James Burgess studied Business Management at the University of Nottingham. He has worked in property development, chartered surveying, marketing, law, and accounts. He has also studied journalism and has written many articles over the years for a wide variety of sources.
James is the Deputy Editor of Oilprice.com
Mexico’s state-run Pemex announced on the 10th June that it has selected the Trión deep-water field for its maiden farm-out deal to other operators, according…
Oil futures briefly lost gains after US Federal Reserve statements on a potential interest-rate increase, but they bounced back to close Monday at a 10-month…
Even as Saudi Arabia vies for market share with a post-sanctions Iran, the Kingdom has raised oil pricing for Asian and U.S. customers, but dropped…
Attacks late last week in the Niger Delta have put an additional 65,000 barrels per day of oil offline from Italian Eni’s Agip Oil company,…
American billionaire Warren Buffett, through his Nebraska-based company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A), further increased his stake in Phillips 66 (PSX) by 537,968 shares, adding…
Russia is set to increase crude oil output by around 8 million tons or 185,000 bpd by then end of this year, according to the…
Long-time Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has appointed his daughter to lead the oil-rich country’s state-run oil giant Sonangol after firing the entire board…
The Venezuelan president has accused the U.S. of trying to usurp his country’s oil riches after the head of the Washington-based Organization of American States…
U.S. banks have seen their earnings drop 2 percent in the first quarter of this year as low oil prices have finally turned into unpaid…
A total of 21 companies, including the Who’s Who of Big Oil, have registered to take part in Mexico’s deepwater oil auction to be held…
Based on survey data compiled by Reuters for the month of May, OPEC crude oil out has fallen by 120,000 barrels per day—a drop largely…
French oil supermajor Total SA (NYSE:TOT) has acquired oil and gas installations in east Africa for an undisclosed amount, covering assets in Kenya, Uganda and…
French oil services company Technip has signed a preliminary deal worth US$500 million to refurbish a key Libyan offshore oil platform in partnership with Libya’s…
Only a day after a deal was reached to allow the stalled development of Israel’s giant offshore Leviathan natural gas field, the project’s American and…
An oil guard militia loyal to Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) says it has captured the strategic towns of Ben Jawad and Nawfiliyah…
As Middle Eastern countries make concerted moves to increase market share, Iraq says it will export an additional 5 million barrels of crude oil in…
Brunei is notorious for its oil riches, which are disproportionately huge for its tiny size of 2,200 square miles (and a population of less than…
As oil investment in Norway is projected to drop again in 2017 for the third year in a row as low oil prices hammer the…
South Sudan’s transitional government has announced it will resume oil production by July after a halt of more than two years during a bloody civil…
According to Nigerian media, militants used explosives to blow up the Escravos terminals main electricity feed pipeline, rendering the terminal inoperable. Reuters has also reported…