TEXT-S&P revises Plains Exploration to stable from positiveReutersA debt reduction effort that is likely to fall short of our prior expectations coupled with weaker natural gas prices are likely to result in credit measures more consistent with the…

Weather-driven demand boosts UK gas pricesReuters… to tighten supply LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) – British prompt gas prices rose on Monday morning as supply lagged demand amid colder-than-average temperatures forecast until the end of the month, whil…

Wall Street's new oil bull, Credit Suisse sees 2013 surgeReutersDemand is proving resilient in the face of high oil prices while supply growth outside of North America has been disappointing. The bank hiked its Brent forecast by 15 percent to $132….

COLUMN-Brent needs major overhaul now, not more tinkering-CampbellReutersThat's a record low output for the four streams and worse than in the spring and summer of 2011 when the modest underlying basis of the Brent contract played havoc with oil pr…

LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) – Observers have drawn parallels between recent criticism of price-reporting agencies (PRAs) in the oil market and the current investigation into the manipulation of Libor rates by contributing banks. But the …

Kazakh c.bank may cut key rate again as prices fallReutersFor the time being, as a whole, we do not intend to revise our current (inflation) forecast," Marchenko said. Kazakhstan's economy expanded by 7.5 percent in 2011 and is expected to gro…

Energy TribuneOil Prices Down As Iran Agrees To Resume Talks Over Nuclear ProgrammeHuffington PostBy Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON, April 9 (Reuters) – Oil prices fell more than $1 on Monday after Iran agreed to resume talks over its nuclear programme, easi…

Nabiullina sounded a note of caution on oil prices, saying they would fall from their current highs. “In all probability we are at the cyclical peak for oil prices,” she said. She left her 2013 and 2014 oil forecasts unchanged at $97 and $101 …