Iraq is currently cheaper. According to the managing dire...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Houthi attacks on ships passing by the coast they control in the southwest Arabian Peninsula began late last year. As a result, many shipping companies, including giants such as Maersk, have been forced to send their ships around Africa, bypassing the Red Sea and the Suez Canal,...
Amidst the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, more countries have shifted from decades-long petrodollar, as over a fifth of global oil trade in 2023 were completed in currencies different from the U.S. dollar.
Coming at a time when operators in Nigeria are seeking ways to settle domestic oil and gas trad...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Bloomberg believes that 2023 will be the second consecutive year of record oil production in Russia. The oil boom is evident in both the volume of oil exports and its value.
According to BCS Global Markets oil and gas analyst Ronald Smith, Russia has demonstrated greater indepe...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The West Qurna 1 field is one of the largest in Iraq, with reserves estimated at over 20 billion barrels of oil. According to Oil Price (OP), the Chinese energy company PetroChina has taken over as the main operator of the project after US energy giant ExxonMobil withdrew from bo...
