On Wednesday, Brent crude was down around 1.2 per cent to $76.16/bbl, while US West Texas Intermediate crude fell around, or 1.05 per cent, to $73.47/bbl
Brent crude futures eased 32 cents to $73.59 a barrel at 0949 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude was down 44 cents at $70.27 a barrel
Opec+, which pumps about half the world's oil, had been planning to start unwinding cuts from Oct 2024 but a slowdown in global demand and rising output outside the group forced it to postpone plans
He added that low crude oil prices would be a very important ingredient for India's growth prospects
South American nation has become a significant contributor to world crude supply
Brent crude oil prices saw a considerable decline from the beginning of Samvat 2080 (November 12) until October 28, dropping by 12.33 per cent from $82.52 to $72.34 per barre
Crude oil prices have been steadier on Thursday around $70.50/b in Asian hours, ahead of the weekly EIA inventory release from the US.
Oil prices showed marginal recovery on Monday to settle a per cent up at $68.71, following its worst weekly fall since October 2023 as WTI fell 8 per cent and Brent was down 10 per cent.
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Sunday said it has opened another well on its flagship deep-sea project in Krishna Godavari basin in Bay of Bengal, which will help augment production of crude oil and natural gas. In January this year, ONGC had started producing oil, which is converted into fuels like petrol and diesel in refineries, from the KG-DWN-98/2 or KG-D5 block. "On August 24, 2024, ONGC marked a significant milestone by starting production from its fifth oil well in the Block KG-DWN-98/2 Cluster-2 asset," the firm said in a stock exchange filing on Sunday. "Leveraging the floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, ONGC has begun transporting and sale of associated gas, all the while underscoring its commitment to achieving zero gas flaring." It, however, did not state how much the new well was producing. With this, ONGC also successfully commissioned its gas export line from the offshore-to-onshore terminal. "Earlier in January, oil
Oil majors are also under pressure from institutional investors to cut emissions
Oil prices were flat for the day. Brent futures held at $85.95 a barrel while US crude was little changed at$81.60 a barrel
The tax, which is revised every fortnight, remained unchanged at zero for diesel and aviation turbine fuel
On the daily chart, MCX Copper has been unable to sustain the breakout of its rising channel pattern and has moved down, forming a lower high, lower low pattern, indicating bearish sentiment
Given the above-mentioned developments, we believe that the oil market is heading lower in the short to medium term due to softening of global economic conditions
Bloc members led by Saudi Arabia and Russia are holding a ministerial meeting on June 2 to decide the fate of global oil production
Despite ongoing conflicts and lower demand growth expectations, oil prices remain steady
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on Sunday, Iranian officials said
New York-listed shares of Petrobras fell more than 6% in after-hours trading as news broke that Prates was headed for the exit
The Saudi government, which directly holds about 82.2 per cent of Aramco, relies heavily on the company's payouts, which also include royalties and taxes
US crude oil inventories swelled last week by 4.906 million barrels, while gasoline and distillate stockpiles fell, according to market sources citing American Petroleum Institute figures on Tuesday