Energy

  • A consortium of Indian companies has reached an initial agreement with Iranian officials to develop Farzad-B gas field under a $3 billion contract, managing director of the Iranian Offshore Oil…

  • Turkey's row with Moscow over the downing of a Russian jet over Syria has not affected joint energy projects, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. "There is no sign yet that the problems…

  • Foreign direct investment in Iran's petrochemical industry before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution amounts to $1 billion, first deputy of the National Petrochemical Company said.

  • Kuwait's liquefied natural gas imports are on track to rise around 17% to 3 million tons in 2015, boosted by the fuel's increased competitiveness with diesel, an executive from Kuwait Petroleum…

  • Japan’s two largest oil refiners agreed to merge in 2017 as a shrinking population and a shift to more fuel-efficient automobiles pushed down fuel demand in the country.

    The deal is the…

  • Thirty-two workers were killed and 42 rescued from an offshore oil platform that caught fire in Azerbaijan-controlled waters in the Caspian Sea, the head of an independent committee said on…

  • Peruvian company Pluspetrol, a leading private exploration and production enterprise in Latin America, said investment in Iran's oil and gas sector has a promising future, a high-ranking official…

  • Political and economic relations between Moscow and Ankara may hit a new low if Russia halts natural gas supply to Turkey, with the rift providing Iran with the opportunity to claim a bigger stake…

  • OPEC maintained its policy of pumping near-record volumes of oil on Friday in a meeting in which the organization's biggest producer Saudi Arabia said it is open to cooperate with fellow producers…

  • French company CGG, a leader in cutting-edge geoscience, will not miss the investment opportunities in Iran's oil and gas sector, a high-ranking official of France CGG said on Friday.

  • German investors will construct solar power plants in the central province of Kerman, a member of the Energy Commission at Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture said.

  • Iran is taking steps to ramp up oil exports ahead of an end to US-led sanctions, extending crude contracts with its top two Chinese buyers into 2016 and starting talks with other potential buyers…

  • Russia's Lukoil is ready to immediately resume operations in Iran's Anaran oil block, the company's managing director, Vagit Alekperov, said after meeting Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh…

  • Turkey's leaders have mounted a charm offensive among regional energy producers in an effort to diversify supplies, as relations with major natural gas provider Russia crumble following the…

  • Three exploration blocks and Sardar-e Jangal oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea have been introduced as part of new Iranian oil and gas contracts, known as Iran Petroleum Contract, on Sunday to…

  • Russia's second-biggest oil producer Lukoil said on Monday its third-quarter net profit fell by around 62% year-on-year to $623 million, as it felt the effects of tumbling oil prices.

  • Oil prices on Monday were on course to end November some 10% lower as a global supply glut showed no sign of easing.

    Brent Crude, the global oil benchmark, was down 6 cents at $44.80 a…

  • Asian imports of Iranian oil fell to the lowest level in two years in October, as Iran's biggest crude buyers held off from increasing purchases following a landmark agreement on Tehran's nuclear…

  • Greek officials are working with their Iranian counterparts to thrash out the details of repaying Greece's debt to Iran, accumulated due to financial sanctions against Iran, Oil Minister Bijan…

  • Gazprom is willing to cooperate with Iran to develop its gas fields, a high-ranking official of the Russian state-owned gas giant said on Monday.

    The official also told IRNA, on condition…

  • Iran unveiled last week a new framework for its oil and gas contracts in a much-anticipated conference that brought together hundreds of domestic and international oil and gas companies in Tehran…

  • Kuwait named Deputy Prime Minister Anas Al-Saleh as acting oil minister to replace Ali al-Omair who became minister of public affairs and retained his role as state minister for parliamentary…

  • Iran lined up 52 oil and natural gas projects worth an estimated $185 billion for 335 domestic and foreign companies in Tehran, a day after it unveiled its long-in-the-works framework for new oil…

  • Iran has turned into a diesel exporting country in the current Iranian year (started March 21), managing director of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company said.

    "By…

  • Dubai will spend billions of dollars on generating clean energy, the government said on Saturday, aiming to have solar panels installed on the roofs of all buildings by 2030.