ReutersUS uncompleted well backlog hangs over oil market: KempReutersLONDON (Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas exploration and production companies are drilling new wells faster than they can be fractured and hooked up to gathering systems, creating a growing ba …

ReutersFirst tech, now financing: US shale firms get creative to pump more oilReutersHOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. shale producers survived an oil price crash and confounded OPEC's efforts to drain a global glut by employing innovative drilling and producti …

ReutersOil majors face downgrades if crude prices don't pick up: S&PReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Big oil firms would face increased credit rating downgrade pressures if crude prices stayed below $50 a barrel on average until the end of 2018 and they d …

Financial TimesEquity fundraising by US oil companies falls sharplyFinancial TimesEquity sales by US energy companies fell sharply last quarter, as investors became more cautious on the sector at a time of tumbling oil prices. US oil and gas companies rais …

ReutersRussia's Rosneft started to lift oil from LibyaReuters"Yes, they started," Sanalla told reporters when asked whether Rosneft had started to lift oil from the OPEC-member country which is exempt from the global oil output cut deal. &quo …

Financial TimesHSBC triggers probe of Noble's palm oil unitFinancial TimesHSBC has triggered a probe into the palm oil subsidiary of commodity trader Noble Group, which is facing allegations of preparing to clear pristine rainforest in Papua New Guinea …

Iraq drills first well in Huwaiza oil field near Iranian border, oil ministry saysReutersOil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi attended the well drilling launch at Huwaiza and also a ceremony marking the beginning of the expansion work in the Halfaya oil field, als …

RPT-COLUMN-Renewed slide in oil price will test US shale profits: KempReutersLONDON, July 7 U.S. independent oil and gas producers came close to breaking even during the first quarter of 2017 thanks to aggressive cost cutting and improvements in well produ …

ReutersExclusive: Cash-strapped Venezuela offers India's ONGC oil stake - sourcesReutersState oil firm Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) has proposed selling a 9 percent stake in the San Cristobal field to ONGC Videsh (OVL), a subsidiary of India's …

ReutersOPEC delegates encouraged by Russian comments on adjusting oil cut dealReutersOPEC and allied non-OPEC producers such as Russia agreed to limit oil supply into 2018, but crude prices LCOc1 have fallen since May, partly because of higher production f …