Buoyed by strong European customer demand for hybrid versions on its core models, Toyota will phase out diesel engines from all its passenger cars in 2018. In 2017, hybrids represented Continue Reading
The specter of water wars has long loomed large in political and popular imaginations. With the end of the Cold War, fresh concerns emerged that future wars would be fought Continue Reading
Oil prices rose early on Monday ahead of a meeting between OPEC and U.S. shale firms in Houston, raising expectations that oil producers would discuss further how to clear a Continue Reading
“Friends were shot beside, in front and behind me,” remembers Mohammed Soghayer of the tumultuous days in 2011 when Tunisian security forces battled to crush mass protests that eventually ended Continue Reading
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has not discussed“at this stage” extending production cuts into next year, the group’s president said on Sunday, adding that reducing global crude supply Continue Reading
Libya’s Sharara oilfield stopped pumping crude oil several days after output plunged at another of the OPEC member’s biggest deposits. View full article at www.bloomberg.com
Iraq’s Parliament approved the 2018 budget on Saturday, despite an ongoing boycott by Kurdish lawmakers demanding a larger share of allocations. The government intends to spend 104 trillion Iraqi dinars Continue Reading
Iraq’s oil ministry said the country produced an average total of 4.36 million b/d of crude oil in January, down just 2,000 b/d from December, and putting it just above Continue Reading
The raging labour dispute between the oil workers’ unions and Nigerian indigenous firms that have committed huge resources to develop local capacity and capability in line with the Nigerian Oil Continue Reading
PVM Oil Associates’ Stephen Brennock said in a note this week. The note followed reports about Washington getting more serious about imposing an oil embargo on the South American nation. Continue Reading
