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Ten people are killed and 21 others are injured, including four critically, in an explosion on a crude palm oil tanker docked at a shipyard on Batam Island, Indonesia.
2025-10-15

The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy seizes control of the Marshall Islands-flagged and Greek-operated civilian oil tanker "St Nikolas" in the Gulf of Oman. The tanker had 19 crew members onboard, including 18 Filipinos and one Greek. It was carrying crude oil from Basra, Iraq, to Turkey.
2024-01-11

Angola leaves OPEC over a dispute on crude oil production quotas.
2023-12-21

Russia's Lukoil begins shipping crude oil from Murmansk to Madre de Deus, Brazil.
2023-09-8

The US seizes a Russian owned oil tanker carrying Iranian crude oil in Greece and has transferred the cargo to another ship destined for the US. It is unclear if the seizure was due to US sanctions against Iran or US sanctions on Russia.
2022-05-26

Belarus threatens to take oil from the Druzhba pipeline which carries Russian oil to central Europe across its territory, if Russia does not supply it with the required volumes of crude oil. Russian oil supplies to Belarus have not been agreed for 2020 and shipments have dwindled to 500,000 tonnes, down from a planned 2 million tonnes.
2020-02-14

Halliburton Co. and Baker Hughes Inc., the second- and third-largest oilfield service firms, announce the cancellation of their $28 billion merger which has faced opposition from U.S. and European antitrust regulators. Halliburton will reportedly have to pay Baker Hughes a $3.5 billion termination fee if the deal is called off. [https:--www.bloomberg.com-news-articles-2016-05-01-halliburton-baker-hughes-said-to-call-off-28-billion-merger (Bloomberg)] [https:--www.reuters.com-article-us-bakerhughes-m-a-halliburton-idUSKCN0XS1KW?il=0 (Reuters)] [http:--finance.yahoo.com-news-halliburton-baker-hughes-announce-termination-000000573.html (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)]date=May 2020
2016-05-1

The price of crude oil drops to $48 per barrel, the lowest since April of 2009.
2015-01-6

Crude oil prices rise to their highest levels in two years as stock market indexes fall in Europe and the United States due to continued uncertainty in the Middle East.
2011-02-28

Uncertainty in Libya leads to falls in world stock markets and increases in crude oil prices.
2011-02-22