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The Laundromat: How Russian Oil Keeps Flowing Three Years After Sanctions

April 17th, 2026 - 10:10 GMT

Al Bawaba Staff

The Laundromat: How Russian Oil Keeps Flowing Three Years After Sanctions

The Marquise is a 184-metre product tanker built two decades ago. It is not a glamorous vessel. It is old, it is slow by modern standards, and it has spent the past several years doing something unremarkable on paper: picking up cargoes of petroleum products at Russian export terminals and delivering them to ports scattered across Turkey and West Africa. What makes the Marquise interesting is not what it carries ...

Mohammad Husain, EQUATE President & CEO

September 29th, 2013 - 05:45 GMT

EQUATE sponsors Middle East process engineering conference Under the patronage of Bahraini PM

Rashed Al Jarwan with Simon Cattle and Andy Laven in presence of Abdulrahman Qasim Al Ali

September 29th, 2013 - 05:17 GMT

Emoil’s Chairman welcomes a new member from BP joins the Board of Directors

Planned infrastructure upgrades, new finds and a focus on human resources are set to support the state’s efforts to meet higher production targets, although foreign ownership laws continue to slow sector development.

September 26th, 2013 - 01:02 GMT

Is it time for Kuwait to allow foreign ownership of its oil?

Kuwaiti energy analyst Kamil Harami sees the harm of shale production coming sooner for oil-producing Gulf Arab nations, along with Iraq.

September 25th, 2013 - 12:41 GMT

Should the Gulf be freaked out by the US shale boom?

During the event

September 25th, 2013 - 11:00 GMT

EQUATE wins Arabian Business CSR Achievement Award 2013 For the 3rd consecutive year in Kuwait

With the discovery of oil and gas off its shore, Lebanon has the potential to become like the Gulf – but it will need to do a lot of work to get its infrastructure up to par, industry experts say.

September 25th, 2013 - 09:13 GMT

With its recent oil discovery, will Lebanon become more like the Gulf?

Shale oil production reached about 2 million barrels a day last year, pushing overall US output to 6.4 million barrels of oil per day, the most in 15 years and 32 per cent above the level five years ago.

September 25th, 2013 - 08:56 GMT

A new oil market is in the making, thanks to the US shale boom

During the award cermony

September 25th, 2013 - 04:32 GMT

DEWA receives top honours at prestigious Gulf Business Industry Awards 2013

Saeed Khoory, Chief Executive Officer of ENOC

September 24th, 2013 - 10:18 GMT

ENOC’s Code of Business Conduct extended to three more ENOC Group entities

Around 100 tons of black oil are planned to be exported through the port of Anzali to Russia

September 23rd, 2013 - 10:55 GMT

Iraq exports black oil to Russia via Caspian Sea

Kuwait has announced it is conducting studies into the viability of extracting shale gas from recently identified reserves, although any commercial operation will likely be many years off.

September 22nd, 2013 - 01:10 GMT

Is Kuwait going to jump on the shale bandwagon?

The Anglo-Dutch major, in charge of operations at the southern Majnoon oil field, said on Friday it aims to boost output to 175,000 barrels per day (bpd) in October.

September 22nd, 2013 - 10:30 GMT

Shell resumes Iraqi production in Majnoon oilfield