Oil: Mind Demand  Seeking AlphaOil demand is showing signs of weakness. Despite deep production cuts, why are oil prices still at $70? Watch this metric. Read more https://seekingalpha.com/article/4258608-oil-mind-demand

What Do You Do With $2.7 Billion Worth of Tainted Russian Oil?  FortuneCleaning up the mess will take scrubbing thousands of miles of pipeline, and some high-priced crude. Read more http://fortune.com/2019/05/01/russia-oil-tainted-contaminated/

Transneft authorises railway shipment of 100,000 T of oil in May  ReutersRussia's oil pipeline monopoly Transneft will authorise Russian Railways to transport 100000 tonnes of crude oil in May due to pipeline contamination, the state ... Read mor …

Rosneft Sees No Oil Deficit Looming As Iran Sanction Waivers End  OilPrice.comRosneft CEO Igor Sechin has said that his company does not expect that the end of Iran sanction waivers will spark a deficit in oil markets. Read more https://oilprice …

UPDATE 1-Russia's Sechin sees no threat of global oil deficit for now  ReutersRussia's Rosneft does not see tougher U.S. sanctions on Iran resulting in a global oil deficit in the second and third quarters of 2019, CEO Igor Sechin said on ... Rea …

Russia's Sechin says no threat for now of global oil deficit  ReutersRussia's Rosneft does not see tougher U.S. sanctions on Iran resulting in a global oil deficit in the second and third quarters of 2019, the Russian oil giant's CEO ... Read mor …

New data on governance of national oil companies: Why transparency and oversight matter  Brookings InstitutionA new website aims to assemble the world's largest open database of national oil company operational and financial information. Read mor …

Idaho Vacates Order Forcing Landowners Into Oil Leases  U.S. News & World ReportBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials have vacated an order forcing landowners to sell their natural gas and oil to an energy company following a ruling from a ... Read …

Iran and China: Between Oil and Trump  LobeLogby Gareth Smyth. Back in 2006, John Garver, a China specialist and emeritus professor of international affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, looked at ... Read more https://lobelog.com/iran …

Feature: Japan refiners boost oil product exports on a delivered basis  S&P Global PlattsJapanese refiners are increasingly exporting their oil products on a delivered basis directly to end users, instead of on a FOB basis via trading companies, …