PetroChina's profits double as oil prices soar by Staff Writers Shanghai (AFP) Aug 30, 2018 China's biggest oil producer PetroChina said Thursday its net profit more than doubled in the first half of the year as global crude prices soared. Net profit surged 113.7 percent from the same period last year to 27.1 billion yuan ($4.0 billion), the company said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, where it is listed. PetroChina, 86 percent-owned by its unlisted and government-controlled parent China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), said the profit surge was due to the rise in crude prices. "The fundamental supply and demand in the global oil market were on the tight side. The average international oil prices increased substantially as compared with the same period of last year," PetroChina said. Geopolitical risks in oil-producing countries also sent crude prices up, the report said. "The recovery of crude price was the biggest driver for its strong performance," said Tian Miao, a Beijing-based analyst at Everbright Sun Hung Kai Co, told Bloomberg News. "PetroChina may continue to benefit from a rise in the price in the second half." Sinopec, the world's biggest oil refiner and the listed unit of state-owned China Petrochemical Corp, said last week that its first half net profit climbed 51.8 percent from the same period last year to 42.4 billion yuan. Sinopec attributed the result to strong domestic growth for oil products. But it also warned that "uncertainty of international crude oil prices will increase due to trade frictions and geopolitical tensions" in the second half this year.
Conflict rocks OPEC member Libya Washington (UPI) Aug 29, 2018 Political actors in Libya, a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, shouldn't settle scores through violence, the U.N. mission stated. The U.N. Support Mission in Libya called for calm following clashes in and around the capital city, Tripoli. All parties to the violence are called to lay down their weapons amid reports of heavy fire in residential areas. "The mission stresses that political aims must not be pursued through violence and warns that the build-up of ar ... read more
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