1/16/2025 - EV Metals Group plc (“EVM” or “the Company”) a global battery chemicals and technology company, is pleased to announce that its special purpose subsidiary, Riwaq Al Mawarid for Mining (“RIWAQ”) has su... |
11/19/2023 - Minister of Energy HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz announced that the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) has discovered two natural gas fields in the Empty Quarter: Al-Hiran and Al... |
8/30/2023 - The Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources issued 71 new mining licenses during July 2023, including 45 exploration licenses, 21 building materials quarry licenses, and 5 small mine and exploitati... |
3/7/2019 - Large quantities of gas have been discovered in the Red Sea, Saudi state news agency SPA quoted energy minister Khalid al-Falih as saying. ... |
8/31/2017 - Oil giant Saudi Aramco is using new technology to re-explore areas of the vast Arabian desert known as the Empty Quarter, which could help to bolster its proven reserves of oil and gas before the comp... |
2/1/2015 - State oil giant Saudi Aramco has put on hold its deepwater oil and gas exploration and drilling activities in the Red Sea because of high costs as it economises in an environment of low crude prices, ... |
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5/28/2014 - Saudi Aramco added three oil and two gas discoveries to their portfolio, bringing their total number of discovered fields to 121. This included exploration and drilling operations in the deep waters o... |
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1/28/2013 - Saudi Arabia will continue exploring for oil and natural gas, despite the transformation of the global energy industry caused by rising output of shale oil in North America, according to a senior Saud... |
11/20/2012 - Iran accused Saudi Arabia of searching for oil in what it called a "prohibited" offshore zone in response to Riyadh's earlier allegations that Tehran had violated its airspace. ... |
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10/9/2012 - Saudi Arabia's Aramco, the world's largest energy company, has discovered a new gas field in the Red Sea, 26 kilometres North West of the port of Daba, the Saudi Press Agency reported quoting the oil ... |
8/2/2012 - International oilfield services company, Reservoir Group, announces a major expansion of its Middle East operations as part of its ambitious growth plans for the organisation’s Specialist Well Service... |
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1/19/2012 - Italy's Eni and Spain's Repsol have given up looking for gas in Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter, two sources familiar with the joint venture with Saudi Aramco said. State-run Aramco invited international... |
11/17/2011 - Royal Dutch Shell Plc has pulled out of oil-development talks with the Kurdistan regional government in an effort to protect lucrative investments in southern Iraq, the Financial Times reported. The n... |
6/16/2011 - During 2010, Saudi Aramco discovered four new oil fields and one new gas field, increasing the total number of company discovered hydrocarbon fields to 112. The company also discovered six new oil res... |
8/4/2010 - Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) announced today that it has signed agreements with Rhodia Co., France to build a new Ethyl Acetate (EA) plant. ... |
7/3/2010 - Saudi Arabia has stopped exploring for oil to protect the interests of future generations, the Saudi News Agency reported, citing King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz. ... |
12/7/2009 - Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company, plans to drill 45 to 50 oil exploration wells next year, the company’s vice president for exploration said. ... |
3/13/2007 - Saudi Aramco will start pumping natural gas from the Karan field by the fourth quarter of 2011, as the company increases its oil and gas output. Production capacity from the offshore gas fi... |
2/21/2007 - Saudi Aramco has discovered a new oil field southeast of Ghawar in the Eastern Province. On Feb. 11, the Dirwazah-1 well tested oil in the Unayzah reservoir at 15,310 feet. The well flowed 3,915 barre... |
2/12/2007 - Followed the results of deep exploration drilling on Tukhman structure, Contract area Block A in Saudi Arabia LUKSAR discovered hydrocarbon accumulations. LUKOIL Saudi Arabia Energy Ltd. (L... |