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
Houston-based Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) announced on Wednesday that falling oil prices led to a fourth-quarter net loss of $793 million, bringing their total…
Brent Oil passed the $35 per barrel mark this morning on U.S. inventory news and as speculators appeared to positively interpret yesterday’s news that Iran…
American billionaire Warren Buffett, through his Nebraska-based company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A), has acquired a $400 million stake in struggling pipeline company, Kinder Morgan…
At least 25 people were killed and 45 others were injured in a bomb attack on buses transporting Turkish military personnel in the capital, Ankara,…
China’s oil major Sinopec has responded to the disappointing results of yesterday’s Doha meeting by announcing the temporary closure of four oil fields that have…
As privatization talk heats up in Russia, the country’s Federal Antimonopoly Service indicated today that it may approve the purchase of a stake in state-owned…
Iran has categorically rejected the Doha proposal by four of the world’s largest producers to freeze output at January levels, ensuring that the gains oil…
The military behind Libya’s internationally recognized government—one of two parallel governments currently at war with each other—has reported that another MiG-23 fighter jet has been…
After capturing headlines with news of a 100-billion-barrel discovery late last year, the first successful flow-test at the Horse Hill well near the UK’s Gatwick…
Reeling from debt and a massive corruption scandal, Brazil’s state-owned oil giant, Petrobras, is divesting all of its electricity sector assets as part of its…
Daewoo International and Australia-based Woodside Energy have made a second gas discovery in the Bay of Bengal, offshore Myanmar’s west coast of Myanmar. The discovery…
British BP and Norwegian Statoil launched production today at their massive Southern Fields dry gas project in Algeria, with a planned output of 9 billion…
The Sultanate of Oman has signed a deal with oil major BP and Oman Oil to expand their development block in the Khazzan tight gas…
Iran is loading two million barrels of oil on a tanker in the Gulf in preparation for its first oil exports in 24 hours to…
Norway’s Statoil said today that it has signed an agreement with Tullow Oil to secure a 35 percent working interest in a Uruguay’s Pelotas basin…
Oklahoma was struck by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake on Saturday, the third-strongest quake ever recorded in the state, which has experienced a surge in seismic…
The Libyan Coast Guard has intercepted an oil tanker flying the flag of Sierra Leone in Libyan waters, heading to Malta and suspected of carrying…
The recent discovery of a ‘super well’ in Argentina’s prized Vaca Muerta shale has further raised the stakes in this market-defying venue, positioning the only…
The U.S. government’s recent mercury pollution regulations have created a new multi-billion-dollar energy industry for next-generation, low-cost mercury emissions control tech, with the first beneficiary…
Oil prices may be languishing in the mid-$40 range but that has not stopped the mergers and acquisitions market from heating up in the already…