Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said that Turkey would be interested in having Turkish Petroleum Corp., or TPAO, privatized by local companies, not by foreign companies, Trend reported.
Russia may begin in 2013 to open its liquefied natural gas export market, which is run by Gazprom, to other Russian companies, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said June 13, AFP reported.
Tunisia will import 450,000 barrels of oil per month from Libya between August-December 2013 and 650,000 barrels per month in 2014, the Tunisian Industry Ministry announced June 12, Reuters reported.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visited the country's Kurdistan region for the first time in more than two years on June 9 in an attempt to resolve Baghdad's long-term dispute with the Kurdistan Regional Government over oil and land, Israel News and Reuters reported.
British firm IGas Energy, one of the energy firms hoping to exploit shale gas resources in the United Kingdom, said the area in northern England that it is licensed to explore may hold from about 425 billion cubic meters to about 4.8 trillion cubic meters of shale gas, BBC reported June 3.
