State run Saudi Aramco, the world's top oil company, said Sunday it has appointed five new members to its board including a female executive, a milestone for Saudi Arabia and the oil industry where there are few women executives. The appointments come as the Saudi government plans to...

 Iraq has awarded Iraqi-owned United Arab Emirates-based Crescent Petroleum three exploration blocks in an oil and gas exploration and development contract auction Thursday and China's Geo-Jade won two. United Energy Group, also based in China, won one contract and a total of five...

Japan's Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Tuesday that bilateral talks on trade under a new framework led by him and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer won't begin until mid-June at the earliest. In a summit last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S....

 Iraq has extended the deadline for foreign companies and investors to bid for the construction and operation of a new 100,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery near Mosul in the northern province of Nineveh, the oil ministry said on Sunday. Bidding documents provide for two investment...