MEOG - Middle East Oil & Gas

11 December 2024

Qatar-Turkey-Europe gas pipeline ambition could be back on following fall of Assad

10 December 2024

Plan was rejected by Syria 15 years ago as, according to some observers, Damascus moved to protect ally Russia’s interests.

US grants another sanctions waiver to Iraq to cover Iranian energy bill

10 December 2024

The US State Department announced last week that it had extended another sanctions waver to Iraq so that it could pay neighbouring Iran for energy imports.

Iran-Russia gas supply deal reaches ‘good stage,’ Iranian deputy minister says

10 December 2024

Iranian Deputy Oil Minister for Gas Affairs Saeed Tavakkoli said a memorandum of understanding for the transfer of Russian gas to Iran had reached a “good stage,” amid ongoing efforts to address part of the country’s energy shortage.

Iran’s oil minister pledges to strengthen OPEC after being appointed as president

10 December 2024

Iran's Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad vowed to foster cohesion and cooperation among members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) after he was elected as the cartel’s president for 2025.

Iranian MPs to push for gas extraction from Caspian Sea

10 December 2024

A group of Iranian lawmakers plan to push the Oil Ministry to expand drilling for natural gas from the Caspian Sea, a legislator said as reported by Bultan News on December 10.

bp extends EPC contract for Omani gas fields

10 December 2024

bp has extended an EPC contract for the Khazzan and Ghazeer fields in Oman to a JV of Worley and Special Technical Services

Gas usage on the rise in Iran amid calls for saving measures

9 December 2024

Gas consumption in the domestic sector in Iran keeps rising, as temperatures drop due to snowfall in the northwest regions.

Iranian oil cargo heads home midway to Syria after Assad’s ouster

9 December 2024

TankerTrackers, a maritime monitoring service that tracks shipments and oil storage, said Iran’s final oil shipment to Syria has made a U-turn mid-voyage in the Gulf of Suez as President Bashar al-Assad was toppled.

OPEC+ extends delay to easing restrictions

8 December 2024

OPEC+ has further delayed its plan to ease oil production quotas

Iran warns against efforts to cut out fossil fuels as it hosts major gas producers

8 December 2024

Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad warned that efforts to eliminate or replace fossil fuels would be “an unrealistic and threatening move” for global energy security as he opened a meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Tehran.

Kuwait’s KPC considering storing crude in India

8 December 2024

Kuwait's KPC is considering storing crude in India’s underground strategic petroleum reserves

Iraq's NOC resumes operations at gas separation plant

8 December 2024

Iraq’s NOC has restarted its Sarlo gas separation plant, which had been out of service for over a decade.

ADNOC finalises 15-year LNG supply deal with Petronas

7 December 2024

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has agreed to a 15-year sales and purchase agreement with Malaysia’s Petronas for 1mn tonnes per year of LNG.