Year: 2020

OPEC+ Plans To Meet More Frequently To Discuss Oil Market Balancing

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OPEC+ will take a more hands-on approach to global oil markets now that it plans to meet more frequently, Bloomberg has reported, citing the leaders of the group, Saudi Arabia and Russia. “We are meeting monthly because we believe that the market is still not recovered and is still extremely volatile,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister and former Energy Minister Alexander Novak said. “We need to adopt a hands-on approach and be able to react faster.” This denser meeting schedule will also help OPEC+ get the upperhand in directing oil markets…

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PetroChina Makes Huge Gas Find

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PetroChina discovered a natural gas field with reserves in excess of 100 billion cubic meters, Chinese states news agency Xinhua reported this weekend. The agency cited a company official who said the field could produce 610,000 cubic meters of gas plus 106.3 cubic meters of crude oil daily. “The discovery marks a major breakthrough in gas exploration in the southern rim of the Junggar Basin, which will further guarantee the gas supply of our company and contribute to the stability and prosperity of the region,” Huo Jin, general manager of…

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Observers see rays of hope for 2021 in Canada’s gloomy oil and gas sector

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The sombre mood that has gripped the Calgary-based oilpatch for several years is starting to show flickers of hope, with more financially secure companies making moves to grow in 2021. Recent export pipeline news is offsetting the ongoing reality of volatile commodity prices, general investor distaste for the sector and regulatory uncertainty and leading to more mergers and targeted increases in capital spending plans, observers say. “The oilpatch has changed again. I think it’s changed forever in a few fashions,” said veteran oilman Neil Roszell, CEO of newly created Headwater…

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PSEs – They Can’t Breathe on Their Own – I

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Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) are in news again and we all know the reasons. The sustained failure of governments to successfully run them says a lot about priorities of the rulers. PSM was supposed to serve as the mainstay of industrial development, however, its mismanagement reached such levels that since 2006 governments have made attempts on a number of occasions to dispose it off to the private sector. Even the said attempts being half-hearted and ill-conceived proved futile. We have observed this half-heartedness in many…

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Could Pipelines Bypass The World’s Most Critical Oil Chokepoint?

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In the last decade, the humble Strait of Hormuz has seen a fifth of the world’s oil supply, a third of all liquefied natural gas (LNG), and a third of all seaborne imports and exports in the world pass through its narrow waters. The oil tanker-choked passage is located in a strategic and geopolitical hotspot between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, linking the Persian Gulf on the west side to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea on the southeast end. Many OPEC nations rely on the Strait for…

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