Oil prices reversed earlier losses on Friday as fears that escalating conflict in Libya could disrupt oil supplies from the OPEC member outweighed trade concerns. Brent crude futures rose 34 cents to $69.74 a barrel by 1405 GMT, having touched $70.03 in the previous session, its highest since Nov. 12. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI)
President Yoweri Museveni has refuted claims that Uganda oil production maybe overdue because of the slow policy implementation processes in the oil sector saying that all major decisions have been made to facilitate oil production. “What remains to be tested is the preparedness and readiness of you all and most especially the East Africans, our
A report released by the American Petroleum Institute on August 8,2018 indicated that supplies for Brent crude oil have fallen up to 6million barrels on the New York market. This was partly linked to the rise in the prices of the mineral making it hard for buyers to purchase. The prices for Light, sweet crude oil
Within a period of 15 months, Saudi Arabia has registered a tremendous increase in its crude oil exports to the United States of America. According to the preliminary vessel-tracking data done by Bloomberg, in the month of July, Saudi Arabia loaded 1 MMbpd onto tankers destined for the U.S. upgrading from June exports by 36%
Gasoline Prices in Ghana remained unchanged at 1.01 USD/Liter. Prices of fuel are expected to remain unchanged for the first pricing window of August. This, is according to the Institute of Energy Security (IES). The institute in the last pricing window in July predicted a stability in the price of fuel. IES is however attributing the stability
There are indications that international oil market is haunted by low demand as unsold Nigerian stocks have been estimated at between 20 and 34 million barrels. A market survey by Platt showed that bidders for the country’s July-loading heavy and light sweet crudes were not present at the market. A trader, who preferred not to
Angola recorded export earnings amounting to 253.3 billion Kwanzas (about 1.06 billion US dollars) from the sale of 49.8 million barrels of crude oil in May this year, according to the latest statistics issued by the Ministry of Finance. During the month, the oil exports, which account for the large bulk of the country’s export
Nigeria’s oil exports are expected to fall in July to just 1.43 million barrels per day (bpd), loading plans showed on Monday, the lowest level so far this year. The export plan comprised 48 cargoes, compared with 60 cargoes and a daily rate of 1.796 million bpd in June, due in part to an outage
The pump price of fuel has been increasing from D42 to D45.50 per litre in October 2017, despite a 40 percent decrease in price of crude oil at the time as acknowledged by the Minister of Transport. It was further increased to D48.16 in December 2017 and now it is being sold over D50 per
The Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers (NALPGAM) has urged the Federal Government to remove Value Added Tax (VAT) on locally produced Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) also called cooking gas. Its President, Nosa Ogieva-Okunbor, told reporters in Lagos that VAT payment on locally processed LPG makes it expensive and unattractive to imported LPG, which