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In the wake of US and EU sanctions imposed earlier in the year, Iranian oil companies are struggling for business internationally as well as domestically, highlighted by the recent closure of the BP-Iranian Oil Company joint venture-operated Rhum natural gas field in the UK’s North Sea

Although Iraq has not had a fully legitimate government for more than seven months, the outgoing administration has pushed ahead with key oil and gas field licensing agreements in the face of considerable opposition. Shell’s much opposed agreement to

Qatar will start supplying Dubai with liquefied natural gas in 2011, once the Qatargas 4 project is completed, Qatar Petroleum (QP) gas development manager Khalid Mohammed Al-Hitmi told GSN. Qatargas 4 is a joint venture between

The London Court of International Arbitration’s award of damages to former US diplomat Peter Galbraith and a Yemeni partner comes at a sensitive time in Erbil-Baghdad relations.

Allegations about Maan Al-Sanea were first made in the New York Supreme Court in a counter-claim after Ahmed Hamad Al-Gosaibi and Brothers (AHAB) was sued by the UAE-based Mashreq Bank, owned by the Al-Ghurair family, which claimed it was owed

Nabucco keen to secure gas for Europe, Trains 6 and 7 LNG spoken for, Sabic opens new office in Cape Town

The Ministry of Oil (MoO) in Baghdad has accused provincial officials and local police of raiding an oilfield being developed by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

Chinese oil companies led by CNPC have got off to a shaky start in Iraq, alienating local communities by failing to employ Iraqi workers and deploying high-profile security measures. It will take much work on both sides to repair the relationship.

The government has proposed plans to revamp the organisational structure of Iran’s oil industry to grant the state-run National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) more autonomy.

Syria-focused Gulfsands Petroleum has announced a large rise in H1 10 profit on the back of higher energy prices, an increase in production and a profit on the sale of assets in the Gulf of Mexico.

Saudi Aramco made headlines at the mid-September World Energy Congress (WEC) in Montreal with president and chief executive Khalid Al-Falih telling delegates and interviewers the giant national oil company planned to counter fast-rising demand for feedstocks for power and industry by developing the Kingdom’s potentially huge non-conventional gas reserves.

Halliburton wins Eni contract in Iraq. GDF Suez/IP create world’s largest power generator. Praxair buys into ROC

As sanctions bite, it becomes ever harder to develop energy projects, but western withdrawal opens opportunities for Tehran’s traditional partners as well as domestic companies with shadowy backgrounds

The awarding of lucrative oil and gas contracts to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC or Pasdaran) has become a common trend

Sanctions targeting Iran’s energy sector have sparked an exodus of western oil companies, but Tehran is turning to one-time allies Russia and China to rescue a faltering