Gulf countries lost about eight million barrels per day of crude production in March, nearly equivalent to the combined production of Exxon Mobil and Chevron...
The development gives a major breather to QatarEnergy, which has been compelled to declare force majeure on its production activities due to the Iran war...
According to Scott Bessent, the addition of sanctioned Iranian oil into global supplies would help keep oil prices down for the next 10 to 14 days...
Qatar Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi stated that if the ongoing conflict forces Gulf energy producers to shut down exports within weeks, it could drive oil to USD 150 a barrel...
From 2015 to 2018, the pipeline was reversed to flow gas from Jordan to Egypt, powered by imported LNG through Jordan's Aqaba LNG reception terminal...
The eight OPEC+ members, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the UAE, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Iraq, Algeria and Oman, raised oil output targets by around 2.9 million barrels per day in 2025...