Europe’s oil refineries stopped taking piped deliveries of Urals crude from Russia after flows were found to be contaminated, choking off one of the continent’s main sources of supply.
Pumping through a section of the Druzhba pipeline into southern and central Europe was halted overnight, Ukraine said. That brings the link to a complete stop after a larger, northern spur into Poland and Germany had already ceased. It means a temporary loss of at least 1 million barrels a day of crude with more barrels still at risk...
Angus Energy (AIM: ANGS) is pleased to announce that the Brockham work programme continues as planned with a slight modification in the order of stage 1 operations. The decision was taken earlier this week by operatives on site to perforate the well before isolating the water, in order to allow greater certainty that we have identified the water zone before plugging. It has not caused any delays and no additional approvals were required for this minor change in operational activity.
The work programme at Brockham is proceeding as per the schedule described in our 3 April 2019 announcement which allocated 19 working days for this stage of the programme. Work is still expected to complete, as scheduled on Tuesday 7th May...
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq’s oil minister said on Thursday that Baghdad would meet soon with authorities from the Kurdistan Regional Government to discuss issues relating to oil exports from the semi-autonomous region as well as the budget agreement.
Thamer Ghadhban also said studies were being carried out to increase production capacity from the Kirkuk oilfields by 50 percent from current levels.