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Shell feels the bite of Iran sanction with R1bn debt

Shell feels the bite of Iran sanction with R1bn debt

Shell is struggling to pay off $1-billion that it owes Iran for crude oil because EU and US sanctions make it almost impossible to process payments.

Iran’s catch-me-if-you-can oil sanctions strategy

International sanctions have a patchy history, and Iran’s oil elite have been dodging them for decades, writes <b>Peg Mackey</b>.

Opec keeps output steady in face of $100 oil

Ministers of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) on Wednesday agreed to keep oil output steady and said record high prices had been driven by factors…

Opec poised to keep output steady, US unhappy

Opec ministers are poised to hold output steady at a meeting on Wednesday, resisting pressure from top consumer the United States to pump more oil to help prop up a fragile…

Tough to pump more oil, even at $100

Oil at a barrel should give exporters every incentive to pump more, but their difficulty in doing so shows the world is struggling to sustain production. A growing number of…

Opec to cut oil output from February

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has agreed an oil-output cut of 500Â 000 barrels per day, or 2%, delayed until February 1 when the northern winter is…