Top exporter Saudi Arabia has struck deals to sell 3 million barrels more oil to India in August, stepping into the vacuum created by regional rival Iran after it cut supply to New Delhi

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Syria, Iran and Iraq inked on Monday a memorandum of understanding for the construction of a gas pipeline and transporting Iranian gas across Iraq and Syria to the Mediterranean and Europe.

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Qatar’s state-run Qatargas says it has agreed to sell 1.5 million tons of liquefied natural gas annually to Malaysia, locking in its first major customer in Southeast Asia

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in the participation of Eng. Sufian Allaw minister of Oil and Mineral Resources ,Iran, Iraq and Syria will sign a contract for the transit of Iranian natural gas from the country’s South Pars gas field to Europe, the English language satellite Press TV reported on Friday

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An Iraqi oil official says China’s National Petroleum Corp. has begun pumping oil from al-Ahdab oil field in central Iraq

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South Sudan has shipped its first independently sold oil cargo from Port Sudan, a former minister said yesterday, despite no final agreement with Khartoum on how to manage the country’s vital industry.

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Venezuela is now the country with the most proven crude oil reserves on the planet, 296.5  billion barrels, according to the Annual Statistical Bulletin of the Organization of the Oil Exporting Countries

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The United Arab Emirates has pledged 3 million barrels of oil to Yemen, which faces a fuel crisis due to attacks on a pipeline during widespread political unrest, a Yemeni deputy minister said on Saturday

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Jordanian Ministry of Energy said it is studying the Iranian offer as one of the options facing Jordan in the wake of the recurrent cut-off of Egyptian gas supplies

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Iraq will sign a final contract with Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L)on Tuesday for a $12-billion project to capture flared gas at southern oil-fields, two sources close to the deal said on Sunday

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