SINGAPORE, April 15 (Reuters) - Singapore's Ezra Holdings
Ltd, one of the city-state's many oilfield service
firms hit by a challenging market, plans to sell its stake in a
floating production, storage and offloading vessel, seeking to
strengthen its financial position.
(Fri, 15 Apr 2016) U.S. natural gas production reached a record high level of 79 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2015, an increase of 5% from the previous year, even as natural gas prices remained relatively low. Production from five states?Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and North Dakota?was responsible for most of this growth, offsetting declines in much of the rest of the United States.
MANILA, April 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash
Carter said he will visit a U.S. aircraft carrier transiting the
disputed South China Sea on Friday, a move bound to anger China,
which has been increasingly asserting its territorial claims.
BEIJING, April 15 (Reuters) - China's March refinery
throughput fell 0.2 percent compared with the same period a year
earlier to 44.91 million tonnes, or 10.58 million barrels per
day (bpd), data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on
Friday.
SINGAPORE, April 15 (Reuters) - Crude futures dipped early
on Friday as traders doubted that a planned meeting over the
weekend of major oil exporters would result in successful
measures to rein in ballooning global over production.
* Iran March crude imports up 81 pct y/y -customs
* Jan-March oil imports from Iran up 111 pct y/y
* Total crude imports in March 11.52 mln T, up 3.7 pct y/y
LONDON, April 14 (Reuters) - The structure of Brent futures
prices shows most market participants believe the oil market
will begin to rebalance in the second half of 2016 and through
2017.
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