Middle East News

BP has appointed a new head for its integrated supply and trading (IST) business in the eastern hemisphere, industry sources said on Friday. Janet Kong, currently head of trading analytics for the eastern hemisphere, will take over from Andy Milnes to head the business unit later this year, they said. The IST is BP’s face to the traded markets in ...

Kuwait will commit to a potential global oil production freeze only if major oil producers, including Iran, agreed to join the pact, the Gulf OPEC member’s acting oil minister said on Tuesday. “If there is an agreement, Kuwait will commit to the freeze,” Anas al-Saleh told reporters in Kuwait city. Asked what would happen if not all producers agreed to ...

ASTANA, March 10, 2016 – Kazakhstan has plans to revert to its original 2016 oil output target of 564 million barrels should the oil price remain above USD 40, the country’s minister of oil and gas, Vladimir Shkolnik, said on Thursday. In February, Kazakh Economy Minister Yerbolat Dosayev downgraded Kazakhstan’s 2016 oil production forecast to 542 million barrels. By contrast, ...

Offshore driller Hercules Offshore has seen cuts in dayrates for three of its drilling rigs operating in Saudi Arabia. Hercules Offshore on Thursday said that it received from Saudi Aramco on March 9, 2016, a notice reducing the dayrates under its five year contracts for the Hercules 261 and Hercules 262 from $67,000 per day to $63,650 per day. The ...