Ecuador’s state-run oil firm, PetroEcuador has signed an agreement Thursday to sell crude to China’s state-owned PetroChina.
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KNM Group Bhd, Malaysia’s leading publicly traded oil and gas services provider, declared there are signs demand is picking up after a crude-price rally triggered a revival of exploration projects.
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Longford Energy Inc. revealed that it is currently involved in advanced discussions regarding entry into a Production Sharing Contract for the exploration, development and production of hydrocarbon resources.
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Oil prices vaulted 9 per cent in NY Thursday, in tandem with a powerful stocks rally, as investors cheered G20 agreements to combat the global downturn and an easing of US accounting rules. On Friday, oil prices settled above $52 a barrel, slightly lower on the day after a report that US unemployment in March soared to a 25-year high. But optimism that the economy will soon turn around curtailed losses.
Mexico’s state oil company Pemex reported that it has been awarded with a $646 million contract to the Mexican subsidiary of Weatherford International Ltd to drill 500 wells at the Chicontepec oil field.
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BP and Reliance Industries signed a production sharing contract for the block KG-DWN-2005/2 with the Indian government.
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New York’s main futures contract, light sweet crude for March delivery, added 58 cents from its closing price on Tuesday to 42.16 dollars per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Petroleos Mexicanos may award the company’s first external oil production and exploration contract by the end of next year.
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Petroleos Mexicanos is likely to award the company’s first external oil production and exploration contract by the end of 2009, as it targets producers such as Exxon Mobil Corp, Shell Plc and Chevron Corp.
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Along with OPEC production cuts and healthy company numbers, (both discussed below) the market is clearly disjointed. The tenor of discussions in the business pages and networks lately suggests that Yeats was right, and the centre cannot hold. Recession or recovery, echo boom or bust, few are predicting prolonged instability somewhere between these extremes.
Thursday, July 23, 2009