Downstream Oil & Gas

Oil Settles Lower as Iran-US Talks Ease Risk

Oil fell for the first time in three days after Iran confirmed it would hold negotiations with the US, easing the immediate risk of...

Saudis Cut Key Oil Price for Asian Buyers

Saudi Arabia cut the price of its main oil grade for buyers in Asia to the lowest in years, a further sign that global...

Oil Drops Amid Supply And Equity Jitters

Oil slid as risk-averse sentiment pervaded global markets and investors digested fresh developments in US-Iran tensions that continue to cloud the supply outlook. West Texas...

USA Crude Oil Stocks Rise More Than 8MM Barrels WoW

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), increased by 8.5 million barrels from the week ending January 30...

ADNOC May Expand LNG Tanker Fleet

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.’s shipping arm is evaluating the purchase of liquefied natural gas tankers as the state producer accelerates its push into...

Dangote refinery hits full capacity — MD

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has reached its full nameplate capacity of 650,000 barrels per day following the restoration and optimisation of its Crude Distillation...

Transocean to Buy Valaris in Near $6B Deal

Transocean Ltd and Valaris Limited announced, in a joint statement, the signing of a definitive agreement to combine the two companies. Under the agreement, Transocean...

Orlean Invest Challenges Court Ruling, Files Appeal Against Aircraft Forfeiture Judgment

Orlean Invest Africa Limited has formally appealed the judgement of the Federal High Court in Abuja that ordered the seizure and forfeiture of a...

FG May Resume Issuance of Petrol, Diesel Import Permits By Mid February

Nigeria may resume the issuance of petrol and diesel import permits as early as mid-February, the first batch in 2026, to ward off a...

Coastal logistics may drive petrol prices to N1,000/litre – Dangote

  Dangote Petroleum Refinery has warned that continued reliance on coastal delivery of petroleum products could push petrol prices close to N1,000 per litre in...

NMDPRA Satisfied with Operations of Indigenous Energy Firms

  The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has expressed satisfaction with the investment strides of Nigerian indigenous oil and gas firms in...

TenneT, Uniper Partner for Power Station for Frankfurt Region

  Uniper SE and TenneT BV have agreed to develop a new central network node in Großkrotzenburg, Germany to serve data center-driven growth in power...

Shell Announces Executive Committee Changes

Shell announced changes to its executive committee in a statement posted on its website this week.“We have made significant progress against our previously announced...

Petrol war: Importers outpace domestic refineries with 62% supply in 2025

Petrol importation remained the dominant source of fuel consumed in Nigeria in 2025, accounting for 62.47 per cent of the country’s total Premium Motor...

Dangote refinery, marketers fuel deal crashes as imports surge

The fuel supply arrangement between the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and 20 major petroleum marketers, under which the parties agreed to offtake 600 million litres...

Angola Reaffirms Lobito Refinery as Strategic Priority

Angola’s Minister of Mineral Resources, Petroleum and Gas of Angola Diamantino Azevedo reaffirmed the importance of the Lobito Refinery during a visit to the...

Cairn Oil & Gas secures conditional NOC to drill 20 wells

  The clearance has been granted under the Discovered Small Field Policy, 2018 Cairn Oil & Gas Division, a privately owned Indian oil and gas company...

Another multi-year LNG offtake deal in JERA’s hands

Japan’s power generation major JERA has won a long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement with Hokkaido Gas, said to be a key regional...

US LNG import terminal’s transformation into large export facilities put on ice

  Energy Transfer LNG Export, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Energy Transfer, has shelved the development of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. Energy Transfer...

Port Harcourt refinery supplies diesel while shut – NMDPRA

The Port Harcourt Refining Company, which is currently shut down, is still supplying 349,000 litres of automotive gas oil, otherwise known as diesel, daily,...

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