The Biden administration purchased 2.8 million barrels to partially refill the strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) at prices significantly higher than prevailing prices when former President Donald Trump proposed to top off the…
By Chen Aizhu and Jeslyn Lerh SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s independent refineries are ramping up imports of discounted fuel oil blended from Russian barrels to use as low-cost feedstock amid a shortage…
By Arathy Somasekhar (Reuters) – U.S. crude oil stockpiles rose by more than 10 million barrels last week, the most since March 2021, buoyed by releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and…
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Libya is producing about 1.2 million barrels per day of oil, oil minister Mohamed Oun told reporters on the sidelines of an OAPEC meeting on Monday. “We hope to…
By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON – U.S. refiners imported about 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude and fuel oil from Latin America in April, the highest in seven months according to…
LONDON – BP does not expect any let off in oil prices in the near term as the volume of Russian oil impacted by Western sanctions was expectd to double, Chief Executive…
(Reuters) – The International Energy Agency (IEA) will release 120 million barrels of oil to ease prices, half of which would come from the United States, while other IEA members would provide…
By Seher Dareen (Reuters) – A rally in oil is set to continue with prices staying well above $100 this year as a parched market struggles to wean itself off Russian oil,…
LONDON – Ministers from member countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA) are discussing the release of 60 million barrels of oil from storage in a meeting on how to respond to…
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Tuesday the release of millions of barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to combat soaring gas prices. The DOE approved the release of 13.4…