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24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ... Middle East live updates: Over 1,500 aid trucks enter Gaza in first days of ceasefire ... -ABC News' Morgan Winsor. Jan 20, 5:49 PM
Oil prices jumped on Friday while Asian markets tumbled, with global investors worrying about an escalation in conflict in the Middle East after explosions were reported near the Iranian city of ...
Oil prices jumped sharply on Monday amid a halt in Libyan oil production and heightened tensions in the Middle East. West Texas Intermediate rose more than 3% to settle at $77.42 per barrel, while ...
Oil may get another run as liquid gold. Crude futures surged 9% last week — its biggest weekly gain since March 2023 — driven by escalating tensions in the Middle East.Israel’s vow to ...
On 9 January 1968, three of the then–most conservative Arab oil states – Kuwait, Libya, and Saudi Arabia – agreed at a conference in Beirut, Lebanon to found the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, aiming to separate the production and sale of oil from politics in the wake of the halfhearted 1967 oil embargo in response to the Six-Day War.
The Arab Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in the Middle East. It originates near Arish in the Sinai Peninsula and was built to export Egyptian natural gas to Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, with branch underwater and overland pipelines to and from Israel. It has a total length of 1,200 kilometres (750 mi), constructed at a cost of US$1.2 billion.
In 2009 the largest share of oil production was in the Middle East (24 million barrels daily, or 31 per cent of global production). According to Transparency International based on BP data regionally the largest share of proved oil reserves is in the Middle East (754 billion barrels, constituting 51 per cent of global reserves including oil sands and 57 per cent excluding them).
Oil prices could surge to record highs if the conflict in the Middle East broadens and the Ukraine war continues. Such an oil shock would create more food inflation, says the World Bank.