Energy

  • Iran exported 2.2 million tons of petrochemicals in the past five months, generating $1.49 billion in revenues, managing director of Petrochemical Commercial Company said.

    "The exports were…

  • Iran's electronic fuel card system is prone to fraud and may be scrapped once and for all within the next few months, the head of Iran Gas Station Owners Union said.

  • Despite the protracted downward slide, oil prices finished off the week with just a bit less volatility than when it started the week.

    WTI stayed at around $46 per barrel as of midday on…

  • India's oil imports from Iran fell 27% to a five-month low in August from a high base last year and ahead of a planned shutdown by two refineries.

  • Preparations for the construction of a second reactor at Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant have begun and the project is moving as scheduled, Rosatom CEO Sergei Kirienko said late on Friday.

  • Russia's Gazprom has bolstered its industrial presence in the heart of Europe with two major gas deals, despite tensions with Moscow over the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

  • Plans to build new power plants and wind farms in East Azarbaijan Province in Iran require an investment of $3 billion, Governor General Esmaeil Jabbarzadeh said.

  • The Oil Ministry intends to send a delegation to South Africa in October to explore grounds for cooperation.

    According to the head of National Petrochemical Company, Abbas Sheri-Moqaddam,…

  • The Energy Ministry has no plans to increase electricity prices in the foreseeable future, deputy energy minister said, despite reports by government officials that power tariffs in Iran are…

  • Energy deals between Russian oil major Rosneft and Chinese partners will be worth more than $500 billion in the next 20 years, according to Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin.

  • Iran's oil minister said the National Iranian Oil Company needs $50 billion to carry out its development projects in shared oil and gas fields.

  • A senior Oil Ministry official said the presence of American companies in Iranian oil projects is feasible, as Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh interpreted the unlikely bond as "cooperation, not…

  • The state fined 30 oil companies on Thursday for failing to meet a deadline to report information about the source, volume and disposal of water used in oil and gas production.

  • Andy Hall, one of the best-known oil traders who is bullish on prices, said the decline in the oil market is not a repeat of 1998 or 2008.

  • Plans call for reducing the role of government in energy projects and boosting private sector investments in this key sector.

    Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian made the statement on the…

  • A long-awaited study by the US President Barack Obama administration concludes that lifting the nation’s four-decade ban on oil exports would not increase US gasoline prices and could even help…

  • French energy group EDF on Thursday announced a further delay to the launch of its next generation EPR nuclear reactor, another setback for its $11.6 billion project.

  • Miranda Shreuers is director of the Environmental Policy Research Center at the Free University in Berlin. She was asked to join the commission to determine Germany's nuclear policy after the…

  • A misguided faith in the complete safety of atomic power was a key factor in Japan's 2011 Fukushima accident, the UN nuclear watchdog said in its most comprehensive report on the disaster.

  • Iranian Fuel Conservation Company has set a lofty target and plans to cut Iran's energy intensity—the world standard for measuring how efficient an economy is at using energy—by half within six…

  • Most OPEC members would like to see crude prices at $70 to $80 a barrel and the producer group does not need to coordinate with other oil suppliers to determine output levels, Iran's Oil Minister…

  • Russia will not limit the access to its oilfields for foreign companies despite sanctions, the country's Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Sergei Donskoi said on…

  • Gas production in Toos Gas Field in northeast Iran is expected to reach 4 million cubic meters per day, technical director of East Oil and Gas Production Company said on Wednesday.

  • Plans have been devised to build a wind farm using turbines in the Azerbaijan Republic, said the managing director of MAPNA Group's Renewable Energy Production Company.

    Akbar Adibfar…

  • The Iranian government is working to introduce crude oil to the Iran Energy Exchange's repertoire of commodities, after successfully hosting the trading of export-grade fuel oil.

    IRNEX was…