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The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions on Thursday targeting two tanker owners involved in shipping Russian oil that exceeded the established price cap.  In a recent development, oil prices saw a remarkable surge, rising by 4% earlier today, following the United States’ decision to intensify sanctions against Russian crude exports. According to reports, International benchmark Brent crude futures, set to expire in December, traded...

Saudi Arabia has called for an urgent meeting with all the OPEC members and the non-OPEC oil producers to stabilize the global oil prices. After the news, the oil price jumped almost 25%.The Saudi Arabia government has called for an urgent meeting of OPEC and a group of non-OPEC countries to try and reach a fair deal to restore balance to the oil prices. The news which was conveyed through the state news agency SPA has been revealed today on Thursday. As a result, oil prices jumped almost...

U.S. oil prices jumped 10% to clinch above $22 per barrel on Thursday after President Donald Trump said the oil price tag war between Russia and Saudi Arabia may come to its end soon.After closing the first quarter of 2020 on the worst fall, U.S. oil prices have shown signs of recovering amid the coronavirus crisis. This is after the United States President Donald Trump said that he expects Russia and Saudi Arabia to come to a common agreement on their differences.Saudi Arabia, an OPEC...